Not the article I expected 2003

Chris said I might be interested in the latest essay from Clay Shirky, and he was right.

It wasn't what I expected though. I thought it was going to talk about the impracticality of micropayment solutions from some technical or business perspective. Instead, it's a much broader observation about fundamental changes in our use and production of content which render payment itself, regardless of size, undesired.

I need to read it again and let it percolate for a while, but it has brought to my attention the fact that what was really making me interested in micropayments was how fun a technical and user experience problem I thought it would be to solve. Reminder to self: cool tools which no one needs should be thought of as art projects.

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Not the article I expected

Chris said I might be interested in the latest essay from Clay Shirky, and he was right.

It wasn't what I expected though. I thought it was going to talk about the impracticality of micropayment solutions from some technical or business perspective. Instead, it's a much broader observation about fundamental changes in our use and production of content which render payment itself, regardless of size, undesired.

I need to read it again and let it percolate for a while, but it has brought to my attention the fact that what was really making me interested in micropayments was how fun a technical and user experience problem I thought it would be to solve. Reminder to self: cool tools which no one needs should be thought of as art projects.

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