The Long Tail: To fork or not to fork. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:46:19 “Priced and Unpriced Online Markets" by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Edelman. Discusses tradeoffs in market such as email, IP addresses, search and dial-up Internet. "Reminiscent of the old adage about losing money on every unit but making it up in volume, online markets challenge norms about who should pay, when, and why. " I found this typically academic: dated, dry and pretty unilluminating. But it got published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives. Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:53:50 From Mashable: “Freezly is a lot like Tweetmeme in that it finds link and tweets and shows you their popularity based on retweets.
Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:08:25 From Cellular News. Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:54:23 From the LA Times: “Industry insiders estimate that since 2007, revenue for most adult production and distribution companies has declined 30% to 50% and the number of new films made has fallen sharply. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:07:00 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:09:38 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:37:31. Regret the Error. By Jeff Jarvis. Wiki cooties and the death of editorials : Well now the LA Times has given wikis cooties. The New York Times and other media outlets have covered the collapse of its wikitorial project and I’ve heard more than one old-media person say, well, I see LA tried wikis and it’s dangerous. But no. This is like hearing Kathie Lee Gifford try to rap and then, upon hearing the results, declaring hip hop dead. The LA Times didn’t understand what it was doing and made three criticial mistakes: 1. 2. 3.
No, guys, the best use of a wiki would have been to have the public create wikis to share their knowledge and viewpoints with you. But even that is an exhibition of media ego. If newspapers would just listen — and use this techology to do that — they’d find that the people don’t want to talk about what the editors talk about. Let’s take it up a notch: What this really points toward is the death of the editorial page. Right. And so, in the end, the newspaper becomes a wiki. . : See also Ernie Miller: LA Times Yanks Wikitorial. The LA Times attempted to use Wiki to create an interactive online editorial feature this weekend. They started with an editorial urging a better-defined plan to withdraw troops from Iraq, and readers were invited to add their thoughts.
Some did constructively, but soon "some readers were flooding the site with inappropriate material. " On Sunday, editors decided to remove the feature, apologizing to those who had logged on in the right spirit. Some bloggers predicted the outcome, noting that pile-ons would likely occur. Others pointed out that Wiki isn't really best for aggregating individuals' opinions, but rather is aimed at constantly verifying and updating facts. "Wikipedia policy is that all articles should be written from a neutral point of view: without bias, representing all views fairly. According to Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales, NPOV is "absolute and non-negotiable". [1]" Of course, that's WikiPEDIA.
Trust - This is at the core of wiki. There are always going to be the morons. Many-to-Many: Wikitorial Fork. « Wikipedia and slashdot: I was wrong | Main | CTC: Collaboration Is IT's Last Chance to Matter » June 18, 2005 Wikitorial Fork Posted by Ross Mayfield I was quite skeptical that the LA Times Wikitorial experiment could foster anything but an edit war. It seems impossible for someone who disagrees with the central thrust of the original editorial to both respect the intentions of the authors, and also to have a voice. LA Times editors couldn't have possibly hoped for Neutral Point of View editing, and my only guess is they were trying to whip up a good fisk. Wikis can be adapted to most any form of content and conversation. By quoting Jimbo's comment, this post, depending upon how you interpret fair use, is in violation of the Terms of Service: You may not, for example, republish any portion of the Content on any Internet, Intranet or extranet site or incorporate the Content in any database, compilation, archive or cache.
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