: Eli Noam, professor of economics and finance at Columbia University, writing in FT, looks at the structural and endemic problems in the digital content market: “The basic structural reason for this problem is that information products are characterised by high fixed costs and low marginal costs. Second, more information products are continuously being offered to users. And information…
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Feedster Feedpapers
John Battelle points out an interesting new development in the blogosphere: Feedster Feedpapers. Here’s Feedster’s explanation: When you think about what Feedster really does, it lets you listen to the web. A Feedpaper is a sophisticated daily newspaper, a “Feedpaper”,… [JD’s New Media Musings]
Tracking user navigation methods by logging where users click on web pages
Michael Angeles has written a truly excellent blog entry on using logs to determine the effectiveness of navigation. This is a must-see entry due to the concrete research, and fascinating results. To quote: I need some way of exploring alternatives, but I don’t want to change the site too drastically without having some justification for doing so, so about…
Bob Stepno found an interview with Len Apcar, editor in chief of NY Times on…
Bob Stepno found an interview with Len Apcar, editor in chief of NY Times on the Web, where he talks about blogs BloggerCon and the Times On The Trail site. “This will evolve. It still hasn’t achieved my vision just yet. But it’s off to a good start,” says Apcar. [Scripting News]
Two Boyds on YASNSes (Seb Paquet)
First up is the crib of danah boyd’s “Revenge of the User” presentation at the O’Reilly emerging technology conference, which offers a quick rundown of relevant sociological research then dives into an excellent illustrated tour of the issues and traps… Related… [Many-to-Many]
Lurkers within
This is me – I’m a Lurker – hang out, I scan, I soak things up and then push ideas. My weblog has always been a place of reference for my thinking more than a place of commentary. Lurking – Ton on Lurking and Weak Ties and their value in networks. Ton has a superb article on the value of…
Post Your Notes
Do everyone a favor and post your Etech session notes on this wiki page. Its starting to become a great resource. [Ross Mayfield’s Weblog]
[etech] Don Norman keynote
Don‘s new book is Emotional Design. He uses lots of photos, so the following minimalist representation will not have the, um, emotional impact of his talk. People have emotional reactions to, and relationships with, products. Positive examples: A tiny Sony camera and Mini Cooper. We have two information processes: Cognition (understanding the world) and emotion (judges the world). There…
Flickr (Ross Mayfield)
Best social software beta launched at ETech has got to be Flickr. Put out into the world by Many-to-Many guestblogger Stewart Butterfield. Like all great social networking services, you can add your profile and photo, add your friends, click on… [Many-to-Many]
My talk at Microsoft Research on Monday is now available on the Web.
My talk at Microsoft Research on Monday is now available on the Web. [Scripting News]