Enero 2010
34 publicaciones nuevas
International Journal of Learning and Media →
ijlm.net
The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) provides a forum for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to examine the changing relationships between learning and media across a wide range of forms and settings. Our focus is particularly, but by no means exclusively, on young people, and we understand learning in broad terms to include informal and everyday contexts as well as institutions such as schools. We are especially interested in the broader social and cultural dimensions of these issues and in new and emerging media technologies, forms, and practices. We are particularly keen to promote international and intercultural exchange and dialogue in the field and encourage contributions from a variety of academic disciplines and perspectives, including papers from practitioners and policy-makers. Through scholarly articles, editorials, case studies, and an active online network, IJLM seeks to provide a premier forum for emerging interdisciplinary research and debate and to help shape the development of the field around the world. We publish contributions that address the theoretical, textual, historical, and sociological dimensions of media and learning, as well as the practical and political issues at stake. While retaining the peer review process of a traditional academic journal, we also provide opportunities for more topical and polemical writing, for visual and multimedia presentations, and for online dialogues…
The Public Domain Manifesto →
publicdomainmanifesto.org
The public domain, as we understand it, is the wealth of information that is free from the barriers to access or reuse usually associated with copyright protection, either because it is free from any copyright protection or because the right holders have decided to remove these barriers. It is the raw material from which new knowledge is derived and new cultural works are created.
After decades of measures that have drastically reduced the public domain, typically by extending the terms of protection, it is time to strongly reaffirm how much our societies and economies rely on a vibrant and ever expanding public domain. The role of the public domain, in fact, already crucial in the past, it is even more important today, as the Internet and digital technologies enable us to access, use and re-distribute culture with an ease and a power unforeseeable even just a generation ago. The Public Domain Manifesto aims at reminding citizens and policy-makers of a common wealth that, since it belongs to all, it is often defended by no-one. In a time where we for the first time in history have the tools to enable direct access to most of our shared culture and knowledge it is important that policy makers and citizens strengthen the legal concept that enables free and unrestricted access and reuse.
We invite you to read the Manifesto and sign it, if you wish to show your support. We also invite you to share this site (http://publicdomainmanifesto.org) with your contacts and friends. The Public Domain Manifesto is also onFacebook. Also remember to celebrate the Public Domain Day every year on New Year’s Day.
EPA interactive map of environmental enforcement actions
Map of all civil and criminal enforcement actions (2009)
This interactive map shows information on enforcement actions and cases from 2009. They include civil enforcement actions taken at facilities, criminal cases prosecuted under federal statutes and the U.S. Criminal Code, and cases in which EPA provided significant support to cases prosecuted under state criminal laws…
Vía Treehugger.
“The last decade has been witness to the rise of the geeks. What began as a glorification of tech entrepreneurs making it big from the rise of the IT industry, has now permeated every aspect of society. Single-minded obsession with obscure endeavors, hyper-specialization, and technical nerdery of all sorts are glorified across the board. But is such geekery really a good way to foster talent? The most pressing problems in science and technology, and more broadly in business and the economy, don’t lend themselves readily to specialists’ solutions. They require not just inter-discipinary teamwork to make progress, but transdisciplinary thinking - literally, we need people that can have converstaions between disciplinary appraoches to problems inside their own head. In fact, you could argue that most of the gridlock around big problems like global warming, health care, and so on, stem from the inability of narrow specialist and interest groups to speak each others’ language, translate heuristics and integrate complex concepts and data. They’re too specialized, having become more and more isolated in focused communities, thanks to the web. Let’s take a classic example of a geek to unpack this dilemma. London taxi drivers are uber-geeks, memorizing the entire fractal street network of one of the world’s biggest cities. In fact, they are so specialized that scientists have measured distinct enlargement of a portion of the hippocampus in their brains. Yet another recent study has found that the widespread use of GPS technology for personal navigation is reducing the ability of everyday people to find their way at all. On the one hand, the super geeks who can DIY, on the other, lost sheep perpetually dependent on assistive technology. Before you cry foul, and lament the loss of another basic human ability, let me ask you - are you lamenting the ability to do tell time from environmental cues (destroyed by clocks), to do complex mathematical calculations in your mind (destroyed by calculators), or to remember facts (destroyed by Google)? No, because each of these technologies, to which we’ve outsourced some basic functions, have allowed us to give up some geekery in order to spend our precious brain cycles on more broad, integrative thinking. (Of course, the more worrying part of the study, that atrophy of the hippocampus might be tied to dementia, should not be overlooked. But it’s a very preliminary finding) I have alternated back and forth between geekery and generalism in my own career. I can say without a doubt, I’m happier and more productive, and more relevant, when I’m a generalist.”
