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Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts

Day: February 16, 2004

  • Chicken or egg?

    Mary Hodder shared, in her report from day two of the Digital Media Summit, this tiny tidbit. I chatted with Craig Calder of NYT Digital, who told me that their archives generate around $1 million a year in revenue, but it’s declining. He said mostly what’s accessed is less than 90 days old, but the…

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  • FOAF: maybe next time

    Friend of a friend (FOAF) is for representing your social network in an XML file. Some people are doing interesting things with this, but for now, I’ll just save a link to a FOAF generator. Maybe in the future, as the social networking craze turns into something useful, rather than simply like collecting baseball cards.…

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  • “The click heard around the…

    That is Jeff Jarvis‘s phrase from his commentary on Nisenholtz’s speech at SIIA. Jarvis is saying that citizen’s media is the Pong for digital media. Blogs are just the first step, but — despite Nisenholtz’s cautiousness — the future is here. I wrote my thoughts on the speech on the same day. I found it…

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  • Almost like being there…

    Well, not really, but Doc Searls is providing some pointers from Demo. I’m sure there are lots of other Demo blogs out there. I’m curious to see which items are more than a flash in the pan. Update: Technorati method for following the buzz about Demo.

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  • Does writing make you more…

    That’s my hope. Napsterization.org thinks it does. Just added this feed to NNW.

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