(2003-04-09) Walled Content

A couple interesting Invisible Content points came up the other day in a coversation with Jerry Michalski and some other folks:

• information that can't be linked to (or from) (either because it's completely offline, or expensively priced - MongoPayments) maybe considered much less useful in the future because people will expect to be able to find/weave Context. (Hmmm, another interpretation of Information Wants To Be Free.)
• Books have traditionally been our key medium for preserving and transmitting information. But very little book content is online. Not even indexes (Amazon is scanning Full Text from some documents, but since's it's just pictures-of-pages you can't search/relate anything). Will this make (some kinds of) books even more marginalized?
  • cf Google Book Search