Jonathan Harris, y el futuro de las interfases de contenidos

A Cool Hunting exclusive, we caught up with artist Jonathan Harris as he unveils his new project Universe, an artistic take on a system that explores modern mythology. He enlightened minds with his presentation at the TED conference last week and we visited him in Brooklyn to get an intimate look as he flips through his travelogue of time spent in Vietnam and Burma. We are also guided through We Feel Fine, a global study of human emotion using large-scale blog analysis, and he volunteers his creative thought process behind the piece. He also shares his view for the future of connectivity, why the page is no longer enough and his drive towards new formats of presentation and story telling.

This also marks Cool Hunting Video's debut in HD meaning improved picture quality and widescreen 16 by 9 formatting. Enjoy.

Five Minds for the Future- Howard Gardner

Five Minds for the Future was recently released by Harvard Business School Press. The synthesizing mind, one of the five minds, was identified as a "breakthrough idea" by Harvard Business Review in 2006. Read a review of this book in the Financial Times.

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/hbr/hbr_current_issue.jhtml?issue_id=s10826stg&x=10&y=5


They include:

The Disciplinary Mind: the mastery of major schools of thought, including science, mathematics, and history, and of at least one professional craft.

The Synthesizing Mind: the ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others.

The Creating Mind: the capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions and phenomena.

The Respectful Mind: awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings and human groups.

The Ethical Mind: fulfillment of one's responsibilities as a worker and as a citizen.

Le Villareal: Virtual Reality

Click title of the post to see the video.


Our 65th video visits New York-based light sculptor Leo Villareal in his Chelsea studio a week before his third solo show in Manhattan inaugurates the new Gering & López gallery. Leo walks us through his latest three sculptures that he's exhibiting, including "Hive," an interactive piece, "Field," which is a massive sunset-like work of shifting colors and a piece like "Origin" based on Newtonian physics. We also get a peak at the custom software Leo uses to program his mesmerizing patterns of light and get a sampling of other large-scale outdoor installations he's completed.

Usa protector Solar

No de donde salio o quien lo patrocina y de quien es la voz en off, pero esta buenisimo, esta largito pero es una caricia para el alma!!!!
Saludos.

Madre hay una Sola - Bersuit Vergarabat

Me encanta esta banda y me gusta mucho esta canción. Creo que contribuye mucho a una toma de conciencia genuina.

Como ejecutivos, en las decisiones que tomamos todos los días, es donde podemos realmente modificar el destino, para nosotros, nuestros hijos, los hijos de nuestros hijos...

The Machine is us/sing us

Muy pero muy interesante para repasar la evolución de la Web hasta Web 2.0 y para repensar lo que estamos haciendo con la tecnologia, o lo que la tecnología esta haciendo con nosotros.




Thank you for visiting our blog. I am writing this short post in order to provide a place for those interested in the video, “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us” to place substantial comments. As you know, YouTube only allows 500 characters, not enough to really start rethinking any of the things I mentioned in the video. So post your comments here. I will be back to write a substantial post addressing some common questions about the video soon.

Becky (one of my students) noted that it is like we were planning for a party and the guests arrived before we were ready. So please pardon the mess. We’ll be up and running soon and I look forward to some great conversations.

El Reino Unido apuesta al turismo musical y lanza "el mapa del rock"

El ente estatal de turismo diseñó una guía que recoge unos 200 sitios asociados a los grandes músicos y bandas de rock , como el local donde debutó Queen o la casa en la que creció John Lennon. Está disponible en las agencias de viajes británicas y a través de Internet.

Leer en la pantalla

Leer en la pantalla

¿La red propicia la lectura o todo lo contrario?
¿Se pueden leer textos extensos en la pantalla de la computadora?
¿Es factible leer un libro desde la PC, digamos, por ejemplo, "Los Hermanos Karamazov", o quizás "La Montaña Mágica?
¿O, algo más breve, tal vez , "La autopista del Sur" de Cortazar?"
¿Qué es lo que se lee predominantemente en la red?
¿En el ciberespacio dominan lo textos, o más bien se desenvuelve y se vuelve disponible el contexto?

Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a technology weblog dedicated to everything related to gadgets, gizmos, and cutting-edge consumer electronics. Our influential audience stops by frequently to check out the latest news, reviews and recommendations for products including laptops, cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras, home entertainment and more. The site is part of the Gawker Media network.

Pekka Himanen - La Etica del Hacker

Pekka Himanen (Helsinki, 19 de noviembre de 1973) es un filósofo finlandés, doctor por la Universidad de Helsinki. Ha trabajado como investigador en Finlandia e Inglaterra y en las Universidades norteamericanas de Stanford y Berkeley. Ha actuado como asesor en temas sobre la sociedad de la información en los distintos gobiernos finlandeses, y en compañías como Nokia.
En su obra más difundida, La ética del hacker y el espíritu de la era de la información, desarrolla in extenso los fundamentos y consecuencias de la ética hacker. También es autor de El Estado del bienestar y la sociedad de la información: El modelo finlandés (2002), obra que comparte en autoría con Manuel Castells.
En dicho libro, Castells y Himanen analizan el caso de Finlandia, como ejemplo exitoso de inserción en un mundo globalizado de la mano del desarrollo de la sociedad de la información, manteniendo el contrato social entre el estado y la sociedad con su población y una distribución de esos beneficios de forma bastante homogénea. Así pues, demuestran como, en contraposición a Estados Unidos, la globalización de su economía no se traduce en una desigualdad social que se refleja en el aumento de la marginalidad de los individuos más desprotegidos por el estado. En la metamorfósis finlandesa, se demuestran como elementos clave, la identidad ciudadana finlandesa reforzada por el informacionalismo, la habilidad del estado para conjugar el desarrollo de esa identidad mediante la promoción de la sociedad de la información y sus sinergias con los sectore privado y público así como estos últimos.
Asimismo, Himanen es muy conocido en el mundo de la cultura por sus relaciones con los artistas vanguardistas y los medios de comunicación. Incluso ha sido convertido en personaje de una obra de teatro estrenada en Finlandia en 1996 y en el mismo Soho londinense en otoño del 2001.

Hacen falta mas hackers ! y La ética hacker.

Muy buen post de Miguel Wiñazki de Clarin.com.

Es buenísimo el libro del finlandés Pekka Himanen sobre "La ética del hacker y el espíritu de la era de la información". Aunque sus planteos son bien conocidos, no deja de ser interesante volver a explicitarlos de manera sintética.
Un hacker, según el autor, es un entusiasta de cualquier tipo, un astrónomo por ejemplo, un escritor, un periodista... Alguien puede ser hacker sin tener nada que ver con la computación. Hacker es una denominación genérica, es una actitud, es quien trata de desafiar los modelos imperantes, de superarlos.

Se trata de una ética de la red, o de la "ética-nética". Los hackers encarnan los nuevos valores: la diversión es buena, y más que buena, crucial. Diviriténdose tratan de desocultar lo oculto, de ponerlo todo en común, de apostar por lo público en contraposición a lo cerrado.

Eduardo Pla

La obra del argentino Eduardo Pla (n. 1952; reside en Italia desde 1980) es una destacada evidencia de las posibilidades incontables del infoarte, pero también (y por consiguiente) de la validez y trascendencia de esta vía contemporánea de la creación estética.

Como es sabido, las tecnologías de la computadora operan dos efectos máximos en la producción del arte. Por un lado, ellas permiten generar nuevas formas; por otro lado inciden en las formas anteriores, tanto las inmóviles/espaciales (pintura, escultura, fotografía, dibujo), como las móviles/temporales (cinetismo, cine, video). En el primer caso, la computadora es un medio autónomo de creación; en el segundo caso, un sistema dependiente, utilizado con el objeto de ultimar y perfeccionar ciertos aspectos de la obra de arte, y para obtener variaciones de una pintura o de un dibujo.

