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.

Bill Gates predice que en cinco años no habrá diarios sin versiones online

Como nunca antes, el titular de Microsoft se explayó sobre todos los temas vitales que rodean a la fuerte competencia entre la página impresa y la pantalla: la actualidad de la nueva televisión, que apunta a un público cada vez más segmentado; las distintas formas de lectura, que a su juicio favorecen notablemente a la online, y la declinación de las ventas de los diarios y la propia publicidad impresa.

The 48th annual McKinsey Awards

Longtime readers of Harvard Business Review will know that the McKinsey Awards, now in their 48th year, recognize the articles most likely to have a lasting influence on management. Every year, a panel of judges—distinguished leaders from business, the nonprofit sector, and the academy—select the two best articles out of a field of around 90.

“Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility”

Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer

December 2006

First-Place Winner.

Corporate social responsibility has become an inescapable priority for business leaders across the globe. Governments, activists, and the media now hold companies accountable for the social consequences of their actions, and favorable publicity is often bestowed on companies with prominent CSR programs. Yet for all the hype surrounding CSR efforts, they are frequently counterproductive.



“The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation”

Gary Hamel

February 2006

Second-Place Winner

To most people, innovation means new products, new ways of marketing, and new technologies. But management itself, writes Gary Hamel, is a fertile ground for innovation. In fact, Hamel argues, managerial innovations like brand management or the divisionalized corporation have created greater value and longer-lived competitive advantage than anything that came from a focus group or a laboratory.

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.

Google sigue tirando de cartera y va cerrando el circulo

Via www.tecnorantes.com:Con la compra de Double Click por u$s3100 millones (menudo negocio han hecho los de Hellman&Friedman triplicando lo invertido en 2005…) Google se adelante a sus “compañeros” de carrera MSFT, Yahoo y compañía y se hace con una empresa que le aporta la tecnología de adserving mas usada a nivel mundial y que se complementa perfectamente con lo que ya ofrecen.

Tiempo habrá de valorar si lo que han pagado es mucho o poco.A priori me parece mucho dinero, pero supongo que la cifra puede considerarse mas o menos lógica si estaban pujando con varias empresas mas o si lo comparamos con las ultimas compras.
Al final todo vale lo que alguien está dispuesto a pagar por ello….

Ya solo le quedan 8000 millones en cash.Habrá que espabilar antes de que se les acabe el dinero…
Y por cierto, Doubleclick no es lo que yo consideraría una idea loca (hacer click en el vinculo para acceder a la nota original)

Ya un Clasico: No Logon - Naomi Klein (Video 1 de 4)

Using hundreds of media examples, this video shows how the commercial takeover of public space, destruction of consumer choice, and replacement of real jobs with temporary work - the dynamics of corporate globalization - impact everyone, everywhere. Naomi Klein argues that globalization is a process whereby corporations discovered that profits lay not in making products, but in creating branded identities people adopt in their lifestyles.

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.

Linus Torvalds

Linus born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. He now acts as the project's coordinator.
Linus was inspired by Minix (an operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum) to develop a capable Unix-like operating system that could be run on a PC. Linux now also runs on many other architectures.

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.

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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