Comments on: The Economics of Time and Effort

By: Jeff Paul Internet Business

Jeff Paul Internet Business — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:54:03 +0000

I find internet marketing the same as marketing a product in the real world. In real marketing one really has to go through different means to promote a brand and product. Same tasks are applied in internet marketing but this can also be done at the comfort of one’s bedroom.

By: Felipe Contreras

Felipe Contreras — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:42:53 +0000

Yeap, Open Source is another example of what Alvin Toffler named “prosumer”.

The problem, as you correctly put, is that the bridges from consumer to prosumer are not yet properly built. Instead we have a sheer division between “developers” and “users” and in many communities both camps hate each other; the developers hate the whiny users, and the users hate the selfish developers. Fortunately other communities work just fine.

By: Mayhem

Mayhem — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:08:45 +0000

J5:

I’m the lead guy over at MusicBrainz and I’m slightly confused by your posting:

> Unfortunately all this option does is bring me to a login/signup screen after I took the time to enter in all of the track data. Having to get yet another account for something I don’t really care about anymore because I already have the track info is just too much effort to spend so I end up just closing the browser window.

We recently (late last year) made submitting CDs to MB easier by not requiring an account. Did you miss or not get the page that shows you the red pill/blue pill image? There you can decide to create an account or proceed without one.

Can you please mail me the URL that SoundJuicer sent you to after you entered all the track info? It seems that SJ and MB are not working well together, because the exact thing you just railed about *should* be working.

Let’s figure out why its not.

Thanks!

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:36:42 +0000

For what it is worth, the musicbrainz folks have been working to allow anonymous submissions under the name “CD Stubs”. These need to be looked over by someone who has created an account before they can become a proper release in the database though.

That said, I don’t think Sound Juicer passes the entered track info to MusicBrainz when you use the submit option, so that is another problem: if you’d entered the details in SJ, you’d need to do so again in MB.

By: Arno

Arno — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:28:45 +0000

“The power of Open Source is not that it is freely available but that anyone can become a producer”

This may be a minor nitpick, but this is not true about open source in general. It is true about Free Software, however, but not all software labelled as “Open Source” allows reproduction.

But I agree with most of your points, though. It is refreshing to read an informed dissertation on the cost of open source.

By: John Williams

John Williams — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:03:30 +0000

Right on, J5!

By: martin

martin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:26:39 +0000

I agree. This is very important stuff, I wish I was better at it.

By: Jos van den Oever

Jos van den Oever — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:48:07 +0000

Well put, J5. This kind of value reminder and process analysis is very worthwhile. Consciously optimizing efforts and making ‘harvesting’ of effort easy for the community is very important.