Sundance - Film Festival

Founded by Robert Redford in 1981 in the mountains of Sundance, Utah, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated year-round to the development of artists of independent vision and to the exhibition of their new work. Since its inception, the Institute has grown into an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists through its Film Festival and artistic development programs for filmmakers, screenwriters, composers, writers, playwrights and theatre artists. The original values of independence, creative risk-taking, and discovery continue to define and guide the work of Sundance Institute, both with US artists and, increasingly, with artists from other regions of the world.

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.

Cool Hunting

ool Hunting is a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology, and features weekly videos that get an inside look at the people who create them. Money can buy you a lot of things, but it can’t buy you coverage on Cool Hunting. All of our content is editorially based using the standard of “stuff we like.” Published since February 2003 as a personal catalog and reference tool, the site today attracts and inspires more than 250,000 regular readers from around the world. The site is edited by Josh Rubin, Evan Orensten and Ami Kealoha.

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

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.

The Long Tail from Chris Anderson is the Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine

Wired editor Anderson declares the death of "common culture"—and insists that it's for the best. Why don't we all watch the same TV shows, like we used to? Because not long ago, "we had fewer alternatives to compete for our screen attention," he writes. Smash hits have existed largely because of scarcity: with a finite number of bookstore shelves and theaters and Wal-Mart CD racks, "it's only sensible to fill them with the titles that will sell best." Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the search for blockbusters. It's a provocative analysis and almost certainly on target—though Anderson's assurances that these principles are equally applicable outside the media and entertainment industries are not entirely convincing. The book overuses its examples from Google, Rhapsody, iTunes, Amazon, Netflix and eBay, and it doesn't help that most of the charts of "Long Tail" curves look the same. But Anderson manages to explain a murky trend in clear language, giving entrepreneurs and the rest of us plenty to think about. (July)
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Lisrten the Podcast from Friends Talking Podcasts:
http://ia300107.us.archive.org/2/items/JoelGreenbergChrisAndersonEditorinChiefofWiredInterview/Chris_Anderson_Interview__96kbs__friendstalking.joelandkaren.com.mp3

Out of Control - The New Biolgy of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World

Via Amazon.com: in many ways, the 20th century has been the Age of Physics. Out of Control is an accessible and entertaining explanation of why the coming years will probably be the Age of Biology -- particularly evolution and ethology -- and what this will mean to most every aspect of our society. Kelly is an enthusiastic and well-informed guide who explains the promises and implications of this rapidly evolving revolution very well.

Ingram
In a book about the marriage of the born and the made--the biologicalization of everything from computers to government--the executive editor of Wired chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that dri ve our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Kevin Kelly - CoFounder Wired Magazine

Via Wikipedia: This page is about the magazine editor. For the wrestling announcer, go to Kevin Kelly (announcer), and for the wrestling performer known as "Mr. Magnificent" Kevin Kelly, see Kevin Wacholz.

Kevin Kelly (b. 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He has also been a writer, photographer and conservationist. Kelly is a student of cultures (Asian ones in particular) and is considered by some an expert in digital culture.

Kelly's most notable book-length publication, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World 1994, presents a view on the mechanisms of complex organization. The central theme of the book is that several fields of contemporary science and philosophy point in the same direction: intelligence is not organized in a centralized structure but much more like a bee-hive of small simple components. Kelly applies this view to bureaucratic organisations, intelligent computers, and to the human brain.

The Matrix (1999 film)

Andy and Larry Wachowski, writers/directors of the film The Matrix, required the principal actors of the film to read three books prior to the start of filming, including Kelly’s 1995 book Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World. The other two were Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard and Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans, Oscar Zarate (Illustrator), Richard Appignanesi (Editor).
Kelly can be seen in a series of interviews on The Roots of the Matrix disk in the 10-disk DVD The Ultimate Matrix Collection set.