—In Defense of Generalists | Anthony Townsend (Institute For The Future)
Askaro.com
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Qué es Askaro
Askaro es un sitio hiperlocal para resolver necesidades e intercambiar información en el ámbito más cercano: el barrio, vecindario o lugar de trabajo. La idea es simple, se hace una pregunta en un lugar concreto situándola sobre un mapa a ver si alguien que conozca la zona dá una respuesta útil y desinteresada.
El conocimiento de nuestros vecinos sobre temas locales es muy valioso, sin embargo es difícil acceder a él. Las guías locales y los sitios web de opiniones ayudan, pero no siempre cubren todos los casos.
Askaro es un experimento, se acaba de lanzar y queda mucho por hacer, pero preferimos salir con un sitio incompleto y escuchar tus ideas.
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Para qué tipo de preguntas está pensado Askaro
Preguntas sobre una necesidad o asunto de un barrio o una zona concreta, y que seguro saben la respuesta los que viven allí. Por ejemplo, si hay una tienda que abra hasta más tarde, dónde hay un estudio de yoga bueno y no muy caro, si un barrio es bueno para tener niños, cuando terminarán las obras, etc.
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Preguntas para las que no está pensado Askaro
Preguntas no relacionadas con un zona específica, como podría sear tu vecindario o la zona donde trabajas. Por ejemplo, qué ordenador comprar. Askaro es un espacio para resolver problemas y necesidades a nivel local, el mecanismo de pregunta/respuesta no es apropiado para discutir temas generales, como los últimos estrenos de la cartelera.
Haiti: OSM and Sat Imagery for Free iPhone App - O'Reilly Radar →
radar.oreilly.com
Crisis Mappers from around the world have been working around the clock to create maps and other tools for relief workers in Haiti. The earthquake caused tremendous damage to the road network and updated maps are necessary to enable food and volunteers to traverse the island.
The volunteer-driven Open Street Map project has become a central data source for the Crisis Mappers. It is regarded by many as the most up-to-date map of the area. It combines UN damage assessment, digitized imagery, Public Domain Topos and other base data. In the wake of the tragedy Google quickly released Haiti data gathered from its MapMaker program. DigitalGlobe has made itssatellite imagery of Haiti freely available as well (as did GeoEye).
Shortly there will be a free iPhone app with maps of Haiti coming to the App Store. Andrew Johnson and Jeffrey Johnson (no relation) have adapted an existing iPhone app (www.gaiagps.com) to provide offline maps to for relief workers. It combines Digital Globe (1m resolution), GeoEye (.5m resolution updated on 1/13), and OpenStreetMap (constantly being updated).
This version of Gaia GPS is intended to aid disaster relief for the Haitian earthquake. The app can be used to download maps and satellite imagery of the earthquake area, including up-to-date overlays of disaster sites, hospitals, and other relevant waypoints. The map data is provided by Digital Globe, GeoEye, OpenStreetMap, and the maps are hosted by the New York Public Library.
The app also provides other features that might be relevant to disaster relief efforts:
1) Recording of GPS tracks, waypoints, and geo-tagged photos
2) Import/export GPX tracks and photos
3) Guidance to waypoints and along tracks.
