Midia Vida

The poem on the path is written by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and runs along the River Tejo. Do not have time soon to cycle in Lisbon? Check out the video:

O Tejo from Abilio Vieira on Vimeo.

Het delen van informatie op het web kent vele vormen en ze worden allemaal op hoge snelheid gebruikt en geaccepteerd. Kijk hieronder naar de social-media-teller die Gary Hayes via zijn weblog aanbiedt, en verbaas je net als ik. Eén geruststelling: je weet nu in ieder geval zeker dat dit voor een gewoon mens niet meer is bij te houden.

20 hours of video uploaded every minute onto YouTube (source YouTube blog Aug 09)
Facebook 600k new members per day, and photos, videos per month, 700mill & 4 mill respectively (source Inside Facebook Feb 09)
Twitter 18 million new users per year & 4 million tweets sent daily (source TechCrunch Apr 09)
iPolicy UK – SMS messaging has a bright future (Aug 09)
900 000 blogs posts put up every day (source Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008)
YouTube daily, 96 million videos watched, $1mill bandwidth costs (source Comscore Jul 06 !)
UPDATE: YouTube 1Billion watched per day SMH (2009)- counter updated!
Second Life 250k virtual goods made daily, text messages 1250 per second (source Linden Lab release Sep 09)
Money – $5.5 billion on virtual goods (casual & game worlds) even Facebooks gifts make $70 million annually (source Viximo Aug 09)
Flickr has 73 million visitors a month who upload 700 million photos (source Yahoo Mar 09)
Mobile social network subscribers – 92.5 million at the end of 2008, by end of 2013 rising to between 641.6-873.1 million or 132 mill annually (source Informa PDF)
SMS – Over 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008 (source Everysingleoneofus sms statistics)

(Free translated from the Dutch letter)
SUICIDE NOTE 2.0 from Worm in Rotterdam: Facebook blocks WORM because of Suicide Machine
To our great sorrow Facebook Inc.. decided that, WORM, the producer of the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, is to be excommunicated from Facebook.
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is on initiated and independently developed by Moddr_, on the WORM media lab. Facebook wants to get Suicide Machine to its knees by targeting WORM.

The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine allows users of commit ’social network suicide “on Facebook among other social networks . Facebook is threatening legal action to stop the machine and has now demanded that WORM (WORM_Rotterdam) immediately remove his Facebook profile.

Facebook claims that the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine has violated its rules and thereby has forfeited the WORM rights to to use the platform any longer, says the U.S. company, through its lawyer. WORM does not wants this fight with Facebook. The idea behind Web 2.0 was because Suicide Machine makes clear that users of social networking sites should have control of their data.

This is a control Facebook does not want to allow and the company will not even enter a debate about the issue. This leaves us no choice but to Worm itself to commit Facebook suicide. The conditions of Facebook does not give us any space.

WORM deeply regrets the situation. The Suicide Machine Web 2.0 was not intended as a tool against Facebook, but as a tool for people who for whatever reason, would want to terminate their live online. Facebook wants the access to all their service, and thus all access to the personal data of their users, to be done through their own ‘connect’ platform goes. Facebook itself wants to determine the rules and change them as it sees fit.

The excommunication of WORM shows that net neutrality and freedom of information in many social network sites is an illusion. Not only is people are not allowed to (automated) defriend even when something is made that companies do not like, they may decide to exclude their unwelcome users. Facebook shows that only freedom the user has is the one Facebook gives.

Facebook claims all rights. WORM is no longer live in this 2.0 world. We therefore take leave of our many ‘friends’.

You can now see through our online suicide www.SuicideMachine.org.

No flowers, no speeches.

suicide@moddr.net /publiciteit@wormweb.nl / 0104767832
www.moddr.net / www.wormweb.nl

From Worm:

Tot ons groot verdriet heeft Facebook Inc. besloten dat WORM, producent van de Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, wordt geëxcommuniceerd van Facebook.

De Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is op eigen initiatief en zelfstandig ontwikkeld door Moddr_, het medialab van WORM. Door WORM aan te pakken probeert Facebook de Suicide Machine op de knieën te dwingen.

De Web 2.0 Suicide Machine maakt het voor gebruikers van – onder andere -Facebook mogelijk om ‘social network zelfmoord’ te plegen. Facebook dreigt met juridische stappen als de machine niet stopt en heeft nu ook geëist dat WORM zijn Facebook profiel (WORM_Rotterdam) onmiddellijk verwijdert. Facebook stelt dat de Web 2.0 Suicide Machine zijn regels heeft overtreden en daarmee heeft WORM zijn recht verspeeld om het platform nog langer te gebruiken, aldus het Amerikaanse bedrijf bij monde van haar advocaat. WORM wil dit gevecht met Facebook niet aangaan. Het idee achter de Web 2.0 Suicide Machine was namelijk ‘ontvrienden’ en om duidelijk te maken dat gebruikers van social network sites altijd zelf de controle over hun data zouden moeten hebben.

