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IMO – pay sites don’t workout. Someone else will give you the same content for free (there’s obviously unique cotnent on a blog, but blogs are dime-a-dozen). It seems like this is a natural cycle of the interwebz – we get addicted to some online resource and then they try to charge a premium for some added content. I never buy into it. I’m looking at you, Hulu (and Pandora). I feel ad-based revenue is really the only way to profit from a site. I currently pay squat for any online site (well almost, I have Sirius radio which I pay for that comes with the online version, as well as a Zune pass that allows me to stream music through that, but I did not purchase either for the web items). My ¢2
No.
“If ScienceBlogs were to launch a FREE Premium Membership…”
I wonder if that question was a test to see if I was paying attention. I still answered Not Sure.
“Scienceblogs Premium Services” sounds like the adult section to me. “These tits have a Ph.D.” sort of thing.
The wording on the survey wasn’t very clear. I would pay a small subscription fee to unfettered access to ScienceBlogs, since I find this blog-community well worth following and participating in. But I hate “membership” kinds of things, and most of the extra “services” that were listed as possibly being included in such a premium deal would be of no interest to me.
So… based on current wording? No. Which is not to say that I don’t value the SB content, and wouldn’t ever pay a small amount for it. I just don’t need all the other stuff that apparently would go along with a “Premium Service.”
I would like experiments. I.e. what’s going on, more of it, and more chances with different stuff.
After that it gets fuzzy, smile.
Hell no.
I agree with Jennifer. I don’t really need any of those so-called premium services.
It sounds like it’s trying to be more like a combination of Nature and Richard Dawkins forums with $ attached. I hardly ever log into those though I have a profile. It’s just one more profile to keep track of when I just want to use my email, url and name.
I would pay $4/month, as long as ‘premium services’ included a pie of the month (and we’re talking *quality* pie)
A: No
is this place swirling the bowl or what? That might change the answer…
Q for Sb: Why do you ask?
How many Yes answers did you get Greg?
I have no idea how many yes/no answers there are, and I’ll never know. It is not my survey.
I will tell you that when I filled out my survey form, I basically said “no” to everything. I hate premium sites and i don’t much like logging in to sites either, though I’ll do that sometimes.
Oh. I thought with all your linux ninja stuff you were involved with the technical support for this site. Also, I always see the Scienceblogs business plan posts from here so I thought you were heavily involved with the company.
Nope, I can’t even FTP shit to my own server. I’d have more control on blogspot. I get the blog post div and the left column div.