On: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it...

[bayesian_horse]

Bring back the readers that read blogs and pay for them (through ads) and there will be blogs again.

[pixelgeek → bayesian_horse]

The audience quite simply isn't there any more. And I think ads are part of the problem. You get into that system and the next thing you know you are plotting out SEO strategies.

I think that the micro-payment systems that were discussed ages ago would be a solution but the investment money went elsewhere.