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AOL's last gasp
AOL's last gasp
Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
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Can AOL win you over? After all those years walling off its separate, more-special-than-your-Internet content, America Online , making all its previously subscriber-only content available for free. And the company will be spending more than $50 million on marketing, to convince you that you don't have to subscribe, you just have to go there and click. Which is a fine idea, but I still think AOL would be in the black if it'd quit spending so much money sending me CDs. No, really. I'm not just making an old joke. I got three of them last week.