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		<title>More on tablets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As (nearly) anybody else working in media i  am discussing its implications nearly every day at work. Here&#8217;s the management summary of  my current state of mind:

Tablets will be gamechangers  both for personal media consumption and personal computing (if executed right)
Neither re-enacting /emulating existing media (especially in the newspaper and magazin space) nor re-enacting existing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As (nearly) anybody else working in media i  am discussing its implications nearly every day at work. Here&#8217;s the management summary of  my current state of mind:</p>
<ul>
<li>Tablets will be gamechangers  both for personal media consumption and personal computing (if executed right)</li>
<li>Neither re-enacting /emulating existing media (especially in the newspaper and magazin space) nor re-enacting existing personal computing user experiences will do the trick. &#8220;Enhanced editions&#8221; of all kinds where one of the most talked about topics at <a href="http://toccon.com" target="_blank">O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Tools of Change for Publishing conference</a> in late February.</li>
<li>Most media companies have a long way to go until they are tablet-ready. And that means wrt. enabling their existing processes and content, not wrt. building exciting apps. The prior are a necessary precondition for the latter.</li>
<li>It is nearly impossible to do development for tablets without a physical device. Because good applications wil be based on making the experience as physical  as possible. And that means integrating sensors of all kind as well as direct manapulation interfaces</li>
</ul>
<h3>Apples Human Interface Guidelines</h3>
<p>Carefully reading  the iPad Human Interface Guidelines  is presumably the best thing you can do in order prepare for developing iPad applications. Thankfully <a href="http://uxmag.com/design/ipad-user-experience-guidelines" target="_blank">uxmag</a> published the overview  of these guidelines first. Hence i&#8217;m feeling quite confident that i might publish them over here without getting litigated from Apple (technically even these guidelines  are under NDA and only available to members of the <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/sdk/" target="_blank">iPhone / iPad developer program</a>):</p>
<blockquote>
<h4>Support All Orientations</h4>
<p>Your application should encourage people to interact with iPad from any side by providing a great experience in all orientations. The reason is that people don’t view the device as having a default orientation, because they don’t pay much attention to the minimal device frame and they’re unconcerned with the location of the Home button.</p>
<h4>Enhance Interactivity (Don’t Just Add Features)</h4>
<p>The best iPad applications give people innovative ways to interact with content while they perform a clearly defined, finite task. Resist the temptation to fill the large screen with features that are not directly related to the main task. In particular, you should not view the large iPad screen as an invitation to bring back all the functionality you pruned from your iPhone application.</p>
<h4>Flatten Your Information Hierarchy</h4>
<p>Although you don’t want to pack too much information into one screen, you also want to prevent people from feeling that they must visit many different screens to find what they want. In general, focus the main screen on the primary content and provide additional information or tools in an auxiliary view, such as a popover.</p>
<h4>Reduce Full-Screen Transitions</h4>
<p>Instead of swapping in a whole new screen when some embedded information changes, update only the areas of the user interface that need it. When you perform fewer full-screen transitions, your application has greater visual stability, which helps people keep track of where they are in their task.</p>
<h4>Enable Collaboration and Connectedness</h4>
<p>Think of ways people might want to use your application with others. Expand your thinking to include both the physical sharing of a single device and the virtual sharing of data.</p>
<h4>Add Physicality and Heightened Realism</h4>
<p>Whenever possible, add a realistic, physical dimension to your application. The more true to life your application looks and behaves, the easier it is for people to understand how it works and the more they enjoy using it.</p>
<h4>Delight People with Stunning Graphics</h4>
<p>The high-resolution iPad screen supports rich, beautiful, engaging graphics that draw people into an application and make the simplest task rewarding.</p>
<h4>De-emphasize User Interface Controls</h4>
<p>Help people focus on the content by designing your application UI as a subtle frame for the information they’re interested in. Downplay application controls by minimizing their number and prominence. Consider creating custom controls that subtly integrate with your application’s graphical style. In this way, controls are discoverable, but not too conspicuous.</p>
<h4>Minimize Modality</h4>
<p>iPad applications should allow people to interact with them in nonlinear ways. Modality prevents this freedom by interrupting people’s workflow and forcing them to choose a particular path.</p>
<h4>Rethink Your Lists</h4>
<p>Consider a more real-world vision of your application. For example, on iPhone, Contacts is a streamlined list, but on iPad, Contacts is an address book with a beautifully tangible look and feel.</p>
<h4>Consider Multifinger Gestures</h4>
<p>The large iPad screen provides great scope for multifinger gestures, including gestures made by more than one person.</p>
<h4>Consider Popovers for Some Modal Tasks</h4>
<p>If you use modal views to enable self-contained tasks in your iPhone application, you might be able to use popovers instead.</p>
<h4>Restrict Complexity in Modal Tasks</h4>
<p>People appreciate being able to accomplish a self-contained subtask in a modal view, because the context shift is clear and temporary. But if the subtask is too complex, people can lose sight of the main task they suspended when they entered the modal view.</p>
<h4>Downplay File-Handling Operations</h4>
<p>Although iPad applications can allow people to create and manipulate files and share them with a computer (when the device is docked), this does not mean that people should have a sense of the file system on iPad.</p>
<h4>Ask People to Save Only When Necessary</h4>
<p>People should have confidence that their work is always preserved unless they explicitly cancel or delete it. If your application helps people create and edit documents, make sure they do not have to take an explicit save action.</p>
<h4>Start Instantly</h4>
<p>iPad applications should start as quickly as possible so that people can begin using them without delay.</p>
<h4>Always Be Prepared to Stop</h4>
<p>Like iPhone applications, iPad applications stop when people press the Home button to open another application.</p></blockquote>
<h3>Adobe and HPs (lack of) vision</h3>
<p>Meanwhile Adobe and HP join forces and publish a video previewing Adobe running on a HP Slate. Not surprisingly they are focusing on the &#8220;full web&#8221; experience that is enabled by runing a &#8220;real&#8221; operating system running &#8220;real&#8221; web sites and &#8220;real&#8221; applications (based on Adobe AIR).</p>
<p>Meaning: Cluttered OS build for a different kind of system (PC/Laptop) using a different user interface metaphor (Desktop/Mouse) showing websites optimized for both.</p>
<p>IMHO especially the photoshop.com demo in the video below clearly shows the lack of vision and violation of the &#8220;De-emphasize User Interface Controls&#8221; Guideline from above.</p>
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<p>PS.: More dissemination of the video (as well as an alternative takeon it) can be found at <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/08/notice-the-lack-of-windows-in-hps-slate-device/" target="_blank">crunchgear</a></p>
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		<title>Charging for content &#124; AJ Bruce</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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Charging for content

View more presentations from Alastair Bruce.

