OptiRex - 2:26 am on Mar 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

Oh!

Does this mean you want the USA to organise the Internet completely?

When you consider that the internet was designed not for commercial purposes but rather to facilitate the exchange of information

Your interpretation, I was there at the start! I can assure you that commercial dissemination and interaction was very much at the forefront of the original development.

Almost every day in these and other forums people are bragging about their first $1,000 adsense weeks, but where's the content?

Blah, blah, blah...so now you are the arbiter of content? I never have a problem locating within a few minutes what I am sourcing, period.

The bottom line: can we reign in our own greed before it's too late?

Why "our greed". Mine is not greed in slightest. My sites were in existence years before Google started and if I were to take an average US/UK/EU hourly rate for the time and effort expended I would still be out of pocket earning USD 1 million per year!

Get into the real world. There are muggers, there are con-men/women, there are those with gold-rush fever, it's inevitable.

Concentrate on your own speciality and refine it.

There are always winners and losers which is Darwin's theory of evolutionary selection holds that variation within species occurs randomly and that the survival or extinction of each organism is determined by that organism's ability to adapt to its environment.

I did steal that quote by the way!

It's a new business model that is being refined daily, learn to live with it or withdraw.