I'm reading the
Jakob
Nielson's Alertbox and the corresponding
User
Comments when an idea hit.
To explain the idea, you first need to understand what the articles are
talking about. Briefly, Doc Searls switched linking to Amazon to Wordsworth
and their revenue dropped; most people know how Amazon works, and don't want
to bother learning how Wordsworth works, or with setting up an account
there.The User Comment from Glenn Fleishman backs that up. ISBN.nu, a price commparison
of on-line booksellers. I came across the site quite a while ago and it's a
neat service. But he has a similar problem as Doc Searls.
So I thought—what if a website gave the user a choice as to which
on-line bookseller to use? If cookies are used, a site can store the user's
preference for on-line bookseller to use and a link to a book points to some
CGI script that determines
which bookseller to redirect to.
It can't be that hard.
You have my permission to link freely to any entry here. Go
ahead, I won't bite. I promise.
The dates are the permanent links to that day's entries (or
entry, if there is only one entry). The titles are the permanent
links to that entry only. The format for the links are
simple: Start with the base link for this site: https://boston.conman.org/, then add the date you are
interested in, say 2000/08/01,
so that would make the final URL:
https://boston.conman.org/2000/08/01
You can also specify the entire month by leaving off the day
portion. You can even select an arbitrary portion of time.
You may also note subtle shading of the links and that's
intentional: the “closer” the link is (relative to the
page) the “brighter” it appears. It's an experiment in
using color shading to denote the distance a link is from here. If
you don't notice it, don't worry; it's not all that
important.
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symbol, design element, et cetera mentioned in these pages is a
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