Over the years I've held various positions with regard to copyright and paying for non-physical information. With the Times in the UK opting for a paywall and a website which is effectively all user-generated content that I frequent often also moving towards a subscription based model I have been thinking about where I stand again. I hold conflicting opinions, as I am both a producer of copyrightable material and a consumer of that material. I'm going to lay both of these bags of snakes out straight and see what they look like.
I've had my Nexus One for a few months now, and it is truly amazing. I can get the answer to any question with a few taps of the screen. It is fantastic. But, do I now have too many lines of communication?
As a budding entrepreneur and a member of the web community I attended the Dublin Web Summit last night in the Chartered Accountants Ireland building on Pearse Street. The summit had a good line up of speakers, including Michael Birch, Bebo founder, and Ray Nolan, a home grown success story with HostelWorld.
I'm a regular visitor and poster on reddit over the course of the time I've been there I had a thought: what if you could only post on an article after a certain amount of time has lapsed. For arguments sake the time could be based on the number of words in an article. According to Wikipedia the average American reads at 250 words per minute. Based on this article currently on the front page of reddit, the timer would be set at approximately 3 minutes (the article has ~800 words in it). Obviously this system isn't perfect, but the general idea is to get someone to actually read an article before posting a comment on it.
