MySpace Negotiating with Media Companies for Content Deals

MySpace is reportedly in the midst of negotiations with "all the major media companies" about bringing their content to the News Corp. property.

Now, only shows from News Corp.'s Fox, such as 24 and Prison Break, are available via MySpace, Reuters reports (via Hollywood Reporter). "There's certainly an opportunity for the media companies to get together," Peter Levinsohn, president of Fox Interactive Media, said. "MySpace will be a huge beneficiary of that."

Speculation has increaed in recent months that major media companies may be looking to band together to create an online video platform to rival Google's YouTube.

Content-deal negotiations between YouTube and Viacom and CBS recently unraveled, adding to that speculation. The media companies may also choose to go it alone in the digital distribution of content.

Los derechos de autor y los dilemas de la música digital

La inusual aparición en la página web de Apple de un texto firmado por Steve Jobs bajo el título Reflexiones sobre la música digital ha reabierto la discusión acerca del futuro de la industria discográfica en un mundo donde todo gira alrededor de internet. Según Jobs, el sistema anticopia llamado Fair-Play, que Apple utiliza en su servicio de descargas iTunes, es una exigencia de los sellos discográficos. Sugiere, sin decirlo abiertamente, que Apple podría renunciar a ese sistema, o al menos atenuar sus restricciones, si las discográficas estuvieran de acuerdo.

El presidente de Apple no quiere más protección de contenidos digitales en los discos

En una carta pública, Steve Jobs, dice que esta medida de seguridad "no ha funcionado, y nunca funcionará, para detener la piratería en la música". También afirma que restringe la distribución de contenidos entre distintas marcas de reproductores de MP3.

Trendhunter Magazine

Trend Hunter is an explosion of cool fueled by a global network of 5587 trend spotters and cool hunters. Innovation and strategic advantage hinge on the ability to anticipate trends and identify the next big thing. By tracking the evolution of cool, Trend Hunters generate ideas, stimulate creativity, and ultimately shape our social context.

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.

Manuel Castells - Proyecto Internet Catalunya

Manuel Castells (Hellín - 1942) es un sociólogo y profesor universitario español, catedrático de Sociología y de Urbanismo en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, así como Director del Internet Interdisciplinary Institute en la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

En los últimos veinte años ha llevado a cabo una vasta investigación en la que relaciona la evolución económica y las transformaciones políticas, sociales y culturales en el marco de una teoría integral de la información, cuyo ejemplo más claro puede ser el Proyecto Internet Catalunya que coordina. Los resultados de su trabajo se recogen en la trilogía La Era de la Información, traducida a varios idiomas y que ha sido encumbrada por Anthony Giddens, asesor de Tony Blair, al nivel de los esfuerzos explicativos que Marx o Max Weber hicieron por interpretar la sociedad industrial

Si bien otros autores, más críticos, la consideran una obra banal que se limita a hacer un voluminoso resumen de las obras de Alvin Toffler, Yoneji Masuda, John Naisbitt, Saskia Sassen, James Martin y otros muchos, conocidos y desconocidos, que sería largo citar. Lo que sí parece ser un hecho es que Castells es actualmente uno de los autores de referencia en el campo del estudio de la Sociedad de la Información.

El año 2001 fue investido Doctor Honoris causa por la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, y en 2006 lo ha sido por la École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Suiza). Actualmente reside en California y está casado con Emma Kiselyova

Proyecto Internet Catalunya: Un programa de investigación del Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) .

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.

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.

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner published in 2005. Freakonomics peaked at number 2 among nonfiction on the New York Times bestseller list, and was named the 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year in the Adult Nonfiction category.

The book is a collection of economic articles written by Levitt, translated into prose meant for a wide audience. Levitt had already gained a reputation in academia for applying economic theory to diverse topics usually not covered by "traditional" economists (note that Levitt is actually not at all a "rogue" economist in that he entirely accepts the standard microeconomic paradigm of rational utility-maximization; he is merely applying it to unconventional subjects). The book's topics include:
Chapter 1: Discovering cheating as applied to teachers and sumo wrestlers (See below)
Chapter 2: Information control as applied to the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate agents
Chapter 3: The economics of drug dealing, including the surprisingly low wages and abject working conditions of crack cocaine dealers
Chapter 4: The controversial role legalized abortion has played in reducing crime. (Levitt explored this topic in an earlier paper entitled "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime.")
Chapter 5: The negligible effects of good parenting on education (instead, the authors assert that it is what the parents are, not what they do, that makes a difference)
Chapter 6: The socioeconomic patterns of naming children

See also: freakonomics.com
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/

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

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)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.