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		<title>Some short notes on the iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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My $0.02 (first edition)
The perfect device for baby boomers and pensioneers
As i already twittered : It looks like the perfect device for my mother (just turned 80).I always did not set-up a computer for her (although i&#8217;m storing a couple of my old ones at her home). It would just have been too complicated for [...]]]></description>
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<p>My $0.02 (first edition)</p>
<h3>The perfect device for baby boomers and pensioneers</h3>
<p>As i already twittered : It looks like the perfect device for my mother (just turned 80).I always did not set-up a computer for her (although i&#8217;m storing a couple of my old ones at her home). It would just have been too complicated for her. Still she is very interested to learn about that internet thing. And as her eyes got worse she is not able to easily read the newspaper or regular size books.</p>
<p>Others agree:</p>
<ul>
<li> A colleague walked into the office yesterday morning, saying: &#8220;Now we know what to buy for our parents.&#8221;</li>
<li>More on this for example on<a href="http://blog.jaggeree.com/post/357787918/why-the-ipad-may-be-just-what-we-need-for-digital" target="_blank"> jageree.com</a> and <a href="http://ultimibarbarorum.com/2010/01/28/ipad-success/" target="_blank">Ultimi Barbarorum</a></li>
</ul>
<p>A future version will probably add a camera (jointly with a camera for the iTouch) and grandma&#8217;s are able to have iChats with their siblings and friends.</p>
<h3>A home and an away version</h3>
<p>I&#8217;m happy to see  a  WiFi only version of the iPad as well as a full mobile version. i already have an iPod Touch and an iPhone and have complementary uses for them at home and away.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not too happy to have no GPS in the WiFi device because with offloaded Maps i would love to use it also in the car or on holiday etc (Romaing charges are just ridiculous high in europe, so i typically offload maps of the region before going on holiday)</p>
<h3>A lost opportunity</h3>
<p><a href="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hero7_20100127.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1383" title="iPad (Showing iBooks application)" src="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hero7_20100127-528x640.png" alt="" width="528" height="640" /></a>A lot of people are complaing about missing features. I typically don&#8217;t because i firmly believe in simplicity. There are exceptions (see e.g. above).</p>
<p>But right now i think Apple lost an opportunity to not add a MiniDisplay Port and or micro USB port as video and serial connector. May be even add  a third  proprietary connector if neede.</p>
<p>Placed them side by side and  they would not need more  room on the device than the 30-pin connector.   You  could even build an  dongle to convert the threesome to a 30-pin connector in order to  be able to  the existing iPod accessories.</p>
<p>I know it would potentially cannibalize the existing iPod  3rd Party ecosystem (you wouldn&#8217;t if you build / sold the above dongle.</p>
<p>But having separat small standard ports would:</p>
<ul>
<li>make the connector cables much more elegant (no bulky dongles)</li>
<li>beam the  port capabilities into the current time</li>
<li>especially would enable digital video out. I suspect that the A4 SoC is perfectly able to do digital video, but  having only analog video out has mainly to do with the aging 30-port connector. It may also have to do with making content providers happy)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Open Questions</h3>
<p>These have mostly to do  with my professional view on the iPad (as the head of the R &amp; D lab of one of the worlds largest newsagencies currently looking very hard at ereading:</p>
<ul>
<li>When will iBooks be available outside the USA?</li>
<li>Will it offer subscription based pricing models that magazines and newspapers can use (although the app is called iBooks? But we also got used to buy videos etc. in an app called iTunes :-)</li>
<li>Will the SDK contain classes for rendering ePubs or will tht be private to iBooks?</li>
<li>Will ePubs automatically opened with iBooks?</li>
<li>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<h3>Misc</h3>
<p>iBooks looks an awful lot like Delicious Library (as others have olso noted). Could swear that Mike Matas (the original designer of Delicious Library that joined Apple in 2005) had a hand on it. But then learned that Matas left Apple  in July 2009.</p>
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		<title>2010 &#8211; The year of the tablet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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On Monday Apple finally sent out the invites  to their January 27th event &#8211; widely presumed to be about the RAT  (Rumored Apple Tablet). Because everyone and their dog is speculating about what the RAT  would or not would be i just like to point you to the summaries that I think most likely  are [...]]]></description>
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<p>On Monday Apple finally sent out the invites  to their January 27th event &#8211; widely presumed to be about the RAT  (Rumored Apple Tablet). Because everyone and their dog is speculating about what the RAT  would or not would be i just like to point you to the summaries that I think most likely  are to be correct for most of their parts: <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/1980077,ihnatko-apple-tablet-microsoft-010710.article" target="_blank">Andy Ihnatko</a> (from which i shamelessly stole the RAT acronym above) and John Gruber (<a href="http://daringfireball.net/2009/12/the_tablet" target="_blank">Part I</a> and <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/tablet_musings" target="_blank">Part II</a>).</p>
<p>Whatever exactly will be announced by Apple (and even if they wouldn&#8217;t announce a tablet at all) i&#8217;m sure that 2010 will be the year of the tablet, as much as 2008 was the year of the netbook. Because 2010 is (finally) the year of the confluence of all the necessary technologies.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s have a look:</p>
<h4>Processors</h4>
<p>RightNow there is a multitude of powerful (mostly multicore) processor platforms out there that consume very little power and are still able to en/decode HD video, driver large displays and do 3D-rendering and integrate WiFi / GSM. Most notable the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Tegra" target="_blank">Nvidia Tegra 2</a>, Marvells Armada 510/610, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_%28processor%29" target="_blank">Qualcomms Snapdragon</a>,  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_OMAP" target="_blank">TI&#8217;s OMAP</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.MX" target="_blank">Freescales i.MX</a>. Important: Practically all of them are ARM-based.</p>
<h4>Displays</h4>
<p>Touch-enabled displays are now available in all sizes ranges that are of interest for tablets: 5&#8221;, 7&#8221; and 10&#8221;.  There are two power-saving display technologies that are production ready in 2010: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOLED" target="_blank">AMOLED</a> (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) and <a href="http://www.pixelqi.com/" target="_self">PixelQis</a> transflective displays. They are somewhat complementary. While AMOLEds excel at displaying bright  images /video and are available at a reasonable price for 5&#8221; (and to some extent at 7&#8221; display sizes but practically out of scope for 10&#8221; displays, PixelQi&#8217;s transflective displays in their reflective mode are practically equal to e-ink displays wrt. display crispness and readability in sunlight (while still able to display video), and equal to normal LCD displays  in transmissive mode. They are right now manufactured in 10&#8221;.</p>
<h4>OS</h4>
<p>Open Source, Linux based, fast booting OS have also evolved to a quality  where they are mass compatible. Most notable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29" target="_self">Android</a> (a Linux / Java Based OS) has been picked up by most mobile phone manufacturers and also gets traction in into mobile internet devices / tablets (see below). Other contenders are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS" target="_self">Google Chrome OS</a> /Chromium, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin" target="_blank">Moblin</a> / Ubuntu Moblin Remix and  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo" target="_self">Maemo</a>.</p>
<h3>CES 2010</h3>
<p>I ended my July 2008 blog post  titled  &#8220;<a href="http://relations.ka2.de/2008/07/27/will-apple-finally-ship-my-dream-e-reading-netbook-device/" target="_self">Will Apple finally my dream e-reading /netbook device</a>&#8221; with:</p>
<blockquote><p>We’ll see. If not (Ed. Apple is building a tablet), hopefully somebody uses Google’s android to build such a device.</p></blockquote>
<p>Fortunately, this is exactly what is happening and could be seen at CES2010. Partly by replacing Androind with another of  the OS alternatives  mentioned above. Forget the lame MS/HP presentation, the real action could be seen elsewhere and nearly everywhere (because of the confluence of the technologies i mentioned above).</p>
<p>So without further ado some pointers to my favorite exhibits at CES2010 (sometimes also other events)</p>
<h4>10&#8221; devices</h4>
<p>My personal highlight of CES2010 was <a href="http://www.notionink.com/" target="_self">NotionInk</a> ADAM, a 10&#8221; tablet based on NVidia Tegra 2, PixelQi Display and Android</p>
<p>Notion ink ADAM</p>
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<p>More about the device can for example be found <a href="http://www.netbooknews.com/index.php?s=notion+ink&amp;x=0&amp;y=0" target="_self">here</a>.</p>
<p>The PixelQi Display has also been shown integrated into a Lenov Idea Pad. The video below is especially interesting because it shows the two different display modes using the NYT Reader 2.0 app.</p>
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<h4>7&#8221; devices</h4>
<p>MSI Wind has show prototypes of both 10&#8221;  and 7&#8221; dualscreen devices. The video below shows the 10&#8221; version as the 7&#8221; version was seemingly non functional.</p>
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<h4>5&#8221; devices</h4>
<p>Dell has shown the  Dell Mini 5, an Android based tablet running on top of a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.</p>
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<p>A device that is already in the market is the Archos 5 Internet Tablet which is based on Android and features an OLED display.</p>
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<h4>Set top boxes</h4>
<p>The Quanta ebox is a slim set top box based on  Marvells Armada 510 chip</p>
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<p>Boxee Box: The boxee box is based on the Nvidia Tegra2 and is going to be sold for below $200 by D-Link that won a best of show award at CES2010</p>
<h4>Other touch devices</h4>
<p>As an interesting side note, TouchRevolution showed off a 7&#8221; touch-enabled, android based platform integrated into a washing machine and a microwave</p>
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<p>More videos can be found in <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/shared/gerdkamp" target="_self">my shared item feed.</a></p>
<h3>A look into the (near) future</h3>
<p>Back in the  <a href="../2008/07/27/will-apple-finally-ship-my-dream-e-reading-netbook-device/" target="_blank">July 2008</a> post i wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>For quite some time  i’ve argued that  the iPhone / iPod touch is right now my favourite e-reading device (see <a href="../2007/11/02/itouch-first-impressions/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="../2007/11/19/kindle-amazons-ebook-reader/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="../2008/01/17/sj-destroys-hopes-for-an-ebook-version-of-itouch/" target="_blank">here</a>) (Having extensively tested e-ink devices like the <a href="../tag/iliad/" target="_blank">Iliad</a>). Hence i drooled for a iTouch like device with a  7-9″ display.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>IMHO, it is more likely that Apple will enter the netbook market with a typical apple twist by not doing another scaled down version of a notebook, but a device that is dedicated for optimal support of the typical tasks a netbook has to support in a home and car enviroment.: Surf and read on the web, watch video, control your home entertainment systems etc.  This device should be the best device for couch surfing as well as showing video to your kids (or let them play casual games) while being in the car.</p>
<p>Ever since the Newton, Apple had technology for this kind of devices and it is more or less a yearly rumour that the Newton 2.0 will finally ship. But this time i think the chances are better than ever.</p>
<p>We’ll see. If not , hopefully somebody uses Google’s android to build such a device.</p></blockquote>
<p>While being wrong 2008 wrt. to the timeframe (i basically made wrong assumptions about the power consumption of  Intel ATOM and LCD displays), <strong> i still very much believe in the scenario of an optimized device for mobile entertainment at  home (e.g couch surfing) and in car setting</strong>.</p>
<p>This already resonated in my &#8220;<a href="http://relations.ka2.de/2009/05/13/times-reader-20/">Why Times Reader 2.0 is important</a>&#8221; post from May 2009:</p>
<blockquote><p>For the curious: My dream eReading device has for years been an Apple media pad. Right now my specs for this device read as follows: around 1.5 pound (hopefully lighter), beefed up iPhone OS (or better dual boot, full OS at a premium price), 7 – 10” display,  wi-fi 801.11n  plus 3G, all app store goodness, bluetooth for external keyboard connectivity as well as all other bluetoothy things, <strong>plus a <a href="http://www.pixelqi.com/mission" target="_blank">PixelQi</a> multitouch display</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The exiting thing : everything except the PixelQi display is available right now, the PixelQi schedule will allow for a WWDC presentation (or a launch at the traditional september special event).</p></blockquote>
<h4>So  what i am hoping for and why?</h4>
<p>I&#8217;ll try to do it along the lines of my introduction and the CES review.</p>
<h4>Processor / Platform</h4>
<p>I  think that is safe to bet that this device(s) will be the first Apple device that will incorporate some benefits of the P.A. Semi acquisition Apple made in early 2008. P.A. Semi was a fabless chip designer  specializing in low-power processor design based on ARM CPU cores. As said above all processor alternatives that i mentioned above are also based on ARM CPUs.</p>
<p>Since 1.5 &#8211; 2 years are a typical time frames for the the scoping of a design to a production quality chip /platform that can be mass manufactured i think we are on the safe side for that. It is also safe to assume that the platform of the tablet includes the benefits of the long term license deal with Power VR for das 2d/3D graphics as well as video de/encoding . So IMHO the paltform to be used within the table will be feature /performancewise be at least comparable to the Nvidia Tegra 2 plattform.</p>
<h4>Displays</h4>
<p>As argued above the display technology most likely depends on screen size of the device(s). For 5&#8221; it definitely will be AMOLED, for 7&#8221; AMOLED is a likely but pricey choice and for 10&#8221; it will be either regular LCD or a PixelQi display for the following reason:</p>
