[russell]

What boggles my mind is that people will work for $20/video, $15/article, or 8 cents to proof a headline. OTOH the video guy has shot 40,000 videos. I would like to think that, even with all this crap at the bottom, there will still be room for good, creative sites that deliver meaningful content.

[johnl]

Yeh, the problem will be how to find them. If the saying "crisis equals opportunity" is true then it sounds like the internet is ready for a ycombinator type ranking system that's independent of a Google ranking system.

[js3309]

Also, does this business model survive in a half-decent economy.

I doubt it.

Quality will beat quantity.