Die controle wil Facebook niet toestaan en ook wil het bedrijf het debat hierover niet aangaan. Van ons hoeft het zo niet meer, en ons rest geen andere keus dan om nu zelf ook online zelfmoord te plegen. De voorwaarden en de opstelling van Facebook laten voor wat WORM betreft geen enkele ruimte.

WORM betreurt de situatie ten zeerste. De Web 2.0 Suicide Machine was niet bedoeld tegen Facebook, maar als gereedschap voor mensen die om wat voor reden dan ook hun online leven zat zijn. Facebook wil dat alle toegang tot hun dienst, en daarmee alle toegang tot de persoonlijke data van hun gebruikers, via hun eigen ‘connect’ platform gaat. Daarmee kan Facebook zelf de regels bepalen, en deze naar goeddunken veranderen.

De excommunicatie van WORM laat zien dat informatievrijheid en netneutraliteit van de gebruiker op veel social network sites een illusie is. Niet alleen is het mensen niet toegestaan om zich (geautomatiseerd) te ontvrienden, ook wanneer iets gedaan wordt dat bedrijven niet bevalt, kunnen ze besluiten hun onwelgevallige gebruikers uit te sluiten. Facebook laat zien dat een gebruiker alleen die vrijheid heeft die Facebook haar
geeft.

Facebook claimt alle rechten. WORM wil niet langer leven in deze 2.0 wereld. Wij nemen daarom ook afscheid van onze vele ‘friends’. Het gaat
jullie goed.

U kunt nu onze online zelfmoord zien via www.SuicideMachine.org.

Geen bloemen, geen speeches.

Correspondentieadres
Achterhaven 148 Rotterdam
suicide@moddr.net / publiciteit@wormweb.nl / 0104767832
www.moddr.net / www.wormweb.nl

http://blog.vrijschrift.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/82-Piratendebat.html

Downloadverbod. Filteren. Afknijpen. Three strikes out. Bewaarplicht. ACTA. Het vrije internet wordt van vele kanten bedreigd. In het Europees Parlement strijden Piraten en Groenen samen voor de rechten van internetgebruikers. Europa heeft een handvest van digitale burgerrechten nodig, vinden zij. Wat moet er in zo’n Internet Bill of Rights komen te staan? Daarover gaan Europarlementariër Christian Engström (Zweedse Piratenpartij), GroenLinks-Tweede Kamerlid Mariko Peters en GroenLinks-Europarlementariër Judith Sargentini in debat met experts (o.a. Bits of Freedom en Vrijschrift) en met de zaal.Maandagavond 22 februari 19.30 tot 21.30u. De voertaal is Engels. Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade, Amsterdam.
Gratis aanmelden [http://groenlinks.nl/piratendebat].

Amsterdam, 5 februari 2009 – De grootste privacyschenders van de afgelopen jaren zijn bekendgemaakt. Op vrijdag 5 februari werden tijdens een stampvol symposium de Big Brother Awards 2009 uitgereikt aan Minister Ter Horst, de nieuwe vingerafdrukdatabank, T-Mobile en Vodafone en mobiele naaktscanners van de politie.

Met deze prijzen worden elk jaar personen, bedrijven, overheden en voorstellen te kijk gezet die de afgelopen jaren bij uitstek controle op burgers en inbreuken op privacy hebben bevorderd. Er was ook goed nieuws: Sophie in ‘t Veld (Europarlementariër D66) won de Winston Award, een positieve aanmoedigingsprijs.

Minister Ter Horst wint de prijs in de categorie Personen, vanwege haar gevaarlijke gebrek aan nuance in het privacydebat. Mede door haar
toedoen stevent Nederland in sneltreinvaart af op een controlemaatschappij, waar veiligheid altijd boven persoonlijke vrijheid gaat. De nieuwe vingerafdrukdatabank die Nederland aanlegt wint de prijs in de categorie Overheid, vanwege het risico op identiteitsfraude en omdat een hack van de database potentieel desastreuze gevolgen heeft.

Bovendien gaat de Nederlandse overheid hiermee veel verder dan de ons omringende landen. T-Mobile en Vodafone winnen de prijs in de categorie Bedrijven, omdat ze willens en wetens en in strijd met de wet maandenlang de volledige inhoud van smsjes hebben doorgesluisd naar opsporingsdiensten. Het voorstel van de politie om mobiele naaktscanners in openbare ruimtes in te zetten, wint de prijs in de categorie Voorstellen. De jury is van mening dat ‘function creep’ nog nooit zo snel plaatsgevonden: van een middel om terroristen te vangen, naar een middel dat in alledaags politiewerk kan worden ingezet.
De publieksprijs gaat dit jaar met een nipte overwinning naar de vingerafdrukdatabank, met Ter Horst als een goede runner-up. De Winston, een positieve privacyprijs, is uitgereikt aan Europarlementariër Sophie in ‘t Veld (D66).