<p>As we have seen in the PixelQi videos above, the display seem to be ready for the market. But i remember that they said last year  that touch-enabled displays that would not suck (e.g. take away too much contrast) would be more in the June/July 2010 timeframe. So if the the tablet is going to be delayed until June lets hope that this will be the reason.</p>
<p>May be some of the Apple patents with regard to display technology (e.g. integrating touch and display layer in order to come up with a thinner device etc.) will be incorporated.</p>
<h4>OS / Applications</h4>
<p>I&#8217;m  sure that the OS will be more twisted toward  iPhoneOS  than  to Mac OS X. The main reason for that is that there definitely will be an app/content store for the device(s) and that the devices will definitely be no general purpose computers. But i&#8217;m also quite sure that the OS will be not be  identical to the current iPhoneOS. It definitely will support multi-tasking and the User interaction will be different / enhanced. It is also quite clear that there will be the possibility to pair a physical keyboard (most likely a bluetooth keyboard at least with some of the devices.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also quite sure that (some) of the devices will incorporate technology / features from the Apple TV and will more or less be Apple TV 2.0.</p>
<h3>Line Up</h3>
<h4>10&#8221; device</h4>
<p>I think it is a fairly safe bet that the device to be unveiled on Wednesday will be a 10&#8221; tablet. And by 10&#8221; i also mean 9.7 or 10.1 &#8221;. The device will basically have the functionality as described by Inathko and Gruber.  PixelQi display would be nice, but most likely it will be a regular LCD display.</p>
<p>You already can watch video stored on you&#8217;re iPhone and ipod Touch on a big screen, using either a 3rd Party Dock or a special viideo cable. Right now forwarding the signal to an external display is restricted to the playback of the video. All interaction is on the device only (which makes sense for devices like the iPhone).</p>
<p>This changes with the 10&#8221; tablet. As said above i expect that AppleTV functionality will be incorporated into the devices. This means that you will be either able to use  a  Front Row like interface on the device itself and / or more likely use an iPhone or iPod touch with the  Apple Remote App. I also expect a dock with gigabit network connectivity, maybe an enclosed 2.5&#8221; drive for additional content, eventually DVR and TV-Tuner capabilities and an IR port for a regular Apple Remote. This dock will eitehr come directly from Apple or from a third party provider.</p>
<h4>5&#8221;  device</h4>
<p>The current  ipod Touch is basically the equivalent of the 5&#8221; devices mentioned above.  Since the current Zune as well as the Nexus one are already using  AMOLED  displays i think it is a save bet that the next generation iPod touch will have an AMOLED display.  For me it is an open question if the device will have a 5&#8221; screen or if the economies of scale wil dictate that the screen is the same size as an iPhone.</p>
<p>May be the chosen route  is to keep the iPod Touch form factor as it is and to touch enable the successor to the iPod classic, using a greater display and a harddrive.</p>
<h4>7&#8221;  device</h4>
<p>Most likely either a 5&#8221; or a 7&#8221; device will be developed by Apple since there is not enough potential for diffentiating between the two devices. But may be they will go the MacBook Pro route and offer the same functionality with two different display sizes.</p>
<h4>Set-Top Box</h4>
<p>If Apple is interested to continue it&#8217;s Apple TV hobby, the logical consequence is to strip the 10 inch tablet of the display and use  the other parts to build a tiny and shiny Apple TV 2.0. This box can easily be sold for around $200 it may go as low as $150.</p>
<h3>Final words</h3>
<p>I think it is unlikely that all this devices will be introduced next week, but i would be very much surprised if at the end of the year the line-up wouldn&#8217;t more or look like sketched above.</p>
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		<title>Abendblatt und das &#8220;Google-&#8221; resp. &#8220;Googlebotloch&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Momentan überschlagen sich die Tweets mit Hinweisen darauf wie denn das Abendblatt auch kostenlos zu lesen ist.  Auch ich habe in meinem letzten Post darauf  hingewiesen.
Allerdings zeugt die Häme die dort zum Teil ausgeschüttet wird auch häufig von der Unkenntnis der Situation. Daher hier eine kurze Erklärung und meine Einschätzung.
Das Googleloch und das Googlebotloch sind [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Momentan überschlagen sich die Tweets mit Hinweisen darauf wie denn das Abendblatt auch kostenlos zu lesen ist.  Auch ich habe in meinem letzten <a href="http://relations.ka2.de/2009/12/15/abendblatt/" target="_blank">Post</a> darauf  hingewiesen.</p>
<p>Allerdings zeugt die Häme die dort zum Teil ausgeschüttet wird auch häufig von der Unkenntnis der Situation. Daher hier eine kurze Erklärung und meine Einschätzung.</p>
<p>Das Googleloch und das Googlebotloch sind alte Bekannte. Jeder der schon mal ernsthaft  das WallStreet Journal lesen wollte kennt zumindest das Google-Loch. Im folgenden will ich kurz erklären was die Gründe für diese Löcher sind und das das Abendblatt dies Löcher leicht stopfen könnte und es im Grunde nur eine Frage der Zeit resp. der kaufmännischen Abwägung ist ob und wann diese geschlossen werden.</p>
<h3>Das Google-Loch und First-Click-Free</h3>
<p>Das Google-Loch entsteht dadurch, dass die Verlage oder sonstige Content-Provider (zumindest die, die halbwegs bei Sinnen sind) nicht auf den Traffic aus der Google-Suche und Google-News verzichten wollen.</p>
<p>Um dies auch für Paid-Content machen zu können gibt es die First-Click-Free-Regelung von Google. Diese stellt im wesentlichen eine Ausnahme von der allgemeinen &#8220;Cloaking&#8221;-Regel dar die Aussagt, dass den Endkunden und dem Google-Crawler (der sich als googlebot identifiziert) nicht unterschiedliche Seitenversionen ausgeliefert / angezeigt werden dürfen.</p>
<p>Bis zum 1. Dezember besagte die First-Click-Regelung, dass dies für jeden ersten Klick, der von einer Suchergebnisseite / Google News kam, die gleiche Seite angezigt werden musste wie sie der Googlebot gesehen hat, erst Links die von dieser Seite wegführten durften dann auf Seiten führen die hinter der Paywall lagen.</p>
<p>Zum 1. Dezember hat Google, als eines der Zugeständnisse die sie an die Content-Provider gemacht haben, diese Regelung <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/changes-in-first-click-free.html" target="_blank">geändert</a>. Seit diesem Datum gibt es die eingeschränkte First-Click-Free-Regelung die es des Content-Providern erlaubt, nach einer bestimmten Anzahl von Klicks am Tag, die von Google-Seiten kommen auch die Seite die auf diesen First-Click hin angezeigt wird hinter die Paywall zu legen. Als Minimum müssen allerdings 5 Clicks pro Tag frei sein.</p>
<p>Die Implementierung dieser veränderten Regelung obliegt den Verlagen (ist auch das einzig technisch sinnvolle).  Jeder der sich technisch halbwegs auskennt, weiss, das das ganze nicht trivial ist und insbesondere auch mehr Last auf den Systemen erzeugt. Daher ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass das Abendblatt die veränderte Regelung noch nicht umgesetzt hat.</p>
<p>Letztendlich ist aber auch eine  ökonomische Frage, ob sich der zusätzliche Aufwand überhaupt lohnt. In meiner Abwägung würde aber der Glaubwürdigkeitsaspekt überwiegen und ich gehe davon aus dass Axel-Spinger dies auch tun wird. Da Abendblatt und Berliner Morgenpost jetzt auf der gleichen technischen Plattform laufen müssen sie es ja auch nur einmal machen.</p>
<p>Ich gehe davon aus dass diese Lücke noch im Laufe dieses Jahres, allerspätestens im Januar geschlossen wird.</p>
<h3>Das Googlebotloch</h3>
<p>Eine zweite Lücke auf den in den Tweets hingewiesen wird ist das &#8220;Googlebot&#8221;-Loch. Hier gibt sich der Browser als Google-Crawler aus. Da dieser ja die Inhalte komplett sehen soll (siehe oben) wird der komplette Inhalt ausgeliefert.</p>
<p>Hier verwundert es mich allerdings, dass das Abendblatt diese Lücke noch nicht geschlossen hat. Das Verfahren dazu bescheibgt Google selbst auf seinen <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=80553" target="_blank">Webmaster Seiten</a>. Es bsetht wus einem sog. Reverse DNS Lookup der feststellt ob eine IP-Addresse (die bei jedem Request mitgeliefert wird) auch aus der googlebot.com Domäne kommt, optional gefolgt von einer normalen (Forward) DNS Anfrage die dann verifiziert, ob der im ersten Schritt zurückgelieferte Name auch auf die angegebene IP-Adresse aufgelöst wird.</p>
<p>Dies ist notwendig, da Google nicht die IP-Adressenbereiche der Maschinen die den Crawl  ausführen bekannt gibt. Wäre das der Fall, so wäre eine Filterung der Googlebot Requests auf  diese Adressen trivial.  So ist das ganze aber mit nicht unerheblichem Aufwänden und Kosten verbunden. Darüberhinaus entstehendurch die beiden DNS-Requests Verzögerungen bei der Auslieferung der Seiten.</p>
<p>Im übrigen hat Google ebenfalls vor kurzem (als weiteres Zugeständnis an die Content Provider einen dedizierten Crawler-Namen für den Google News Crawler <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-user-agent-for-news.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FamDG+%28Official+Google+Webmaster+Central+Blog%29" target="_blank">eingeführt</a>. Dieser heisst: Googlebot-News.</p>
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		<title>abendblatt.de gibt es seit heute im Abonnement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immerhin kann man nicht sagen, sie haben es nicht versucht. Im Gegensatz zu Murdoch macht Springer bei seinen Regionalblättern ernst.
Das abendblatt.de, der Webauftritt des Hamburger Abendblattes ist seit heute für Abonnenten kostenlos, ein Euphemismus dafür, dass es für Nicht-Abonnenten kostenpflichtig ist. Ich habe noch nicht nachgesehen, aber ich gehe davon aus, dass die Berliner Morgenpost, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Immerhin kann man nicht sagen, sie haben es nicht versucht. Im Gegensatz zu Murdoch macht Springer bei seinen Regionalblättern ernst.</p>
<p>Das abendblatt.de, der Webauftritt des Hamburger Abendblattes ist seit heute für Abonnenten kostenlos, ein Euphemismus dafür, dass es für Nicht-Abonnenten kostenpflichtig ist. Ich habe noch nicht nachgesehen, aber ich gehe davon aus, dass die Berliner Morgenpost, wenn sie es noch nicht ist umgehend folgt. Schliesslich hängen sie ja in der gleichen Verlagsgruppe. dazu gehört auch die Welt, aber ich glaube ich (noch) nicht daran, dass hier so schnell  die Paywall im Web aufgestellt wird. Die Paid-Content-Vorgaben wurden bestimmt schon mit dem eMag und der iPhone-App erfüllt.</p>
<p>Also Abonennten, sucht mal eure Abonummer raus. Ist bestimmt nicht sooo griffbereit.</p>
<h3>Seltsames Selbstverständnis</h3>
<p>Was ich gelinde gesagt &#8220;interessant&#8221; finde ist das Selbstverständnis, das im dem folgenden Abschnitt  des Artikels von Matthias Iken: <a href="http://www.abendblatt.de/ratgeber/article1307619/abendblatt-de-gibt-es-seit-heute-im-Abonnement.html">In eigener Sache &#8211; abendblatt.de gibt es seit heute im Abonnement</a> sichtbar wird (Hervorhebungen von mir):</p>
<blockquote><p>Welche Stimme im Netz ist in der Lage, objektiv Information zu sammeln, zu    gewichten und bei Streitpunkten beide Seiten zu Wort kommen zu lassen?    PR-Seiten, <strong>Blogs</strong> oder öffentliche Verlautbarungen <strong>können diesen Anspruch    nicht erfüllen – und sollten es nicht.</strong> Zudem benötigen die Bürger    verlässliche wie <strong>verletzliche Leitmedien</strong>, die das Geschehen bündeln und aus    dem Meer von Informationen als Inseln der Relevanz herausragen.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dazu folgendes:<br />
1. Was bitte sind verletzliche Leitmedien? Vielleicht folgt ja eine Erklärung.</p>
<p>2. Ob Blogs oder Non-profit Organisationen, oder NGOs diese Aufgabenstellung nicht erfüllen können sei mal dahingestellt, <strong>warum sie es aber nicht sollen würde mich wirklich mal interessieren</strong>.</p>
<h3>PS: First Click Free noch in der uneingeschränkten Variante</h3>
<p>Kleiner Tipp für Nicht-Abonnenten die erstmal testen wollen ob es sich lohnt ein Abo für 7,95 EUR abzuschliessen gilt, dass das Abendblatt von der First-Click-Free Regel bei Google Gebrauch macht (so ganz ohne Search-Traffic geht es halt nicht)</p>
<p>Ein kurzer  Versuch zeigt: Anscheinend hat es das Abendblatt in der Kürze der Zeit noch nicht geschafft die neue 5-Clicks Free Regelung von Google zu implementieren.</p>
<p>Dank Ubiquity konnte ich quasi ohne Zeitverlust die Volltexte von 10 Artikeln lesen die eigentlich hinter der Paywall stehen, nach der neuen Regelung hätte das Abnedblatt das Recht, nach dem 5.Klick der via Google kommt die Paywall zu zeigen.</p>
<p>Aber es ist sicher nur eine Frage der Zeit bis das auch implementiert ist. MAl sehen wohin mich die Links meines brandneuen Google Alerts mit source:&#8221;Hamburger Abendblatt&#8221; führen werden.</p>
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		<title>The CrunchPad Is Now Called The JooJoo &#124; BusinessInsider</title>
		<link>http://relations.ka2.de/2009/12/08/the-crunchpad-is-now-called-the-joojoo-businessinsider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now Micheal Arrington&#8217;s business partner speaks up.  The price rises up to $499 and will be available for preorder from Friday with 8 &#8211; 10 weeks shipment time. We&#8217;ll see if that beats the Apple Tablet to the market
The Crunchpad is dead, but the JooJoo is alive.Chandrasekar &#8220;Chandra&#8221; Rathakrishnan, founder and CEO of Fusion [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now Micheal Arrington&#8217;s business partner speaks up.  The price rises up to $499 and will be available for preorder from Friday with 8 &#8211; 10 weeks shipment time. We&#8217;ll see if that beats the Apple Tablet to the market</p>
<blockquote><p>The Crunchpad is dead, but the JooJoo is alive.Chandrasekar &#8220;Chandra&#8221; Rathakrishnan, founder and CEO of Fusion Garage, unveiled today the hardware that was to be the CrunchPad.It is now named the JooJoo, an African word for magic.It will be available for preorder this Friday at TheJooJoo.com.</p></blockquote>
<p>via <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-crunchpad-is-now-called-the-joojoo-and-its-499-2009-12">Business Insider</a>.</p>
<p>More at: <a href="http://www.liliputing.com/2009/12/out-of-the-ashes-of-the-crunchpad-comes-the-499-joojoo-tablet.html/joojoo2" target="_blank">liliputing</a>,  <a href="http://www.eee-pc.de/2009/12/07/crunchpad-heist-jetzt-joojoo-und-kostet-200-dollar-mehr/" target="_blank">eee-pc.de (german)</a></p>
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		<title>EMagazines are the new hype, NYT Skimmer showing the way</title>
		<link>http://relations.ka2.de/2009/12/03/emagazines-nyt-skimmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the context of the current paid content debate at least magazine publishers seem to start thinking how the content that people might be willing to pay for should look like. ( Others are saying, they are dusting off their years old concepts. ) However, EMagazines seem to be the new hype. Every week we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the context of the current paid content debate at least magazine publishers seem to start thinking how the content that people might be willing to pay for should look like. ( Others are saying, they are dusting off their years old concepts. ) However, EMagazines seem to be the new hype. Every week we see the wraps taken off some magazine concept  or even a first offering.</p>
<h3>Wired</h3>
