Good spot from Jon Slattery who notes the comments of Nick Cohen writing in the Word magazine when asked to write a blog
"I get these calls all the time nowadays from these people who are starting up new internet projects and they want me to do a blog for them. And I ask then how much they are going to pay me and the answer is always the same. Absolutely nothing.
"So I send them back a polite email with a link to the classic quote from Dr. Johnson: 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.' "
wonder whether it would have been the same if the internet had been around them.Now there's a thought Samuel Johnson on twitter?
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