As rumors circulate about the size of Arianna Huffington's payday post AOL acquisition, some are suggesting that she share it with the thousands of bloggers who've showered HuffPo with free content.
As
Bloomberg-Businessweek reports, Dan Gillmor, the director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship
at Arizona State University, wrote that Huffington should cut checks to "the most productive contributors on whose work she's built a significant part of her new fortune." Fat chance, says Roy Sekoff,
HuffPo's founding editor. "If people want to express their opinions, they do so on the site for free," he tells Bloomberg. "We're in the business of paying people for original reporting." Meanwhile,
Bloomberg even suggests that HuffPo's publisher-friendly model might make its way to AOL's other properties from TechCrunch to Engadget.
