Talk:Cooking Pot Model

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The "Melting Pot" concept has failed, and so will this. The internet isn't free, it's just low-cost, and those costs will be increased as ISP competition flounders. ISPs find themselves introducing additional "services" (a-la AOL) as justification for inflating costs. ISPs and websites are finding themselves lured by advertising incentives, and have been flooding users with garbage. Netizens are becoming more and more intolerant of "useless" information anyway. ->

Look.. my bandwidth is less than half what it used to be, and my bill has increased!. Every website I go to has advertising offsetting it's costs. Once product sellers realise how innefectual advertising is, that economic model will waver. More websites will be forced to be donation or subscription-driven. ->

Bah, I'm ranting.. what I mean to express is that I feel that throwing random crap into a public pool is meaningless. Collaborative structures need to relied upon to force usefulness in user-added content. Otherwise it's garbage-in garbage-out. -- rack

Very interesting comments. Dont think of garbage in/out, think data in/out. I realize the net is not free but bandwidth is a big issue. This model is a description of the stuff in the pot. I compare my ISP costs and call charges to taxes and the provision of public libraries and the free information source which a library can be. Maybe the cost of travel to a library could be compared to net access fees. Having no net access charges would be as good as a truly total internet search engine. Both of these things would bring the theory into reality and help create a good internet data haven. Also my charges have good down, but the stuff available has gone up dramatically, esp with p2p. Hasn't overall per megabyte costs decreased in general, year on year? - ABliss

Megabyte costs definitely have gone down, and as a result people are downloading bigger things. It won't be long till movies and CD quality (FLAC) audio become popular downloads. I agree that the ISP should act as the "tax man" for the content available online... This how i see micropayments working online - the content providers charge ISPs and then ISPs work it into the users' monthly bill. I see this less as a public cooking pot and more as a buffet. Everyone pays $20 to the restaurant (ISP) and the restaurant then pays the chefs (content providers) their cut. -- Amw