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Catch A Tiger By Its Tail

Catch A Tiger By Its Tail 06/29/2004 10:55 AM

Following up on my previous entry on Tiger's Search Technology I'll hit on the other announced features and additions with my personal feelings summing up...




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The Long Tail: Here's something entertaining in an odd way. This page will pull a blog entry out of the...void.

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Only about half of the entries I looked at were in English. All of them were posted in the last two minutes.

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Wired editor Chris Anderson has started a good blog to follow up on his Long Tail essay and seed the ground for a book on the subject. Cory Doctorow takes Anderson to task for his "middle-of-the-road" stance on efforts to lock down intellectual property via increasingly desperate and continuingly futile technical schemes for digital rights management (DRM) -- schemes that tip the balance between propertyholders and the public way too far.

Anderson is dead right in elucidating the way the Net economy restores market value to works that are not big hits. The story of the next few years will be one about whether that market in "long tail" intellectual goods (I wrote about its promise in October) thrives in the same open environment that allowed the Net itself to evolve and prosper -- or shrivels under the furious weight of technical and legal efforts to squeeze every last dollar from every last little hair on the long tail. My money is on the former, happier outcome. But it won't turn out that way without persistent and stubborn resistance -- which we can thank Doctorow and the EFF for ringleading -- to the "we control the horizontal, we control the vertical" paternalism and anti-consumerism of the DRM mafia.

(For a little example of what happens when rights holders hold too many cards, check out the sad saga of "Eyes on the Prize," the documentary that is the "principal film account of the most important American social justice movement of the 20th century," in a Stanford professor's words from Wired News' account. "Eyes on the Prize" can't be publicly shown or distributed because "the filmmakers no longer have clearance rights to much of the archival footage used in the documentary." You want your audiovisual history? Pay up first!)

Assuming the Long Tail isn't clipped by DRMania, we face an ever-expanding banquet of media goods. The BBC sounds an alarm. We are coming face to face with the scourge of "digital obesity":

  Gadget lovers are so hungry for digital data many are carrying the equivalent of 10 trucks full of paper in "weight". Music, images, e-mails, and texts are being hoarded on mobiles, cameras laptops and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), a Toshiba study found. It found that more than 60% kept 1,000 to 2,000 music files on their devices, making the UK "digitally fat".

Or maybe not. The term is a ludicrous oversimplification and distortion; we keep all this stuff around precisely because we can now -- because it doesn't fill trucks, it fills infinitesimal chips and drives, and it's easier to keep everything around than to worry about cleaning house. Carrying the stuff around? No problem. Finding it? Harder. Finding time to absorb it all? There's our rub.

Obesity is simply the wrong metaphor. Thi s post by Rajat Paharia hits closer to the mark:

 

I'm finding that the "digital photo effect" is starting to make its way into my music and video experiences as well. What's the DPE? My ability to produce and acquire has far outstripped my ability to consume. Produce from my own digital camera. Acquire from friends, family, Flickr, etc. This has a couple of ramifications:

1. I feel behind all the time.
2. Because there is so much to consume, I don't enjoy each individual photo as much as I did when they were physical prints. I click through fast.
3. Because of 1 and 2, sometimes I don't even bother.

I first noticed this phenomenon back in the late '80s, when I switched from buying music on vinyl to CDs, and noticed how quickly I stopped listening to an entire 50-60 minute CD if the first track or two didn't grab me. Of course, this kind of impatience coincided with the speeding up of my professional life and my crossing the threshold into my 30s. Something tells me that the problems Paharia and I and perhaps you are facing in this realm of overload may not feel so dire to today's teenagers and twenty-somethings, for whom this thick soup is a native muck.

Still, the "I feel behind all the time" phenomenon is real enough, as today's RSS addicts know -- and as indicated by the rising popularity among the geeknoscenti of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" methodology, with its promise of liberation from uncomfortable behind feelings.

