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Archive for March, 2006
Wikipedia entry on Blogging…
Posted in Blogging on March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Clay Shirky on Power Laws and the Web
Posted in Blogging, Network science, T214 on March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Useful for T214
And for Blogging paper and ecosystem essays.
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The basic shape is simple – in any system sorted by rank, the value for the Nth position will be 1/N. For whatever is being ranked — income, links, traffic — the value of second place will be half that of first place, and tenth place will [...]
Reflections on the revolution in telephony
Posted in Mobile phones, SMS, Telephony, VoIP on March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Some reflections by Marko Ahtisaari
What made this growth possible? Where did this massive scale come from? What was the structure of the mobile industry that made reaching this two billion mark possible? Three features stand out:
1. An object with a social function tied to a service. The primary human benefit driving the growth of the [...]
More patent trolling
Posted in IP on March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Online auction house eBay goes to the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to prevent one of its core services being shutdown over a patent dispute. It is up against small US technology firm MercExchange, which successfully argued in a lower court in 2003 that eBay had infringed two of its patents.
The dispute relates to eBay’s [...]
Why Yahoo bought Flickr
Posted in Flickr, Media Ecology, Yahoo! on March 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Newsweek quotes a Yahoo! exec on why they bought Flickr: “With less than 10 people on the payroll, they had millions of users generating content. That’s a neat trick.”
From a sardonic Slate piece about Web 2.0.
Glenn Reynolds on blogging-media symbiosis
Posted in Blogging, Media Ecology on March 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
You asked whether the independent media can be trusted as much as existing Big Media. This is a case of conflict between the real and the ideal. When it comes to journalism, the ideal is a strong, dedicated, and fair media establishment that just wants to get to the truth and is willing to spend [...]
Patent trolling
Posted in IP on March 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Lovely example — from Tech Review…
Have Patent, Will Sue
A company makes its money by enforcing long-uncontested patents.
By Associated PressAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — While most technology companies make money by developing software, building hardware or providing services, Forgent Networks Inc. has taken a different route: It produces threats and lawsuits that try to cash in on [...]
Uploading and publishing pictures via 3G phones
Posted in Media Ecology on March 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting column by Vic Keegan in today’s Guardian.
It is difficult to avoid the hype about citizen journalism, the process whereby bloggers and people with cameraphones can report news from the grassroots that old media cannot reach. I thought it was time I tried it myself and what better way than with 3’s new service, which [...]
Brittanica fights back
Posted in UGC, Wikipedia on March 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Good report on OnlineBlog.
Notes on self-organising systems
Posted in Systems on March 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
2. Definition of Self-Organisation
The essence of self-organisation is that system structure (at least in part) appears without explicit pressure or constraints from outside the system. In other words, the constraints on form are internal to the system and result from the interactions between the components, whilst being independant of the physical nature of those components. [...]
