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Tuesday, February 05, 2002 |
Cryptic messages for the day:
Mr. Man: Congratulations with a capital "C"! More when it's official.
SLS folks: Just you wait and see. It's going to be so incredibly cool!
Why? Because I can.
8:57:54 PM Permanent link here
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Groan. I had set up the Homer Library with a FastCounter because they don't have their own server logs, and today I just noticed that you can't login to see your FC statistics unless you create a Microsoft .NET Passport account. Bah. Does anybody have a suggestion for a new counter? Barring better suggestions, I'll probably go with Site Meter or Web Trends Live.
8:30:08 PM Permanent link here
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IM is here. RU prepared? "Since this is the point in most articles where the writer whips out a statistic from an analyst firm to convince you that you ought to continue reading because this is serious stuff, I should let you know that Gartner predicts that by 2005, IM will be used more often than e-mail.... Users of instant messaging software can create their own circumscribed universe of friends and colleagues; Patrick calls it 'your current circle of knowledge partners.' " [via Tomalak's Realm]
<Dr. Pepper>
I'm a knowledge partner,
he's a knowledge partner,
she's a knowledge partner,
we're a knowledge partner,
wouldn't you like to be a knowledge partner, too?
</Dr. Pepper>
4:15:29 PM Permanent link here
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I-mode Database Announced. "FileMaker Tuesday unveiled a version of its FileMaker Mobile database for i-mode wireless systems. The company...said the new version is aimed at so-called smart phones, or hybrid handheld-wireless phone devices, that are popular in Japan.... FileMaker said in a statement that the i-mode version of its software will enable users to more easily access corporate data using their wireless devices." [at allNetDevices Wireless News]
3:21:02 PM Permanent link here
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PeterMe asks What Software Do You Think In? It's an interesting question that is continuously changing for me. It used to be whatever email program I was using (I am continually mocked for the amount of space my email takes up on the server). Then it became the bookmark program I use (which I have apparently maxxed out). Then it morphed into an information manager for my Palm (so far, so good). Now it's blogging in Radio. This is my trail of knowledge management, another essay I'll be writing one of these days.
Blogging is really the first chance I've had to share my virtual knowledge container with other people. I did it a little bit with the Librarians' Site du Jour, but with that I tried to be objective and offer guidance more than anything else. I wasn't trying to capture all of my thoughts, so much as be a virtual pointer to other sites.
Sidebar one: the comments for the above post pointed me to Snood, Junkbot, and Vexed, all games I know Kate will appreciate while she's home this week.
Sidebar two: when I think, I type. Or maybe that should be "I think, therefore I type." Ever since I learned to type in high school (on a typewriter, mind you), my fingers will involuntarily start typing in mid-air whatever I am thinking. If my hands are just resting on my legs, my fingers will still type. Sometimes, it's how I stay awake in meetings - I start air typing what the person is saying so that I will focus on it. I have no explanation for this.
8:58:44 AM Permanent link here
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E-Mail That Lures Book Readers [in Wired News] A nice write-up of the Chapter-a-Day service that is now offered through 479 public library systems in North America and reaches some 90,000 people. Suzanne Beecher, the woman that started and still runs it, says she's working with 90 percent of all major publishers these days. Congratulations to Dixie at the La Grange Park Public Library who brought CAD to Illinois back in the day!
Further down on the page... who knew Ken Lay, Mr. Enron himself, is on the Board of Directors at Questia? No wonder they're a step away from closing their doors.
8:30:48 AM Permanent link here
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U.S. Web usage hits 54 percent Report: For first time, more than half of population on Net "Internet use continued to grow rapidly last year, with new government data showing that the number of Americans using the Web in 2001 passed 50 percent of the population for the first time.... Despite concerns that interest in Internet usage might cool as many dot-com businesses vanished, the government report put new users at two million per month in 2001. E-mail continues to be the nation’s favorite online activity, and 45 percent of the population now uses it regularly, up from 35 percent in 2000." [at MSNBC.com]
This isn't a surprise, is it? The Internet is becoming an integral part of people's lives, and it's crossing socio-economic boundaries to do it. But here's the most interesting part of this article. Are you sitting down? Well, I guess if you're reading this you are. Be amazed:
"The report found 174 million Americans, or 66 percent of the population, were using computers as of September, with those numbers substantially higher among children and teenagers. The data show that 48 million Americans between age five and age 17, 90 percent of that population, use computers."
And you wondered why they're called the Net Generation.
8:22:39 AM Permanent link here
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Tivo: Super Britney Replays Ruled "While millions of Americans watched the annual pro football championship, TiVo was monitoring the viewing habits of 10,000 of its 280,000 subscribers. The leading maker of digital video recorders used its technology to analyze which football plays or TV ads its subscribers chose to view again or to see in slow motion. TiVo viewers did more instant replays of Super Bowl commercials than of the game itself, and the Pepsi ads featuring Spears were the MVP, said John Ghashghai, TiVo's director of audience research.... When gathering customer marketing research, TiVo says it does not link viewer data to names, gender or age, only into one big database that can identify users by ZIP code." [in Wired News]
Two questions. First, did Tivo users know they were being tracked? Second, did ReplayTV do this? My guess is "no, not really" to the first question, and "no, probably not" to the second. Tivo is explicitly trying to woo over the TV networks and advertisers (I'm sure sharing of market research is in their license agreement), while SonicBlue (the company that owns ReplayTV now) is more focused on the consumer. Does anybody have a definitive answer?
Will we see this kind of tracking technology in eBooks? Counts sent to the publisher for which pages a user bookmarks, which passages are highlighted, how many times a quote is used?
8:11:25 AM Permanent link here
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© Copyright 2004 Jenny Levine.
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