<p>Two weeks ago it was Conde Nast showing off a concept tablet version of Wired <a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091118/conde-nasts-offering-for-apples-mystery-tablet-wired-magazine/" target="_blank">(AllThingsD)</a>,</p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="640" height="505" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BLc-8gT2eKg&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1&amp;" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="505" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BLc-8gT2eKg&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1&amp;" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<h3>Welt am Sonntag</h3>
<p>A week later Axel Springer launches the <a title="http://www.weltamsonntag.de (german)" href="http://www.weltamsonntag.de" target="_blank">Welt am Sonntag emag </a>(<a href="http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/11/23/axel-springer-launches-new-paid-for-multimedia-magazine/" target="_blank">journalism.co.uk</a>, <a title="http://www.blog-cj.de/blog/?p=2656 (german)" href="http://www.blog-cj.de/blog/?p=2656" target="_blank">JakBlog</a>),</p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="640" height="385" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tW3FSTXWsck&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1&amp;" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tW3FSTXWsck&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1&amp;" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<h3>Sports Illustrated</h3>
<p>Now Time Inc. shows off a concept version of SportsIllustrated (<a title="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091202/game-on-time-inc-shows-off-a-tabletized-sports-illustrated/" href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091202/game-on-time-inc-shows-off-a-tabletized-sports-illustrated/" target="_blank">AllThingsD</a>).</p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="660" height="405" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ntyXvLnxyXk&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="660" height="405" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ntyXvLnxyXk&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<p>In addition i&#8217;ve seen a presentation about a eMagazine version of another big german weekly magazine.</p>
<p>Moreover,  a number of American Magazine Publishers (reportedly Time Inc. Condé Nast and Hearst among them) are discussing a &#8220;Hulu for Magazines&#8221; (<a title="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091002/publishers-like-time-inc-s-hulu-for-magazines-proposal-what-will-apple-and-amazon-say/#" href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091002/publishers-like-time-inc-s-hulu-for-magazines-proposal-what-will-apple-and-amazon-say/#" target="_blank">AllThingsD</a>) which most industry observers deem to be a difficult thing to succeed given the mights of Amazon and Apple which is more than rumoured to get its tablet out of the door in the next year (<a title="http://gizmodo.com/5370252/apple-tablet-to-redefine-newspapers-textbooks-and-magazines" href="http://gizmodo.com/5370252/apple-tablet-to-redefine-newspapers-textbooks-and-magazines" target="_blank">Gizmodo</a>). But given the success of Hulu i wouldn&#8217;t think that they couldn&#8217;t pull off at least some market share.</p>
<h3>A format plethora</h3>
<p>The problem they all face: Right now they have to serve a multitude of formats right now most of the EMagazines are developed based on Adobe Air./ Adobe Flash But is more than unlikely that Apple is going to use that  for its iTunes offering. If the <a title="http://www.apple.com/itunes/lp-and-extras/" href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/lp-and-extras/" target="_blank">iTunes Extra and iTunes LP specs</a> are any hint, it is much more likely that it is a HTML/Javacript based format. (iTunes already supports PDF as a format, e.g. Slides accompanying videos of lectures on iTunes U)</p>
<p><a href="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hero20091120.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1276" title="Apple iTunes Extra and iTunes LP Specs" src="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hero20091120-640x316.png" alt="Apple iTunes Extra and iTunes LP Specs" width="640" height="316" /></a></p>
<p>In addition there is ePub, the open, XHTML/CSS based eBook standard that everybody except Amazon is using. Amazon still uses a variant of the Mobipocket format.</p>
<h3>NYT showing the way</h3>
<p>I think that (as usual) the NYT is showing the way.</p>
<ul>
<li>They introduced the NYT reader a couple of years ago based on Microsoft technology</li>
<li>Then relaunched it this year using Adobe Air</li>
<li>They are also available on the Kindle and will be available on every other eReading device that launches</li>
<li>Yesterday they launched <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/" href="http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/" target="_blank">Times Skimmer</a>, giving the reader 7 different layout options for the homepage and the section püages). Especially the serendipity mode looks and feels a lot  like an EMagazine.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="../wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Bildschirmfoto-2009-12-03-um-08.44.07.png"><img title="NYT Skimmer (Homepage, Serendipity style)" src="../wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Bildschirmfoto-2009-12-03-um-08.44.07-640x400.png" alt="NYT Skimmer (Homepage, Serendipity style)" width="640" height="400" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Bildschirmfoto-2009-12-03-um-08.59.49.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1283" title="NYT Skimmer (Fridge Mode)" src="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Bildschirmfoto-2009-12-03-um-08.59.49-640x400.png" alt="NYT Skimmer (Fridge Mode)" width="640" height="400" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Bildschirmfoto-2009-12-03-um-09.00.10.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1284" title="NYT Skimmer (Flow mode)" src="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Bildschirmfoto-2009-12-03-um-09.00.10-640x400.png" alt="NYT Skimmer (Flow mode)" width="640" height="400" /></a></p>
<h3>My look into the EReading crystal ball</h3>
<p>So what is my educated guess?</p>
<ul>
<li>Over the next two years eReaders (eInk, eletrophoretic, &#8230; as well as LCD based) will switch to using browser rendering engines (most likely WebKit with Geckoa distant second) to display ePub publications.</li>
<li>This opens up the possibilities to use  Javascript in addition to XHTML and CSS in the ePub publications.</li>
<li> Apple will (also as usual) stay with a kind of propriatary format that fortunately is also based on modern web standards</li>
<li>Adobe Air will be used for high-end productions and desktop apps. Given the fact that AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) includes WebKit (and at least once was deemed to also integrate PDF) , web-standards based EMagazine content can be included</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Head-To-Head: ACAP Versus Robots.txt For Controlling Search Engines</title>
		<link>http://relations.ka2.de/2009/12/01/acap-versus-robots-txt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Danny Sullivan put up a great (and very long) post comparing ACAP and Robots.txt in the Context of the current discussion around paid content and the Hamburg declaration. I urge you to read it in full if you want to know more about the current situation, and why ACAP will not help the publishers to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Danny Sullivan put up a great (and very long) post comparing ACAP and Robots.txt in the Context of the current discussion around paid content and the Hamburg declaration. I urge you to read it in full if you want to know more about the current situation, and why ACAP will not help the publishers to pursue their hamburg declaration goals.</p>
<p>Disclosure: After some critical posts <a href="http://relations.ka2.de/tag/acap/" target="_blank">regarding ACAP</a> and due to the fact that i&#8217;m working at a news agency i was invited to join the ACAP technical working group. I attended one face-to-face meeting and a couple of phone conferences, mainly there was interest to integrate news agency use cases into ACAP.  I stopped active work in the TWG basically a year ago, mainly due to the following reasons:</p>
<ul>
<li>dpa has no B2C business and FTP / satellite not HTTP are still the major news delivery mode :-(</li>
<li>The general situation regarding ACAP is as Danny describes it</li>
<li>Hence there are more efficient uses of my precious time than the ACAP TWG</li>
</ul>
<p>To give you an idea what Danny is talking about i&#8217;ll include a quote fromhis <a href="http://searchengineland.com/head-to-head-acap-versus-robots-txt-for-controlling-search-engines-30816" target="_blank">post</a> showing that even the protagonists are not really using ACAP :</p>
<blockquote><p>Sounds easy enough to use ACAP, right? Well, no. ACAP, in its quest to provide as much granularity to publishers as possible, offers what I found to be a dizzying array of choices. REP explains its parts on two pages. ACAP’s implementation guide alone (I’ll get to links on this later on) is 37 pages long.</p>
<p>But all that granularity is what publishers need to reassert control, right? Time for that reality check. Remember those 1,250 publishers? Google News has something like over 20,000 news publishers that it lists, so relatively few are using ACAP. ACAP also positions itself as (I’ve bolded some key parts):</p>
<p>an open industry standard to enable the providers of all types of content (including, but not limited to, publishers) to communicate permissions information (relating to access to and use of that content) in a form that can be readily recognized and interpreted by a search engine (or any other intermediary or aggregation service), so that the operator of the service is enabled systematically to comply with the individual publisher’s policies.</p>
<p>Well, anyone with a web site is a publisher, and there are millions of web sites out there. Hundreds of millions, probably. Virtually no publishers use ACAP.</p>
<p>Even ACAP Backers Don’t Use ACAP Options</p>
<p>Of course, there’s no incentive to use ACAP. After all, none of the major search engines support it, so why would most of these people do so. OK, then let’s look at some people with a real incentive to show the control that ACAP offers. Even if they don’t yet have that control, they can still use ACAP now to outline what they want to do.</p>
<p>Let’s start with the ACAP file for the Irish Independent. Don’t worry if you don’t understand it, just skim, and I’ll explain:</p>
<p>##ACAP version=1.0</p>
<p># Allow all</p>
<p>User-agent: *</p>
<p>Disallow: /search/</p>
<p>Disallow: /*.ece$</p>
<p>Disallow: /*startindex=</p>
<p>Disallow: /*from=*</p>
<p>Disallow: /*service=Print</p>
<p>Disallow: /*action=Email</p>
<p>Disallow: /*comment_form</p>
<p>Disallow: /*r=RSS</p>
<p>Sitemap: http://www.independent.ie/sitemap.xml.gz</p>
<p># Changes in Trunk</p>
<p>ACAP-crawler: *</p>
<p>ACAP-disallow-crawl: /search/</p>
<p>ACAP-disallow-crawl: /*.ece$</p>
<p>ACAP-disallow-crawl: /*startindex=</p>
<p>ACAP-disallow-crawl: /*from=*</p>
<p>ACAP-disallow-crawl: /*service=Print</p>
<p>ACAP-disallow-crawl: /*action=Email</p>
<p>ACAP-disallow-crawl: /*comment_form</p>
<p>ACAP-disallow-crawl: /*r=RSS</p>
<p>OK, see that top part? Those are actually commands using the robots.txt syntax. They exist because if a search engine doesn’t understand ACAP, the robots.txt commands serve as backup. Basically those lines tell all search engines not to index various things on the site, such as print-only pages.</p>
<p>Now the second part? This is where ACAP gets to shine. It’s where the Irish Independent — which is part of the media group run by ACAP president Gavin O’Reilly — gets to express what they wish search engines would do, if they’d only recognize all the new powers that ACAP provides. And what do they do? EXACTLY the same blocking that they do using robots.txt.</p>
<p>So much for demonstrating the potential power of ACAP.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>The End Of The CrunchPad &#124; Techcrunch</title>
		<link>http://relations.ka2.de/2009/12/01/the-end-of-the-crunchpad-techcrunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the Crunchpad for quite some time (see e.g. here). It was the device that came closest to my dream surfing/ereading device (besides an Apple Tablet with a PixelQi screen). Now Michael Arrington announces it&#8217;s end, due to &#8220;interesting circumstances&#8221; to say the least. Given the nature of TechCrunch i&#8217;l take his version [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was watching the Crunchpad for quite some time (see e.g. <a href="http://relations.ka2.de/2009/04/12/techcrunch-tablet-makes-an-early-debut-crunchgearcom/" target="_blank">here</a>). It was the device that came closest to my dream surfing/ereading device (besides an Apple Tablet with a PixelQi screen). Now Michael Arrington announces it&#8217;s end, due to &#8220;interesting circumstances&#8221; to say the least. Given the nature of TechCrunch i&#8217;l take his version with big grains of salt but at least it is an entertaining read. Also of interest: the raise of the estimated preice from $200 to $300. But read for yourself</p>
<blockquote><p>Our plan was to debut the CrunchPad on stage at the Real-Time Crunchup event on November 20, a little over a week ago. We even hoped to have devices hacked together with Google Chrome OS and Windows 7 to show people that you could hack this thing to run just about anything you want. We’d put 1,000 of the devices on pre-sale and take orders immediately. Larger scale production would begin early in 2010.</p>
<p>And then the entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication.</p>
<p>On November 17, our deadline date for greenlighting the debut three days later, the CEO of our partner on the project, Chandra Rathakrishnan, sent me an email with the subject “no good news.” Yuck, I thought. Another delay, probably with the screen that had been giving us so much trouble – capacitive touch at 12 inches isn’t trivial. And sure enough, the email started off with “no good news to update. updated hardware is still on its way , so that’s a timing issue. friday will be a challenge now.”</p>
<p>But the email went on. Bizarrely, we were being notified that we were no longer involved with the project. Our project. Chandra said that based on pressure from his shareholders he had decided to move forward and sell the device directly through Fusion Garage, without our involvement.</p>
<p>Err, what? This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifying Apple a couple of days before launch that they’d be moving ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from Apple.</p>
<p>Chandra also forwarded an internal email from one of his shareholders. My favorite part of the email: “We still acknowledge that Arrington and TechCrunch bring some value to your business endeavor…If he agrees to our terms, we would have Arrington assume the role of visionary/evangelist/marketing head and Fusion Garage would acquire the rights to use the Crunchpad brand and name. Personally, I don’t think the name is all that important but you seem to be somewhat attached to the name.”</p>
<p>And with that, the entire project self destructed.</p></blockquote>
<p>via <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/">The End Of The CrunchPad</a>.</p>
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		<title>Die Schizophrenie des Kai Diekmann</title>
		<link>http://relations.ka2.de/2009/10/28/schizophrenie-diekmann/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall 1: Böses Internetunternehmen macht schwer zugängliche Informationen leicht zugänglich, cached sie ggf. und schaufelt den Content-Erstellern Traffic und damit Umsätze zu.
Konsequenz: Hamburger Erklärung etc.
Fall 2: Gute große Zeitung, zitiert kleine Zeitschrift, Interesse wird erzeugt und mit ein bisschen Glück kaufen möglichst viele Zeitungsleser auch das Original-Magazin. (siehe  KAI DIEKMANNS BLOG.)

