This comment by a user of Metafilter commenting on commercially-led changes to Digg made me stop and think in its directness. It’s a great insight and updates “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” for the data era.
If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold
(via @robmanuel)
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Yep, it’s a great quote, and sadly often misattributed to Tim O’Reilly after he Retweeted it: http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/statuses/22823381903
Ironically on Twitter and other places, the link to Metfilter tends to turn up, but I’ve seen it misattributed a couple of times in mainstream media without any correction.