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Már ÖrlygssonQuote of the day
"When a person goes to a hardware store to buy a drill, they don't want a drill, they want a hole."
- Unknown
Content providers need a Clue
Even if we don't have a decent micropayments system yet, content providers can still make some honest money directly from their users. A lot of users (I am one of them) would be quite willing to pay those who provide us with quality content - if it were only made easy for us...
A lot of content providers offer you an indirect way to pay them. Usually this means you have to buy books or CDs. Sure this works, if you are on your way to buy the stuff anyway, but the person you really want to give money to only receives a meager percentage of the sum spent. Even a leading digital network music distributor Mp3.com requires you to pay for having physical objects (CDs) made and shipped in snail-mail so that the artists (and Mp3.com) can have my money in return for the "free" music I've already downloaded and stored.
It doesn't take much to get my money. Only one secure page where I can type in my credid card number and the amount I would like to donate.
Interesting Discussion about XSL
There's some controversy surrounding the development of XSL, a standard which is supposed to handle both structural transformation and stylistic presentation/formatting of XML documents.
Michael Leventhal writes an article on Xml.com titled XSL Considered Harmful where he questions the virtues of the new standard (which is currently being developed). Following his article the good people at XML.com opened a one-week discussion forum to house further debates by the opposing sides.
Why Weblogs are better than Newssites
Weblogs are tailor-made to meet the tastes of the log-keeper (and possibly his relatively small band of virtual followers). The big news-sites try to take every view into count and to reach the interest of a broad group of people. They make the incorrect assumption that people will like the vast selection of news and content and will spend their valuable time browsing through it.
The weblog is in no way perfect fit (except fot the log-keeper) and it doesn't claim to be. But the important point that makes it stand above the News site, is that at least it's made to fit someone, and there is always a small group of people that have the same views and preferences as this "someone".
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