The American Times : A Modern Magazine

I wanted to comment on Oliver's idea, but Gena Lewis has said much of what I was going to already. I hope it works, and there's no harm in trying... but I see it as kind of what IE did to Netscape. Even if it's exceedingly well done, I don't see a pay model working when someone can do almost as well for free.

Of course, this model would work better for writers of longer pieces -- like Gena, for one -- than for shorter ones. Thinkers, rather than linkers, by the den Beste model. (So, Mac, are you a linker or a thinker? Ringo voice: I'm a stinker.) That's not necessarily a criticism, just an observation.