Diciembre 2011
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Accumulation, control and contingency: A critical... →
Accumulation, control and contingency: A critical review of intellectual property rights’ ‘piracy’, by Yiannis Mylonas. First Monday, Volume 16, Number 12 - 5 December 2011
Abstract: This article problematizes piracy a) as a hegemonic discourse and technology of control, aiming to securitize late capitalist accumulation; b) as a practice developed by the multitudes that is compatible to...
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Back to the “wall”: How to use Facebook in the... →
Back to the “wall”: How to use Facebook in the college classroom, by Caroline Lego Muñoz and Terri Towner. First Monday, Volume 16, Number 12 - 5 December 2011
Abstract: The evolving world of the Internet — blogs, podcasts, wikis, social networks — offers instructors and students radically new ways to research, communicate, and learn. Integrating these Internet tools into the college classroom,...
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Understanding collaboration in Wikipedia →
Understanding collaboration in Wikipedia, by Royce Kimmons. First Monday, Volume 16, Number 12 - 5 December 2011
Abstract: Wikipedia stands as an undeniable success in online participation and collaboration. However, previous attempts at studying collaboration within Wikipedia have focused on simple metrics like rigor (i.e., the number of revisions in an article’s revision history) and diversity...
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This is Service Design Thinking →
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MITx is beginning of sweeping new online push →
MIT is developing an online educational platform that will be open-source, largely free, and let users outside of MIT earn certificates for completing Institute-caliber courses online. MIT hopes the initiative, internally dubbed “MITx,” will change the way students learn on-campus — by incorporating elements of MITx into existing curricula — and push MIT’s educational reach beyond campus borders...
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Sobre el futuro de China
¿Estallará China?, Paul Krugman, El País (24 Diciembre 2011)
Plantéense el siguiente panorama: últimamente, el crecimiento se ha basado en un fuerte auge de la construcción, impulsado por una escalada de los precios inmobiliarios, y muestra todos los signos clásicos de una burbuja. El crédito ha crecido rápidamente, pero gran parte de ese crecimiento no ha venido a través de la banca tradicional,...
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Brazil now has 236m mobile numbers, that's a 20%... →
Brazil closed November 2011 with 236 million mobile access activations – a 19.51% growth year-on-year, the Brazilian national telecom agency Anatel reports. Out of these lines, 38.83 million are 3G terminals, it adds.
This is quite a feat, considering that the country ‘only’ has approximately 195 million inhabitants. In other words, there are more mobile lines than people in Brazil; the country’s...
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Prototyping in Public Services - NESTA →
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Prototyping in Public Servicesdescribes an approach that can be used to help develop new and innovative services by testing ideas out early in the development cycle.
NESTA has produced a guide for policymakers, strategy leads, heads of service, commissioners and anyone else in a public service looking for new methodologies that can help them to better meet the needs of their...
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Fresh Look for Author, and for Land He Lauded →
Sobre Stefan Zweig, autor de “Brasil, país de futuro” (1941) (descarga gratuita), que se convirtió en un lema repetido durante décadas.
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The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011 -... →
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Google’s Earth - William Gibson - New York Times →
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Science fiction never imagined Google, but it certainly imagined computers that would advise us what to do. HAL 9000, in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” will forever come to mind, his advice, we assume, eminently reliable — before his malfunction. But HAL was a discrete entity, a genie in a bottle, something we imagined owning or being assigned. Google is a distributed entity, a two-way...
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Connections. Connectors - Jan Chipchase →
A critical part of any ethnographic/design research project is recruiting the right participants for the study – they are the foundation on which the research is built. The default way of recruiting in the commercial research space is to use recruiting agencies to help connect the researcher with relevant participants – generating a list that is often fleshed out by contacts from the team’s...
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VerDesign for growth: public services
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¿Un mundo sin tiendas? - José Ignacio Wert - El... →
De entre las múltiples revoluciones que Internet trae consigo, el e-commerce, el comercio a través de la Red, es una de las más importantes económica y socialmente. Aunque nuestro país no esté a la cabeza en esta faceta -como no lo está prácticamente en ninguna que tenga que ver con el entorno digital-, se estima que este año los españoles habremos gastado 9.400 millones de euros (el 3,5% del...
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The Future of Retail Depends on Today's Policy... →
[This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail]
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How Luther went viral - The Economist →
Five centuries before Facebook and the Arab spring, social media helped bring about the Reformation.
Mubarak and Leo X, the anciens régimes
IT IS a familiar-sounding tale: after decades of simmering discontent a new form of media gives opponents of an authoritarian regime a way to express their views, register their solidarity and co-ordinate their actions. The protesters’ message spreads...
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Student as producer: reinventing HE through... →
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The relationship between teaching and research goes to the heart of the meaning and purpose of higher education. The fundamentalist view of the university is that teaching which is not based on research carried out by academics and students is not higher education. The first modern European university, established by Wilhelm von Humboldt in Berlin in 1810, was designed with research and...
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Catálogo de modelos para un centro de Madrid para... →
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Infinite Stupidity, A Talk With Mark Pagel →
A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we’ve seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What’s happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we’re being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We’re being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators...
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Escolas de samba, aprender haciendo en comunidad
Escola de samba:
é um tipo de agremiação de cunho popular, que se caracteriza pelo canto e dança do samba, quase sempre com intuito competitivo.
