The price of information...

But even that's not quite right. After all, what is a Google search if not a unique and customized sort of the Web, tailored just for you to be a meaningful response to your query? So let's try again:

Abundant information wants to be free. Scarce information wants to be expensive.

In this case, we're using the marginal cost construction of "abundant" and "scarce:" Information that can be replicated and distributed at low marginal cost wants to be free; information with high marginal costs wants to be expensive."

The concept of "free" shoots a big hole in the "all eggs in one basket" paradigm for news, because it suggests a new role in the dissemination of news content — a vehicle to move people to other, more monetizeable forms of media, including advertising. But Anderson is not speaking of the "tease" strategy employed by contemporary media online. "Free" as a tease is not really free, so we're talking about a new form of free information.

So let's assume that a free form of news is strategically smart to use as a marketing tool for forms of news delivered from our monetiziable stages. This frees our minds to think differently about that browser window, for rather than seeking to build our service around revenue, we can now build a service that is largely promotional, and we can target that service to individuals, based on behavior or preselected interests. This also means we don't care where or how this service is consumed, because its value proposition to us is not as a direct revenue-generator. We can freely unbundle (as in RSS 2.0, full feeds) this kind of content, because its purpose is other than the "all eggs in one basket" approach.

Social Media...

The ultimate issue is, How do hierarchical, risk adverse and change-fearing organizations incorporate tools that are anti-hierarchy, risky, game-changers

Information shadows...

A song has information shadows on iTunes, on Amazon, on Rhapsody, on MySpace, or Facebook. A person has information shadows in a host of emails, instant messages, phone calls, tweets, blog postings, photographs, videos, and government documents. A product on the supermarket shelf, a car on a dealer’s lot, a pallet of newly mined boron sitting on a loading dock, a storefront on a small town’s main street — all have information shadows now.

web 2.0

web 2.0, as most ZDNet readers will know,

“..refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, User-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies…”

…according to the quintessential Web 2.0 browser based collaborative app Wikipedia.

As Battelle & O’Reilly say in their recent post:

“the network as platform” means far more than just offering old applications via the network (”software as a service”); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.

Hudson River Valley...

Took my familiar ride over to Rockwood today on July 18th. Periodically over the years I take this ride to spiritually recharge my soul. It never fails and today was no exception. Armed with the camera I made the familiar ride but it's nevere the same ride. Each time I see the landscape in a different manner. There is always something new to see. And at the duck pond, where i stopped to take many pictures making me get off to a slow start a crazy old psychic lady stopped. i wound up gettinginvited to a mediation class down in White Plains. She also admonished me to stop smoking....so it goes...the light show today was fantastic and I went deeper into Rockwood then I usually do. I even found a secret hiding spot. I'd like to bring a girl back there sometime. It is that kind of spot. But a big impetus behind today's trip was to get shots of the Hudson and Tappan point which were big influences on the Hudson River School which I am very much into at the moment...

Ride Along the Kensico

I took a great ride along the Kensico Resovoir today....for a long time I had been wanting to take snapshots along the water...a month ago I had but I was able to get images of the ride up the water...there are such fantastic examples of Hudson River style paintings there...the shafts of light illuminating decaying logs deep in the dark of the forst...

Study of light and shadow...

study of light and shadow...contrast between bright and dark....with a nod to Ralph Waldo Emerson and the observation of the local...as train boy rides again...aging now and dismissed the power of thought and perception still rages on....never could get that conversation started...when I was younger, my self indulgence in my self blinded me from seeing no one gave a shit then...just as well...if I didn't have that illusion I never would have been able to carry on...contructing words is a form of aquaduct to let the consciousness to travel like water...it is also like graffiti and other cave markings...it's a sign, I was here...from my viewpoint everyone else is caught up in their bullshit too...look at me, look at me...my shit is most important...I've pretty much have gotten used to that vibe so it's deeper I go into the observation of local scenery...

Chairoscuro Light...

After a rain storm tbe light came out in a magical light show...it was as if it were a natural cathedral much as the Hudson River painters would depict it...