Free Isn't Always Better

Here's an interesting article on the topic of what this movement to "free online news" is costing us, in terms of quality and depth of coverage. As the article points out, it's a battle between "information wants to be free" and "it sometimes needs to be expensive", which doesn't have a clear winner yet. And while crowdsourcing techniques can make it possible to get more minds working on problems than ever before, it can also create a lot more noise than signal.