OJR J.D.’s Web Watch: Party’s Over for Web Freelancers
“Two short years ago we were partying away, Gatsby-like, in the Golden Age of Web Freelancing, a time when dozens of spry Internet startups with an insatiable hunger for content opened their fat wallets and showered talented young writers, editors and artists with bylines, beaucoup bucks and long overdue respect.”
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The party is over idea is araound quite a bit. However my hunch is that it is also a case of “business as usual on the net”. Information still wants to be free – and those who valiently tried to do the unnatural thing – will need to reassess.