Regarding the positive stuff for the small content creator, a possibly rewarding relationship with small local business doing the advertising....
Ive said before that a lot of small businesses dont have too high of an opinion about spending much money on advertising. I guess there are many reasons, including the often awfully produced local/radio adverts that they are used to getting. They dont want their ads to make them look bad, and they would possibly also have some of the same concerns as large advertisers when it comes to control, controversy, etc. Plus I would say that whilst they may not be able to do bad things on the scale of large companies, they often arent saints either and would have just the same cause to lie or distort in their advertising as a giant. Oh well, dont mean to be negative, and Im in the camp that believes business should be changing on a real and meaningful level to fit the realities of the net, not the other way around, The net is just all the humans that you got a away with being able to lie to and pick on and exploit, but with the potential to talk to eachother, which can vastly reduce their exploitability. Business that would be happy to let all their customers meet and talk about anything, at any time, have nothing to fear. Those who have businesses that rely on the customer, or the workers for that matter, remaining divided, isolated, and stupid, might want to consider altering course. Unless you have a product that acts as a penis extension in which case people will overlook the shite. Hell people have been able to turn a blind eye to enough horrors and exploitation ove rthe centuries, despite it being obvious, so maybe the net wont make a difference after all. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Jan McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The alternatives are micropayments for things like news and investigative > journalism, and geocentric advertising in support of small business. > > I think $2,500 is fair for a one-minute commercial distributed widely on the > web. If you can produce two or three of those things a month you can make a > decent living, no? > > XO, > Jan >
