He's posted the last few debates with transcripts and commentary and all. I went there for the Nashville debate and he had links to the live thing as well
Now am I wrong when I say that a distributed environment avoids this problem? If so, maybe we'll see a trend towards open and distributed data. And that would be swell.
Predictions are tools of perception. People use predictions to better understand phenomena and to create better goals and plans. Predictions are ideas so they affect people's thinking; they give us new ideas, new perspectives and insights. The gap between ideas and technology is continuously narrowing and that makes predictions about our technological future more and more like inventions.
It would be more Google if they used Firefox to create a browser service instead of a browser software. After all, XUL lets you build the user interface as if it was a web page. That means Google could build a browser service that allows the user to set browser preferences as if they were search preferences or Gmail preferences. Firefox would then render the browser interface according to your personal preferences. If you like your back button to be 500x500 pixels large that's just a setting. If you want a blue background for your browser menus that's just another setting. If you want a Gmail interface that's even richer than what's currently available...well then Firefox is the answer and Google probably don't have to alter the code that much since Gmail and XUL both use Javascript. A browser service would also make more business sense since it gives people incentive to switch browser to Firefox, taking control away from Microsoft, without tying Google's future options in how to serve users.
This whole debacle tells us that storage is a non-issue and will become even less an issue as time passes. That's not news to anyone but what about the implications?
I think we are about fifteen years away from being able to store the entire web on our desktops! That means
search can, and will, be done locally
digital rights management is heading for trouble
distributed networks will become important in new ways
network services might end up residing on your home computer
Microsoft will change their motto to "a web on every desktop" and Bill will have to buy remote controlled solar systems to keep his treasury small enough to fit the bank vaults
the BBC doesn't exactly have a great track record of keeping its own archives, having wiped a great many programmes from its own archives.
That's what users can fix when the content's out there. Some will mirror all of it, some will create search interfaces, some will structure the shows in novel ways that give viewers a better experience and some will link shows together that have something in common. The programming will be handled by the viewers and eventually that'll create higher quality television. I think it's brilliant.
A couple of years ago I went to a seminar with Douglas Adams in which he spoke a bit about the upcoming movie. Among other things he said that Jim Carrey was his favourite choice for Zaphod. Not many people in the audience seemed to appreciate this preference so he explained how Carrey is a very good actor but in all his movies they let him turn up the crazy-o-meter to eleven which is why we don't get to see the finer sides of his acting. What I don't get is why Adams thought Zaphod Beeblebrox would bring out the non-crazy side of Jim Carrey.
There are issues of user approval that need to be solved to get this working and Peppercoin (man what a lousy name) is not even close to any of them. I'm not gonna waste your time with my words since Clay already wrote about it in The Case Against Micropayments
The main problem is that users hate micropayments:
"Why does it matter that users hate micropayments? Because users are the ones with the money, and micropayments do not take user preferences into account. In particular, users want predictable and simple pricing. Micropayments, meanwhile, waste the users' mental effort in order to conserve cheap resources, by creating many tiny, unpredictable transactions. Micropayments thus create in the mind of the user both anxiety and confusion, characteristics that users have not heretofore been known to actively seek out."
Go ahead and read the article. It explains the problem in better detail and it clearly shows why the problem is conceptual and not technical. Then you can happily get on with your life, without Peppercoin and without micropayments. Cheers.
Filling the network with corrupt files might have some short-term effect but eventually those files get filtered out when users find them useless and delete them.
Hype or no hype there's only one term for this. It's DROOLWARE. I mean look at the description of the technology, it's... I lack words... must try... this thing... must... droool.
I think you should combine video footage with some data formats, flash for example, to present diagrams, maps, tables and anything else that is related to the story you're showing. Use each format for what it's good at. Video is good for showing people and nature and stuff, not diagrams. It's soo irritating to watch news over the web where the publisher has just converted their TV show to Real format without converting graphics and text into native web formats. You could also link your shows to each other just like links on a web page, that's fairly rare and unexplored. You'll probably need to experiment a bit but I'm sure you'll learn a lot in the process.
