Disney might suck, but there’s still a lot the dot-com brigade (rather, the newly desperate cash-seeking dot-com brigade) can learn from old bricks-n-mortar operators like them. Like Disneyland’s ticketing options, for example.

Consider: today, Yahoo insists you pay separately for Mail, Geocities, and so on. Each is about $5 a month at its cheapest. But there’s no way to get a blanket admission to all of Yahoo. All services (level: basic), $14.95 a month? (That’s less than AOL, which is justified by the fact that Yahoo does not provide connectivity).

CNet (or one of its group companies) is going down the same slope. GameSpot, a CNet Networks Media company, goes pay, too. Still no way of paying for all of CNet, you’ll note. But as the number of pay sites keep increasing, the strain on my pocketbook will, too.

In a month, I might be paying Blogger $3, BlogSpot $1, Slashdot $2.50-5. Other sites I’d be likely to subscribe to would be (heavens forbid) Google, MSNBC/Newsweek, and maybe the Newspaper Today, and almost certainly CNet itself. Are we there to about $20 levels yet? And yet this is a fraction of the sites I visit on a weekly basis. After spending $20 a month on ‘core’ items, I don’t know if paying extra for niche items like GameSpot would appear to be good value to me. The only way I’d pay for Gamespot is if it came bundled along with my CNet sub. Other small, indie sites would have to share content/revenue with the Yahoos and CNETs and MSNs of the world. This is very similar to the way current newspaper syndication services operate. Bit of a blow for the notion that the Net was a egalitarian publishing paradise, and the almost contradictory notion that one could set up content on the Net, catch enough ‘eyeballs’, and profit from them.