• Military Announces New Social Media Policy – NYTimes.com
  Many months behind schedule, the Department of Defense on Friday issued a new policy that, on the surface, seems likely to expand access to popular social networking sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter by troops using military computers.
  (tags: twitter socialmedia democracia)
• Social Media Today | Forget the 80/20 principle, with Twitter it is 79/7
  A well known rule of thumb in business is the so-called Pareto principle (or the 80/20 rule) that 20% of participants will account for 80% of the activity. Metrics firm Nielsen decided to test out if the same applies to Twitter – do 20% of tweeple account for 80% of what takes place on Twitter.
  (tags: web2.0 twitter)
• Ushahidi e o papel sem precedentes mensagens SMS em Resposta a Desastres
  What if we could communicate with disaster affected communities in real-time just days after a major disaster like the quake in Haiti? That is exactly what happened thanks to a partnership between the Emergency Information Service (EIS), InSTEDD, Ushahidi, Haitian Telcos and the US State Department. Just 4 days after the earthquake, Haitians could text their location and urgent needs to “4636” for free.
  (tags: ushahidi crowdsourcing celulares)

• Uso pedagógico de blogs
  …Uma lista (em eterna construção) de posts, artigos, dissertações, teses, livros etc. disponíveis online, que tratam do uso pedagógico de blogs…
  (tags: blog educação)

• R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
  Resumo do livro RUR do escritor tcheco Karel Kapek no qual foi utilizado pela primeira vez palavra robot. R.U.R. was written in 1920, premiered in Prague early in 1921, was performed in New York in 1922, and published in English translation in 1923. The following year, G. B. Shaw and G. K. Chesterton were among those in London participating in a public discussion of the play. Capek responded, via The Saturday Review, to what he felt was the excessive thematic attention they and other critics paid to one of his devices: “For myself, I confess that as the author I was much more interested in men than in Robots.” [1]
  (tags: robots livro)
• 2,500,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE Timeline : From Cave Paintings to the Internet
  From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media 2,500,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE Timeline
  (tags: internet historia science timeline)

