Mark Bernstein's Tinderbox sounds promising. RSS? XML? Map to Blogger and Radio?

Without a Mac to try it on, I'm mostly clueless. Bernstein's Eastgate and StorySpace are another example (like Userland) of a small vendor who has sweat blood over a long, long time in the service of collaborative writing online.

I still feel bad that Mark gave me an eval copy of StorySpace but I never placed a review of the product as I intended. Not sure if taking him out for a sandwich and beer near Cambridge counts.

(The Eastgate philosophy? Where Dave Winer's work emerged from hierarchical outlining as a base metaphor, Eastgate has mined a deep commitment to unfolding all the implications of hypertext. Eastgate is still mining ...).

feedback:   2:09:11 PM    

Adam Curry knows. Blogging: Tune Out and Switch On should be required reading not only for Radio users but for parents around the world.

Unfortunately, he stops just when he has me ready to follow him into the really deep territory:

The first flow has started, its for the infrastructure and tools. Next we figure out our [renewed] values. Placing a value on anything attracts money.

I personally don't believe you can place a value on 'content'. No mass medium does, value there is based on access and scarcity.

The only asset we all own and value is time.

Blogs are closely related to time. They span time, archive over time and take time to write and read. Time is a big deal.

So, beyond infrastructure and tools, can Internet content be sold? What are the money implications in an (Internet) world where our time is scarce but access is universal and immediate?

On one level, this leaves me feeling that the inability to monetize Internet content so far is the saving grace of this medium. Yet, aren't most of us scrambling like ants to find ways to hustle the anthill?

Yo, Adam. Continue, please.

feedback:   7:40:34 AM