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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ \begin{english} \date{Friday November 19 2010} -It has been 10 days since I got discharged after my first chemotherapy. I was supposed to get admitted last Sunday (14th). However, India being a country of a billion people, it has less than the adequate medical facilities to cater to all of them. Hence, getting a bed in an hospital which excels in treatment for these kind of serious diseases was a headache. I am hoping to get a bed sometime this weekend! To add more to the news, my sis flew from the US to be with me for 10 days. She will be here till the 30th of this month. +It has been 10 days since I got discharged after my first chemotherapy. I was supposed to get admitted last Sunday (14\textsuperscript{th}). However, India being a country of a billion people, it has less than the adequate medical facilities to cater to all of them. Hence, getting a bed in an hospital which excels in treatment for these kind of serious diseases was a headache. I am hoping to get a bed sometime this weekend! To add more to the news, my sis flew from the US to be with me for 10 days. She will be here till the 30\textsuperscript{th} of this month. Today, she asked me something like, "Why don't you write down your experiences as an ALL patient?". I guess she meant something like a memoir. She knows that I write certain columns and stuff. She added, "I like to write, but I can't. If you can and you like do it, that's good". @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ So, my writings are simply nothing more than the most realistic (in my perspecti I started the note talking about novelty and my quest for novelty in the content. But after a retrospection of my writings, my approach to problems and the logics I apply, it seems, my writings are not so novel. My only novel contribution in it is putting it together. I should say, I am doing the role of a packager than creator/developer. At least in case of the kind of stuff I write, I believe there is no claim for creation of novel content. May be there is space for a novelty factor in packaging it all together. This is quite similar to the novelty factor I get for applying techniques from other domains in my own. The novelty in that process is actually for the thought to use the technology in a different domain, by being able to see some underlying similarities between the different domains. Anyway, I am not sure how novel it is when you point out the trivial facts in some problems. :) -It is quite confusing. We have seen a lot of discussions and debates on protection for creative content from what many call `piracy'. People were called pirates for making copyrighted content available over World Wide Web. Interestingly, it was not the content generators who raised objections. But, the owners of the copyright -- publishing houses/record labels/studios -- were in forefront of the assault. They raised arguments of losing revenue considering each download as a lost purchase. They were never interested in checking the details of increase in audience and effective use of technology in content distribution. For them, in age of information explosion, the distribution of content should follow rules dating back to 18th and 19th century. +It is quite confusing. We have seen a lot of discussions and debates on protection for creative content from what many call `piracy'. People were called pirates for making copyrighted content available over World Wide Web. Interestingly, it was not the content generators who raised objections. But, the owners of the copyright -- publishing houses/record labels/studios -- were in forefront of the assault. They raised arguments of losing revenue considering each download as a lost purchase. They were never interested in checking the details of increase in audience and effective use of technology in content distribution. For them, in age of information explosion, the distribution of content should follow rules dating back to 18\textsuperscript{th} and 19\textsuperscript{th} century. Their concern, as they put it was, ``survival of the original content generators''. They argued that rewards of content generators will be hit if open access advocates were allowed to continue the distribution over WWW. The argument of rewarding the novelty factor in the generated content was the one which is still raised at a lot of forums. It even includes questions of survival and attraction of new talent. It seems people like to go with the argument that, discarding all the technological advances and possible new markets, we need to stick to age old rules of publishing that may be as old as Gutenberg himself. Amazingly, people support it because none favor a change in status qua. Tomorrow, if they become a writer, what will they do! @@ -41,6 +41,6 @@ I used to believe that there is novelty involved in content generated. But, when \subsection*{Half baked analysis and Questions!} -I do accept that analysing only my writings won't be the best method to trash the entire idea of generation of novel content. But, it is quite true that new ideas are hard to come by. Most of the times, ideas tagged new are just repackaged versions of existing ones. Still it is quite true that some 20 articles I have written should not be the base for the conclusion that there is no novelty in content. But I do believe it is quite right to raise the question, "How much of it is novel". On top, "while you reward packagers, what is the plan for original content generators?", should be examined as well. Another question is of effectively tapping into the new markets and opportunities in distribution, brought forth by advancements in technology. +I do accept that analyzing only my writings won't be the best method to trash the entire idea of generation of novel content. But, it is quite true that new ideas are hard to come by. Most of the times, ideas tagged new are just repackaged versions of existing ones. Still it is quite true that some 20 articles I have written should not be the base for the conclusion that there is no novelty in content. But I do believe it is quite right to raise the question, "How much of it is novel". On top, "while you reward packagers, what is the plan for original content generators?", should be examined as well. Another question is of effectively tapping into the new markets and opportunities in distribution, brought forth by advancements in technology. \end{english} \newpage |