Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Long Tail #

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail: Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream. This article got a lot of attention. I've not read it but think that it might be worth coming back to one day when I'm ready to integrate its ideas somewhere. Or the argument might prove totally wrong! I hope to benefit from the long tail since my interests have been sufficiently esoteric that local retail stores don't accomodate them. For example, I like to watch opera on DVD. There's really not enough demand in the rental market of opera DVDs for local video stores to keep a good stock. But maybe something like Netflix could rent opera DVDs.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 1/26/05; 10:36:03 PM from the Unclassified dept. Discuss

My professional work for 2005 #
I've written a statement about what I am trying to achieve professionally this year.  There is an evolving wiki version.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 1/26/05; 6:20:59 PM from the Personal Notes dept. Discuss

Seamless Use and Reuse of Digital Content By Scholars #
I have written a formal statement of my current and future work:  Seamless Use and Reuse of Digital Content By Scholars.  A wiki version also exists:   Posted by Raymond Yee on 1/26/05; 6:04:04 PM from the Personal Notes dept. Discuss

Camera phone research #

I wish I could have heard Mirjana Spasojevic of HP Labs yesterday speak about her research on the use of CameraPhone(s): Digital Home Seminar Series: The Ubiquitous Camera: An In-depth Study of Camera Phone Use. I should keep an eye on Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley Seminar Listing. I think that way our home evironment becomes increasingly digital will have a profound effect on how we interact with scholarly materials (because of pure spillover effect, if nothing else.)   Posted by Raymond Yee on 1/26/05; 9:23:03 AM from the Unclassified dept. Discuss

Following what your friends are reading #

So what are you reading these days?: Alden says Rojo is the first company to combine RSS aggregation with social networking, but it probably won’t be the last. Rojo is one of a growing number of companies turning social networks into a tool for better managing and sharing online content. Of course, the makers of longer-standing RSS aggregators like Bloglines predictably point out that Rojo is missing a lot of features that their own services provide and charge that Rojo’s website isn’t easy or intuitive to use. In some ways, I wouldn't mind finding a good way to automatically share what I'm reading with my friends. But then again, such an automatic flow of info might be way too much information (both literally but also in the sense of "I didn't need to know that.")   Posted by Raymond Yee on 1/26/05; 9:21:39 AM from the Web Technology dept. Discuss

UCHRI #

I learn something new every day. UCHRI: The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), based on the Irvine campus, serves all nine of the universities of the UC system. UCHRI promotes collaborative work by teams of specialists from different fields and institutions throughout the University of California and globally. Through its commitment to "engaging humanities," the Institute seeks to address those pressing human dimensions arising in the social and natural sciences, medicine, technology, and the professions. By laying out the cultural dimensions of social issues, many UCHRI projects help build frameworks for policy decisions. UCHRI stresses collaborative interdisciplinary research, in practice bridging gaps between disciplines across the humanities and overcoming the intellectual and institutional barriers tending to isolate the humanities from the sciences, technology, and the professions.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 1/26/05; 9:20:22 AM from the Unclassified dept. Discuss