El Futuro de las noticicas?: This is the Future of the News: The Arianna Huffington Interview

via Wired.com: The Huffington Post is an incredible Web success story. In two years it's become a site with enormous traffic based upon the richness of its content. Is HuffingtonPost.com the future of news media? It's partisan, of course, but in many countries -- and even many American cities -- newspapers overtly take sides. More important from the point of view of the miscellaneous, the Huffington Post has an abundance of bloggers and commentators, representing a wide range of progressive interests, who provide an infrastructure of ideas, facts and opinions that adds context to any story.

In this audio podcast (the second in a series sponsored by Wired News and the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society) David Weinberger talks with Arianna Huffington about her site and how bloggers are reorganizing and reinventing the news.

Click in the player below to listen to the interview. Or, for a downloadable MP3 file and full transcript, continue reading.

Le Villareal: Virtual Reality

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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.

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.

2007 CES - Bill Gates Keynote Address

Bill had a keynote speach at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. You should check out the video because there is some really neat stuff he’s talking about. Bill shows how the modern office will look like (big screen with three desktops), touchscreens, the connection with your mobile, real-time news, etc. Windows Vista was shown with all new features like task switching, the Aero Glass interface, the sidebar with gadgets, IE7 (thumbnailed tabs and parental controls).

Engadget also has a great summary of Bill’s keynote at the CES, and be sure to check out this article at yahoo.com (via microsoftweblog.com).
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Interfaz Grafica Perceptive Pixel

A propósito de GUIs ¿Qué les parece este video de una interfaz gráfica experimental en la que esta trabajando Perceptive Pixel?

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?

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.

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.

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)
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