[log in to unmask],Net writes:
>Payment is always a problem. The work needs to be
>done by Drs, who cannot realise much of their UKP 100+/hr . Publishers
>who pay authors realistic money would have to charge prices none of us
>would pay for their products.
No.
Search the Web for Esther Dyson and Micro-Payments
Include Jakob Nielsen and AlertBox
And you will see what I mean.
Peer Review and the Web
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Again, a generic solution is evolving and will become (probably) part
of the browser application in about version 6.
Read Jakob Nielsen's clumn on the Reputation Manager, and check the
existing application (whose name momentarily escapes me, Ahmad will
know).
Each person visiting a Web page will have the opportunity to rate it in
terms of interest and value.
The reputation manager stores this information on the reputation server
and the browsers of people following on to the site will receive this
information, and display it in a manner suitable for the user - colour
of link, tooltip floating over it giving a rating; magnetised mouse
making it difficult to actually get to the shit links or motorised
mouse actually dragging one's hand toward the good ones, perhaps... and
of cours being read in an enthusiastic or disparaging tone of voice for
those with visual access problems.
Allow a little cleverness to define the sort of person one wishes the
world to conisder one to be, of which the NerdCode is one approach, but
one might expect simpler systems to be available, and the rating one
gets will correspond more closely to a jury of one's peers.
Oh, for medical sites one would be looking for opinions from users
whose browsers say they are doctors of the appropriate sort, over those
who eg sell shark cartilage.
- but the general solution of user-sensitive content rating is
applicable to medical sites as well as to others.
The reputation manager could perhaps handle backlinks, which have yet
to be implemented AFAIK, but are the obvious solution to the wish to
place material on one's own site and yet have visitors to a distant
site made aware that it exists.
THis would mean that you could host a peer review site and visitors to
a page of mine could see their status bar indicate that a particular
site had a review available, without you having to convince me that I
should host your pages.
If the service seemed useful enough, and the user chose to access your
peer review page, another 10c would flow from their account to yours,
or a dollar, o 10 or as in the motto of the Polesotechnic League "All
the traffic will bear".
But which of us is Falkayn, which van Rijn, and is KT Chee Lan?
Me for a nice glass Genever, now.
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