Simon & Schuster has launched Pulse It, a new site for teens. Take a look at it for yourself–the site gives young people a place to reflect online with their friends about the books they are reading. The site includes blogs, forums, and videos along with author interviews.
The site’s goal is to encourage teens to gather in the virtual world to share their thoughts and opinions about what they are reading. Some visitors have recently posted their thinking about the site itself. The significance of a teen board of advisers to establish and launch the site is very interesting.
What does this mean for us? It’s a valuable lesson to all publishers about consumer participation in product development and acquisition.
The days of free internet will soon come to an end! The era of freemium will become the time of premium and pay per click. This is the thinking in a recent interview with Barry Diller. These days as publishers and retailers rush to the web with digital dreams in their heads, perhaps if Mr. Diller is right there will be a financial payoff!
Growing numbers of individuals are choosing the web rather than the retail outlets and malls for their product choices. While there are some places where products are already for sale on the internet. Most publishers are still seeking to determine the method for charging for their copyrighted content.
The dependence of individuals on the internet will not decrease in the days ahead. The virtual conditioning and preference for the internet is a perfect set up for pay per internet. This will not be like cable TV pay per view. Because there is such a great emotional dependence on our virtual social networks, people will be willing to pay to click! As a publisher and a social network user this seems to be the future.
So what do you think? Am I missing it?
Recently NavPress released Verseminder, an excellent tool to assist people with that always challenging but absolutely essential spiritual discipline of memorizing Scripture. Verseminder is a desktop application that allows you to work on Scripture memory while you work on your computer.
It’s a fact that the vast majority of people today are spending an increasing amount of time on their computers. By having Verseminder, you’ll commit more Scripture to memory because the program quizzes you on verses using a fill-in-the-blank approach, tracks your progress, and provides multiple translation options. You can use the verses already in the program or customize it with your own verses. Isn’t it time we all had such a tool to increase our ability to learn and work on hiding the Word of God in our hearts and minds?
I use Verseminder and have found it extremely helpful. Throughout the day an on-screen prompt encourages me to review my current verse selection. This feature helps keep God’s Word before me and focuses my thinking during a hectic and chaotic day.
Check out Verseminder now–Scripture memory has gone digital!
I came across an interesting article that contends that Web 3.0 will include computer-generated writing. Here is he line that stood out to me: “The future of the Web won’t rely on pesky things like social media, citizen journalism, or professional reporting. Instead expect to see Web content generated by semantic technologies that will render actual writers obsolete.”
So as we move into the next phase of web-generated content, the machines will begin to write for us! In fact, according to this article, we are already experiencing some of the early attempts at computer-generated editorial work!
“Some of our Internet experiences already have an automated undercurrent. Google News, for example, spits out stories that computers–not humans–have ranked as Best of Breed. The new search engine Wolfram Alpha does our thinking for us by relying on ‘knowledge computation’ to provide singular results it thinks we should have, not an assortment of results from which we can choose.”
How do you feel about this? Will writers and editors be out of business in the brave new world?
We now are part of the Worldwide Computer–at least in the thinking of Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch. If you have not read this yet, it is a very important book for business and ministry leaders. It deserves your time and attention!
