The key difference here, as noted in the Wired article, is that the aggregate bloggers often use ideas without attribution. Researchers, while making use of data produced elsewhere, are required to cite sources and provide appropriate credit.
Yes, patenting 'ideas' (or facts) is absurd (and currently prohibited in the law), but processes, such as creating nanotubes is not.
Again, it comes down to securing some manner of recognition for the original creator or creators.
Whether or not this amounts to stifling progress seems to come down to how rights to information (and access) are administered.
(standard IANAL disclaimers apply)
While the article sets out to debunk the web-design standard of the "3-click rule," the real object lesson here is an understanding of how the websites they examine succeed in breaking the latent frustration of visitors. Site "stickiness," keeping users clicking and exploiting links to content, must work against the natural human proclivities for exhaustion of novelty and short attention spans. It is certainly true, as was noted in the article, that years of exposure to an ever-increasing flood of information have increased our thresholds for sifting through data. Still, what really keeps someone coming back for more is a successful application of the reward principle. This shouldn't come as any suprise, game designers have plied this for years. Now, in the case of websites, we see a similar application of this principle. People will move through a task, even if it requires many multiples of 3-clicks, if this history of exploring navigational structures has shown they are moving towards a successful completition.
Most likely, the real truth here is that the 3-click rule evolved out of an era where the 'ergonomics' of human-web internation were poorly understand, providing a quick and easy rule of thumb where content designers could easily throw up pages while still retaining visitors.
In the end, though, one shouldn't come away from these articles with the notion that users will suffer any number of clicking injustices. It does show, however, that there is no substitute for a well-organized site that recognizes the processes by which a visitor will make use of the content.
There are a lot of things that Apple could conceivably implement, rating systems based on number of sales and previews, user-ratings.
But the key for this to work is the same rule that applies to brick-and-mortar stores: promotion. If people aren't aware of music (and there's so much that they will quickly be overwhelmed) they'll never buy it.
Three things they might consider:
1. general band-of-the day promotions
2. amazon-style recommendations based on buying/listening/user-defined choice
3. instead of pop-ups, borrow something from audiogalaxy and offer a mix of new music from user-selected categories of interest that would appear on the page for a customer to browser; keeping people in a store or on a web-site and engaged increases the likelihood that they'll buy something
4.or, streaming music with links to the band on the web site
As for section 3, regarding 'book learning,' I'm confused by their bias here, except for the fact that Microsoft and Adobe were (?) rivals in the e-book market and PDF was currency in that particular conflict. And for anyone, researcher, businessman or private individual, who wants a reasonably compact, portable, format that has much lower costs to produce and much faster time-to-market than traditional print books, this is a resonable route to follow.
Not surprising, really; after all of the rampant overspending on infrastructure in the US during the dot-com era, the existing big players are probably unwilling to pony up the money.
What they really need to do is make more efficient use of their existing networks.
"Furthermore, you can place tags close together, so a user can select between several different pieces of content in one location," said Jonathan Morgan, CEO of Hypertag. Multiple tags located close to each other can provide a variety of information on the same subject.
The Hypertag server manages the content linked to each tag, allowing tag owners to monitor and easily update what Web page consumers get on their phone when they click at the tag. New exhibits or more information would simply involve changing the content linked to a tag or adding more tags.
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True, but consider that most civilian GPS receivers only have an accuracy of about 100 feet ( marine GPS transceiver accuracy); which means that standing on any given street corner you'd catch a lot of potential businesses. This one upside of this technology is that it great reduces the ranges and increases the specificity of the source of the info.
Yes, there are plenty of systems available for distributed computing tasks.
Yes, there are plenty of free CPU cycles.
But bear in mind that the rate of growth of entrants to the Internet is not growing exponentially as it once was; if anything, current trends are flattening.
Whereas, if both science and industry fully embrace this mode of problem solving in the next few years, one has to wonder how many aps will it take to render it ineffectual? (1,000? 10,000?) or will we be able to go to this well forever?
this is all true, except that is unlikely that any 'hdyrdogen' economy would deploy the gas in a free state. as has been noted before, the delivery of hydrogen would most likely be bound up in other compounds, eliminating safety, leaking and transport/storage issues entirely.
(see, for instance)
the impact of the water vapor is less clear. as far as i can tell, the jury is still out on this issue
yes,funding should be spent on battery technology and fuel cells certainly, but there's no reason not to include hydrogen ino this mix.
