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Read a nice article on wierd magzine, which discusses why “free” is the future of business.

Just summarizing the stuff I liked, various business models in practice these days which work this way

• Freemium : Providing basic version free and charging for a premium/pro version. While applying this I think you better not compromize on quality of basic version, but restriction can be on quantity.
  
• Advertising : Providing services for free with ad support to monetize. This is most common business model of web-based services.
• Cross-subsidies : Providing one product for free or low cost in hope that you will buy another bigger product, which will cover the cost.
• Zero marginal cost : Things distributed without any applicable cost to anyone, like music. Thus it is mainly used now for promotion etc..
• Labor Exchange : You do some work and get free stuff in return.

BTW – if you have not yet heard about Beerware, have a look . So it’s free as in beer

If you are writing a tech blog, most likely you would need to write code in the blog posts.

Here is an article which lists plugins that can be used for writing code and syntax highlighting.

I’m using a very light weight plugin SemCodeFix, for this blog.