Agosto 2011
39 publicaciones nuevas
Social Networking Meets Problem Solving →
The website Jig wants to solve your needs—with a little help from your friends.
A new social network, called Jig, aims to be a place where users do more than just share personal news or play games. It’s a hangout where they can help solve one another’s problems.
Jig was founded by Joshua Schachter, the creator of the social bookmarking site Del.icio.us, which in the early 2000s...
Too much tweeting →
Twitter - it ‘s constantly there to reassure you that the rest of the world exists and that everyone is talking to each other. All the time.
Records in constant communication are being set all the time. The MTV Video Music Awards ceremony played host to the most tweeted about moment of all time, when Beyoncé revealed her baby bump to the world, spawning 8,868 tweets per second....
Reality Television Needs an Overhaul →
Reality television needs reformation. As a longtime fan of even the louchest reality shows — “The Bachelor,” “America’s Next Top Model,” you name it — I never thought I’d say that. Reform, I long believed, would cost the vaudeville genre its freaky and subversive status as a fact-fiction hybrid. We’d lose all the surprises, comic and dramatic, generated by reality’s artful and mischievous...
Imágenes políticamente incorrectas de los... →
Ninguno de los incidentes sucedidos ha beneficiado a la JMJ. Tal vez por eso mismo alguien pensó que era una buena idea meter a unos cientos de radicales en medio de dos millones de peregrinos. El material que les mostramos a continuación muestra algunas de las muchas incidencias que antecedieron a las cargas policiales en las que ahora se presenta a los radicales laicistas como víctimas
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Removing the ethics from bioethics →
The New York Times blog for philosophers, The Stone, likes edgy topics like does truth matter, isn’t it all relative, and can we have morals without God? The latest unsettling argument in the series comes from bioethicist Joel Marks, a scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University, who has recently swung around to the view that there is no difference between right and...
Could Steve Jobs’s Stepping Down as Apple’s CEO... →
Much is being written about whether Apple can retain its edge now that Steve Jobs, its visionary chief executive, has announced his departure from that post for health reasons. For colleges, the question is whether the company will remain as attentive to higher education, given that Mr. Jobs has long sought the advice of higher-education officials and encouraged colleges to use the company’s...
Cut and Paste and Run
lareviewofbooks:
EMILY GREEN
As part of our ongoing inquiry into the future of journalism,
Emily Green talks about finding her research
(and her words) in someone else’s book.
Twin Roads No Guitar ©
Andrew Schneider
Why we still love tabloids →
Tabloids have been getting some bad press lately. The press as a whole, and tabloids in particular, have been tarred by the The News of The World scandal; but let’s not forget that the tabloid is something of a cultural institution. There are undoubtedly some darker aspects to this type of journalism, but provided they keep things above board, surely there is still a place for the humble...
FAQ: Key Questions on Libya’s Coming Transition →
Entre las preguntas que Pro Publica se hace sobre lo que ha pasado y puede pasar en Libia, no deja de sorprender si el final de Gadafi es obra de los rebeldes o de la Otan. En todo caso queda claro lo que da de sí una declaración de “no fligth zone” de la Onu, en manos de los intereses de gobiernos y ejércitos occidentales.
No hemos visto en televisión casi nada de los bombardeos,...
Bill Adair, Editor of Politifact: 'Readers love... →
Bill Adair is Washington Bureau Chief for The St Petersburg Times and Editor of Politifact, a fact-checking website with a cheeky tone. He speaks here about the importance of accountability journalism, the changing face of the media and how presenting the facts behind the news can be like ‘getting people to eat their vegetables’.
Politifact is best known for its...
Are live blogs as useful as we think they are? →
It seems the political situation in Libya has reached a turning point. As Libyan rebels flood the capital, surrounding Gaddafi’s compound and claiming to have captured his son Saif al-Islam, the world is watching, awaiting the outcome of this dramatic social upheaval.
The question for journalists is: how are we learning about the situation? Most likely, if you have gained your news from...
“Luis María Anson, La pataleta ante el éxito del Papa, El Imparcial:
España es...”
– Luis María Anson, La pataleta ante el éxito del Papa, El Imparcial.
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“Fernando Lázaro, Cacería contra el peregrino en Sol, El Mundo:
Cuando tengo...”
– Fernando Lázaro, Cacería contra el peregrino en Sol, El Mundo.