In a broader context of IP distribution, I'm still left wondering : "Is this all necessary?"
With more people coming under the umbrella of cable broadband, the number of fixed IP addresses assigned to the public is, if anything, diminishing. And with the prevalence of NAT in the first place, why do we need to have a near-infinite # of IPs to begin with?
Additionally, I'm lukewarm to the idea of the connected home or office, but even if every toaster, stapler or freezer were connected to a network, does it really to have a personalized, routable IP address? Hardly. If you need to have state information and control access to such devices, let them sit behind a gateway like any other current device and let NAT handle it.
And with the ability to generate actual numbers (instead of vague purchasing statistics culled from retailers), music companies and more importantly, artists, can track interest in the music; which would make production and payment more relevant.
Of course, without hand-waving numbers, this is what the RIAA might be afraid of... there would be no way to justify their claims of the corrosive effects of file-swapping.
Despite the major labels' success in clearing hundreds of thousands of tracks for purchase online through services like Apple's iTunes Music Store, some top artists continue to resist authorizing the dismantling of their albums for Internet consumption as a la carte singles.
Some acts are requiring that their music be sold exclusively in album bundles. For example, Linkin Park recently pulled its music as a singles offering from digital services. Sources say the band has expressed concerns about undercutting album sales. Other acts with similar stipulations about their work include Radiohead, Madonna, Jewel and Green Day, sources say.
Now, from an artistic standpoint I can see where they are coming from, there are certainly albums that must be experienced as a whole, or at least in the order that they were laid down. Still, I have to wonder whether they're not just shooting themselves in the foot; if the concern is over money lost to piracy, wouldn't 12 cents in the hand be worth it to an artist rather than 0? Eventually, they'll make the money back on volume; it seems they're too obsessed with immediate returns.
from the article:
"Twelve percent is average, but successful bands often hammer out better contracts.'
It's the 8% after other costs that are often deducted which the other describes as 'measly.'
While I support your point about the inherent double standard in the 'developed world,' I wouldn't be surprised if this line of research were decried. To many, including myself (without additional, credible research), this smacks of 21st century charlatanism. Additionally, since this is not a drug in the common sense (ie, produced by some major pharmaceutical company) you will see a great deal of backlash from that sector to debunk and quash this line of research.
Actually, a more controlled version of the experiment would have had the author make successive attempts at drawing a cat *before* the machine was turned on.
Then, 45 days later (or whatever the minimum time period is required for fixing an experience into memory), repeat the experiment with the machine one.
As noted above, the demonstration makes no control for level of artistic ability or that the process of drawing and its attendant visualization may naturally produce drawings of successively better quality.
Would it really? Whether your portable information carrier is an iPod or a Rio, the issue comes down to a model that would address needs of retailers. Unfortunately, once you remove the physical media (CDs, cassettes, etc.) there is little need to have much in the way of a physical point of presence, if at all. Rather, this would tend to accelerate the demise of brick-and-mortar retailers. To echo another post, there needs to be another value-added service to provide consumers with a reason to get off of their comfortable couches and head on down to the local data mart. Say, d/l and burn rates that far exceed broadband. Additional material, etc.
That being said, there is certainly a market for conveniently-located data exchange points. If I could, say, walk into a supermarket or the corner store and d/l data along with money from an ATM, I'd make the occasional impulse buy along with the package of ho-ho's.
It has long been recognized that storage of hydrogen as a gas is both impractical and dangerous. Most recent endeavors have switched to a solid matrix storage system that allows safe, non-leaking storage and efficient on-demand recovery for the use in power generation.
If advertisers could embed content-related tags in commercials, one could envision a DVR option that allows one to establish rules for catching ads (eg, find all Mac- or BMW-related). While this doesn't make any allowance for serendipitous discover, it does, as the main post rightly suggests, put the onus more on the shoulders of the makers of the advertisements to produce compelling material. And then we can skip right to theirs. Or just view them all at the end;)
I would be all about it, except for this one little requirement:
"Please enter a national identification number for yourself and indicate the type of this identification below. We accept any official identification used in your country. This could be one of: drivers licence number, passport number, social security number or something else official. A student number or health club card number would not be acceptable. This identification number will be used in the Web of Trust when you wish to have your identity assured. "
A quick google search doesn't return any other 'free' cert providers.
is the real option i would like to see presented to the consumer.
