June 23, 1999
Salon: Who owns the New York Times bestseller list?
Scott Rosenberg. As technology keeps redefining the nature of owning information, fighting to defend every last chunk of intellectual property on the Net may look like a sensible strategy. But in the long run, it's like trying to hold on to a snowball in the sun.
- Useit.Com: From February 1995; The Future of Hypertext.
There are two major problems with the current approach to copyright: first, "information wants to be free" as the hackers' credo goes, and second, the administration of permissions and royalties adds significant overhead to the efforts of people who work within the rules.
- Industry Standard: From April 9, 1999; Are You Experienced?
Make no mistake: Information isn't the foundation of the new economy. Information is not an economic offering. As John Perry Barlow likes to say, information wants to be free.
News.Com: Consumer Reports' brand builds Net subscriptions.
For one, it should drop its subscription rate for those who are already subscribing to the print version, he said. Then, the company could also be offering a "per transaction" option, which users could access from sites all over the Web...
Red Herring: From many, many.
Businesses are seeking to give customers the ability to check on their orders, determine product availability, and obtain support, each with a single mouse click. This requires incredibly complex integration on the back end.
Builder.Com: 10 Questions about Information Architecture.
Blending the technical and the visual with a keen sense for organizational structures and usability, IA is a multidimensional field that puts place in space.
CIO: Data Waste.
If you're looking for a common example of data waste, check out your company's Intranet. Does its home page feature a news stream that races along the upper end of the desktop screen?
ChannelSeven: Jupiter's Future is in the Stars.
The company introduced a new service this week called the Inflection Impact Index. Oversimplified, it tries to make the intangible tangible. It tries to identify market conditions that will affect the Internet economy before they happen.
Wired News: MS Backs Privacy with Ad Bucks.
Microsoft's move follows a similar plan announced by IBM earlier this year. In March, Big Blue said it would pull its Internet ads from Web sites that do not post privacy policies.
PC World: Big Blue's Wireless Blue Skies.
The Pervasive Computing division focuses on three converging technologies that it believes are essential to a wireless world: semiconductor, storage, and software.
Eye For Design: Branding and Usability.
Jared Spool. The key to understanding branding on web sites is that web sites are interactive, not passive. There is always a direct experience.
TechWeb: Algorithm Hides Data Inside Unaltered Images.
So unlike watermarks, which embed added information in every part of an image, only the complex parts of an image harbor the added information. Because information is hidden rather than appended, image size is unchanged.
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