I'm not liberated yet. Behindness surrounds me on all sides. But finding stuff is getting easier. I'm slowly trying to teach myself the methodology that Doctorow has modeled for several years now: If you want to be able to find something in the future, don't bury it in your files -- blog about it, put it out on the Net, where Google will never lose it, and if for some reason you can't find it, someone else will probably have picked it up and saved it for you.

So to hell with bookmarks, and long live the blogmark. Here's a handful:

Lexis Nexis Alacarte: No longer the preserve of big-media newsrooms -- now in handy personal-journalism size.

For years, I tuned my guitar with one of those little electronic tuners in a plastic box; but when they were two, my kids decided that it made a great toy and disembowelled it. Well, all that is solid melts into Net: Today you don't need a physical object, all you need is a Net connection and a browser. Just Google "guitar tuner" for a bunch of options; I liked this one for its retro look.

Feel-good link of the day: First it was the beer and wine, now it's spicy food! Curry may help block Alzheimer's disease. (It's the turmeric.)

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cAnderson.jpgI'm sitting here listening to Chris Anderson discuss the various aspects and insights he has into the 'long tail' phenomena.

I find this stuff fascinating - not from a macro-economic POV - but from the gut level validation of all my ideas and feelings - over the past 25 years. It just makes sense to associate yourself with the niche players and small entities - than bother with the big boys.

I've always felt that way.....

It's amazing to see it evolve into an entire school of thought.


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I wonder how Chris considers JotSpot 'long tail'?

I think I'll ask him that question.

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I've signed a deal to do The Long Tail book with Hyperion (in the US--Random House will be publishing it in the UK and others TBA elsewhere). I should be turning in the manuscript next fall for a spring 2006 release. Following John Battelle's great example, I'm starting The Long Tail blog to help me preview my book thinking and research in public and to tap the wisdom of crowds on this rich subject.
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What's consistent throughout is the search for validation. Though most say they write entries for themselves, it's a disappointment if no one responds. One Evergreen student recently posted a message pleading for feedback. "it makes me sad that no one leaves me comments. . . . i write like these huge entries . . . about so much stuff . . . and no one even says anything in return. and i go to all of your xangas or whatevers and ALWAYS leave a comment.

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Most teens abide by an unwritten code of the blogosphere: What happens online stays online. Many have digital friendships with classmates but never socialize in real life "because we don't hang with the same crowd, as one Evergreen student explained.

The first one I've heard from many people also in the Finnish blogosphere. Feedback is what keeps many people writing, though some are still happy just to organize their own thoughts, and don't really care if someone reads them or not.

But combined with the second one... It's amazing how naturally the teenagers consider online life a completely separate arena, one that has nothing to do with the real life. It makes me actually wonder about things like the Finnish blog awards, or the blogger meetings that are occurring everywhere. It is strange to meet fellow bloggers, indeed: many people write only of a single aspect of their life online, be it their angst at being alone or their hobbies, or their day-to-day life. Very few people pour all aspects of their life into the internet, and even then the "compression" of the bandwidth is very lossy: you only see some things, with the less interesting bits removed.

Many people have told me that they like to read their own blogs. I like to do it myself, sometimes (then again, I'm not very critical at myself :). This is not really very surprising, as it most probably is the kind of text you like to read - and also because it makes your own life to look more interesting. It's kinda like doing social pornography on yourself - something that all of us do anyway. It's no more different than looking through old photographs, or resting your eyes on your own furniture (you chose it, so it must be pleasing).

Who are you blogging really for?

Why do I write online?

I guess there is no simple answer to that. Part of me yearns for validation: the "Hey, I read your entry the other day and I liked it" -moments. Part of me is narcistic: I want to be known, scream out that my life has not been in vain. Part of it is simply about the engineers built-in desire to change things, to have impact on the world - nibble away at the corner of a huge statue so that it becomes more beautiful. Part of me wants a place to store my thoughts in some coherent order, and an important part of me just needs to write.

But I guess the most important thing are the people. Weblogs allow me to share things with the people I love, allow other people to discover me and perhaps - if I'm lucky - they become friends. What I write is only a small part of me, but it is the part I want you to see. They are things I consider important, or things that move me. Or things that are just silly and make me laugh.