The ruling concerns links from Newsboosters newsletters, not their web pages! Now, Newsbooster is a newsletter service so it's a bummer for them but the ruling actually does not stop them from posting the links on their web site.
Slashdot Mirror
There's this guy
http://obamav.com/debates/newyork
He's posted the last few debates with transcripts and commentary and all.
I went there for the Nashville debate and he had links to the live thing as well
http://obamav.com/debates/
Now am I wrong when I say that a distributed environment avoids this problem? If so, maybe we'll see a trend towards open and distributed data. And that would be swell.
Predictions are tools of perception. People use predictions to better understand phenomena and to create better goals and plans.
Predictions are ideas so they affect people's thinking; they give us new ideas, new perspectives and insights.
The gap between ideas and technology is continuously narrowing and that makes predictions about our technological future more and more like inventions.
It would be more Google if they used Firefox to create a browser service instead of a browser software. After all, XUL lets you build the user interface as if it was a web page. That means Google could build a browser service that allows the user to set browser preferences as if they were search preferences or Gmail preferences. Firefox would then render the browser interface according to your personal preferences. If you like your back button to be 500x500 pixels large that's just a setting. If you want a blue background for your browser menus that's just another setting. If you want a Gmail interface that's even richer than what's currently available...well then Firefox is the answer and Google probably don't have to alter the code that much since Gmail and XUL both use Javascript.
A browser service would also make more business sense since it gives people incentive to switch browser to Firefox, taking control away from Microsoft, without tying Google's future options in how to serve users.
the BBC doesn't exactly have a great track record of keeping its own archives, having wiped a great many programmes from its own archives.
That's what users can fix when the content's out there. Some will mirror all of it, some will create search interfaces, some will structure the shows in novel ways that give viewers a better experience and some will link shows together that have something in common. The programming will be handled by the viewers and eventually that'll create higher quality television. I think it's brilliant.
A couple of years ago I went to a seminar with Douglas Adams in which he spoke a bit about the upcoming movie. Among other things he said that Jim Carrey was his favourite choice for Zaphod. Not many people in the audience seemed to appreciate this preference so he explained how Carrey is a very good actor but in all his movies they let him turn up the crazy-o-meter to eleven which is why we don't get to see the finer sides of his acting. What I don't get is why Adams thought Zaphod Beeblebrox would bring out the non-crazy side of Jim Carrey.
There are issues of user approval that need to be solved to get this working and Peppercoin (man what a lousy name) is not even close to any of them.
I'm not gonna waste your time with my words since Clay already wrote about it in The Case Against Micropayments
The main problem is that users hate micropayments:
"Why does it matter that users hate micropayments? Because users are the ones with the money, and micropayments do not take user preferences into account.
In particular, users want predictable and simple pricing. Micropayments, meanwhile, waste the users' mental effort in order to conserve cheap resources, by creating many tiny, unpredictable transactions. Micropayments thus create in the mind of the user both anxiety and confusion, characteristics that users have not heretofore been known to actively seek out."
Go ahead and read the article. It explains the problem in better detail and it clearly shows why the problem is conceptual and not technical. Then you can happily get on with your life, without Peppercoin and without micropayments. Cheers.
Filling the network with corrupt files might have some short-term effect but eventually those files get filtered out when users find them useless and delete them.
Hype or no hype there's only one term for this. It's DROOLWARE. I mean look at the description of the technology, it's... I lack words... must try... this thing... must... droool.
I think you should combine video footage with some data formats, flash for example, to present diagrams, maps, tables and anything else that is related to the story you're showing. Use each format for what it's good at. Video is good for showing people and nature and stuff, not diagrams. It's soo irritating to watch news over the web where the publisher has just converted their TV show to Real format without converting graphics and text into native web formats.
You could also link your shows to each other just like links on a web page, that's fairly rare and unexplored. You'll probably need to experiment a bit but I'm sure you'll learn a lot in the process.
The ruling concerns links from Newsboosters newsletters, not their web pages! Now, Newsbooster is a newsletter service so it's a bummer for them but the ruling actually does not stop them from posting the links on their web site.