Thursday, November 6, 2003|
Required Reading
The Will to Endure |
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Jeff Jarvis discovers OK, his post-9/11 postings were the direct inspiration for my blogging, and I find his old journo crossover views on this medium fascinating. But occasionally Jeff Jarvis fluffs one, so I'm going to have to diss my blog-daddy. In this case, he happens upon the revelation that about 2/3 of AOL users' time is spent with other users' contributions, and riffs from there. Fine to speculate on the implications, but I'm here to tell you this is old news. Similar distributions of user time date well back into the proprietary days of AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy. Remember, I used to read usage time and income reports from the entrails of the CompuServe accounting system. This isn't anything novel, nor does it have to do with the advent of blogs, social software, or anything else trendy. Same thing happened with crappy old ASCII forums, CB, and proprietary e-mail. It's related to human nature, not the specific technology - so long as it's two-way - and that in many ways is very good news. We now return you to your previously scheduled new media speculation.
Update: Jeff mentions in e-mail that he saw approximately the same distribution during a brief stay at Delphi. (For you kids, that was another early online service, not a programming environment or auto parts company.) |
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User programmable credit cards?
Don Park reports on some unique credit card capabilities emerging in Korea, which might eventually lead to end users being able to set their own transaction controls and create sub-accounts. |
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Drink up and dial Can a brewery be a VNO? Labatt's of Canada is going to find out, giving free VoIP service if you'll listen to a ten second ad for their suds.
#include "greatwhitenorthjoke.h" |
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MIT Tech Review starts its own futures market
It's for innovation forecasting. Maybe
Hat tip to Harvey Lehtman |
