Saturday, April 28, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Powers of Ten with text - the iftf networked book visual interface. ????


Powers of 10 for words in a networked book the pdf is a really interesting pan and zoom with the textual components of the book - well worth considering as another "way" into the networked book.
GAMER THEORY � Blog Archive � TextArc
Thursday, April 19, 2007
MediaWiki - Meta
MediaWiki is wiki software, released under the GPL, that is used by Wikimedia projects and others. It is an implementation of a wiki, a content pool that anyone can freely edit. It is developed using MediaZilla (our version of BugZilla).
Planet Wikimedia - Meta
A clear explanatory wikipage describing a new offering from the Wikimedia folks a good example of a conversation base tied to weblog feeds.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Service Provider Page | AttentionTrust.org
AttentionTrust.org: a Declaration of Gestural Independence

The original treatise on Gestural Value. this is the essence of the Attention Trust and Open ID mashup.
If we are creating a Peer Production processes where new value is created through mass collaboration, we need to find a way to hook into the ATX and Open ID and make them part of our value sharing incentive system.
TRANSPARENT BUNDLES by Seth Goldstein: AttentionTrust.org: a Declaration of Gestural Independence
TRANSPARENT BUNDLES by Seth Goldstein: AttentionTrust.org: a Declaration of Gestural Independence
There is a market mechanism for "securitizing" ATX trades that I have to rediscover - I guess Steve Gillmor is the key person to be contacted, or Goldstein- the author of this articale.TRANSPARENT BUNDLES by Seth Goldstein: AttentionTrust.org: a Declaration of Gestural Independence
AttentionTrust.org
Partners - Ping Identity Corporation
It's been a while since I checked out Andre Durand's company,
SSO and Open ID is coming - we should make it a part of our P2P wikinomics structure. Ties in with Attention Trust too.
Investigation is under way
The TAO of Topic Maps

The TAO of Topic Maps
We are smarter than me -Peer Production of a new Networked Book
Authoring from the edge - THIS belongs in the Wikinomics playbook. I need a bookmarking tag to remind me to return to this post. I am sure Critt can help.
We Are Smarter Than Me: Home
Original link here from a search on google images for a diagram of page rank. Weird?
Blogs for Companies � Miscellaneous
Monday, April 16, 2007
fair use continued....
The "fair use" disclaimer could refer automatically to tags included in the post. This is particularly important when the blog is used as a reconstruction platform for Networked Books in which "snippets" of audio,video, text, presentation slides, are used as an attention-saving device for users who may/or may not wish to buy a full copy of the book.
Wikinomics is particularly interesting in this light since the authors :
• provided an e-book pdf for free download of Chapter One of the book
• Issued a specific challenge to readers to engage in augmenting the book through posting to
what the author's entitled " The Wikinomics Playbook" which carries this invitation in the
printed version of the book, and is also issued verbally by Don Tapscott in his presentations
about the book and the author's memes presented there.
The likely result of the NetworkedBook process is to create a larger market for the author's books, increasing the book's value to both author and publisher - so that "infringement" of the author's IP could not be claimed on the basis that the fair use of images, text, audio and video reduced the market share and profitability of the author's books or other related IP by limiting the NetworkedBook such "fair use" content as selected presentation slides,and snippets of audio/video content from longer works.
A related question is the use of NetworkedBooks as educational platforms for stimulating learning and application of the action-oriented content of the books and other author's IP as learning objects - a practice which is allowed under the fair use statutes.

CC 2.5 license allowing free use with attribution but no commercial application. by the artist.
Fair use Icon from Wikipedia

Here is a clip from Wikipedia where the item editor posts this low resolution copy of the cover of The Selfish Gene.

It describes how the editor justifies the "fair use"of the image, and is worth reading for its detailed description of the justification.
Could it be that all Networked Books should use a similar fair use statement and the wikipedia icon?
"This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the publisher of the book. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of book covers
- to illustrate an article discussing the book in question
- on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.
To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. Please include in your fair use rationale details of the particular edition (publisher, market & year of publication) of the edition you have used, and also acknowledge any cover artist if such artist is acknowledged in that edition's frontmatter. If the book cover is in the public domain (see Wikipedia:Public domain), then use the appropriate public domain tag rather than this one.
[edit] Fair use rationale for The Selfish Gene and Richard Dawkins
This image of the book cover of The Selfish Gene, The Selfish Gene3.jpg, is being linked to both from the article on the book and the article on the author. Although the picture is subject to copyright I (Mikker (...)) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
- it is a low resolution copy of a book cover;
- it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the book in any way;
- copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book;
- the image on the cover is significant to both articles because it is the author's most well known work and, as the cover of the original edition, illuestrates important aspects of the articles."
Friday, April 13, 2007
Wikinomics on my bookshelf at Shelfari

Shelfari - Details on Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes... by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Click on the show more... on the above link for a concise and useful review of wikinomics which ends with this:
" An important look into the future, Wikinomics will be your road map for doing business in the twenty-first century. "
if:book: dismantling the book
Obviously, a big part of the consumer market that book publishers have owned for 200 years want the nuggets, not a narrative. They're going, going, gone. The skills of a "publisher" -- developing content and connecting it to markets -- will have to be applied in different ways.
Peter: I agree that it is not the mechanical act of interconnection that is to blame but the demand side preference for chunks of texts. And the demand is probably extremely high, I agree.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
RSS on AppleTV - source: Wired

This new "hack" for AppleTV provides RSS feeds direct to HDTV and could serve up ConversationBase content without having to archive the material on iTunes.
Future versions of the plugin will include audio and video feeds so that the entire multimedia content array could be automatically syndicated using the RSS plugin as a customized feed reader
Imagine the Networked Book custom-fed to your HDTV with user attention data being captured by Grazr and fed back into the conversation. An RSS fed TiVo ? You can follow the ant trail below to learn more, and if you have an AppleTV you can download the RSS plugin.
Cult of Wired News
Monday, April 9, 2007
10 Newspaper Myths Deconstructed


Another cogent view from Oliver Reichenstein, the author and a prinicipal in Information Architects Japan.
While the article is an analysis of the disruption of the Newspaper business and a debunking of the "straw man" myths listed by Oliver it is useful as a model for analyzing the old media book publishing business.
Information Architects Japan � iA Notebook � 10 Newspaper Myths Deconstructed