From: Ken Meltsner (kenneth.meltsner@cai.com)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 10:59:51 PDT
She's dead right, of course, and so's Jeff. One of the biggest reasons
that people buy books is that the content is filtered. I've read
slushpile submissions (and made my share), and 80% is utter crap, and
most of the remaining 20% doesn't work for one or more reasons.
It's the same with scientific journals and conferences. In my previous
life as a metallurgist, most conferences and workshops accepted *every*
submission. As a result, useful content was pretty hard to find. It's
a lot tougher to get a paper published in computer science, I believe,
and even though the stiffer competition means that some
off-the-beaten-path work doesn't get published, I think the average ACM
Transactions or IEEE Proceedings is of much higher quality than the
equivalent publication in metallurgy.
So, as always, a question: How do we keep the good part (filtering) and
lose the yucky bits?
Ken
Jeff Bone wrote:
>
> Wow, wow, wow... I'm totally overwhelmed by how lucid, insightful,
> cogent, eloquent Courtney turns out to be. This ought to be required
> reading for "Digital Economy 101," a hypothetical class that everybody
> should be required to take in high school. ;-) Check out the
> extrapolation:
>
>
> "...And filters are replacing gatekeepers. In a world where
> we can get anything we want, whenever we want it, how does a
> company create value? By filtering. In a world without
> friction, the only friction people value is editing. A
> filter is valuable when it understands the needs of both
> artists and the public. New companies should be conduits
> between musicians and their fans."
>
> Now a simple substitution:
>
> "...And filters are replacing gatekeepers. In a world where
> we can get anything we want, whenever we want it, how does a
> company create value? By filtering. In a world without
> friction, the only friction people value is editing. A
> filter is valuable when it understands the needs of both
> artists and the public. New companies should be conduits
> between [content producers] and their [audiences.]"
>
> I'm having this really weird "Courtney Love-as-Marshall McLuhan"
> vibe...
>
> Anywaze...
>
> jb
>
>
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