Date: December 13th, 2005

Data paradox, Part 2: who pays for free data?

13 December, 2005 (15:06) | Uncategorized |

In a previous post, I laid out three data paradoxes:
 

Information is more broadly valuable when it is freely available.
Useful data is costly to assemble.
There is no viable business model for public data dissemination.

“Doctor, if I stop reading blogs, will I live?”
“No.”
 
Given these harsh realities, how do we create useful data?  Who pays for something that […]