BILD wollte es für seine [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fall 1: Böses Internetunternehmen macht schwer zugängliche Informationen leicht zugänglich, cached sie ggf. und schaufelt den Content-Erstellern Traffic und damit Umsätze zu.</p>
<p>Konsequenz: <a href="http://relations.ka2.de/tag/hamburger-erklarung/" target="_blank">Hamburger Erklärung</a> etc.</p>
<p>Fall 2: Gute große Zeitung, zitiert kleine Zeitschrift, Interesse wird erzeugt und mit ein bisschen Glück kaufen möglichst viele Zeitungsleser auch das Original-Magazin. (siehe <a href="http://www.kaidiekmann.de/return-to-sender/2009/10/27/"> KAI DIEKMANNS BLOG</a>.)</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">BILD wollte es für seine Leser natürlich genauer wissen. Denn dass das Interview für so viel Wirbel sorgte, hatte ja auch damit zu tun, dass kaum jemand den Zusammenhang kannte, in dem Sarrazins Zitate standen.<span id="more-2595"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Deshalb druckten wir in der Zeitung einen längeren Auszug und stellten den ganzen Text ungekürzt ins Internet &#8211; selbstverständlich mit ausführlicher Quellenangabe (online stand sogar der sehr lange Zusatz: “Die Zeitschrift Lettre International erscheint vierteljährlich und ist in ausgesuchten Buchhandlungen und im Zeitschrifthandel an Flughäfen und Bahnhöfen erhältlich. Einzelheftpreis: 17 Euro, Jahresabo: 41 Euro. Hier abonnieren: http://www.lettre.de/aboheft.html”).</p>
<p>So weit, so normal: Große Zeitung zitiert kleine Zeitschrift, Interesse wird erzeugt und mit ein bisschen Glück kaufen möglichst viele Zeitungsleser auch das Original-Magazin.</p>
<p>Offenbar nicht. Denn jetzt sieht alles etwas anders aus. Redaktionsleiter Berberich schimpft wie ein Rohrspatz über BILD, redet von „Diebstahl“ seines Textes, will Schadensersatz und lässt sich dabei von meinem Freund Jony Eisenberg vertreten….</p>
<p>Lieber Herr Berberich: Da müssen Sie etwas übersehen haben. Denn natürlich haben wir das Interview nicht geklaut, sondern uns vorher die Erlaubnis zur Veröffentlichung geholt. Mein Kollege Hans-Jörg Vehlewald aus der Politikredaktion bat dafür telefonisch in ihrem Büro um den kompletten Text, den er anschließend auch per Fax bekam &#8211; versehen mit dem handschriftlichen Vermerk: „z. Hd. Herrn Vehlewald, mit Nennung der Quelle: Lettre International“ siehe ganz unten.Nun muss man BILD ja nicht mögen. Und man kann sich auch immer alles anders überlegen. Aber uns zuerst den Abdruck zu erlauben, und dann davon nichts mehr wissen zu wollen, finde ich…komisch.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Reanimating IPTC7901</title>
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		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the  web RSS and ATOM feeds are still the backbone of  the news ecosystem.  But most professional news organizations still prefer to use standards from their own standardization body, the &#8220;International Press &#38; Telecommunications Council&#8221;: IPTC. (Explaining why i put emphasis on the two &#8220;still&#8221;s is worth a separate post)
While IPTC NewsArchitecture G2  (NAR [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the  web RSS and ATOM feeds are <strong>still</strong> the backbone of  the news ecosystem.  But most professional news organizations <strong>still</strong> prefer to use standards from their own standardization body, the &#8220;International Press &amp; Telecommunications Council&#8221;: <a href="http://www.iptc.org/" target="_blank">IPTC</a>. (Explaining why i put emphasis on the two &#8220;still&#8221;s is worth a separate post)</p>
<p>While <a href="http://iptc.org/cms/site/single.html?channel=CH0087&amp;document=CMS1206527645546" target="_blank">IPTC NewsArchitecture G2  (NAR G2) </a>is the new poster child and  <a href="http://www.nitf.org" target="_blank">NITF</a> is the standard used for multimedia / online wire stories (see for example my <a href="http://relations.ka2.de/?p=595" target="_blank">last post</a> on geocoded-news). But the real workhorse still used  is <a href="http://iptc.org/cms/site/index.html;jsessionid=a2S086SqgvWh?channel=CH0109" target="_blank">IPTC7901</a> resp.  it&#8217;s close cousin ANPA1312 / IPTC-NAA1312. Since for the matter of this post they are identical lets focus on IPTC7901.</p>
<p>As you might have guessed the 79 in 7901 stands  for 1979  the year when the standard was drafted. It&#8217;s latest <a href="http://iptc.org/std/IPTC7901/1.0/specification/7901V5.pdf" target="_blank">17-page revision</a> (9 pages being annex :-) was written in 1995 , a year when newarly nobody knew about the web. Hence it is not surprising that the standard by no means takes the web into account and is a pure ASCII format.</p>
<p>So for those of you who haven&#8217;t seen an IPTC7901 text message:</p>
<pre>hsh0061 4 vm 220  lno 0631

