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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 02:41 PM EST |
Newspick
Now, Facebook follows the steps that most
tyrants do, quietly moving from sham elections to an official
policy that users
will have no vote in site governance.
Using the techniques of
Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and Revelation 13:17, FB announces its intentions on a
(Warning:
Facebook operated site)
Newsroom page which encourages the gentle reader to Like or
Follow their
Site Governance Page to keep up to date with changes
in policy. Discouragement from reading this
Newsroom page was immediately
evident to me by the tiny typeface and light gray color
body{font:11px/18px 'lucida
grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;color:#666}
I have
facebook.com resolving to 127.0.0.1, the "Newsroom" is fb.com, but the Site
Governance
Page is at facebook.com. I know friends shouldn't allow friends
to FB, but it is so pervasive now that many
otherwise sane
persons
are to be found there. It's all very well for FB to claim
Anyone
who uses Facebook owns and controls the content and information they post, as
stated in our terms. They control
how that content and information is shared.
That is our policy, and it always has been.
but when the site
operates like Grandma's quilt - see the para. above the quote - policy and
intent stumble on the path of
reality.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 03:30 PM EST |
Is the pending German Copyright Bill good or bad
for the Web?
What I expect will happen is that some German
language publishers will simply set up their web servers outside Germany and
reap the additional traffic that their competitors are turning away. There's
lots of sources for news. People are no longer bound to the ones which are
physically located in their towns. You can be "local" while having your servers
and nominal headquarters somewhere else.
What the publishers are
actually concerned about is people reading the Google news excerpts and not
reading the actual article. They also don't want people just cherry picking news
articles that they're interested in and not looking at the newspaper's home page
(or rather, the ads on the home page) to search for a story. To the publishers,
this is putting Google's brand ahead of their own. They want the brand
recognition and the repeat traffic and higher advertising rates that come with
it.
Where I think the news publishers are falling down is in ad sales.
Newspapers are ad platforms. The news stories are just there to get people to
look at ads. However, their ad departments don't seem to be able to transfer
their traditional print ad sales skills to web ad sales. If I go to der
Spiegel's home page, the first ad I see is from Doubleclick, which is a Google
subsidiary. This is true for other newspapers as well, even for local ads (I
just checked my own non-German paper for this). The news publishers can't seem
to figure out how to turn their "locality" into a reliable revenue stream.
What news publishers need to do is to be better at turning occasional
visitors into repeat readers, and to have ad platforms that will let them keep
more of the revenue. At the moment, I think they do a pretty poor job of it.
Where I think their biggest failing lies is most of them still think of
themselves as print publishers with the web as an afterthought. Their idea of a
web version of their newspaper is to just stick all their news stories on their
web site without providing any way for people to effectively filter them. People
have a limited amount of time in which to read news, and the paper based methods
of dealing with this ("above the fold" versus "below the fold", "front pages"
versus "back pages") don't transfer well to the web (especially for mobile
phones). Instead, they need to develop effective new methods to handle this. If
you subscribe to the Globe and Mail's RSS feeds, you will be bombarded with far
more news stories than you can handle, but few of them will interest you.
Newspapers have gone through major technological revolutions before.
The introduction of steam printing presses for example was revolutionary as it
turned newspaper publishing from a small scale specialist operation into a major
business with a mass customer base. What the Internet offers is a means of
drastically both cutting distribution costs and reducing the time for the
publishing cycle. That lets newspapers compete more effectively with radio and
television.
Personally, I suspect that most of the existing newspapers
will go out of business and be replaced by new ones who are only web publishers.
I think there's a market for web "newspapers", as Google News and the other
"non-news" generalist equivalents are appallingly bad at showing relevant news
stories in their "news" platforms. These new newspapers however need to figure
out how to get their news feeds onto peoples screens when most people don't even
know what an RSS reader is. They also need to get a handle on web advertising.
But given the low standard of Google News, I think that Google's relative
success is due to how badly the traditional newspapers are handling their own
web platforms.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 04:35 PM EST |
"Arctic Sea Ice Larger Than US Melted This Year" is on the
ABC web site, but from Associated Press. I thought several
years ago you said you would no longer be using their stories
because they were demanding royalties whenever five or more
words were quoted. And didn't you also ask us not to include
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 05:00 PM EST |
Link to article.
It doesn't look Dell has realized their number
one problem in selling anything with Linux:
Customers ability to find the
product!
Caveat: perhaps it's my dell-search-fu that's faulty.
If
you already know which page you want, you can find it easy enough on their site.
However:
Search for Linux - no products
Search for Linux Ultrabook
- you get sent to a single product, Latitude 6430u Ultrabook, with nothing but
MS listed as software
Search for Ultrabook and you get the model, but
selecting details only presents a page with nothing but MS
listed
Search for developer ultrabook - no products
listed
Search for Ubuntu - no products
Dell: you really want to
support those of us that want Linux? Modify your search tools to better present
the models that one has a choice to get Linux on. If the customers can't easily
find it: then it doesn't exist!
Additionally, if the customer can't
easily find it - they can't easily direct the Dell Sales to it, and if Dell
Sales isn't aware of it: again, it doesn't exist.
Here's an interesting
question: One wouldn't know where to find it unless someone gave them the link -
but if you can't navigate to it through the main pages available to the
public.... (at least it seems you can't navigate to it that way) is it in breach
of "computer hacking" Laws?
Actual page where you view the Linux product specs.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 03:04 AM EST |
They are only appealing the API copyright issue, all patent
a stuff has been dropped.
This info brought to you from the place that shall not be
linked, which is pretty much direct from Oracle considering
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| Authored by: JamesK on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 07:50 AM EST |
"The final error, McBride said"
For a moment there, I thought our friend Darl was up to his old tricks. ;-)
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The following program contains immature subject matter.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 10:23 AM EST |
| It seems like Nokia is applying this patent in use against
ViewSonic (hearing
now under way) against HTC. However, this
information came from FM - all
similar articles, all over
the web, seem to use him as their source. eg Nokia
gunning for HTC in fresh 32-strong
patent complaint
There is a link to his blog if you want to see his
"facts".
Does anybody have independent information/opinions on this.
For
example, why is MOSAID not being employed as the vehicle
for these actions? I
know they are pre-existing
disagreements,
or is there still tactical
advantage, at the moment, in
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