Broadcasting in the Web Age

[Interpersonal Computing and Technology]

From: Sam Lanfranco <lan...@yorku.ca>

I would suggest that there is a technical flaw in this story.Building an
ego-based web site is populating an access (server) site. There is no
assurance that anyone will bother to come and look. Before you sell the
car and tv to buy additional server capacity, put monitoring shoftware on
the ego-based Web site. You might find you are quite ignored and alone,
and a candidate for the minimum hit web site.

------ Sam Lanfranco, lan...@yorku.ca

> From: INFOMAN <Inf...@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK>
> Here is a developed country equivalent of the African storyteller.
> You are in a small town in Surrey, call it Virginia Water, where people
> used to show off to their neighbours with new cars, extensions to their
> houses, collections of paintings and slide shows of their holidays. Now
> they have an interactive fibre network, so they can be connected all the
> time instead of just when making calls. To show off, you put your slides
> and expensive holiday stories on your house web server, and spend your
> time trying to outdo what your neighbours put on their web servers.
> ---------
> >From davenewman at QUB-IM, via inf...@qub.ac.uk account of
> Dr. David R. Newman, Queen's University, School of Management,

[Interpersonal Computing and Technology]

From: David Petraitis <dav...@mare.ch>

At 02:02 15/08/96 -0400, Interpersonal Computing and Technology wrote:
>From: Sam Lanfranco <lan...@yorku.ca>
>
>I would suggest that there is a technical flaw in this story.Building an
>ego-based web site is populating an access (server) site. There is no
>assurance that anyone will bother to come and look.

Yeah, but in the case that David Newman cited it was only the neighbors
looking that mattered! Remember that Websites of all sorts suffer from the
human intent with which they were built. (like all our creations I guess).

In the example I gave it was *unintended positive consequences* that made it
interesting.
Much writing on the unintended negative consequences of technology are
fashionable now on the net. Just trying to provide a little antidote.

Regards,
David Petraitis
Mare Conseil
Marketing and Re-engineering
1264 St-Cergue, Switzerland
http://www.mare.ch/
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