Verkehr/Bahn/
(Zusammenfassung 1430)
Metronom: Schluss mit Alkohol in Zügen =

 Göttingen/Uelzen (dpa/lno) - Spätestens von der kommenden Saison
an müssen Fußball-Fans und andere Reisende in Metronom-Zügen nüchtern
bleiben. Als erstes Eisenbahnunternehmen in Deutschland will die
private Gesellschaft «in den nächsten Monaten» ein absolutes
Alkoholverbot verhängen, sagte Sprecherin Tatjana Festerling am
Mittwoch. Der Grund: Trinkende Fans hinterlassen Unmengen Müll,
belästigen andere Reisende, verursachen Sachbeschädigungen und
attackieren immer häufiger auch das Zugpersonal. Metronom-Züge
verkehren zwischen Göttingen und Uelzen und verbinden Hamburg mit
mehreren anderen Städten.

 Mit dem Alkoholverbot werde auch ein Verbot von Glasflaschen
kommen, sagte die Sprecherin. Der Sachschaden, den betrunkene
Fußball-Fans in Metronom-Zügen anrichten, betrage mehr als 500 000
Euro pro Jahr, Tendenz steigend. Hinzu kommen die Kosten für die
Beseitigung der Unmengen von Müll, die in den Waggons liegen blieben,
sagte die Metronom-Sprecherin.

 Bei der Kundschaft stoßen die geplanten alkoholfreien Züge
offenbar auf große Zustimmung. Von 5000 Fahrgästen hätten sich 4200
nachdrücklich für ein Alkoholverbot ausgesprochen, sagte Festerling.
Das Verbot soll auch mit Hilfe externer Mitarbeiter durchgesetzt
werden.

 Für die Deutsche Bahn dagegen ist ein Alkoholverbot «derzeit kein
Thema». Dann müsse man auch den Konsum «eines gepflegten Glases Wein»
oder eines Bieres im ICE-Speisewagen verbieten, sagte eine
Sprecherin. Die Beförderungsbedingungen böten auch ohne Verbot die
Möglichkeit, gegen Randalierer und extrem betrunkene Fahrgäste
vorzugehen.

[Metronom]: Uelzen - Göttingen
dpa mb yyni z2 mö

191431 Aug 09</pre>
<p>I first had a closer look at the pure ASCII format for text news when i looked for a way to get geo information into it, so that i can easily parse it in order to prepopulate our online CMS with the right information. You might have noticed the <em>[Metronom]: Uelzen- Göttingen</em> at the end of the above story.</p>
<p>So day after day a large number of news organizations receive stories in this format and import it into their editorial and content management systems. They then  to mark it up, add links to it etc. in order to make it publishable.<strong> </strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Plenty of work has to be done at the receiving end that should be better be done at the source.</strong></p>
<p>In the last days another side-project triggered a closer look at this issue. In the remainder of this post i&#8217;ll present the first results of it</p>
<h3>Lightweight Markup to the rescue</h3>
<p>Since i personally write most of my texts in a lightweight markup language such as Markdown, Textile, restructuredText, Creole or some other WikiSyntax ,  it was claer to me that the solution would be to recommend to use one of these languages for markin up the text in pure ASCII.</p>
<p>This would enable the possibility to instantly reuse</p>
<ul>
<li> all kind of parsers and tools built and written either for this language, and</li>
<li>since the parsers generate (X)HTML also all tools and systems available for XML and HTML</li>
</ul>
<p>So i had a close look at quite some news articles and how the markup in these languages would look like. I also checked with the IPTC7901 spec. if both would interfere. But since IPTC7901 is basically a container format that places little to no restrictions on the message content itself.</p>
<p>After doing all this my recommendation is the following:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Use <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/" target="_blank">Markdown</a> (resp. Markdown Extras) for the markup of news stories within IPTC7901 wires</strong></p>
<p>Overall i was able to encode most of the things that i wanted to mark up an it was the visually most pleasing markup. Moreover there is Aaron Schwartz <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/" target="_blank">HTML2TxT</a> tool that helps with backtranslating  HTML into Markdown.</p>
<h3>Example</h3>
<p>So how would this look like? The following is an example of a real dpa wire story pimped with markdown:</p>
<p><strong>Original Wire-Text:</strong></p>
<pre>hes0010 4 vm 575  lhe 7033

KORR-Inland/Tiere/
(SERIE LANDSLEUTE - Wochenendwiederholung)
Die mit den Wölfen heult - Forscherin geht neue Wege
Von Jörn Perske, dpa
(Mit Bild) =

 Hanau  (dpa/lhe) - Zum Frühstück gibt es Rindfleisch. Marion Ebel
öffnet das Tor zum Gehege und schmeißt ihre Lieblingen im Wildpark
Hanau dicke Brocken hin. Nachdem für das leibliche Wohl gesorgt ist,
verteilt die Biologin Streicheleinheiten. Sie krault den Tieren das
Fell, sie lecken ihr als Dankeschön über das Gesicht. Das
morgendliche Schmuse-Ritual mit den Raubtieren ist für Ebel so normal
wie Kaffeetrinken. Ungewöhnlich jedoch: Die Wissenschaftlerin pflegt
solch ein inniges Verhältnis zu Polarwölfen. «Für die Drei bin ich
ein Sozialpartner. Wir haben großes Vertrauen zueinander», sagt sie.

 Vor ein paar Jahren war sie für das Trio sogar noch die
Wolfsmutter. Sie zog Scott, Khan und Ayla vom Welpen-Alter an mit der
Milchflasche auf. Das allein ist schon selten. Zudem erzog die
Wolfsforscherin die Raubtiere auf die nette Tour im «anti-autoritären
Stil». «Die meisten gehen mit Wölfen hierarchisch um und nehmen
selbst die Rolle des Alpha-Tiers ein. Ich gehe einen eigenen,
ungewöhnlichen Weg. Ich habe sie bestimmt nicht zu weichen Haustieren
gemacht, aber gezähmt», erklärt die 47-jährige Hanauerin, setzt sich
zwischen die schneeweißen Raubtiere und stimmt das Wolfsheulen an.
Nur wenige Sekunden dauert es, bis Scott, Khan und Ayla einstimmen
und ihre Laute durch den ganzen Park schallen.

