Dead Tree Advocates Report from World circa 1994

Schmidt (Google) talks up micropayments:

Today there are very effective subscription based models, but there are not very good micropayment systems, micropayment meaning one cent, three cent kinds of systems. They clearly need to be developed by the industry.

Bravo. But scaling, at some point, we'll need to talk about $.001 to $.003.

And, ho, gnuuspapers (he's at the NAA) want Google to tweak to factor in their credibility. LULZ.

His crit of papers:

How do you avoid being just mediated with a set of stories that are aggregated with your brand on them, which is what's happened to some newspapers?

The elephantine answer in the room: Do some frigging actual, relevant, local asskicking news. E. fucking G.

Loved this exchange:

Question: Do you think intellectual property rights will continue to erode given the digital future as you see it?

I disagree with your premise that they will continue to erode. What I do believe is that all these partially-thought-through legal systems are being challenged by the ubiquity of the Internet.

related.

Chrome and Context

The Omnibox.

Make that a Double Google-Effect

Bruce Heterick, whom I interviewed a while back about JSTOR's delightful notion of keeping the world from knowledge (here and here, not necessarily here), has "published" an article about one key feature of the matter, and of our discussions. It's called Measuring the “Google Effect” at JSTOR.

I can't provide a link to the article, because it's firewalled here. I'm sure there's much of interest in the article, and regret that not just JSTOR's resources, but even the conversation about Google's manifestation of those resources, is under wraps.