… se apresentam em espetáculos públicos, em forma de cortejo, onde representam um enredo, ao som de um samba-enredo, acompanhado por uma bateria; seus componentes - que podem ser algumas centenas ou até milhares…
… o desfile de...
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Lean Canvas →
“A business plan is a document investors make you write that they don’t read.”
Steve Blank, The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Based on Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas, optimized for Lean Startups:
Fast: Compared to writing a business plan which can take several weeks or months, you can outline multiple possible business models on a canvas in one afternoon.
Portable: A single...
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How I Document my Business Model Hypotheses →
Business model canvas de Alex Osterwalder:
Business model canvas de Ash Maurya:
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La innovación barata emerge - E País →
… reverse innovation, este modelo invierte el proceso habitual de creación y comercialización de productos de una empresa, lo que implica desarrollar productos en y para los mercados emergentes y adaptarlos después a las economías más avanzadas.
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“La reverse innovation es el proceso contrario a la glocalización, que parte de una concepción global de un producto para adaptarlo...
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Predicciones para 2012 sobre Administración y... →
Un año más desde gencat blog presentan las predicciones para 2012 sobre Administración y redes sociales.
1. Incremento de los concursos de aplicaciones a partir de datos públicos. Especial atención a las aplicaciones relacionadas con el transporte público.
2. Adaptación a web móvil, y navegación por tabletas de las webs municipales. Así como sus versiones para Facebook.
3. Primeras iniciativas...
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The data-citizen driven city →
The data-citizen driven city is a project done for the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest: Shaping our environment with real-time data (awarded with an honorable mention). A project done by: Sara Alvarellos,Cesar García, Jorge Medal, Sara Thomson.
Understanding reality with data, changing personal habits. Using open source technologies, like Arduino-based sensor units or mobile apps,...
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Launching The Innovation Renaissance - Alex... →
Launching the Innovation Renaissance (Amzn link, B&N for Nook, also iTunes) my new e-book from TED books is now available! How can we increase innovation? I look at patents, prizes, education, immigration, regulation, trade and other levers of innovation policy. Here’s a brief description:
Unemployment, fear, and fitful growth tell us that the economy is stagnating. The recession,...
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200 most influential Twitter users during the... →
The Guardian has obtained a database of more than 2.5m twitter messages related to the riots.
These messages - unique records of what happened during the August riots, as they happened - have been used in a range of analyses, including how rumours spread and were eventually debunked…
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Spatial Analysis - The best of 2011 →
Algunos ejemplos:
Colaboraciones científicas
Altura de las olas durante el tsunami en Japón (NOAA)
Proyecciones de mapas (xkcd)
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Mobile Gastfreundschaft by Kollectiv Stadtpark →
… The Mobile Gastfreundschaft (mobile hospitality) comprises a kitchen unit with sink and gas hob, a separate sideboard and a long table with stools. They’re made from standard sections of timber and each structure has a wheel at one end like a wheelbarrow …
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Telefónica lanza en Latinoamérica su smartphone... →
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La fuerza de Brasil reside en sus carencias - Juan... →
… son esas deficiencias y esas carencias las que constituyen un enorme potencial para un desarrollo futuro aún más próspero. Si Brasil es capaz de continuar con la política neoliberal que impusieron en el país primero el sociólogo Fernando Henrique Cardoso y después el exsindicalista, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, junto con potentes políticas sociales, sin caer en tentaciones de cuño...
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VerCultura digital, smart citizens y ciudad abierta. Conferencia en las IV Jornadas Internacionales de Ciudades Creativas organizadas por la Fundación Kreanta (Madrid, 25 Noviembre 2011).
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Ethnography as theory - Laura Nader - HAU: Journal... →
Abstract: Ethnography is never mere description, rather it is a theory of describing that has always been controversial as to the what and how thus inspiring a dynamic intellectual process. The process has been methodologically eclectic and innovative, governed by both consensual and outdated rules. Throughout more than hundred years of Anglo-American ethnography, observation has been combined...
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Daribi kinship at perpendicular angles: A trompe... →
Abstract: What are the contours of such “knowledge” that does double duty both as a public good or commons and as a source of individual empowerment and liberty? This article offers an analysis of the epistemological organisation of the “knowledge economy” by shooting ethnographic work on Free Software through a playful trompe l‘oeil of Roy Wagner‘s classic piece on Daribi...
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Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants - Joichi Ito... →
… The Internet, on the other hand, was designed and deployed by small groups of researchers following the credo of one of its chief architects, David Clark: “rough consensus and running code.” Its early standards — uncomplicated, consensual — were stewarded by small organizations that resisted permission or authority. And they won: The Internet Protocol on which every connected device relies...
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“La representación es la ausencia de la... →
… Hay que situar la emancipación desde una perspectiva espacial que implica pensar “desde abajo” y desde una perspectiva temporal que pone en primer plano la tendencia que aspira a que todo aquello común, que hoy sólo compartimos a un nivel virtual y técnico, se convierta en algo actual y político. Y para esto hay que pensar, como experimento, las figuras actuales de la subjetividad.
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The Evolved Self-management System | Nicholas... →
I’m now thinking about a larger issue still. If placebo medicine can induce people to release hidden healing resources, are there other ways in which the cultural environment can “give permission” to people to come out of their shells and to do things they wouldn’t have done in the past? Can cultural signals encourage people to reveal sides of their personality or faculties...
