Comments on: Information wants to be free — or why problogging is a myth http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/09/04/information-wants-to-be-free-or-why-problogging-is-a-myth/ Technology and Innovation news in Montreal Fri, 11 May 2012 12:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Heri http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/09/04/information-wants-to-be-free-or-why-problogging-is-a-myth/#comment-2301 Heri Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:17:05 +0000 http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/09/04/information-wants-to-be-free-or-why-problogging-is-a-myth/#comment-2301 Sylvain Carle: thanks for the link, I saw he published it on 2005. and it proved to be true since fagstein: if you consider the technicalities, the crowd will always find a way to go around protection schemes. (remember DVD and CD ripping, people will go at great lenghts to get the content in the format they want) now there is one way to make indistinguisable technically, which is produce html directly inline (instead of javascripts), which means the website owner has to manage all advertising instead of relying on a third-party ad network. and this brings more problems than it solves Sylvain Carle: thanks for the link, I saw he published it on 2005. and it proved to be true since

fagstein: if you consider the technicalities, the crowd will always find a way to go around protection schemes. (remember DVD and CD ripping, people will go at great lenghts to get the content in the format they want)

now there is one way to make indistinguisable technically, which is produce html directly inline (instead of javascripts), which means the website owner has to manage all advertising instead of relying on a third-party ad network. and this brings more problems than it solves

]]> By: Fagstein http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/09/04/information-wants-to-be-free-or-why-problogging-is-a-myth/#comment-2251 Fagstein Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:41:17 +0000 http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/09/04/information-wants-to-be-free-or-why-problogging-is-a-myth/#comment-2251 While I certainly don't think advertising is the one-stop solution to everything, I disagree that you can't make adblock-free ads. It's just a matter of making the ads and content indistinguishable technically. Advertising technology will eventually beat the Turing test, at least well enough that most people won't bother trying to defeat it unless the ads become very intrusive. While I certainly don’t think advertising is the one-stop solution to everything, I disagree that you can’t make adblock-free ads. It’s just a matter of making the ads and content indistinguishable technically. Advertising technology will eventually beat the Turing test, at least well enough that most people won’t bother trying to defeat it unless the ads become very intrusive.

]]> By: Sylvain Carle http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/09/04/information-wants-to-be-free-or-why-problogging-is-a-myth/#comment-2249 Sylvain Carle Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:03:31 +0000 http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/09/04/information-wants-to-be-free-or-why-problogging-is-a-myth/#comment-2249 That's what Doc Searls calls the "because effect" and I think he is spot on. "Not that making money with blogs is a Bad Thing. I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's always easier to think with than because; but that there's often much more money to be made because of than with." http://doc-weblogs.com/2005/10/19#theBecauseEffectContd That’s what Doc Searls calls the “because effect” and I think he is spot on.

“Not that making money with blogs is a Bad Thing. I’m not saying that. I’m saying it’s always easier to think with than because; but that there’s often much more money to be made because of than with.”

http://doc-weblogs.com/2005/10/19#theBecauseEffectContd

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