• Livro: Sonic Warfare – Steve Goodman
  Sonic Warfare sends a shudder through the hidden underbelly of sound. With uncanny brilliance, Steve Goodman writes through the depths of sub-bass to bring together noise weapons, pirate radio, and the philosophy and politics of rhythm in a vivid new evocation of the power of sound.” –Matthew Fuller, David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Media Ecologies
  (tags: livro)
• Critical Studies in Television – Scholarly Studies for Small Screen Fiction
  CST online is a scholarly resource and critical forum for studying television, sponsored by the Department of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. It is our mission to enrich television studies by providing comprehensive access to information, as well as to disseminate knowledge and stimulate debate.
  CST online is a scholarly resource and critical forum for studying television, sponsored by the Department of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. It is our mission to enrich television studies by providing comprehensive access to information, as well as to disseminate knowledge and stimulate debate.
  (tags: TELEVISION)
• Eurozine – What makes a biopolitical space? – Antonio Negri, Constantin Petcou, Doina Petrescu, Anne Querrien A discussion with Toni Negri
  Toni Negri discusses the significance of urban space for new forms of opposition. The city, he says, is where the “political diagonal” intersects the “biopolitical diagram” – where people’s relation to power is most pronounced. Negri’s interlocutors are involved in exploring “soft” forms of activism, urban projects that create collectivities on micro, neighbourhood levels. Negri is critical of “soft” forms, however, preferring rupture and revolution over accumulation and gradual change.
  (tags: negri politica marx)
• SSRN-Traditional Knowledge and the Fight for the Public Domain by Doris Long
  What are the challenges facing the protection of traditional knowledge internationally? Can the protection of such rights, which have traditionally existed outside the boundaries of intellectual property, be achieved in the face of current challenges to protection epitomized by such emerging international movements as enhanced access to information and culture as a human right? This article examines some of the emerging issues in this hotly contested area and suggests that such movements are not actually adverse to intellectual property or traditional knowledge rights and should be used to craft a new method for addressing the issue of traditional knowledge protection internationally.
  (tags: commons cultura)
• Traduwiki – Traduwiki, collaborative translation
  So, just like the peer-to-peer technology or the grid computing principles, the idea became this: a text could be sectioned into small pieces, users would take some of them to translate them in their spare time, and the interesting document will be quickly and correctly translated. Everyone wins in this situation.
  (tags: wikis colaboração)
• Interview with Geert Lovink by Victoria Lynn – Net Critique /via @jafurtado
  “Web 2.0 is about the integration of the real and the virtual. They are no longer opposites. The goal is a synergy of the real existing social life with the annotated environment. This is done to abstract value from one’s intimate environment and personal relationships. It is not proven that it generates new social forms. We could also say that it initiates new social contexts in real life situations. The third body, consisting of a data cloud that surrounds us, is becoming real. However, unlike the cyber-prophets predicted it is not a virtual reality out there that we step into. The movement has gone in the opposite direction and collapsed into ever-smaller devices.
  (tags: web2.0)
• Is Economics a Science? – The Distributist Review:
  economics is not a complete science and is unable to give us real information about the economy? The Roman pontiffs have long insisted that something was missing. They have insisted on the role of distributive justice in economics. Beginning in 1891, with Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, they have insisted on the just wage as the basis of economic science, a position that has been repeated by every pope since Leo. The economists, on the other hand, have always found this problematic.
  (tags: economia)
• NMEDIAC : Summer 2009: Miniaturization, Miniatures and the Digital by Sheenagh Pietrobruno
  The process of miniaturization and the generation of miniatures, which are integral facets of the digital, yield affective responses. [...][...] These effects are characteristic of the way that the human body determines to a large extent what constitutes a technique of miniaturization and the dimension of a miniature. The sensations of intimacy, possession or control are also evoked by both the practice of miniaturization and the fashioning of miniatures that mark the rise of the printing press, photography and television. Although new media provide distinct forms of miniaturization and miniatures, this progression toward diminution is rooted in earlier technologies. Various key aspects of new media are outlined: the miniaturization of information and space as well as the generation of virtual miniatures, of which Google Earth serves as a case study.
  (tags: googlemaps)
• wishcafe
  What is Wish Café?
  It’s a device for the collective construction of a map of human desire.
  The starting point of this social experiment is the realization that all of us live in a network, that the set of our links defines our place in the world, and that technology provides us with an ever-increasing number of ways to represent that situation.
  Wish Café is, in some way, an anti-net, because it is a network of holes. It intends to make visible, not what we have, but what we are lacking. In other words, to what extent are we still out-of-place in the place we occupy, in which ways are we foreigners at our own home.
  (tags: web2.0 art visualization)
• What Now? : The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix – Fibreculture Journal Issue 15
  The intellectual work on ‘network culture’ is also an act of violence on framing devices that came prior to it; it deletes as much as it creates, prunes as much as it flowers. Accordingly, we need to broaden and historicise the debate beyond the current tenor of ‘social media’, ‘participatory culture’ and ‘copyright wars’ (Lessig, 2008). Thankfully, the doxa is supple enough in most places to allow for the common to grow muddy, strange flowers to grow and animals to grow fat. Remix culture appeals to us because it is precisely just a moment too late for its discussion, the wave has moved on and the Rhetoric Safari conceives of culture in ways that overarch the remix. Rather than argue for the urgency of this issue of Fibreculture Journal, the editors wish to pause, rewind and record over the apparently urgent question of what is remix and ask instead ‘What Now?’
  (tags: remix mashup lessig Benkler creativecommons)

• Metaphoric Networks in Lexia to Perplexia – Katherine Hayles
  [...] As leading theorists and practitioners Marvin Minsky (1985), Daniel Hillis (1999), and Brian Cantwell Smith (1998) have been telling us, computers are much more than hardware and software. In their most general form, computers are environments of varying scope, from objects that sit on desktops to networks spanning the globe. Indeed, in Edward Fredkin’s (1990) interpretation, computational processes ultimately generate the fabric of the universe. It comes as no surprise, then, to find researchers arguing that computation is fundamentally altering the ways in which humans conceive of themselves and their relations to others. There are, of course, many approaches to this issue, from sociological studies to human factor analysis. Among these approaches are artistic works that tell new stories about the formation of human subjects, instantiating these stories in images as well as words. [...]
  (tags: theory redes code)

Em 2062 a família da série de desenho animado Jetsons, tinha uma empregada-robô de um modelo muito antigo e com a validade vencida chamada Rosie. Rosie nunca era trocada por um modelo mais avançado devido sua dedicação e amabalidade na execução das tarefas. Levava os chinelos a George Jetson, trazia sanduíches, lavava as roupas e ensinava as crianças a jogar basquete.

Pesquisadores coreanos do Korea Institute of Science and Technology inventaram que pode fazer tudo isso (menos o basquete).

Mahru-Z (R), que pode limpar uma casa, colocar roupas na máquina de lavar e colocar comida para esquentar no microondas. Cientistas afirmam que o robô poderia ser utilizado para trabalhar em condições muito difíceis ou perigosas para os seres humanos.