Ver artículo completo aquí, amabiliadad de @jmolas via Twitter
“David Gistau, Noticias de Dios, El Mundo:
«No os avergoncéis de Cristo», dijo...”
– David Gistau, Noticias de Dios, El Mundo
Helping Social Networkers Connect Even More →
New apps let social media users connect through many different channels.
Facebook’s new Messenger app for Android phones and iPhones is designed to let groups of people communicate with one another in real time no matter where they are. It’s the first instance in which Facebook has split a core part of its social network from the main product—a move that reflects a shift in how...
Read the Embarrassing Hacking Allegations That... →
New documents published today cast doubt on News Corporation’s claims that top executives and editors at the now-defunct News of the World were unaware of widespread phone hacking at the paper. One of the documents had also been aggressively redacted by News Corp., which removed references that referred to top editors knowing about the hacking. We’ve posted the document, with News...
Mario Garcia: Newspapers need to carve their niche... →
Renowned newspaper designer Mario Garcia was quick to get his hands on an iPad when the Apple tablet first hit the market. It didn’t take long for him to realize that tablets can be a “game changer” for the industry.
Garcia has earned his reputation as one of the leading newspaper designers in the world with numerous prestigious redesign projects, including The Wall Street...
Are Keyboards on Laptops the Next Thing to Go? →
Infinitely re-configurable virtual keyboards with haptic feedback could do everything conventional input devices do — and so much more
The one thing that differentiates a laptop from a tablet — a keyboard — could be on its way to the dustbin of history, contends long-time Mac columnist Andy Ihnatko. If you don’t believe him, witness Exhibit A in the war on a technology...
Why Google Bought Motorola →
Besides an impressive patent portfolio, Motorola will give Google greater control over the future of the mobile Web.
Google announced today that it has agreed to acquire the smart-phone manufacturer Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.
In a statement, Google said the deal was largely driven by the need to acquire Motorola’s patent portfolio, which it said would help it defend Android...
Why All Local News Aggregators Seem Destined to... →
Most local news is an confusing mess; mashing it all into one place doesn’t solve that problem
I have yet to not be disappointed by a local news aggregator, and I consider myself a devoted connoisseur of their consistently unusable incoherence. Everyone wants these things to work — who doesn’t want to know what’s going on in their neighborhood? — so engineers...
"Compra una vez, lee en cualquier sitio": Amazon... →
Users can now access all of their Amazon Kindle content on anything with a browser.
Yesterday, Amazon launched Kindle Cloud Reader, a Web browser-based version of its popular e-reading platform. Built using HTML5, an emerging standard that lets Web applications function like desktop ones, the Kindle Cloud Reader looks and acts a lot like the Kindle apps created for the iPad, Android tablets, and...
M.M. Almeida: La batalla de Twitter →
Twitter ha puesto la directa. Una de las batallas más interesantes de las muchas que se están produciendo en la Web 2.0 ha dado comienzo y estoy convencido de que su resolución sentará un antecedente en el ámbito de los servicios y herramientas comerciales en la Red.
La situación económica para la popular herramienta de microblogging nunca ha sido cómoda y ha estado presente en múltiples...
Universities Get Advice on How to Avoid... →
Universities have been struggling for years with the problem of researchers who let industry-financed ghostwriters draft biased summaries of their work for publication in medical journals.
They’re now getting some blunt advice on how to stop it, including from perhaps the most qualified experts: the ghostwriters themselves.
In a pair of articles published Tuesday by PLoS Medicine, two...
Michael Casey: El enigma de la tolerancia... →
En nombre de la tolerancia, algunos gobiernos occidentales actúan de modo intolerante contra grupos que mantienen posiciones distintas a lo “políticamente correcto” del momento. La creencia en la verdad se considera peligrosa, mientras que la imposición del relativismo se presenta como un bien. El sociólogo Michael Casey, profesor de la Universidad de Notre Dame Australia, explica cómo se ha...
Eduardo Arriagada: Como conseguir la experiencia... →
Para saber más de diarios y revistas digitales, hay que leer lo escrito hace dos días por Eduardo Arriagada. Comienza así:
(Artículo que busca feedback: enmiendas, aportes, cifras, desmentidos, opiniones, todo es bienvenida para que con sus comentarios de este post pueda ser más útil para las clases que tendré que hacer en agosto sobre el trabajo medial en iPad)
Teniendo en mente la tercera...
