Una leccion de Blogging: Etica y los Blogs

Buscando algunos gadgets encontre un post bastante interesante sobre los derechos

Via el Blog de los Blogs: "Quiero escribir un post especial para recordar el esfuerzo de tantas personas que día a día escriben en sus bitácoras ideas novedosas, historias originales, entregan información propia o que simplemente hacen un servicio a los demás.
Que pena pensar que muchos de ellos hoy podrían estar siendo copiados o PLAGIADOS, por otros, que sin citar la fuente del material que roban tratan de ganar dinero con obras ajenas.
Internet es muy libre y da para muchas cosas, pero creo que hay ciertos límites que como seres humanos debemos tener para respetarnos los unos a los otros"

Se pueden hacer muchas cosas para evitar este tipo de situaciones como Proteger el código fuente u obtener una licencia de Creative Commons, pero quisiera ir un poco más allá y apuntar a la bondad de las personas. Por muy idealista que suene, me gustaría soñar con un mundo en que las personas no se pisen unas a otras para alcanzar sus propios objetivos y que por sobre todo prime el respeto, especialmente por el esfuerzo, tiempo y cariño empleados en crear sitios propios y originales. ¿Suena idealista? Sí, lo sé, pero quiero creer que es posible.

Hago un humilde llamado a toda la comunidad bloggera a no olvidar NUNCA citar a nuestras fuentes, como una manera de valorar y darle crédito al trabajo ajeno.

Recomiendo leer: Derechos y Deberes Digitales
http://elblogdelosblogs.blogspot.com/2005/11/derechos-y-deberes-digitales.html
Guía Legal del Blogger.
http://www.derechosdigitales.org/glb/

Operation Channel 9

When five Microsoft guys started posting internal videos for the world to see, many at the famously secretive company freaked. And that was before thousands of in-house bloggers took to their keyboards. A dispatch from the front lines of transparency.

Lenn Pryor knew his little project was going to upset some of his colleagues at Microsoft. And sure enough, when the junior exec unveiled a Web site called Channel 9 in April 2004, the organization reacted like a dog whose tail had been stepped on. You could hear the yelps and howls all over Redmond. Pryor started to sweat.

Toque de Queda

Toque de queda es un espectáculo sideral de blogs y podcasts conformado por una comunidad de editores de revistas, reporteros y colaboradores que comparten información actual, a veces más estúpida, a veces menos, con imágenes, audio y video.

The Wisdom of Crowds (Paperback)

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, first published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group. The book presents numerous case studies and anecdotes to illustrate its argument, and touches on several fields, primarily economics and psychology.
The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton's surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the butchered or the "slaughtered and dressed" weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged (the average was closer to the ox's true butchered weight than the estimates of most crowd members, and also closer than any of the separate estimates made by cattle experts).
The book relates to diverse collections of independently-deciding individuals, rather than crowd psychology as traditionally understood. There are parallels with statistical sampling theory—a diverse collection of independently-deciding individuals is likely to be more representative of the universe of possible outcomes, thereby producing a better prediction.

Audio with the Author:

http://server1.sxsw.com/2006/coverage/SXSW06.INT.20060311.WisdomOfCrowds.mp3

Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers

Robert Scoble helps run Microsoft’s Channel 9 Web site. He began his blog in 2000 and now has more than 3.5 million readers every year. Scoble’s blog has earned acclaim in Fortune magazine, Fast Company, and The Economist.

Shel Israel played a key strategic role in introducing some of technology’s most successful products, including PowerPoint, FileMaker, and Sun Microsystems workstations.He’s been an expert on innovation for more than twenty years.

An Excerpt from Naked Conversations:

Bloggings's Six Pillars: There are six key differences between blogging and any other communications channel. You can find any of them elsewhere. These are the Six Pillars of Blogging:

1.Publishable.Anyone can publish a blog.You can do it cheaply and post often. Each posting is instantly available worldwide.

2.Findable. Through search engines, people will find blogs by subject, by author, or both. The more you post, the more findable you become.

3.Social. The blogosphere is one big conversation. Interesting topical conversations move from site to site, linking to each other. Through blogs, people with shared interests build relationships unrestricted by geographic borders.

4.Viral. Information often spreads faster through blogs than via a newsservice. No form of viral marketing matches the speed and efficiency of a blog.

5.Syndicatable. By clicking on an icon, you can get free "home delivery" of RSS- enabled blogs into your e-mail software. RSS lets you know when a blog you subscribe to is updated, saving you search time. This process is considerably more efficient than the last- generation method of visiting one page of one web site at a time looking for changes.

6.Linkable. Because each blog can link to all others, every blogger has access to the tens of millions of people who visit the blogosphere every day.

You can find each of these elements elsewhere. None is, in itself, all that remarkable. But in final assembly, they are the benefits of the most powerful two-way Internet communications tool so far developed.

Metracritics

Metacritic's mission is to help you make an informed decision about how to spend your money on entertainment.

What began as a simple idea back in the summer of 1999--to both provide access to and summarize the vast amount of entertainment criticism available online--has evolved into one of the Web's best resources for critical information about film, video, music, games, books and television. (Well, of course we think it's one of the best, but you can also see for yourself what others are saying about Metacritic.)

That original idea quickly gave birth to a company, which then (not as quickly) gave birth to a website, Metacritic.com, which officially launched in January, 2001 thanks to the hard work of its three founding members, all former attorneys who were happy to find a more constructive (but less profitable) use of their time. Metacritic.com has continued to evolve since its launch, constantly adding to its ever-growing database of reviews, launching a wireless version of the site, and undergoing redesigns in early 2003 and late 2004. In 2005, Metacritic joined the CNET family of websites after an acquisition by CNET Networks, Inc.