Resultado de pesquisas sobre robôs que demandam investimentos de 3,5 milhões de dólares anuais no Instituto Coreano, o Mahru-Z (R) possui um corpo humanóide, uma cabeça rotativa, braços, pernas e seis dedos. É equipado com visão tridimensional, capaz de observar objetos, reconhecer pessoas, identificar as tarefas a serem feitas e executá-las. O robô-empregado tem 1,3 de altura e pesa 55 kilos.

• Res Artis
  Res Artis is the largest existing network of artist residency programmes, representing the interests of more than 300 centers and organisations in 50 countries worldwide that offer to international artists facilities and conditions conducive for making art.
  (tags: arte)
• CeltX: Software livre para roteiros de cinema
  O CeltX é um soft­ware open source de pré-??produção de media, que inclui capa­ci­da­des tão diver­sas como a pla­ni­fi­ca­ção e escrita dos guiões, os levan­ta­men­tos das neces­si­da­des de pro­du­ção, a pla­ni­fi­ca­ção de fil­ma­gens, catá­lo­gos, calen­dá­rio, story­bo­ard, etc.
  (tags: cinema software guionismo roteiro)

• Labor vs. Capital in the Age of Silent Films
  Part I: History. i. Why Movies Matter ii. Movies, Politics, and the Working Class iii. Looking at Labor-Capital Films, Conservative Films, Radical Films, Liberal Films, Populist Films, Anti-Authoritarian Films, iv. When Workers and Radicals Made Movies, v. Class Battles On Screen: Decoding Cinematic Ideology, Conservative Attack, Liberal Ambivalence, Worker Counterattacks
  (tags: politics film)
• How to Destroy the Book, by Cory Doctorow |
  Como destruir o livro, por Cory Doctorow [...] The anti-copyright activists have no respect for our copyright and our books. They say that when you buy an ebook or an audiobook that’s delivered digitally, you are demoted from an owner to a licensor. From a reader to a mere user. [...]
  (tags: livro internet copyright ebooks doctorow drm)

• Web 2.0 suicide machine + Seppukoo, social network self-destruction
  “…The web 2.0 suicide machine and Seppukoo.com are two parody websites with a similar mission: help people to sign out from Facebook forever. The first, by Gordan Savicic, sporting a slick web 2.0 design and catchy taglines, provides a sophisticated way to automate the online identity suicide. A video of the removal process is broadcasted to the user in real time while a remote machine disconnects one friend after another. Seppukoo, by the collective les liens invisibles, presents itself as an extreme response to the commoditization of personal data driven by companies like Facebook. By “liberating digital body from any identity constriction” les liens invisibles advocate a return to the condition of anonymity, a cornerstone of early online communities…”
  (tags: web2.0 redes socialmedia design)

• Web Brasil Indígena
  Conteúdo tecnológico comunitário, de conhecimento, cultural, informativo e de compartilhamento com os povos originários e não indígenas licenciado por Creative Common… Levando o conhecimento a partir de uma mídia étnica e critica pelo olhar dos povos originários em alianças estratégicas para ensino e qualificação de não indígenas da área de TIC em Software Livre e Software Proprietários.
  (tags: democracia cultura socialmedia)
• WordPress Plugin Developers Versus Matt Mullenweg
  Texto critica Matt Mullenweg. o criador do software para blogs WordPress e aborda o problema do nível precário de doações recebidas pelos desenvolvedores de software livre que atuam criando plugin do WordPress e oferece sugestões para reverter a situação.
  (tags: blog software negocios)
• the internet of things | Are you ready for the Internet of Things? – Sharein
  We have been through the full range of emotions and conceptual breakdown that comes with grasping the territory, the full logistical, business, social and philosophical implications of the Internet of Things.
  (tags: tecnologia visualization innovation celulares)

• P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Peer Governance and Wikipedia (interview with Bauwens & Bruns)
  the short interviews with Michel Bauwens and Axel Bruns who are answering the same questions.
  (tags: wikipedia)
• A inteligência cooperativa – Felix Stalder
…um processo aberto de revisão pode tender para o saber convencional, a opinião aceita da maioria, o que, em qualquer comunidade, pode ser equivocado sobre determinadas questões…
(tags: wikipedia colaboração critica)
• WIKI WARS: CPOV: Critical Point of View — Centre for Internet and Society

Uma grande discussão sobre vantagens, problemas e polêmicas da Wikipedia: CPOV: Critical Point of View Wikipedia and the Politics of Open Knowledge. Texto introdutório da conferência sobre Wikipedia que ocorrerá em 2010
(tags: GeertLovink AxelBruns)

Um dos instrumentos musicais mais antigos do mundo, criado a aproximadamente a 12.000 anos, curiosamente apareceu em culturas totalmente afastadas como a chinesa e a centro-americana. No mundo conectado em que as distâncias parecem cada vez menores, a versão inovadora desta antiga invenção humana, vem a ser o primeiro instrumento musical para iphones.

