I looked into several sites; Slashdot and Apache for their contribution rules and resulting rank and reputation process. I then considered potential application to MCDM site.

SlashDot Moderation. I like the idea of Slash Dot’s moderator process for filtering out the “wisdom” of their crowds.  Read more…

Imagine being a sports fan looking forward to an evening of live coverage on the radio of your team playing a game and instead of just getting the coverage of the game you’re interested in, you hear coverage of multiple games, with sportscasters taking turns sentence by sentence, reporting on the game they’re witnessing.

Not only do you hear one sentence from sportscaster A, one from sportscaster B, one from sportscaster C (and then B, C, A, A, C, B, A) but there are also no indications what snippets belongs to what games.

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Advertising Age is reporting on LinkedIn’s efforts to create revenue by offering it’s network of members as a massive research sample. An interesting idea on a number of fronts – easy to segment the LinkedIn membership by their profiles; members see the value of surveys in their own work and the beta tests have achieved relatively high open rates, and LinkedIn members tend to be who they claim to be, thus adding to the credibility of results.

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Use Youtube video to publicize innovation and ideas, doctoral candidate Johnny Chung Lee caught the eyes of 6 million viewers and Microsoft research.

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Starting today, Netflix is providing their Mac customers with unlimited number of movies and TV programs each month by streaming the content on Mac with MS silver light support on Mac.

It is a great way of using technology seemless connect customers.

Technology suppose to help, technology suppose to be seemless. The day technology created barriers are disappearing. Same as people, try to be attractive to friends, just hold on their appitite does not working. People with open heart, open mind, real help in needs are the real friends in life. Technology is the same. The ever lasting technology (at least ever lasting in people’s memories) are the real technology that grandma would appreciate. Read more…

The media revolution is in full force.  According to the New York Times:

After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to essentially give up on print.

As the Pulitzer Prize winning Christian Science Monitor goes online only, the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Oregonian have all reported declining circulation numbers, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal and the Portland Business Journal.

While recently catching up on my traditional media, I came across this book review of David Crystal’s “Txtng: The Gr8 Db8” in the October 20 issue of The New Yorker. Among other things that interested me was the idea that there’s a debate about texting, great or not. I caught as much of the Presidential debates as I could, but somehow missed the text messaging debates entirely. Read more…

SportsBlogNation, the largest network of sports blogs in the world that I write for, recently procured a mid seven figure influx of capital from quite an impressive list of institutional and individual investors. The funding was led by:

Accel Partners, the Silicon Valley private equity firm best known for its backing of Facebook and led in part by Boston Celtics minority owner Jim Breyer. Additional funding came from Allen & Co.; AOL vice chairman emeritus and Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis; Brent Jones, former San Francisco 49ers player and now managing director of private equity firm Northgate Capital; former Yahoo! senior executives Dan Rosensweig and Jeff Weiner; and several executives from Providence Equity Partners, the venture capital shop where Bankoff remains a senior adviser.

It has been quite a process to figure out how to compensate over two hundred individual bloggers from across the country, and it has been interesting to see which metrics they have taken into consideration in addition to simply page visits. Comments from community members also have been weighted quite heavily, as well as tenure, understandably. With a legitimate management and business team in place working behind the scenes, it will be interesting to see what changes, if any, will be made to how much freedom us individuals have with our content. As of now, it’s essentially 100% hands off freedom, but as we all know, money has the power to change things quickly.