Proto-blogger and godfather of RSS Dave Winer on his Scripting News Blog writes this week in “Natural-born blogger”:

We get into the subjectives of what makes natural-born blogger [NBB]. Here are some of the ideas.
1. An natural-born blogger doesn’t wait for permission.
2. A NBB explains things, even when they don’t understand. An NBB is often proved [...]

Rupert Murdoch in a speech he gave in China entitled The All-You-Can-Consume-For-Free Internet Era Is Over recently said a lot of “not-very-nice” things about the Internet and Internet related companies that I fervently disagree with. Here the most relevant excerpts (my BOLD highlights):

There are many readers who believe that they are paying for content when [...]