Posted on: 05 January, 2002
Author: Colin Ong TS
Introduction: [Sharing of Knowledge through Corporate e-books]For organisations to stay competitive, they must be willing to share knowledge with the public because the digital revolution has enabled ... Introduction: [Sharing of Knowledge through Corporate e-books]For organisations to stay competitive, they must be willing to share knowledge with the public because the digital revolution has enabled information to move beyond geographical boundaries. The new rule of corporate survival is not just the ownership of knowledge; it also means that the conscious effort to modify and self-destroy it.With this in mind, business decision-makers must seriously consider the sharing, selling and protection of...
Posted on: 04 January, 2002
Author: Wayne Perkins
Title: Protect Your E-books ... Failsafe System for ... Your Fame and ... years ago I was giving my first E-book keynote speech before the Arizona Book ... ... Title: Protect Your E-books Files!Perkins Failsafe System for Protecting Your Fame and FortuneThree years ago I was giving my first E-book keynote speech before the Arizona Book Publishing Association, when one of the esteemed publisher members asked me a very pointed question."What happens if someone steals your file and sells it or gives it away all over the Internet?"Until I was asked that question I thought I was Sutter striking gold...
Posted on: 19 December, 2001
Author: Ruth Marlene Friesen
I joined a ... Writers' Group a few weeks ago, and the email ... of those members is quite ... Browsing and skimming them last night Icame to one where a writer who has vision tr I joined a Christian Writers' Group a few weeks ago, and the email exchanges of those members is quite exhilarating. Browsing and skimming them last night Icame to one where a writer who has vision trouble andcan't read regular print books challenged the others to produce more e-books.E-books are read on the computer, and the greatestthing about them, as I've discovered myself, is that...
Posted on: 19 December, 2001
Author: Sam Vaknin
... recent ... among online content peddlers and digital media ... can be traced to two deadly sins. The first was to assume that traffic equals sales. In other http://www.ideavirus.comThe recent bloodbath among online content peddlers and digital media proselytisers can be traced to two deadly sins. The first was to assume that traffic equals sales. In other words, that a miraculous conversion will spontaneously occur among the hordes of visitors to a web site. It was taken as an article of faith that a certain percentage of this mass will inevitably and nigh hypnotically reach for their bulging pocketbooks...
Posted on: 19 December, 2001
Author: Sam Vaknin
The last few months have ... a ... in tech stocks coupled with a frantic ... of the web and of every player in it (as far as content is ... This effort is three ... The last few months have witnessed a bloodbath in tech stocks coupled with a frantic re-definition of the web and of every player in it (as far as content is concerned). This effort is three pronged:Some companies are gambling on content distribution and the possession of the attendant digital infrastructure. MightyWords, for example, stealthily transformed itself from a "free-for-all-everyone-welcome" e-publisher to a distribution channel...
Posted on: 19 December, 2001
Author: Sam Vaknin
Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past?In one word: disintermediationThe gradual removal of layers of content brokering and intermediation - mainly ... Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past?In one word: disintermediationThe gradual removal of layers of content brokering and intermediation - mainly in manufacturing marketing - is the continuation of a long term trend. Consider music for instance. Streaming audio on the internet ("soft radio"), or downloadable MP3 files may render the CD obsolete - but they were preceded by radio music broadcasts....
Posted on: 19 December, 2001
Author: Sam Vaknin
http://www.realsci.com/Scindex's Instant Publishing Service is about empowerment. The price of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals has skyrocketed in the last few years, often way out of the limited mea... http://www.realsci.com/Scindex's Instant Publishing Service is about empowerment. The price of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals has skyrocketed in the last few years, often way out of the limited means of libraries, universities, individual scientists and scholars. A "scholarly divide" has opened between the haves (academic institutions with rich endowments and well-heeled corporations) and the haves not (all the others). Paradoxically, access to authoritative and authenticated knowledge has declined as the number of professional journals has...
Posted on: 19 December, 2001
Author: Sam Vaknin
A debate is raging in ... circles: should content be ... and ... (the Barnes and Noble or Digital goods model) - or should it be ... freely and thus serve as a form of vir A debate is raging in e-publishing circles: should content be encrypted and protected (the Barnes and Noble or Digital goods model) - or should it be distributed freely and thus serve as a form of viral marketing (Seth Godin's "ideavirus")? Publishers fear that freely distributed and cost-free "cracked" e-books will cannibalize print books to oblivion. The more paranoid point at the music industry. It...
Posted on: 19 December, 2001
Author: Sam Vaknin
... The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and ... search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's in response to the most ... qu http://www.doi.org/ The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and sophisticated search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's in response to the most well-defined query, Boolean operators and all. Directories created by human editors - such as Yahoo! or the Open Directory Project - are often overwhelmed by the amount of material out there. Like the legendary blob, the Internet is...
Posted on: 19 December, 2001
Author: Sam Vaknin
http://www.archive.org/ "Digitized information, especially on the Internet, has such rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm. Civilization is developing severe amnesia as a result; indee... http://www.archive.org/ "Digitized information, especially on the Internet, has such rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm. Civilization is developing severe amnesia as a result; indeed it may have become too amnesiac already to notice the problem properly."(Stewart Brand, President, The Long Now Foundation )Thousands of articles and essays posted by hundreds of authors were lost forever when themestream.com surprisingly shut its virtual gates. A sizable portion of the 1960...