Status Update: What's Facebook's Effect on Kids? →
Psychologists see good and bad in social networks. On the bad side, possible links to psychiatric disorders; on the good side, increased empathy.
“Las redes sociales no están “matando” a los blogs: esto publica...”
– :: La Huella Digital.es: Las redes sociales no están “matando” a los blogs
“David Mamet: «Heredamos de los soviéticos y sus satélites la concepción...”
– Recojo esta frase de Mamet al verla destacada por Luis Daniel González en su blog Bienvenidos a la fiesta:
Nota: ‘Concepción totalitaria’
Si eso es asi (los "indignados", contra el Papa en... →
Si los “indignados” actuales ya no tienen que ver con sus raíces y su origen (Ley Sinde, etc.), sino que -junto a un buen puñado de justas reivindicaciones políticas- se dejan apadrinar por algunos medios y algunos políticos oportunistas (lograr lectores o votos como sea) en modo “activistas” del “gremio nacionalanticristiano”, poca credibilidad van a lograr...
Federico Ysart: En serio, ¿cuatro meses más así? →
Lo ha dicho mucha gente y de modos diversos. Es recomendable leer lo que dice F. Ysart. Empieza así:
Rajoy debe comenzar a concretar la tierra prometida, y Pérez Rubalcaba dejar de decir simplezas, como lo de montar a los indignados un chiringuito de información. De ambos, y de sus formaciones, cabría esperar un pacto tan sencillo como reducir a la mitad el paréntesis de cuatro meses y medio en...
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JL Orihuela: Las empresas tecnológicas apuestan... →
(…) Mientras las empresas de medios siguen empeñadas en descubrir una tecnología que las salve, las empresas tecnológicas (hasta Twitter contrata un manager de Entertainment Content), ya han descubierto que la clave está en los contenidos.
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The Digital Campus 2011: Does all this new... →
With the proliferation of cloud computing, Twitter, adaptive-learning software, smartphone apps, digital archives, and many other tools and programs on campuses today, it’s fair to ask if any of it is making a difference.
The lead story shows one tech-savvy university’s bumpy road to becoming a mobile-friendly campus. The report also features the experiences of academics switching to paperless...
las 10 películas que -según Alternet- han... →
The Top 10 Movies to Inspire GOP Insanity During the Debt Ceiling Vote
Since the GOP is so inspired by modern cinema, we’ve got some suggestions for films that reflect their agenda to vilify the middle class.
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“The New Yorker’s success on the iPad makes sense on multiple levels. Its rich...”
– Muchas editoriales siguen buscando experiencias multimediales con muchos videos y gráficos complejos para en iPad y no ven la importancia de entregar una buena experiencia de lectura, mejor que la que se da en el papel.
Con un buen diseño, aprovechando la experiencia táctil iPad, sumado a la...
Cracking Open Chrome OS →
Researchers use the Web to steal passwords and other data from Google’s Web-based operating system.
Today at Black Hat, a computer security conference in Las Vegas, researchers described how they were able to steal data from ChromeOS, an operating system built by Google that requires the user to do almost everything via the Web.
By using the operating system’s Web-based design...
Le Monde: Les trois échecs de M. Barack Obama →
Entamé sous des auspices encourageants, le mandat de M. Barack Obama ressemble de plus en plus à une succession d’épreuves. En particulier pour les partisans du président des Etats-Unis. L’accord que ce dernier vient de parrainer avec la majorité républicaine de la Chambre des représentants (en dépit de leur déroute électorale de novembre dernier, les démocrates conservent le contrôle du Sénat)...
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Internet Política: Las subvenciones a la JMJ →
A medida en que se acercan las fechas de la JMJ, proliferan presuntas informaciones, más bien propaganda de baja estofa que pretende dañar la imagen y la realidad de estas Jornadas Mundiales de la Juventud junto a Benedicto XVI que esta vez tiene lugar en Madrid. Sobre todo un aspecto (el económico) es esgrimido por la prensa que dedica sus páginas a esta operación. Y lo escrito por Montse Doval...
'Web 2.0' Will Die on October 1, 2012 -
Four years... →
Pundits have been predicting the death of the term “Web 2.0” since at least 2008, occasionally with a level of schadenfreude that renders their rants hilarious, in retrospect. (TechCrunch heads for the deadpool, anyone?) In 2009 TechCrunch updated this meme with some actual data, but let’s face it, we weren’t far enough past the peak to make a prediction with any...
