Information May Be Free - But You'll Pay

I've always admired Fred Wilson's style of thinking about issues.  As the uber venture blogger, he's made the decision to live a largely blogged life, so we readers know about his musical tastes, his family, his travels and his thoughts about politics.

His latest talk, given to the Information Industry Summit in NY yesterday, is an excellent view of how to make money if information is really free. We're trying to do this with some of our companies at First Round and Idealab as well, but I've rarely seen it articulated this clearly.

See the pdf for the slides and his comments on the Union Square Ventures blog. Highly recommended.