iTunes allows at least a 30-second preview of tracks at least prior to purchase, which greatly reduces the likelihood of buying something you don't like. still, seasons change and so do tastes; eventually, i'm sure those 'must have' trackes of yester-month will lose their luster and i'd like to dump them. allow a second-hand market to come into being that parallels that which exists currently for CDs. or books. perhaps a trade-in option : get some % for every track returned as credit towards a new purchase.
i want to keep my music but i also don't want to feel *stuck* with music
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The key difference here, as noted in the Wired article, is that the aggregate bloggers often use ideas without attribution. Researchers, while making use of data produced elsewhere, are required to cite sources and provide appropriate credit. Yes, patenting 'ideas' (or facts) is absurd (and currently prohibited in the law), but processes, such as creating nanotubes is not. Again, it comes down to securing some manner of recognition for the original creator or creators. Whether or not this amounts to stifling progress seems to come down to how rights to information (and access) are administered. (standard IANAL disclaimers apply)
While the article sets out to debunk the web-design standard of the "3-click rule," the real object lesson here is an understanding of how the websites they examine succeed in breaking the latent frustration of visitors. Site "stickiness," keeping users clicking and exploiting links to content, must work against the natural human proclivities for exhaustion of novelty and short attention spans. It is certainly true, as was noted in the article, that years of exposure to an ever-increasing flood of information have increased our thresholds for sifting through data. Still, what really keeps someone coming back for more is a successful application of the reward principle. This shouldn't come as any suprise, game designers have plied this for years. Now, in the case of websites, we see a similar application of this principle. People will move through a task, even if it requires many multiples of 3-clicks, if this history of exploring navigational structures has shown they are moving towards a successful completition.
Most likely, the real truth here is that the 3-click rule evolved out of an era where the 'ergonomics' of human-web internation were poorly understand, providing a quick and easy rule of thumb where content designers could easily throw up pages while still retaining visitors.
In the end, though, one shouldn't come away from these articles with the notion that users will suffer any number of clicking injustices. It does show, however, that there is no substitute for a well-organized site that recognizes the processes by which a visitor will make use of the content.
This article might have been informative...10 years ago; Umberto's a bit behind the times.
But the key for this to work is the same rule that applies to brick-and-mortar stores: promotion. If people aren't aware of music (and there's so much that they will quickly be overwhelmed) they'll never buy it.
Three things they might consider:
1. general band-of-the day promotions
2. amazon-style recommendations based on buying/listening/user-defined choice
3. instead of pop-ups, borrow something from audiogalaxy and offer a mix of new music from user-selected categories of interest that would appear on the page for a customer to browser; keeping people in a store or on a web-site and engaged increases the likelihood that they'll buy something
4.or, streaming music with links to the band on the web site
see: powers of ten
As for section 3, regarding 'book learning,' I'm confused by their bias here, except for the fact that Microsoft and Adobe were (?) rivals in the e-book market and PDF was currency in that particular conflict. And for anyone, researcher, businessman or private individual, who wants a reasonably compact, portable, format that has much lower costs to produce and much faster time-to-market than traditional print books, this is a resonable route to follow.
What they really need to do is make more efficient use of their existing networks.
"Furthermore, you can place tags close together, so a user can select between several different pieces of content in one location," said Jonathan Morgan, CEO of Hypertag. Multiple tags located close to each other can provide a variety of information on the same subject.
The Hypertag server manages the content linked to each tag, allowing tag owners to monitor and easily update what Web page consumers get on their phone when they click at the tag. New exhibits or more information would simply involve changing the content linked to a tag or adding more tags.
True, but consider that most civilian GPS receivers only have an accuracy of about 100 feet ( marine GPS transceiver accuracy); which means that standing on any given street corner you'd catch a lot of potential businesses. This one upside of this technology is that it great reduces the ranges and increases the specificity of the source of the info.
Yes, there are plenty of systems available for distributed computing tasks.
Yes, there are plenty of free CPU cycles.
But bear in mind that the rate of growth of entrants to the Internet is not growing exponentially as it once was; if anything, current trends are flattening.
Whereas, if both science and industry fully embrace this mode of problem solving in the next few years, one has to wonder how many aps will it take to render it ineffectual? (1,000? 10,000?) or will we be able to go to this well forever?
No pages were found containing "Why did fluffy die?".
Suggestions:
- Make sure all offerings are prepared properly.
