Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Simple taxonomy of electronic media

With three permissions we can characterize eight forms of communications.
It is assumed that the user can read all messages. The other permissions are:
  • user can write x--
  • world can read -x-
  • world can write --x
000 is a private read-only file
100 is a private writable file
010 is a public read-only file
110 is a write-once blog like Twitter
001 is email inbox where user can't edit messages
101 is email inbox where user can edit
011 is ???
111 is a Wiki

Google Buzz is like a Wiki.
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