Or, given that Octopus lets users publish their creations, you could view the service as letting users express their interests by editing pages rather than writing them. The most promising example of selection-based media is the publishing of photographs on the Web. The main product is a tiny camera that plugs into a cellphone and seamlessly transmits photos to the Web. As an experienced demo-presenter, Kahn obviously knows how to talk over the weak points, which in this case include enormous delays in transmission and murky pictures. To give Kahn credit, a simple way of getting photographs onto the Web makes it much more likely that people will start including digital photography in their user-created content.
Photographs are the ultimate selection-based media .
You just snap away and get 10-20 photos of an event, then look at a page with all the photos and select the best shots to publish on the Web. Picking the best of 20 photos will never make somebody a great photographer, but it will guarantee that the published photo is fairly decent. Selecting the best photo from a group of shots is an easy job. Now we are talking hard work. When watching film, viewers inevitably compare it with production values they see on television and in the movie theater.