I say again, let us pay. Make the process as easy as possible. Make it invisible and transparent. Make us register once and once only. Walls are not the way forward, but walls are not the same thing as payment, and without some form of payment, the press will not be here in five years’ time. (more…)

Data that we collected for the titles O’Reilly put out showed a net lift in sales for books that had been pirated. So, it actually spurred, not hurt, sales.

via Jenn Webb, Book piracy: Less DRM, more data – O’Reilly Radar.

[T]he scenario I foresee:

1. Major online video providers (Netflix, Amazon, Vimeo, Major League Baseball, etc.) already have invested in H.264, both technically and legally.
2. These providers, right now, today, send H.264-encoded video in one of two ways: directly, to clients with native H.264 playback; and wrapped in Flash, for web browsers with Flash Player installed.

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Podcasts, videos, and other audio files must include a transcript in order to be accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. If you don’t provide a transcript for your audio files, you are discriminating against some people, preventing them from getting the information.

Providing a text alternative for your audio is required by law in some cases; in others, it’s just the smart thing to do.

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It’s clear that publishing and editorial work, marketing, library science, and information science are all somewhere on our family tree—and so too is the curatorial tradition as it’s found in galleries and museums.

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Polyhierarchical tags solve two important problems. One tag implies a bunch of related and synonymous tags, so adding tags no longer means racking your brain trying to be complete when summing up related themes for a story. And you can stop wondering whether the tags you’re entering are too specific or too vague. (more…)

• Ci — Click Index: visits must have at least 6 pageviews, not counting photo galleries
• Di — Duration Index: visits must have spend a minimum of 5 minutes on the site
• Ri — Recency Index: visits that return daily
• Li — Loyalty Index: visits that either are registered at the site or visit it at least three times a week

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