Smule: Ocarina [Zeldarian] from Smule on Vimeo.

A Ocarina, o milenar instrumento de sopro, era similar uma flauta por seus furos para os dedos, mas possuia forma oval e era feito de porcelana, pedra ou terracota. A nova versão, consiste num aplicativo instalado no iphone, com um software que analisa o ruído proveniente do microfone sendo sensível a respiração, movimentos e toques na tela e podendo reconhecer diferentes intensidades de sopro. Os riffs não são pré-compilados possibilitando oportunidades ilimitadas de expressão musical.
Já há vários vídeos na internet de entusiastas do Ocarina executando músicas como Stairway To Heaven , Amazing Grace, ou até Viva la vida do Coldplay. Em função do sucesso a Smule, proprietária do Ocarina obteve em março um injeção de investimentos no valor US$3,9 milhões. Um dos co-fundadores da empresa e criador do aplicativo é o professor do Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics que funciona na Universidade de Stanford.Wang também conduz outro projeto interessante: A Stanford Laptop Orchestra (vídeo).

Via mediateletipos / Dagus-Wan Kenobeat

Autot 2/2
Originally uploaded by vikke*

• O Modelo de Romberg e o Percurso Metodológico de uma Pesquisa Qualitativa em Educação Matemática
  Pesquisa sobre o ensino de Matemática através da resolução de problemas utilizando os computadores cuja a trajetória é retratata do ponto de vista do percurso metodológico que foi realizado pela pesquisadora Norma Allevato
• Toward a Public Alternative in Digital Archiving and Search
  Pode existir uma alternativa “pública” ao monopólio da pesquisa do Google?
  (tags: google descentralização OpenSource)
• Power to the Pixel’s
  Pixel Pitch competition for transmedia projects from Power to the Pixel and Babelgum http://bit.ly/8cGZJ Deadline 14/08/2009
  (via @aswarmofangels / twitter)
  (tags: festival arte)
• 5 Alternatives to The Pirate Bay
  Com a venda do The Pirate Bay e sua reformulação prevista, site zeropaid apresenta 5 alternativas websites para trocar arquivos (via @ruijscosta / twitter)
  (tags: pirataria piratebay)
• Sempre fui cyberpunk
  Excelente texto de Mario Amaya, sobre a cultura cyberpunk. Via Miguel Caetano @remixtures (twitter)
• Michael Jackson, Pina Bausch: We humans are natural dancers?
  Belissimas fotos de nós, seres humanos em todo o mundo, profissionais e amadores, em movimento de todos os motivos acima e muito mais. Via RT @ritacao RT @Antropologias (twitter)
  (tags: dança arte)
• …de ser produtores de notícia para ser facilitadores de conversação
  O jornalista, professor e pesuisador Francis Pisani em interessante vídeo em que fala: “Temos de passar de ser produtores de notícia para ser facilitadores de conversação”
  (tags: jornalismo filtros democracia)
• Culture Machine quer ser surpreendida
  Conceituada publicação Cultura Machine abre inscrições para sua nova edição de trabalhos teoricos. São esperados trabalhos que sua linguagem sejam surpreendentes, inventivos abordando criticamente os meios de comunicação. Está aberto o desafio até 15 de outubro.
  (tags: critica criatividade Foucault)
• Mathieu O’Neil – Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes
  Mathieu O’Neil pesquisador do Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute em seu livro “Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes” repensa a suposta horizontalidade da internet. O autor sugere, é um tipo diferente de autoridade na internet – um sistema apátridas”, em que a organização espontânea de grupos é melhor entendida como tribal e a distribuição de autoridade, nestes contextos é uma “distribuição de carisma”.
  (tags: descentralização democracia critica redes)
• Peer Production Everywhere
  Interessante apresentação do pesquisador Christian Siefkes que descreve como funciona a “Peer production”. Um modo de produção que baseia-se na livre cooperação.
  (tags: p2p benkler wikipedia colaboração apresentação visualization)
• C,mm,n (pronuncia: ‘common’)
  O carro do futuro: Sustentável, ecológico, e Open Source! Um projeto aberto a contribuições criativas de qualquer pessoa
  (tags: design OpenSource tecnologia colaboração)