Motivated by Anthony Robbins (who he?)
Groove spam. Neil reresponds on my previous post : On spam - well I would say its a generalisation of the email spam problem. Its a tricky one but in essence no tricker than the situation we're already faced with in terms... [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog]
Jeroen is absolutely right of course - being chased around by Groove stalkers would be tedious in the extreme. OK to be even more provocative then - not too say pathetically mercantile - one thing missing from the stalking experience is also market mediation.
Obviously there will be situations where the stalking is purely hostile or has some kind of denial of service intent, but if its attention-seeking or purposeful it seems to me fair to charge for the time taken to deal with it. So now we're talking charge-per-message!! (Ugh, I have some social conscience left, can't compute, can't quite reconcile ....)
Charge-per-space - the intention is to support expertise networks. Generally its so much more valuable to speak to the guru about an issue than trawl through wads of content/noise. Hugh's thoughts on consumer pop spaces also relevant though possibly harder to manage.
I guess we got to get a working example going. Mark Smith recommends we start with paid-for developer spaces. Right now we'd pay a few more hundred quid per year to speak on a regular basis in a secure space which included 1 EIS/C++ guru from Groove and 1 MergeCOM library expert from Merge-eFilm ...
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