Gänsehaut-Atmosphäre bei Wolfsheul-Nächten im Wildpark

 «Wenn wir Zuhörer haben, sind die ganz ergriffen. Einigen kommen
sogar Tränen der Rührung - solch ein schönes Gänsehaut-Erlebnis kann
das sein», sagt Ebel, die regelmäßig Wolfsheul-Nächte im Wildpark
veranstaltet. Ein paar Hundert Zuhörer kommen zu den tierischen
Konzerten. Alles nur Show? Ebel sagt, die Tiere sollten die Besucher
neugierig machen. Sie will mit ihren «Vorzeige-Wölfen» Werbung für
die über Jahrhunderte verfolgten und zeitweise ausgerotteten Tiere
machen. «Sie sollen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für ihre Art machen und zur
Aufklärung beitragen.» Für viele Menschen sei der Wolf noch heute ein
gefährlicher Räuber, den sie lieber tot als lebendig sehen.

 Doch auch Ebel weiß um die Gefahr, die von den kräftigen und
geschickten Tieren ausgehen kann. «Sie sind ja sehr ruppig
miteinander.» Wölfe haben eine Beißkraft von 1,5 Tonnen. «Da
zerbröselt jeder Knochen wie Zwieback», vergleicht Ebel trocken. In
den 1980er Jahren habe es mal einen Unfall gegeben, als ein
Wolfsforscher in Hanau von einem Rudel angefallen wurde. Für sie
selbst sei es noch nie brenzlig geworden. Im Gegenteil: «Die Tiere
sind hochsensibel. Wenn ich Kreuzschmerzen habe, spüren sie das
sofort und gehen behutsamer mit der Mama um.»

Mit Wölfen bei Aufzucht im Bauwagen geschlafen

 Im Alter von zehn Tagen kamen die drei kleinen Wölfe im Frühjahr
2004 vom Zoo in Stralsund in den Hanauer Wildpark. «Wenn die Tiere
älter als 14 Tage sind, kann man nicht mehr diese tiefe Bindung
aufbauen. In den ersten Monaten zählte jede Minute, die ich mit ihnen
verbracht habe. Deswegen habe ich zunächst auch wochenlang mit ihnen
in einem Bauwagen geschlafen, der im Gehege stand», erzählt Ebel.
«Wölfe stinken im Gegensatz zu Hunden Gott sei Dank nicht. Sie
riechen fantastisch. Und Liebe geht ja bekanntlich durch die Nase.»

 Sie war noch nie länger als drei Tage von den Wölfen getrennt. In
den Urlaub vereist sei sie seit Jahren nicht mehr. Belohnt wird sie
durch die Erlebnisse mit den Wölfen. «Im Rudel ist immer etwas los.
Bei einer Rotwildgruppe langweilt man sich meist im Gegensatz dazu zu
Tode», findet die wissenschaftliche Leiterin des Wildparks. Pläne,
das Rudel zu vergrößern, laufen schon. «Wir wollen im nächsten Jahr
zwei, oder drei neue Welpen holen und sie in das Rudel integrieren.»
Dem Leitwolf Scott ist es noch nicht gelungen, mit der Wölfin Ayla
Nachwuchs zu zeugen. «Ayla macht alles richtig. Aber Scott
veranstaltet da eher Gymnastik. Khan darf aufgrund der Rangordnung
nicht ran.»

(Service: Eintrittspreise 4 Euro, Kinder 2 Euro, Kinder unter vier
Jahren kostenlos; Termine zum Wolfsheulen: 2. Oktober (17.00 Uhr), 2.
November (17.00 Uhr))

(Internet: www.dr-marion-ebel.com; www.erlebnis-wildpark.de)

(Achtung: Hintergrund zu Polarwölfen bis 0530 - ca. 20 Zeilen;
Hintergrund zu Wölfen in Deutschland bis 0530 - ca. 10 Zeilen)

[Erlebnis Wildpark «Alte Fasanerie«]: Fasaneriestr., 63456 Hanau

dpa jp yyhe a3 sh

130520 Sep 09</pre>
<p><strong>Modified into using Markdown</strong> (and making the enclosed meta-information more easily accessible):</p>
<pre>hes0010 4 vm 575  lhe 7033

KORR-Inland/Tiere/
(SERIE LANDSLEUTE - Wochenendwiederholung)
# Die mit den Wölfen heult - Forscherin geht neue Wege
Von *Jörn Perske*, dpa
(Mit Bild) =

 *Hanau*  (dpa/lhe) - Zum Frühstück gibt es Rindfleisch. [Marion Ebel][1]
öffnet das Tor zum Gehege und schmeißt ihre Lieblingen im Wildpark
Hanau dicke Brocken hin. Nachdem für das leibliche Wohl gesorgt ist,
verteilt die Biologin Streicheleinheiten. Sie krault den Tieren das
Fell, sie lecken ihr als Dankeschön über das Gesicht. Das
morgendliche Schmuse-Ritual mit den Raubtieren ist für Ebel so normal
wie Kaffeetrinken. Ungewöhnlich jedoch: Die Wissenschaftlerin pflegt
solch ein inniges Verhältnis zu Polarwölfen. «Für die Drei bin ich
ein Sozialpartner. Wir haben großes Vertrauen zueinander», sagt sie.

 Vor ein paar Jahren war sie für das Trio sogar noch die
Wolfsmutter. Sie zog Scott, Khan und Ayla vom Welpen-Alter an mit der
Milchflasche auf. Das allein ist schon selten. Zudem erzog die
Wolfsforscherin die Raubtiere auf die nette Tour im «anti-autoritären
Stil». «Die meisten gehen mit Wölfen hierarchisch um und nehmen
selbst die Rolle des Alpha-Tiers ein. Ich gehe einen eigenen,
ungewöhnlichen Weg. Ich habe sie bestimmt nicht zu weichen Haustieren
gemacht, aber gezähmt», erklärt die 47-jährige Hanauerin, setzt sich
zwischen die schneeweißen Raubtiere und stimmt das Wolfsheulen an.
Nur wenige Sekunden dauert es, bis Scott, Khan und Ayla einstimmen
und ihre Laute durch den ganzen Park schallen.

## Gänsehaut-Atmosphäre bei Wolfsheul-Nächten im Wildpark

 «Wenn wir Zuhörer haben, sind die ganz ergriffen. Einigen kommen
sogar Tränen der Rührung - solch ein schönes Gänsehaut-Erlebnis kann
das sein», sagt Ebel, die regelmäßig Wolfsheul-Nächte im Wildpark
veranstaltet. Ein paar Hundert Zuhörer kommen zu den tierischen
Konzerten. Alles nur Show? Ebel sagt, die Tiere sollten die Besucher
neugierig machen. Sie will mit ihren «Vorzeige-Wölfen» Werbung für
die über Jahrhunderte verfolgten und zeitweise ausgerotteten Tiere
machen. «Sie sollen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für ihre Art machen und zur
Aufklärung beitragen.» Für viele Menschen sei der Wolf noch heute ein
gefährlicher Räuber, den sie lieber tot als lebendig sehen.

 Doch auch Ebel weiß um die Gefahr, die von den kräftigen und
geschickten Tieren ausgehen kann. «Sie sind ja sehr ruppig
miteinander.» Wölfe haben eine Beißkraft von 1,5 Tonnen. «Da
zerbröselt jeder Knochen wie Zwieback», vergleicht Ebel trocken. In
den 1980er Jahren habe es mal einen Unfall gegeben, als ein
Wolfsforscher in Hanau von einem Rudel angefallen wurde. Für sie
selbst sei es noch nie brenzlig geworden. Im Gegenteil: «Die Tiere
sind hochsensibel. Wenn ich Kreuzschmerzen habe, spüren sie das
sofort und gehen behutsamer mit der Mama um.»

## Mit Wölfen bei Aufzucht im Bauwagen geschlafen

 Im Alter von zehn Tagen kamen die drei kleinen Wölfe im Frühjahr
2004 vom Zoo in Stralsund in den [Hanauer Wildpark][2]. «Wenn die Tiere
älter als 14 Tage sind, kann man nicht mehr diese tiefe Bindung
aufbauen. In den ersten Monaten zählte jede Minute, die ich mit ihnen
verbracht habe. Deswegen habe ich zunächst auch wochenlang mit ihnen
in einem Bauwagen geschlafen, der im Gehege stand», erzählt Ebel.
«Wölfe stinken im Gegensatz zu Hunden Gott sei Dank nicht. Sie
riechen fantastisch. Und Liebe geht ja bekanntlich durch die Nase.»

 Sie war noch nie länger als drei Tage von den Wölfen getrennt. In
den Urlaub vereist sei sie seit Jahren nicht mehr. Belohnt wird sie
durch die Erlebnisse mit den Wölfen. «Im Rudel ist immer etwas los.
Bei einer Rotwildgruppe langweilt man sich meist im Gegensatz dazu zu
Tode», findet die wissenschaftliche Leiterin des Wildparks. Pläne,
das Rudel zu vergrößern, laufen schon. «Wir wollen im nächsten Jahr
zwei, oder drei neue Welpen holen und sie in das Rudel integrieren.»
Dem Leitwolf Scott ist es noch nicht gelungen, mit der Wölfin Ayla
Nachwuchs zu zeugen. «Ayla macht alles richtig. Aber Scott
veranstaltet da eher Gymnastik. Khan darf aufgrund der Rangordnung
nicht ran.»

[1]: http://www.dr-marion-ebel.com (Homepage von Marion Ebel)
[2]: http://www.erlebnis-wildpark.de (Homepage des Hanauer Wildparks)

----
## Infos
- Autor: &lt;perske.joern@dpa.com&gt; (Jörn Perske)

### Internet
- &lt;http://www.dr-marion-ebel.com&gt;
- &lt;http://www.erlebnis-wildpark.de&gt;

### Hinweise
- Hintergrund zu Polarwölfen bis 0530 - ca. 20 Zeilen
- Hintergrund zu Wölfen in Deutschland bis 0530 - ca. 10 Zeilen
- SERIE LANDSLEUTE
- Mit Bild
- Wochenendwiederholung

### Service
Eintrittspreise 4 Euro, Kinder 2 Euro, Kinder unter vier
Jahren kostenlos; Termine zum Wolfsheulen: 2. Oktober (17.00 Uhr), 2.
November (17.00 Uhr))

