Alan:
The difficulty is, even an economist can't prove a causal link between
"increased eyeballs on the images" and "more museum visitors." You would have
to stand at the door and ask every incoming visitor "Are you here today because
you saw or downloaded an image of a work in our collection?
Good point. This is where (by recording link-throughs) a cause-and-effect could
actually be proved, and revenue "credited" to the source (the online image).
Without any recordable connection between that source and that sale, it's
difficult for our hypothetical economist to prove that the sourc
I don't think of Skype as a P2P application--it is =not= one in the
traditional sense of, say, the file sharing networks.
It provides excellent security and encryption for transferring files
between skype users--much saner than attaching emails, or sftping
files up and down to/from a server.
We k
Ad-hoc Skype is explicitly banned here. It may return someday as an
organizational initiative, but we're still trying to figure out what the
benefit would be for us. (We have sponsored phone service and have virtually
no international communication requirements, so our economics may not be
ty
I'm a little confused. Why would Skype need to run down someone's pipe only to
jump back out again in a way of utilizing bandwidth for other calls? That seems
quite inefficient to take a detour in routing of a telephone call.
Thomas Deliduka
Director of Information Technology
Columbus Museum of
A gentle reminder: Proposal deadline July 3, 2009.
Call for Proposals, VRA Atlanta 2010
The Visual Resources Association's 28th Annual Conference will be held
in Atlanta, GA from Wednesday March 17th through Saturday March 20th at
the Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta:
http://www.starwoodhotels
I probably misspoke in saying each user donates spare capacity.
The role of a Skype "supernode" is to serve as the directory and router for
other users, in lieu of Skype operating their own centrally managed servers.
Any Skype user ("node") can become a supernode given the right conditions whic