Honderden geïnteresseerden waren aanwezig op het Awardsgala, waar ook hoogleraar Vincent Icke, slachtoffer van identiteitsfraude Renate Tromp en security expert Jeroen van Beek spraken. De winnaars zijn door een deskundige jury geselecteerd uit een recordaantal inzendingen van het Nederlandse publiek. De jury bestaat uit de publiciste Karin Spaink, Prof. dr. Bart Jacobs, Prof. dr. Nico van Eijk, Dr. Bart Schermer, Prof. dr. Valerie Frissen en journalist Bart de Koning. De jury heeft haar keuze volledig onafhankelijk gemaakt. De publieksprijs is uitgereikt aan de kandidaat die het meeste stemmen via de website www.bigbrotherawards.nl heeft gekregen.

De Nederlandse editie van de Big Brother Awards wordt georganiseerd door Bits of Freedom. De Big Brother Awards wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door
De Balie, Brinkhof, Stichting NLnet en SURFnet.

Juryrapport nominaties:

http://www.bigbrotherawards.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Juryrapport-Genomineerden-Big-Brother-Awards-2009-28-01-10.pdf

http://twitpic.com/photos/Astro_Soichi

Será que a Amazonia ainda vai estar verde no ano que vem, ou vai estar devastada, cheia de bois brancos fazendo cocô e jogando gas metanol no ar?

Survival Blue-Print
Where once fire, brute force, mechanised violence and then wealth through industry and trading were dominant forms of power in the world, information manifest as digital capital is now becoming the dominant power in the 21st century. Those nations and organisations with the greatest freedom of information and means of transmitting it have now become the most powerful, influential and the strongest economically. The collapse of the Soviet Union came about primarily due to its authoritarian control and limiting the freedom-of-information to its citizens and interlocutors. The same may happen to nations like China and those organisations that continue to curtail access to information to their citizens and stakeholders.

2010 starts the year with the information technology that powers our daily lives in a state of extreme flux. Moore’s Law used to be the guiding principle to know what to expect from the next great wave based on faster and cheaper computing power every 18 months. However, the Cloud Tsunami is creating an unprecedented paradigm shift via the new Software-as-a-Service — SaaS — revolution that can rapidly scale up and scale down enterprise power like “Transformers” to make players extremely agile, very large or very small, highly cost efficient and with near zero response time. This is metamorphosing Moore’s Law into turbo acceleration mode! Those who embrace the Cloud Tsunami correctly are thriving via this new opportunity, and those who embrace it incorrectly or don’t embrace it at all, are weakening significantly only to perish over time. It is as simple as that!

Remember: in corporations, non-governmental organisations and government agencies, there may not just be legacy systems, but legacy people too with mind-sets from the previous century, or the century before that! Given their natural vested interests, resistance to change, and with that the rampant affliction of the “not invented here” syndrome, it is more likely that new players capitalise on the Cloud Tsunami to undermine completely “The Emperor with no Clothes” in a matter of months. Expect major players to be created from nothing in less than a year, and some established players to perish overnight. Self-assembling, trans-national, intelligently searchable, self-propagating and extremely dynamic community structures are unfolding before our eyes.

In plain English, socially responsible and forward-thinking organisations including companies can be set up quickly and cheaply — and these players have indefinite potential for earnings and localised, targeted, economic development in new areas and sectors, hitherto un-envisaged. The Cloud Tsunami can be compared to the effect of a large sharp blade that cuts both ways: it delivers competitive advantage yet it mercilessly levels the playing field rendering established brands with size and history obsolete in many cases.

What is the Cloud Tsunami’s result in a nutshell? It changes everything via faster innovations and rapid transitions: either a win-win or wipe-out! This in turn puts enormous pressure on leaders and their cabinets on the one hand, and chief executives and their boards on the other, because the old fashioned decision making lenses from the last few years have to be thrown out yet again! Further to your excellent feedback in regard to the “Cloud Tsunami” ATCA Briefings so far:

4. 2010’s Key Evolution: The Next Generation Web;
3. Innovation, Anthropology and Cultural Relativity;
2. Digital Capital and Cloud Computing’s Asymmetric Risks; and
1. Why There is Hope: Chrysalis to Butterfly

It is worth noting the following Cloud Tsunami observations before taking any major decisions in 2010:

All Digital World

Today almost all human generated content originates and remains in digital form as invaluable Digital Capital. Even physical objects we buy, touch, use and keep, are mostly mass produced replicas of digital blue-prints. The past ideas about content creation, control, ownership rights, patents, syndication, distribution, publishing, and access all need massive re-thinking in the wake of the Cloud Tsunami! Such a reorientation in strategy must be customised swiftly, whilst cruising at full speed, to retain the fast eroding competitive advantage as our society goes “All Digital” with a massive yet silent bang!