Walking the Edit
Under the media, the city
Equipped with an iPhone that records your trajectory with the help of a GPS, you hear along the way the soundtrack of the film that you are walking … As you progress, media previously placed in the territory are called up into your film: the form of the trajectory becomes the form of the film. Once the walk is complete, you can find your film on an internet site, choose to share it with the other users and watch their films.
This website is still under developpment: only 20% of the functionnalities are implemented - it gives only a “mechanical” idea of the potential of the concept.
The movies that are presented do not match our minimal expectation:
- there is no overlapping of the choosen media over the recorded trajectory
- there is no relation between the recorded speed and the lenght of the media
- there is no thematic continuation.
We hope that we can correct those bugs and recalculate the movies according to our artistic expectations.
Escape->Natureza
Escape->Natureza (vía Ecoarte.info)
Relógio, trânsito, prazos, reuniões… Em meio à turbulência do dia-a-dia, agora você vai poder sintonizar o ritmo da natureza por alguns instantes.
Quando estiver esperando um metrô ou ônibus, a caminho do trabalho, enquanto esperar por um amigo num café ou até mesmo no computador durante uma pausa do trabalho ou estudo: escape → natureza!
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Diante da crescente produção de lixo tecnológico e outros desequilíbrios ambientais, a arte não se exime. O diálogo com problemas ecológicos mostra-se indispensável e o papel da tecnologia hesita. De ferramenta, suporte e conceito, ela passa a ser o cerne de muitos questionamentos de artistas - ativistas ou não.
O projeto escape → natureza surgiu do interesse em ampliar a relação das pessoas com o meio ambiente. Através de imagens capturadas em viagens ou no dia-a-dia, o site possibilita a apreciação de situações e paisagens naturais.
O objetivo é que cada vídeo exibido crie um hiato de tranqüilidade diante do ritmo frenético da rotina e provoque reflexão sobre as relações entre ambiente e tecnologia. Este conceito permeia o próprio modelo de fruição do projeto: uma mobilidade possível através de recursos tecnológicos para exibir situações inusitadas ou triviais na vida urbana.
Equipe:
- Karla Brunet [coordenação, website, criação, imagens, edição]
- Maruzia Dultra [criação, imagens, edição]
Colaboradores:
- Você [participe]
Once upon a Place – haunted houses & imaginary cities
The event is dedicated to architects, historians, researchers, essayists, artists and authors, aiming at the reunion of a critical and creative international group for the cultural studies in architecture.
What kinds of stories do spaces and buildings “tell” us? What insights on architectural knowledge and experience can literary forms convey? Are designs, buildings and cities somehow a fabrication on the world? Does form follows fiction? Can fiction foresee architecture and urban futures?
The conference will tackle the reciprocal influences between architecture and fiction, whether they emerge under literary forms or other means related to visual narratives and popular culture.
Relationships and Dynamics - Seeing Through New Lenses - John Hagel →
edgeperspectives.typepad.com
… About five years ago, Richard Nisbett, a professor of psychology, wrote “The Geography of Thought.” This fascinating book drew on extensive research pointing to fundamental cultural differences in how we see the world. Specifically, he contrasted an East Asian way of seeing the world with a more traditional Western way of seeing.
While it would be difficult to summarize Nisbett’s rich analysis, I want to focus on a key distinction that he develops in his analysis of two cultural ways of perceiving our world. He suggests that East Asians focus on relationships as the key dimension of the world around us while Westerners tend to focus more on isolated objects. In other words, East Asians tend to adopt more holistic views of the world while Westerners are more oriented to reductionist views.
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As Nisbett points out, the Greek philosophers gave us the notion that “the world is fundamentally static and unchanging.” East Asians tend to focus on oscillations and cycles which acknowledge change but contain it in relatively narrow fields – the world is in flux but it does not head in fundamentally different directions over long periods of time.
So, there is another dimension that differentiates perception – and this is a point that Nisbett sadly does not explore or develop. Some of us tend to view the world in static terms while others focus on the deep dynamics that lead to fundamental transformations over time
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China →
googleblog.blogspot.com
… We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
