Dave Morin Argues Information Is More Valuable When You Pay For It. He’s Wrong.

Lately there's been a backlash against blogs and open information on the Web, in general. It started with newspapers putting up paywalls again, but even former blogging kingpins are now hiding behind email subscriptions. And now Dave Morin , the CEO of stealthy startup Path and Facebook's former platform chief, is arguing that information is more valuable when it is locked up behind a subscription paywall. If you want to actually read Morin's argument, "The Age of Premium Information," you have to pay $3.99 a month for his email newsletter, The Dispatch , on Letter.ly . Or you can just read on below and I'll summarize it for you.