September 30, 2012 at 20:45Small format niche
Is she exhausted by twitter? The latter, they say, is good for quickly disseminating news. Ok, what else could be? There is a simple thesis: it is easier for people to generate content in small formats. And it’s easier for people to work collectively on complex things. For example, the vast majority of modern scientific articles are co-written. Moreover, a scientific article is a relatively large format that was once asked by the existence of paper magazines. There it would simply be impossible to publish short abstracts in one sentence. In fact, the ideas of articles can often be presented briefly “on the fingers”, almost in twitter format. Scientific activity is not the only relevant example here. Habr's experience is also interesting - the size of posts is affected by the positioning of the resource as serious, where you cannot abuse the attention of a large audience, publishing short thoughts immediately after they appear in the head. By the way, as far as I understand, it is impossible to publish a post in co-authorship on Habré, which increases the requirements for a single author.
However, people often have raw thoughts, in which, however, "there is something." The ability to publish them, at least in some special category of short posts, would probably significantly accelerate interactions in a group of people with similar interests. And in some cases it would lead to serious results and articles. I do not need to do this on Habré - I talk about the need for new resources with small-format content, focused on serious applications. Type of crowdsourcing. Or, as I call crowdsolving, when there is no specific customer, but there is free collective creativity to solve interesting problems. The latest things even represent the trend.
It seems to me that this also interestingly lays down in the concept of “Internet of data” in contrast to the Internet of sites proposed by one of the founding fathers (I forgot the link). In the tradition of the semantic web, you can assign a URI to anything, including even real-world objects . Short ideas with a claim to significance could also have their own URI. Assigning a URI to a small content object with metadata about the author would be something like publishing an article in magazines or resources like Habr.
In conclusion, I want to note the idea that I have already expressed. For ease of perception, people have broken down large forms originating from the “paper heritage” into various categories - review, essay, review, interview, etc. The division of small-format content into categories also exists - argument, thesis, consideration, opinion, comment, question etc. I think that in future resources this categorization will somehow be explicitly declared, because assigning a status to a content helps to recognize it and makes it easier to work with it, and can even partially serve to rank the content (for example, in perceiving people argument has a higher status than opinion).
Update as of November 7, 2012 A schoolchild received an investment in developing a mobile application that automatically compresses news to 400 characters, keeping their meaning.
However, people often have raw thoughts, in which, however, "there is something." The ability to publish them, at least in some special category of short posts, would probably significantly accelerate interactions in a group of people with similar interests. And in some cases it would lead to serious results and articles. I do not need to do this on Habré - I talk about the need for new resources with small-format content, focused on serious applications. Type of crowdsourcing. Or, as I call crowdsolving, when there is no specific customer, but there is free collective creativity to solve interesting problems. The latest things even represent the trend.
It seems to me that this also interestingly lays down in the concept of “Internet of data” in contrast to the Internet of sites proposed by one of the founding fathers (I forgot the link). In the tradition of the semantic web, you can assign a URI to anything, including even real-world objects . Short ideas with a claim to significance could also have their own URI. Assigning a URI to a small content object with metadata about the author would be something like publishing an article in magazines or resources like Habr.
In conclusion, I want to note the idea that I have already expressed. For ease of perception, people have broken down large forms originating from the “paper heritage” into various categories - review, essay, review, interview, etc. The division of small-format content into categories also exists - argument, thesis, consideration, opinion, comment, question etc. I think that in future resources this categorization will somehow be explicitly declared, because assigning a status to a content helps to recognize it and makes it easier to work with it, and can even partially serve to rank the content (for example, in perceiving people argument has a higher status than opinion).
Update as of November 7, 2012 A schoolchild received an investment in developing a mobile application that automatically compresses news to 400 characters, keeping their meaning.