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Monday, December 4, 2006
Landscrape 
Findings
| | Dave Winer: In the future, the flow of ideas for products will happen everywhere, all the time, and products with small markets will be worth making because we'll be able to find the users, or more accurately, they'll be able to find us. |
| | "Find us", and what follows (business happening, relationships forming, markets growing) is the essence of VRM. Right now it can't be done, even though the demand is there, big time. |
| | We're gonna fix that. If you wanna help, come to the IIW tomorrow. |
Tiny points
| | TinyURL is the next YouTube. In fact. It's better. It's a dream come true for the Madison avenue types whose Holy Grail has always been how to serve people with an advertisement at their moment of greatest need. |
| | Whether Madison Avenue realizes it or not, TinyURL.com is a demand intercepting weapon. Doc Searls often talks about the Intention Economy. Back in June, in a podcast interview, Doc told me: |
| | It¹s everything that follows the intention of somebody to buy something. It¹s everything after marketing¹s work is done. In other words, I intend to buy a Ford Focus four-door wagon and I want to let the market know that and see what comes to me. |
| | Doc told me this after talking about how most marketing dollars are wasted on attention instead of being spent on intention. |
| | I'm not sure whether Doc would agree, but TinyURL is like a stealth intention engine. |
| | I'm not sure either, but that claim certainly gets my attention. |
| | Speaking of which, the attention I'm talking about in that quoted text isn't what the Attention Trust is up to. It's the waste involved in most advertising. The Attention Trust and others working on the topic of Attention are out to create new systems that don't involve insult or waste and may for that reason not be advertising as we've always known it. |
Being there, only more
Just an idea
| | I wish somebody would do for electric power what wifi does for ethernet. (I say that becaouse I'm about to burn through my second laptop battery here at IIW.) |
| | From 1899 to 1900 Tesla stayed at Colorado Springs. At a height of 2000 m above sea level he built a laboratory with a 200 kW transmitter. He also constructed generators and transformers which produced frequencies of tens of thousands hertz and potentials up to 12 million volts, and improved his coreless transformer for high-frequency currents, known as Tesla transformer. In his notes on the experiments from this period he stated that the stationary waves spread through the Earth so that this effect could be used for wireless transmission of energy. |
| | When the power company figured out that Tesla had no way of charging people who tapped into the wireless power, they had construction on the tower stopped and ended the project. |
Until then, we're on our own. Together. Somehow.
| | So now that we have this beautiful new Sony 40" 1080p HD screen in our family room, I'm looking for the best not-too-expensive camcorder, so we can produce videos that look good on this thing. |
| | I'm leaning toward the Sony HDR-SR1, a 1080i unit that records on a 30Gb hard drive. But I'm also new to this. My know-how is still mostly confined NTSC (low-def old-style TV) on tape. I have a digital camcorder that does that, and I know how to edit, somewhat. I'm not that serious about it. Nor do I want to be. I just want to shoot some fun videos and edit them and share them. |
| | This all comes to mind because I see that Dabble is blogging its own contest, which is also via its blog. Dabble is a way to organize and sharing pointers to your favorite videos. (Playlists that are yours, not theirs, whoever They are. YouProgramming, basically.) The top prize is an iPod. Disclosure: I advise Dabble, even though I'm not, like, a big video guy. I just happen to think that the biggest part of video won't be what we'll soon say "used to be called TV". It will be DIY stuff. Or DIT, for Do It Together. |
| | It'll be fun to see when one's favorite videos are ones that aren't on YouTube, but on other people's servers, in full 1080i or 1080p HD. (Because YouTube and the like don't do that, do they?) The cable and phone systems that "deliver" the Internet to our homes don't appear to comprehend consumers that produce as well. But, to borrow from Yoda, they will. Eventually. Meanwhile, we'll need to build our own infrastructure. Whether that's by swapping hard drives or bypassing "last mile" or "last acre" carrier duopoly silos, we'll get it done. Eventually. |
Outcyclopedia
| | An organized gang of Wikipedia users are waging a self proclaimed "War On Blogs" to have certain blogger's articles deleted from the online encyclopedia. Currently under attack are the Freeway Blogger and Tony Pierce, editor of LAist and writer for his own site, the Busblog. |
| | Wikipedia user "Timecop/The war on blogs" has a page that outlines the plan for "Blogs Under Termination from Us Queers (B.U.T.F.U.Q.)" that explains: |
| | So, there are hundreds of utterly worthless blog-related pages on Wikipedia. My goal is to get rid of a lot of them. |
| | Thirty years ago, during my brief career in parapsychology, a group called The Committee to Scientifically Investigate the Claims of the Paranormal was created to oppose the whole science. Shortly thereafter, our director, William G. Roll, received a newspaper clipping along with a note that said "Some group with a split infinitive is out to get us." |
| | This kinda reminds me of that. |
| | [Later...] Woops! Richard Bennett passes word that the source of the Wikipedia War on Blogs, is a notorious troll collective. And, It's funny that the Wikipedia people don't get the fact that it's a prank. Well, it had me fooled. Damn. |
Who new
Give and take
| | Cory Doctorow in Forbes: I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money. |
| | Also in Forbes, University of Iowa library conservator Gary Frost says screen-based reading and the digital revolution Š are actually going to engender a renaissance of print. In a piece titled Stop Worrying About Copyrights. |
I love GPS
There are responses to this message:Re: Monday, December 4, 2006, Andy Coon, 12/5/06; 10:13:37 PM Free Business Plan, Wes Felter, 12/5/06; 1:24:16 AM Can't edit HDR-SR1 footage, Wes Felter, 12/4/06; 11:21:16 PM That Wikipedia thing is a prank, Richard Bennett, 12/4/06; 7:08:59 PM
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