I’ll be honest, about reading into a fourth of the article, When I came across a sentence that said, “that readers spend more time with a printed article in a magazine than with pieces posted on Web sites”, I stopped reading for a moment and opened a few tabs of different websites. With so many things to do online, my attention span keeps shrinking. Whether its a full blog or a twitter,there are so many people you can follow online. The time spent on each page has to be decreased or else you won’t have enough time to spend doing other important things. I spend quite alot of time on the two gadget blogs Engadget and Gizmodo. However, I dont pay attention to every bit of information in those websites. Back in the day, I used to have a subscription to Popular Science magazine and I was very thorough with it. The Paywall idea sounds interesting where the reader pays for the subscription and the writer gets paid for his work directly. It will help prioritizing what to read and save time. However, the idea of the advertising still somewhat reflects the writers ability. This is because it attracts more readers and that means more money from advertisements.
Does anyone write professionally here? Let me know of your experiences.