I like bloggers. Blogging is not yet tainted by rampant commercialism, nor big corporations saying "we want this", or "we monetize that". Blogging is about creating something new, be it in the form of your life, or just repeating old things but in a new order. Bloggers have their own voice, some of them beautiful, and some of them not so beautiful

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Last week I got a surprising amount of requests from NetNewsWire users who’d like to have a validator built in to NetNewsWire. (Many of these people are people who test and monitor their own feeds with NetNewsWire.)

What I could do—what I’d like to do—is include Mark’s and Sam Ruby’s validator in NetNewsWire. The validator would stay out of the way by default, but it would be there for people who want it.

There’s an issue, though: the validator is open source, licensed via the Python license, and I don’t know if I can include it with NetNewsWire. (License gurus please clarify.)

But more importantly, licensing issues aside, I wouldn’t do it without Mark’s and Sam’s agreement.

(In case you’re wondering about the technical details: the validator would be included unmodified, as a set of files on disk, but inside the app package, in Contents/Resources/).

Client side validation


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Brent Simmons: What I could do—what I’d like to do—is include Mark’s and Sam Ruby’s validator in NetNewsWire.

+1.  I'm in.

This will require some work, none of it hard.  Prereqs are Python 2.x and pyxml.  There currently are three interfaces: a CGI/web interface, a command line, and a web interface.

  • The CGI/web interface contains a number of absolute paths and direct references to the host.  However, this is probably the best place to start.
  • The command line interface is designed primarily for development use.  However, something like this that returns back a simple return code might be useful for your optional indicator.
  • The web service interface accepts a simple HTTP POST, optionally with SOAP envelope and body elements.  This could be evolved into something that does exactly the same as the above, but without requiring any installation on the client.  Of course, this would require that the user be online at the time, and would have quite different performance characteristics.  Overall, probably not the path to pursue in this case.

In any case, none of this work is difficult, and I would be glad to do it.


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Pollution Rules
Could Force Moo-ve

BT struggles on
broadband price

Army doctors 'lacked
equipment'

Diana fountain ready
for opening

Ovary transplant
pregnancy first

US court bars
internet porn law

Madame flies flag
for brothel
(Reuters)

World's oldest
person celebrates
114th birthday
(Reuters)

Euro-Dutch Fans Hit
by 'Soccer Sickness'
(Reuters)

Vandal Smashes
Saintly Venice
Statues with Hammer
(Reuters)

13-Year-Old Hijacks
Dad's 40-TonTruck
(Reuters)

Well, Good-Bye,
Dali... (Reuters)

Ancient Bloodsuckers
Approved for Therapy
(Reuters)

She Leaps to Death
Where Partner Died
Fleeing Cops
(Reuters)

Drug May Offer
Aphrodisiac for
Women (Reuters)

Itchy Monk
Compensated for
Lousy Stay at Inn
(Reuters)

Another Heartwarming
Family Story
(Reuters)

Inside the Mind of
the Searcher Part
II: Search Behavior
Explored

Five years ago:
Government attacked
over internet
interception

Microsoft settles
Arizona anti-trust
suit

Supreme Court won't
let law meant to
shield kids from
online porn take
effect

Supreme Court
rejects Internet
porn law

Supreme Court Bars
Internet Porn Law
Enforcement

Gates gives progress
report on fight
against spam

iBook Reflections At
18 Months

Griffin iCurve
Apple: Innovate
Doesn't Mean
Stealing

Other News: PC
Spyware

Other News: INDUCE
Act

Other News: Steve
Winwood

Other News: HP
Printer Promo

Other News: Apple
Appropriation

Other News: Keynote
Video

Notes and Tips:
Internet Telephony

Notes and Tips:
OpenSharepoint

Notes and Tips:
"Tiger" Questions

Announcement: Maya
Unlimited 6 for Mac
OS X

Update: MachFive 1.2
Update

Update: Graphviz
1.13 for Mac OS X

Update: Pooch 1.5
Update: Canto Web
Publisher Pro 2.0
and Internet Client
Pro 2.0

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