Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Lots of new feeds from Apple.   Lots of new feeds from Apple. [Scripting News] 10:43:19 AM    Trackback []

Market Failure In The Media Sector   : Eli Noam, professor of economics and finance at Columbia University, writing in FT, looks at the structural and endemic problems in the digital content market: "The basic structural reason for this problem is that information products are characterised by high fixed costs and low marginal costs. Second, more information products are continuously being offered to users. And information products and services are becoming more "commodified", open, and competitive. The main result of these factors is that prices for content, network distribution and equipment are collapsing across a broad front. It seems to have become difficult to charge anything for information products and services." Read this one carefully... [PaidContent.org] 10:40:52 AM    Trackback []

Feedster Feedpapers   John Battelle points out an interesting new development in the blogosphere: Feedster Feedpapers. Here's Feedster's explanation: When you think about what Feedster really does, it lets you listen to the web. A Feedpaper is a sophisticated daily newspaper, a "Feedpaper",... [JD's New Media Musings] 10:30:55 AM    Trackback []

Tracking user navigation methods by logging where users click on web pages   Michael Angeles has written a truly excellent blog entry on using logs to determine the effectiveness of navigation. This is a must-see entry due to the concrete research, and fascinating results. To quote: I need some way of exploring alternatives, but I don’t want to change the site too drastically without having some justification for doing so, so about a month ago I asked our systems administrator to come up with ways to track where links are being clicked on the page. The first month of data has arrived and I have some stats to show where people are clicking to get around the site. The wireframe and the charts below show what we’re seeing.[Column Two] 9:50:31 AM    Trackback []