### Orte
[Erlebnis Wildpark «Alte Fasanerie«]: Fasaneriestr., 63456 Hanau

----
dpa jp yyhe a3 sh

130520 Sep 09</pre>
<p><strong>Generated (X)HTML </strong>(using Markdown Dingus)<strong>:</strong></p>
<p>hes0010 4 vm 575  lhe 7033</p>
<p>KORR-Inland/Tiere/<br />
(SERIE LANDSLEUTE &#8211; Wochenendwiederholung)</p>
<h1>Die mit den Wölfen heult &#8211; Forscherin geht neue Wege</h1>
<p>Von <em>Jörn Perske</em>, dpa<br />
(Mit Bild) =</p>
<p><em>Hanau</em> (dpa/lhe) &#8211; Zum Frühstück gibt es Rindfleisch. <a title="Homepage von Marion Ebel" href="http://www.dr-marion-ebel.com">Marion Ebel</a><br />
öffnet das Tor zum Gehege und schmeißt ihre Lieblingen im Wildpark<br />
Hanau dicke Brocken hin. Nachdem für das leibliche Wohl gesorgt ist,<br />
verteilt die Biologin Streicheleinheiten. Sie krault den Tieren das<br />
Fell, sie lecken ihr als Dankeschön über das Gesicht. Das<br />
morgendliche Schmuse-Ritual mit den Raubtieren ist für Ebel so normal<br />
wie Kaffeetrinken. Ungewöhnlich jedoch: Die Wissenschaftlerin pflegt<br />
solch ein inniges Verhältnis zu Polarwölfen. «Für die Drei bin ich<br />
ein Sozialpartner. Wir haben großes Vertrauen zueinander», sagt sie.</p>
<p>Vor ein paar Jahren war sie für das Trio sogar noch die<br />
Wolfsmutter. Sie zog Scott, Khan und Ayla vom Welpen-Alter an mit der<br />
Milchflasche auf. Das allein ist schon selten. Zudem erzog die<br />
Wolfsforscherin die Raubtiere auf die nette Tour im «anti-autoritären<br />
Stil». «Die meisten gehen mit Wölfen hierarchisch um und nehmen<br />
selbst die Rolle des Alpha-Tiers ein. Ich gehe einen eigenen,<br />
ungewöhnlichen Weg. Ich habe sie bestimmt nicht zu weichen Haustieren<br />
gemacht, aber gezähmt», erklärt die 47-jährige Hanauerin, setzt sich<br />
zwischen die schneeweißen Raubtiere und stimmt das Wolfsheulen an.<br />
Nur wenige Sekunden dauert es, bis Scott, Khan und Ayla einstimmen<br />
und ihre Laute durch den ganzen Park schallen.</p>
<h2>Gänsehaut-Atmosphäre bei Wolfsheul-Nächten im Wildpark</h2>
<p>«Wenn wir Zuhörer haben, sind die ganz ergriffen. Einigen kommen<br />
sogar Tränen der Rührung &#8211; solch ein schönes Gänsehaut-Erlebnis kann<br />
das sein», sagt Ebel, die regelmäßig Wolfsheul-Nächte im Wildpark<br />
veranstaltet. Ein paar Hundert Zuhörer kommen zu den tierischen<br />
Konzerten. Alles nur Show? Ebel sagt, die Tiere sollten die Besucher<br />
neugierig machen. Sie will mit ihren «Vorzeige-Wölfen» Werbung für<br />
die über Jahrhunderte verfolgten und zeitweise ausgerotteten Tiere<br />
machen. «Sie sollen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für ihre Art machen und zur<br />
Aufklärung beitragen.» Für viele Menschen sei der Wolf noch heute ein<br />
gefährlicher Räuber, den sie lieber tot als lebendig sehen.</p>
<p>Doch auch Ebel weiß um die Gefahr, die von den kräftigen und<br />
geschickten Tieren ausgehen kann. «Sie sind ja sehr ruppig<br />
miteinander.» Wölfe haben eine Beißkraft von 1,5 Tonnen. «Da<br />
zerbröselt jeder Knochen wie Zwieback», vergleicht Ebel trocken. In<br />
den 1980er Jahren habe es mal einen Unfall gegeben, als ein<br />
Wolfsforscher in Hanau von einem Rudel angefallen wurde. Für sie<br />
selbst sei es noch nie brenzlig geworden. Im Gegenteil: «Die Tiere<br />
sind hochsensibel. Wenn ich Kreuzschmerzen habe, spüren sie das<br />
sofort und gehen behutsamer mit der Mama um.»</p>
<h2>Mit Wölfen bei Aufzucht im Bauwagen geschlafen</h2>
<p>Im Alter von zehn Tagen kamen die drei kleinen Wölfe im Frühjahr<br />
2004 vom Zoo in Stralsund in den <a title="Homepage des Hanauer Wildparks" href="http://www.erlebnis-wildpark.de">Hanauer Wildpark</a>. «Wenn die Tiere<br />
älter als 14 Tage sind, kann man nicht mehr diese tiefe Bindung<br />
aufbauen. In den ersten Monaten zählte jede Minute, die ich mit ihnen<br />
verbracht habe. Deswegen habe ich zunächst auch wochenlang mit ihnen<br />
in einem Bauwagen geschlafen, der im Gehege stand», erzählt Ebel.<br />
«Wölfe stinken im Gegensatz zu Hunden Gott sei Dank nicht. Sie<br />
riechen fantastisch. Und Liebe geht ja bekanntlich durch die Nase.»</p>
<p>Sie war noch nie länger als drei Tage von den Wölfen getrennt. In<br />
den Urlaub vereist sei sie seit Jahren nicht mehr. Belohnt wird sie<br />
durch die Erlebnisse mit den Wölfen. «Im Rudel ist immer etwas los.<br />
Bei einer Rotwildgruppe langweilt man sich meist im Gegensatz dazu zu<br />
Tode», findet die wissenschaftliche Leiterin des Wildparks. Pläne,<br />
das Rudel zu vergrößern, laufen schon. «Wir wollen im nächsten Jahr<br />
zwei, oder drei neue Welpen holen und sie in das Rudel integrieren.»<br />
Dem Leitwolf Scott ist es noch nicht gelungen, mit der Wölfin Ayla<br />
Nachwuchs zu zeugen. «Ayla macht alles richtig. Aber Scott<br />
veranstaltet da eher Gymnastik. Khan darf aufgrund der Rangordnung<br />
nicht ran.»</p>
<hr />
<h2>Infos</h2>
<ul>
<li>Autor: <a href="mailto:perske.joern@dpa.com">perske.joern@dpa.com</a> (Jörn Perske)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Internet</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.dr-marion-ebel.com">http://www.dr-marion-ebel.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.erlebnis-wildpark.de">http://www.erlebnis-wildpark.de</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Hinweise</h3>
<ul>
<li>Hintergrund zu Polarwölfen bis 0530 &#8211; ca. 20 Zeilen</li>
<li>Hintergrund zu Wölfen in Deutschland bis 0530 &#8211; ca. 10 Zeilen</li>
<li>SERIE LANDSLEUTE</li>
<li>Mit Bild</li>
<li>Wochenendwiederholung</li>
</ul>
<h3>Service</h3>
<p>Eintrittspreise 4 Euro, Kinder 2 Euro, Kinder unter vier<br />
Jahren kostenlos; Termine zum Wolfsheulen: 2. Oktober (17.00 Uhr), 2.<br />
November (17.00 Uhr))</p>
<h3>Orte</h3>
<p>[Erlebnis Wildpark «Alte Fasanerie«]: Fasaneriestr., 63456 Hanau</p>
<hr />dpa jp yyhe a3 sh</p>
<p>130520 Sep 09</p>
<h3>Next steps</h3>
<p>Unfortunately this post is a bit too late for the IPTC Autumn session which ended yesterday.  But since i haven&#8217;t been there anyway  i would still have relied on the mights of the internets to gather some feedback form other news agencies and customers.</p>
<p>I also am looking into the &#8220;Non-story&#8221;-wire content of dpa (which is most often a carefully constructed tabular ASCII-art) and how to represent it best in Markdown. Right now i&#8217;m in favor of a nested list approach for some of the content.</p>
<p>On the IPTC side  there is one tiny obstacle: the slug separator char. In most wires the slug is actually the headline of the story, hence it would be great to use the appropriate Markdown syntax for that. Unfortunately using &gt;4 =-signs starting on a new line, which would be valid IPTC and Markdown  does not work with multi-line headlines.</p>
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		<title>Going places &#8211;  Status and example</title>
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<p><strong>Ed. note.:</strong> Another autumn-cleaning action. This time the post has been sitting here in a draft state since at least 15 months. Time to get it out of the door.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s part of a  mini series called &#8220;Going places&#8221; about geocoding news at the source. Prior installments of this series can be found <a href="http://relations.ka2.de/tag/goingplaces/" target="_blank">here</a>. They for example explain what places of news, places within news and scopes are.</p>
<h3>Current status of geocoded news  at dpa-infocom</h3>
<p>Since approx.  15months we are  geocoding both places of news and places within news in our regional online wires. Right now we are geocoding:</p>
<ul>
<li>scopes as places of news and</li>
<li>(generalized) addresses as places within news.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Representing geocodes within NITF</h3>
<p>Being a news agency, <a href="http://www.iptc.org">IPTF</a> formats are more or less the de facto standard of delivering news to our customers :-( Being the unline and mobile subsidiary we are delivering our wires as <a href="http://www.nitf.org">NITF</a>. Hence we had to find a way to fit this information into this format.</p>
<p>In order to minimize the hassle for us as well as our customers we had to stay within the bounds of the NITF format as much as possible.</p>
<p>Since in the news industry the main delivery model is still push delivery (mostly via FTP :-( ) , there is also a need to include as much information about the scopes of news as possibe. Offering only a pointer (e.g. to a Restful API) that allows to access additional information would only be used by our most advanced customers :-( .</p>
<p>Hence we chose to use the language constructs for describing locations already provided in that format as much as possible and only resort to other means when there was no means for describing this information at all.</p>
<p>The NITF format (see <a href="http://www.nitf.org/IPTC/NITF/3.4/documentation/nitf-documentation.html" target="_blank">NITF Documentation</a>) provides at least two ways of representing location information:</p>
<ul>
<li><span><em>evloc</em> : Event location. Where an event took place (as opposed to where the story was written).</span></li>
<li><span><em>location</em> : </span><span>Significant place mentioned in an article. Used to normalize locations.</span></li>
</ul>
<p>The first question to ask is why there are two different tags for geocoding locations (i suspect the standardisation process being responsible for that). Looking at the DTD definitions for both <em>evloc</em> and <em>location</em>, one can notice that they both try to describe the same information, but the <em>location</em> tag is actually the better and more detailed way of doing so.</p>
<p>Since we already used the <em>evloc</em> tag for denoting the country where the event primarily took place (i.e. some inverse locus like information ) we had every reason to only use the <em>location</em> tag for the locations of the news as well as the location in the news.</p>
<p>One might also note by looking at the DTD that apparently the NITF standardisation body didn&#8217;t consider the scope of the news to be a location and didn&#8217;t include any means to include any actual geographic data (e.g. points, lines, polygons, &#8230;).</p>
<p>But luckily an arbitrary number of locations can be included via the <em>location</em> tag, unfortunately only allowed in the <em>head</em> section of the document. The DTD of NITF then allows an arbitrary number of country, state, region, city and sublocation tags.</p>
<p>In order to be able to unambiguously represent the hierarchy we restricted this to a single occurence of the tags country, state, region and city as well as up to two sublocation tags.</p>
<p>Before going into detail, below is an example of a news story that has both: scopes and addresses. I guess it is the best way to explain our approach and to describe some of the problems we had / have to navigate. Location relevant part highlighted).</p>
<h3>Example</h3>
<pre>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;!-- DOCTYPE nitf PUBLIC "-//IPTC-NAA//DTD NITF-XML 3.0//EN" "nitf.dtd" --&gt;
&lt;nitf xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Bayern München II schlägt Karlsruhe 3:1&lt;/title&gt;
...
&lt;identified-content&gt;<strong>
&lt;location class="scope"&gt;
&lt;region region-code="09184000" code-source="AGS"&gt;München
	&lt;georss:point&gt;11.5725580365 48.1379548096&lt;/georss:point&gt;
&lt;/region&gt;
&lt;state state-code="09000000" code-source="AGS"&gt;Bayern
	&lt;georss:point&gt;11.5725580365 48.1379548096&lt;/georss:point&gt;
&lt;/state&gt;
&lt;country iso-cc="DEU"&gt;Deutschland&lt;/country&gt;
&lt;/location&gt;
&lt;location class="scope"&gt;
&lt;city city-code="09162000" code-source="AGS"&gt;München
	&lt;georss:point&gt;11.5725580365 48.1379548096&lt;/georss:point&gt;
&lt;/city&gt;
&lt;state state-code="09000000" code-source="AGS"&gt;Bayern
	&lt;georss:point&gt;11.5725580365 48.1379548096&lt;/georss:point&gt;
&lt;/state&gt;
&lt;country iso-cc="DEU"&gt;Deutschland&lt;/country&gt;
&lt;/location&gt;
&lt;location class="scope"&gt;
&lt;city city-code="08212000" code-source="AGS"&gt;Karlsruhe
	&lt;georss:point&gt;8.40437796821 49.0092142029&lt;/georss:point&gt;
&lt;/city&gt;
&lt;state state-code="08000000" code-source="AGS"&gt;Baden-Württemberg
	&lt;georss:point&gt;9.17871582656 48.7750805322&lt;/georss:point&gt;
&lt;/state&gt;
&lt;country iso-cc="DEU"&gt;Deutschland&lt;/country&gt;
&lt;/location&gt;
&lt;location class="address"&gt;
Grünwalder Stadion, Grünwalder Straße, München, Germany
	&lt;georss:point&gt;11.566936 48.101078&lt;/georss:point&gt;
&lt;city&gt;München&lt;/city&gt;
&lt;region&gt;München&lt;/region&gt;
&lt;state&gt;Bayern&lt;/state&gt;
&lt;country iso-cc="DEU"&gt;Deutschland&lt;/country&gt;
&lt;/location&gt;
</strong>
&lt;/identified-content&gt;
&lt;/docdata&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
...
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/nitf&gt;</pre>
<p>I&#8217;ve chosen this story because it is about a soccer game, an example scenario i used in my last <a href="http://relations.ka2.de/2008/02/26/going-places-what-is-a-scope/" target="_blank">post</a>. So we encoded <strong>three scopes</strong> and<strong> one address</strong>.</p>
<p>Since it is the a third league game, the editors chose to select only administrative regions covering the cities on a  county level. One city (Munich) is actually divided into two counties, hence the sum of three counties.</p>
<p>If it would have been a premier league game, most likely there only would have been a single scope, the whole of germany whereas a second leugue game would presumably be encoded with some states.</p>
<p>The addresss represents the address of the stadium where the soccer game took place.</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s have a closer look at the example &#8217;s representation.</p>
<h3>Representing scopes</h3>
<pre><strong><strong><strong><strong>&lt;location&gt;
&lt;region region-code="09184000" code-source="AGS"&gt;München
	&lt;georss:point&gt;11.5725580365 48.1379548096&lt;/georss:point&gt;
&lt;/region&gt;
&lt;state state-code="09000000" code-source="AGS"&gt;Bayern
	&lt;georss:point&gt;11.5725580365 48.1379548096&lt;/georss:point&gt;
&lt;/state&gt;
&lt;country iso-cc="DEU"&gt;Deutschland&lt;/country&gt;
&lt;/location&gt;</strong></strong></strong></strong></pre>
<p>Remarks:</p>
<ul>
<li>NITF already provides attributes called <em>xxxx-code</em> and <em>code-source</em> for all possible subtags of location, and since we are primarily using the official german coding scheme for administrative regions called <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtlicher_Gemeindeschl%C3%BCssel" target="_blank">&#8220;Amtlicher Gemeinde Schlüssel&#8221;</a> short: it is natural to encode it  the way we do .</li>
<li>The coding scheme of AGS is actually a hierarchically coding scheme (two digits: state, 1-digit: sub-state level (&#8220;Regierungsbezirk&#8221;), 3-digits: county, 3-digits: city/town) , hence we could do away with the state tag but we decided to be as explicit as we could be.</li>
<li>Since we were using the three-letter variant of ISO3166 for the <em>evloc</em> tag we decided to use this variant also for the <em>iso-cc</em> attribute of the <em>country</em> tag.</li>
<li>Since we introduced scopes first and some customers wanted to include markers-on their maps they asked for some coordinates. Hence we chose to include the &#8220;official&#8221; coordinates of the admin region, denoted in some other GIS dataset we bought and chose to make use of simple <em>georss:point</em> tag for doing so
<ul>
<li>We were not allowed to distribute the geometries of the admin regions as part of our licensing deal (Yes you have to buy this data in germany) and the geometries would have used far too much bandwidth for sending them within the wire.</li>
<li>In hindsight i would like to remove the coordinates from scope items since the are  a) highly redundant, b) not always available and c) a constant source of discussion what an appropriate representative coordinate for a geographic extent might be</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>We currently use other coding-schemes on a sub-city level for some cities (Also official coding schemes by the city goverment). But since these are hard to come by on a national level, we are currently considering alternatives</li>
<li>We are also considering to extend the geocoding to our non-regional, i.e. national and international wires. Her we are looking into using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2" target="_blank">ISO3166-2</a> coding scheme and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS3" target="_blank">NUTS3</a> coding scheme for the European Union</li>
</ul>
<h3>Representing Addresses</h3>
<pre><strong>&lt;location&gt;
Grünwalder Stadion, Grünwalder Straße, München, Germany
	&lt;georss:point&gt;11.566936 48.101078&lt;/georss:point&gt;
&lt;city&gt;München&lt;/city&gt;
&lt;region&gt;München&lt;/region&gt;
&lt;state&gt;Bayern&lt;/state&gt;
&lt;country iso-cc="DEU"&gt;Deutschland&lt;/country&gt;
</strong>Remarks:</pre>
<ul>
<li>Addresses are provided by the editor.</li>
<li>The level of detail (exact address, strret level, district or city) presented is an editorial decision based on data protection regulations.</li>
<li>The address is then geocoded by Google Maps Premiere and the resulting coordinates and the  address returned by the geocoder are shown to the editor and validated by him</li>
<li>The this information, togehter with a label of the address is encoded into an NITF location tag in the form: label, address</li>
<li>The returned coordinates are also encoded into a <em>georss:point </em>tag.</li>
<li><em>region</em>, <em>state</em> and <em>country</em> are taken from the respective fields of the structured response of the Google geocoder. Hence they might differ in writing from the respective official names. But we chose not to do point in polygon queries in order to harmonize becuase this would have resulted in running a spatially enabled database e.g. Postgres/PostGis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Customer Uses</h3>
<p>I just wanted to give some quick examples how our customers uses the geocodes in the wire.</p>
<p>First an iPhone App that uses the address coordinates to put the news on the map. A typical news map:</p>
<p><a href="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dticker1.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1207" title="D-Ticker Screenshot" src="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dticker1-200x300.png" alt="D-Ticker Screenshot" width="200" height="300" /></a><a href="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dticker2.png"> <img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1208" title="D-Ticker Scrennshot" src="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dticker2-200x300.png" alt="D-Ticker Scrennshot" width="200" height="300" /> </a><a href="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dticker5.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1211" title="dticker5" src="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dticker5-200x300.png" alt="dticker5" width="200" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>At the other end of the range is the way germany&#8217;s biggest tabloid <em>Bild </em>is using the scope information for automatically sorting the news into their different regiona portals. The following screen shots show how content from  is sorted into three diffent regional portals within the state of Northrhine-Westphalia. News that have a scope of the whole state show up in all three portals, whereas news only having a scope of one or more counties are sorted into the regionl portals that contain these counties (better: the AGS codes of thes counties).</p>
<p><a href="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bildregional7.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1214" title="Bild Regional Ruhrgebiet" src="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bildregional7-300x236.png" alt="Bild Regional Ruhrgebiet" width="300" height="236" /></a> <a href="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bildregional5.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1213" title="Bild Regional Köln" src="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bildregional5-300x236.png" alt="Bild Regional Köln" width="300" height="236" /></a> <a href="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bildregional3.png"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1212" title="Bild Regional Düsseldorf" src="http://relations.ka2.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bildregional3-300x236.png" alt="Bild Regional Düsseldorf" width="300" height="236" /></a></p>
<h3>Next steps</h3>
<p>I&#8217;m planning to catch up with other aspects of geocoding at dpa in the next days so that i&#8217;m finally able to start writing about new ideas :-)</p>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on News Registries</title>
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		<dc:creator>gkamp</dc:creator>
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<p>Yesterday the Associated Press made her move and announced their plans for a news registry based on the hnews Format and some kind of beacon / tracking device. The day before fairsyndication.org announced that Conde Nast, Scripps, Gawker, Hearst Newspaper Group, McClatchy (<a title="MNI" href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&amp;Ticker=MNI">NYSE: MNI</a>) and Newsweek have joined the consortium and that the first ad network: AdBrite also joined.</p>
<p>So for me it looks like an arms race between the two right now ( in the US market). Right now i have no time to explain the details and the differences between the two but i wanted to add some more general remarks on the topic:</p>
<ul>
<li>IMHO News registries are a very good idea, provided that they are open to the public (so that everybody can see what is out there) and  what rights are attachetd to the content. Preferrably they provide an public web frontend as well as an API.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The best exisiting news registries i know about in this respect are the NYT APi and the Guardian open platform</li>
<li>Their disadvantage is that they are single source only and do not describe the attached rights in a somewhat machine readable format. hNews the proposed Microformat by the MediaStandardsTrust and the AP seem to be a pragmatic way to do that (much better than ACAP)</li>
</ul>
<p>Hence IMHO a centralized NewsRegistry:</p>
<ul>
<li>Would ideally provide an public web frontend (as well as an API) to an index of the registered content
<ul>
<li>containing at least URL, publisher and headline,</li>
<li>preferrably some Metadata and content as dedided on by the publisher</li>
<li>ideally <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">real</span>near-time tracking data like you get with the URL Shorteners (needs cooperation of the original content owner as well as the licensees</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Would provide some way to (automatically) license/use content. This could be best done by a multi-tiered API.
<ul>
<li>It free level should at least include the NYT API  and Guardian Open Platform models: Content excerpt with link to original source (NYT) and full content with ad (Guardian) as well as full-content for cc-licensed content.</li>
<li>The non-free API levels would be basically different levels of rate-limits on full-content. Ideally theere should a a price model that is as simple / complex as the current iTunes model. but not more complex. (It presumably gets more difficult if  resellers are allowed to license from the registry). Rev-Sharing has to be considered as an alternative.</li>
<li>The licensees are contractually mandated to provide statistics to their use of the content (this is presumably what AP&#8217;s tracking beacon is about</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>AFAIK the fairsyndication consortium doesn&#8217;t plan to open up it&#8217;s registry to the general public. I&#8217;m not sure what the AP is planning but i don&#8217;t think they will open the index up to the general  public :-(</p>
<p>But what about other contenders? Especially the one?</p>
<ul>
<li>The (technologically) best positioned news registry right now IMHO is Google News.</li>
<li>They already have the content of  25000 sources, the have proven that they can scale,</li>
<li>With the integration of creative commons filtering  into Google image search, and the  they have shown that they can filter on rights, etc.</li>
<li>A recent (this years W3C paper) shows that they can track the origin of texts on  web scale</li>
<li>They already have a quite successful tracking system that can be used. It&#8217;s called Google Analytics</li>
</ul>
<p>So here is a (may be not so) crazy thought experiment:</p>
<p>What would happen if  Google would fund the operation of a NewsRegistry similar to the BookRightsRegistry?</p>
<ul>
<li>It would be run as part of a non-profit organisation</li>
<li>Google would provide licenses to it&#8217;s technology to the NewsRegistry</li>
<li>GoogleNews would be the first customer for full text-content (for the content that Google deems relevant to include in full at their site.</li>
</ul>
<p>Your comments please.</p>
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		<title>PicApp: Access to rights-cleared high-quality editorial photos of news for everyone</title>
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Via the wordpress.com deal (via RWW) i learned about PicApp (Shame on me that i didn&#8217;t learn earlier about them).
So  what is PicApp? Basically they are trying to overcome an obstacle that until now (at least IMHO)  hindered the proliferation of user generated journalism: Access to rights-cleared  access to high-quality editorial photos of breaking news.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://view.picapp.com/default.aspx?term=\merkel election&amp;iid=6640046" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/c/c/8/4/Political_Parties_React_2639.jpg?adImageId=4675330&amp;imageId=6640046" border="0" alt="Political Parties React To Federal Elections" width="420" height="280" /></a><br />
Via the wordpress.com deal (via <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/10/from-plaintiff-to-partner-pica.php" target="_blank">RWW</a>) i learned about <a href="http://www.picapp.com" target="_blank">PicApp</a> (Shame on me that i didn&#8217;t learn earlier about them).</p>
<p>So  what is PicApp? Basically they are trying to overcome an obstacle that until now (at least IMHO)  hindered the proliferation of user generated journalism: <strong>Access to rights-cleared  access to high-quality editorial photos of breaking news.</strong></p>
<p>Basically the deal is the following. Everybody is getting access to 20+ million photos from Getty, Corbis and a number of other high quality news agencies. After signing up you are allowed to post these photos on your blog (see above). In exchange PicApp is overlaying the image with a viral element (that will also include ads).  In my opinion, the overlay could be a bit less intrusive but it is still ok.</p>
<p>There is also wordpress plugin that makes the search and inclusion of photos in  self-hosted wordpress blogs easy. It is a little bit buggy but a new version is already under way. All in all it took me about 2 minutes from learning about PicApp until i had the image from above included in the first draft of this post. Not too shabby.</p>
<p><script src="http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.js" type="text/javascript"></script></p>
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