Walter Jessen

Shorter “Enhanced” NIH Application Format

You’d think shorter applications would be easier, but it’s difficult to be both detailed and succinct.

5Across: How to Deal with Technology Overload

How do you deal with the always on, always connected live web? 5Across addresses technology overload.

The Great Debate on Micropayments and Paid Content, Part 1

The micropayment system relies on scarce value. However, I would argue that we live in an information economy that no longer operates on a scarcity model – news and information is ubiquitous. Thus, micropayments will never work for news media.

The Great Debate on Micropayments and Paid Content, Part 2

What should news organizations be doing? Connecting with readers, building community and enabling interaction and participation – a formula that sounds curiously like Web 2.0! What is new is the idea of shifting value to things that can’t be copied online. This value doesn’t block consumer access but enables something else that they couldn’t get or do elsewhere.

30 years of failure: the username/password combination

Neuroscience has shown that the human brain simply doesn’t perform well at free-associating text that, on its own, has little inherent meaning. Problems with multiple-password management can be viewed as a search and retrieval problem involving human beings’ long-term memory.

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