{"id":350,"date":"2005-05-11T18:08:06","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/350"},"modified":"2005-05-11T18:08:06","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T18:08:06","slug":"interesting-information-flow-control-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/350","title":{"rendered":"Interesting information flow-control models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve run into a few interesting models for information flow-control in the past months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> gives paid subscribers full access to their archives and lets them email \/ blog links to those articles which expire after five days. That gives them the advantage of word-of-mouth draw to their articles while still limiting the number of people who feel compelled to cut-and-paste repost their articles on their own sites.<\/li>\n<li>The online museum site <a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/\">Rhizome.org<\/a> lets you follow any link from an external website into their site (for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/object.rhiz?32161\">this one<\/a>) but any link you type directly into your browser, follow from email or click from their own site redirects you to a &#8220;you must become a member&#8221; page. (They also open their site to non-members every Friday.) They&#8217;re just redirecting any request that either has no referral header or that has Rhizome.org as the referrer.<\/li>\n<li>I should also mention how the <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/\">New York Times<\/a> allows blogs to create non-expiring links to Times articles (that is, they don&#8217;t become subscriber-only or pay-per-view after a week). Unfortunately, the <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.blogspace.com\/genlink\">link generator<\/a> over at BlogSpace is down at the moment (as is the rest of BlogSpace), so I can&#8217;t show an example&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All three cases are creating two classes of info-users: people who can disseminate their information (paid subscribers, plus people who read the Times when it&#8217;s still fresh) and consumers who can read what the first class of people point to but can&#8217;t go further without paying. While it&#8217;s a little Tom Sawyerish to essentially force people to pay to drive potential new subscribers to your site, I can see the basic model working if the balance is gotten right and fit the content well. At the very least, it&#8217;s nice to see models that are more subtle than the all-free \/ ad-based \/ subscriber-based triple that&#8217;s so common today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve run into a few interesting models for information flow-control in the past months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> gives paid subscribers full access to their archives and lets them email \/ blog links to those articles which expire after five days. That gives them the advantage of word-of-mouth draw to their articles while still limiting the number of people who feel compelled to cut-and-paste repost their articles on their own sites.<\/li>\n<li>The online museum site <a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/\">Rhizome.org<\/a> lets you follow any link from an external website into their site (for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/object.rhiz?32161\">this one<\/a>) but any link you type directly into your browser, follow from email or click from their own site redirects you to a &#8220;you must become a member&#8221; page. (They also open their site to non-members every Friday.) They&#8217;re just redirecting any request that either has no referral header or that has Rhizome.org as the referrer.<\/li>\n<li>I should also mention how the <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/\">New York Times<\/a> allows blogs to create non-expiring links to Times articles (that is, they don&#8217;t become subscriber-only or pay-per-view after a week). Unfortunately, the <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.blogspace.com\/genlink\">link generator<\/a> over at BlogSpace is down at the moment (as is the rest of BlogSpace), so I can&#8217;t show an example&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All three cases are creating two classes of info-users: people who can disseminate their information (paid subscribers, plus people who read the Times when it&#8217;s still fresh) and consumers who can read what the first class of people point to but can&#8217;t go further without paying. While it&#8217;s a little Tom Sawyerish to essentially force people to pay to drive potential new subscribers to your site, I can see the basic model working if the balance is gotten right and fit the content well. At the very least, it&#8217;s nice to see models that are more subtle than the all-free \/ ad-based \/ subscriber-based triple that&#8217;s so common today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}