- Try different religions.
- Try more general religions.
Also, you can try Google Answers for expert help with your search.
the impact of the water vapor is less clear. as far as i can tell, the jury is still out on this issue
yes,funding should be spent on battery technology and fuel cells certainly, but there's no reason not to include hydrogen ino this mix.
In a broader context of IP distribution, I'm still left wondering : "Is this all necessary?" With more people coming under the umbrella of cable broadband, the number of fixed IP addresses assigned to the public is, if anything, diminishing. And with the prevalence of NAT in the first place, why do we need to have a near-infinite # of IPs to begin with? Additionally, I'm lukewarm to the idea of the connected home or office, but even if every toaster, stapler or freezer were connected to a network, does it really to have a personalized, routable IP address? Hardly. If you need to have state information and control access to such devices, let them sit behind a gateway like any other current device and let NAT handle it.
Of course, without hand-waving numbers, this is what the RIAA might be afraid of... there would be no way to justify their claims of the corrosive effects of file-swapping.
Despite the major labels' success in clearing hundreds of thousands of tracks for purchase online through services like Apple's iTunes Music Store, some top artists continue to resist authorizing the dismantling of their albums for Internet consumption as a la carte singles. Some acts are requiring that their music be sold exclusively in album bundles. For example, Linkin Park recently pulled its music as a singles offering from digital services. Sources say the band has expressed concerns about undercutting album sales. Other acts with similar stipulations about their work include Radiohead, Madonna, Jewel and Green Day, sources say.
Now, from an artistic standpoint I can see where they are coming from, there are certainly albums that must be experienced as a whole, or at least in the order that they were laid down. Still, I have to wonder whether they're not just shooting themselves in the foot; if the concern is over money lost to piracy, wouldn't 12 cents in the hand be worth it to an artist rather than 0? Eventually, they'll make the money back on volume; it seems they're too obsessed with immediate returns.
from the article: "Twelve percent is average, but successful bands often hammer out better contracts.' It's the 8% after other costs that are often deducted which the other describes as 'measly.'
While I support your point about the inherent double standard in the 'developed world,' I wouldn't be surprised if this line of research were decried. To many, including myself (without additional, credible research), this smacks of 21st century charlatanism. Additionally, since this is not a drug in the common sense (ie, produced by some major pharmaceutical company) you will see a great deal of backlash from that sector to debunk and quash this line of research.
Then, 45 days later (or whatever the minimum time period is required for fixing an experience into memory), repeat the experiment with the machine one.
As noted above, the demonstration makes no control for level of artistic ability or that the process of drawing and its attendant visualization may naturally produce drawings of successively better quality.
That being said, there is certainly a market for conveniently-located data exchange points. If I could, say, walk into a supermarket or the corner store and d/l data along with money from an ATM, I'd make the occasional impulse buy along with the package of ho-ho's.
to the author of the review, the word is spelled 'definite': does no one believe in spell checkers?
See the following for a little more info see:
www.csa.com/hottopics/hydrogen/oview.html
and
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-08/ps- oft081202.php
If advertisers could embed content-related tags in commercials, one could envision a DVR option that allows one to establish rules for catching ads (eg, find all Mac- or BMW-related). While this doesn't make any allowance for serendipitous discover, it does, as the main post rightly suggests, put the onus more on the shoulders of the makers of the advertisements to produce compelling material. And then we can skip right to theirs. Or just view them all at the end ;)
"Please enter a national identification number for yourself and indicate the type of this identification below. We accept any official identification used in your country. This could be one of: drivers licence number, passport number, social security number or something else official. A student number or health club card number would not be acceptable. This identification number will be used in the Web of Trust when you wish to have your identity assured. " A quick google search doesn't return any other 'free' cert providers.
Does anyone know of any less restrictive sites?
And think of the possibilities... outright corporate sponsorship. Advertising.
"This battle brought to by ... Burger King. Have it your Way."
iTunes allows at least a 30-second preview of tracks at least prior to purchase, which greatly reduces the likelihood of buying something you don't like. still, seasons change and so do tastes; eventually, i'm sure those 'must have' trackes of yester-month will lose their luster and i'd like to dump them. allow a second-hand market to come into being that parallels that which exists currently for CDs. or books. perhaps a trade-in option : get some % for every track returned as credit towards a new purchase.
i want to keep my music but i also don't want to feel *stuck* with music