Midia Vida

A Cosac Naify promete divulgar no blog, trechos de livros inéditos, além de curiosidades sobre a escolha das capas e detalhes sobre os próximos lançamentos. O livro Flores, do escritor mexicano Mario Belletin, por exemplo, foi disponibilizado para download sob licença Creative Commons. A editora pretende criar uma biblioteca on-line na qual oferecerá periodicamente [...]

The Expropriation of Digital Labor 
and What to Do About It
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Post-Mortem Conference Mashup: The Internet as Playground and Factory 
by Trebor Scholz scholzt@newschool.edu
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Frequent reference points in the animated conversations included practices like gold farming, game modding, blogging, “turking” on Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk, gaming in World of [...]

This bicycle comes complete with a kinetic energy recovery system (KERS), sensors, a smart lock, and a Bluetooth connection to the rider’s iPhone.
The onboard sensors monitor bike speed, distance traveled, direction, pollution levels, and proximity of friends, and the smart lock sends you a text message if someone tries to steal your bike.

Trecho da ‘Carta pela Inovação, Criatividade e Acesso ao Conhecimento‘.
http://fcforum.net/
A idéia é de que cada um de nós façamos a promoção dessa carta e a coloquemos em prática.
A Cultura Livre amplia drasticamente os espaços de participação cívica, expandindo o leque de indivíduos e grupos capazes de contribuir para os debates públicos. Trata-se, portanto, do [...]

Magma is an online video aggregator that collects popular videos from a variety of different video sources, including YouTube , Hulu, Twitter, StumbleVideo, and many more. The Magma home page is comprised of video charts for the most popular videos being watched, right now. Every video is given a score from a low of [...]

Everyone should have the right to disconnect. Seamless connectivity and rich social experience offered by web2.0 companies are the very antithesis of human freedom. Users are entrapped in a high resolution panoptic prison without walls, accessible from anywhere in the world. Everyone should have the right to quit her 2.0-ified life. Facebook and Co. are [...]

The Price of Free
By NICHOLAS CARR
Published in the NYT on November 13, 2009
When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and plumbing — are nothing new in the entertainment business, but [...]

by Frank Meeuwsen op http://bloghelden.nl/2009/12/tijdlijn/
Bloghelden verzamelt informatie over wat zich in de Nederlanse blogosfeer afspeelde tussen 1995 en 2005. Daarom de Tijdlijn van de Nederlandse Webloggeschiedenis.
Via twee online diensten kunnen we met z’n allen deze tijdlijn vullen. Je kunt op de blog en op de wiki een Google Doc invullen (wikiregistratie is NIET [...]