New Lifestyles

Increasingly our Digital Capital is managed on Cloud-powered Software-as-a-Service — SaaS — platforms. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr etc are all using some type of public or private Cloud to power the applications we utilise every day. These services have become part of our daily lifestyle, and increasingly part of our own or our stakeholders’ livelihood!

Small is Beautiful

With Cloud Computing it is now possible for a small, capital efficient start-up to solve a big problem for a big audience. Here lies the threat for large incumbents unless they redistribute themselves as small, highly competitive, autonomous clusters, with diffuse power. This means more solutions to choose from, but with choice comes the desire to make the optimum decisions within the moment. The key question is how to do this accurately and wisely? The answer lies in the following eight-fold path:

i. Dismantling vertical hierarchies and vertical integration solutions step-by-step;
ii. Not going for a flat hierarchy but autonomous clusters of hierarchies;
iii. Choosing virtual over physical solutions;
iv. Choosing pay-as-you-go over ownership solutions;
v. Establishing a synchronised yet distributed command and control structure that appears totally diffuse from the outside;
vi. Working with the competition and in partnership with smaller players as equals;
vii. Having Cloud-enabled infrastructure to service all stakeholders efficiently as well as to keep in touch with all contacts 24/7; and
viii. Being able to access the digital capital and work environment from anywhere in the world with total flexibility and security.

Cloud Architectures

No question about it: Clouds are creating global co-operation systems with collaborative processes. Anyone can tap into A given Cloud, but there is no such thing as The Cloud, yet! In an ideal Cloud architecture, the technical functionalities — processing, storage and transmission — need to be implemented on top of a more human orientated infrastructure. This focuses on human identity management, technical support for trust in human statements, and non-repudiated settlement of human transactions and exchange-of-ideas, with total confidentiality, integrity and authentication. There is a need for a solid base of trust between the people that are supposed to share their resources in order to get their computational, storage and data exchange needs satisfied.

Twelve Guiding Principles for Critical Cloud Computing Decisions

I. Deploying Cloud Computing in an organisation needs to be evaluated from multiple standpoints beginning with the unique and perspectives of key stakeholders;
II. There are many advantages and disadvantages to Cloud Computing and it is important to evaluate all the alternatives carefully;
III. Getting past the Cloud Computing initial pitch is essential to examine the real benefits and burdens, and how they apply practically to present and future needs;
IV. The individual user of Clouds has to determine what design suits their needs best for a specific application, ie, self-assembling bottom-up design and not centrally imposed top-down design;
V. Whenever possible open data formats and standards need to be chosen for Cloud Computing so that data is portable and “future” proof;
VI. It should be possible to take data away from a Cloud if one wishes to change providers;
VII. Multiple Backups for Clouds – at least one primary and one secondary are necessary. Look for SaaS offerings that can store data in multiple Clouds, where each environment is reliable enough, but gets extra protection with more than two separate systems;
VIII. Choose Cloud services that live by the theme: It is your data and we are trusted caretakers
IX. Look for strong encryption, when using the Cloud to store data. Privacy protection depends on encryption. This means the underlying Cloud storage provider cannot see the contents of private Digital Capital including intellectual property, emails, files, photos, audio and video tracks etc. because all data is encrypted to the Cloud provider;
X. The Cloud can only be secured by the architect of a specific Cloud, and many different security architectures have been presented by various architects;
XI. When Cloud Computing use is incorrect, this can swiftly damage or destroy an organisation or hold it to ransom; and
XII. Cloud Computing, when used correctly, offers much better return on investment in many mission critical scenarios where Digital Capital needs to be managed securely, reliably and cost effectively.

[ENDS]

We welcome your thoughts, observations and views. To reflect further on this, please respond within Twitter, Linked and Facebook’s ATCA Open and related Socratic dialogue platform of HQR.

All the best

DK Matai

Chairman and Founder: mi2g.net, ATCA, The Philanthropia, HQR, @G140

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. DK Matai: http://twitter.com/DKMatai

. Open HQR: http://twitter.com/OpenHQR

. ATCA Open: http://twitter.com/ATCAOpen

. @G140: http://twitter.com/G140

. mi2g: http://twitter.com/intunit

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