Lisrten the Podcast from Friends Talking Podcasts:
http://ia300107.us.archive.org/2/items/JoelGreenbergChrisAndersonEditorinChiefofWiredInterview/Chris_Anderson_Interview__96kbs__friendstalking.joelandkaren.com.mp3

John P. van Gigch: High technology transfer and computer education: Lessons drawn from the case of a developing country

Abstract Argentina is a developing country which at present is faced with the advent of high technology and the computer age. In Argentina, like for that matter elsewhere, technology is outrunning our capability to understand it and to take full advantage of its potential.
This report describes the conditions prevailing in Argentina to assess the potential impact of high technology in education. Recommendations to implement a program of technology transfer in a typical developing country are drawn. In addition, some of the shortcomings of computer education in Argentina as well as in the United States are indicated.

School of Business and Public Administration at the California State University, 95819 Sacramento, California
The Journal of Technology Transfer
Volume 8, Number 2 / March, 1984
SpringerLink Date: Friday, September 30, 2005

Cluetrain Manifesto 1999

El Cluetrain Manifesto es una proclama online desarrollada en el 2001 por Chris Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger.
Son 95 thesis IMPERDIBLES. Sobre el nuevo consumidor y el nuevo ambiente de los negocios.

When we created Cluetrain.com in April, 1999, it kicked up some dust. A few thousand people signed their endorsement of the ideas. Lots of email, lots of press coverage. This is the site as it existed then. The conversations continue elsewhere. Please read and enjoy. But don't tap on the glass as it just annoys the animals.
Tambien lanzaron un libro: The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual. Donde se incorporó a Chris Lock, Doc Searls and David Weinberger, Rick Levin.



Chris Locke: Christopher Locke (clocke@panix.com) is Chairman of The Titanic Deck Chair Rearrangement Corporation (NASDAQ:TDCRC). A noted industry speaker, he is also editor/publisher of the webzine Entropy Gradient Reversals, and president of Entropy Web Consulting in Boulder, Colorado. He launched Internet Business Report for CMP Publications in 1993, was President of MecklerWeb Corporation in 1994, Editor and Publisher of the Net Editors segment on internetMCI in 1995, Program Director for Online Community Development at IBM in 1996, and editor-in-chief of personalization.com in 1999 and 2000. In 2001, he was included in The Financial Times' list of top 50 business thinkers worldwide. He has written extensively for publications such as Forbes, Release 1.0, Information Week, Publish, The Industry Standard, and Harvard Business Review.



Doc Searls (born on July 29, 1947) is a widely-read blogger and a columnist and senior editor for Linux Journal. He is often credited for originating the quote "Markets are conversations", which is also the first thesis in The Cluetrain Manifesto, which he co-wrote in 1999 with David Weinberger, Christopher Locke and Rick Levine. With David Weinberger he also co-wrote "World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else" (See NEA (internet). Both Weinberger and Searls are also fellows with Harvard's Berkman Center, where Searls heads ProjectVRM, a development effort toward Vendor Relationship Management.



David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York) is a technologist, professional speaker,[1] and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing" [2]). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society.
A philosopher by training, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and taught college from 1980-1986. He was a gag writer for the comic strip "Inside Woody Allen" from 1976-1983.[3] He became a marketing consultant and executive at several high-tech companies, and currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He had the title Senior Internet Advisor to Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.
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Rick Levine is president of Mancala, Inc., a 'net start-up in Boulder, Colorado, focusing on enabling communication between local merchants and their customers.

Before Mancala, Rick was web architect for Sun Microsystems' Java Software group. He was responsible for the creation of much of the public web interface for java.sun.com, including the Java Developer Connection, a free, registration-based site for Java Developers, currently with more than 1,000,000 registered members.

Rick was with Sun for 13 years. He started his tenure there leading a group that created all the desktop software for Sun's experiments with 386-based workstations, including Sun's first on-line help and easy-to-use system installation and management software. He spearheaded the creation of Sun's first usability testing facilities, and pioneered the integration of human-factors design, usability and visual language disciplines into Sun's engineering universe.

Rick was a member of several teams that worked on reinventing and redesigning Sun's external web presence. He joined the Java Software group in mid-1996, served a stint as webmaster of java.sun.com, and has focused his efforts on driving the creation of web delivery channels that serve both the business needs of the organization and Sun's customers.

Rick has participated in numerous standards activities, including an overly long stint as the lead user interface negotiator for the HP/IBM/Novell/Sun conflagration that created the UNIX Common Desktop Environment. He was Sun's participant in the ICE Authoring Group, creator of the Information and Content Exchange protocol specification for syndication of web content. The ICE protocol was awarded a Seybold Editor's Award in the field of Web publishing

Prior to joining Sun, Rick worked for Control Data's PLATO system group, NCR COMTEN, various smaller companies, and, in ancient prehistory, did a lot of innovative and sometimes just-plain-off-the-wall film, video and videodisk production.



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