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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by Charbax
Again, spambots don't work. There are other things on the Internet than just anonymous web hits and anonymous posts. The Internet can perfectly enable registration of users, even the verification of the real identity of users through very advanced "Human tests"
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Yes... for those people willing to register for services. |
Well you seem to be okay registering to mobileread.com to post these forum messages..
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
And all internet popularity contests show is what's popular online... it cannot show what people are reading or watching offline. And a number of people are paranoid about online registrations, especially government ones ( sometimes with good reason), and would not be willing to jump through whatever digital hoops are required to rate various artists. |
You get those recommendations and you get access to certain services such as a legal global standard for on-demand access to all digital files.
Most Internet users today seem to have no problem logging into Facebooks, Myspaces, Google accounts, Forum profiles and post on blogs. And that is under the current mess of a system where you aren't getting much value out of giving your identity to private corporations to use without any rules protecting your privacy.
In the case of the new artistic revolution, it will be regulated by the Government which will also enable very strict rules concerning privacy. That would be part of what the whole standard would be about. It's like Open Social, like OpenID, privacy is perfectly manageable.
Connected E-readers can monitor usage, maintain logs on amount of time spent on each page and enable the user to rate the contents. That is of course all of it enabled voluntarily by the user. Cause the user will see a huge value in being part of this system. What you get is better recommendations, you get to manage for yourself what is in your digital library, you get to have an overview of your favorites among all the content that is available. Basically you get a much better Internet by opting in for this. And as soon as you have tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily opting in for reporting their "offline" usage statistics in their E-Readers, Mp3 players and multimedia players, then you already got enough data to have much more precise statistics on usage that are very representative of the overall usage. Much more representative then any previous measurements people could do with small samples of users filling out questionnaires.