Top ten brains of the digital future « Prospect Magazine. Above: digital consumers are living for the first time in a culture where being part of a globally interconnected group is normal When we refer to something digital—a film, a book, a song—we simply mean that it exists as a string of ones and zeroes within a machine. As ever more of our cultural and intellectual life migrates towards digital media, however, the staggering implications are becoming clear: that to live in a digital age is to live in an era of instantaneous and infinite reproduction, communication and creation.
Change has rarely been at once so rapid and so universal; and many ideas that will shape the 21st century are emerging from the digital realm. In the past 12 months, the total number of global internet users has swept past the 2bn mark. But if 2010 was important, 2011 promises still more. Digital society’s top three: Tim Berners-Lee, Susan Crawford and Henry Jenkins are helping to shape the future of our wired century The Prospect panel. 10 incredible social media infographics. Internet Culture. SFA to screen ‘Digital Nation’ | www.thecherokeean.com | Cherokeean Herald.
Where's the story? 2 Points Mentioned Douglas Rushkoff’s documentary was filmed for PBS’ “Frontline” and first aired February 2010. The 78-minute film about our digital culture examines topics such as limited attention spans of multitaskers, computer gaming addiction, social relationships, virtual experiences and teaching with technology. NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - As a part of its monthly independent film series, the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of "Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier" at 7 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 4, at The Cole Art Center @ the Old Opera House, 329 E. Douglas Rushkoff’s documentary was filmed for PBS’ “Frontline” and first aired February 2010. World Map Of Social Networks Shows Facebook’s Ever-Increasing Dominance. State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky. Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, journalist, speaker, and citizen of the world, spending much of his time on the road, in Serbia, in Italy, and in the U.S. He's traveled broadly all his life, and has cultivated a global perspective which informs his writing, both fiction and journalism.
He has focused on the cutting edges of Internet and hacker cultures, environmentalism, and global politics, and more recently he has become a critic of design and proponent of "design fiction. " Jon Lebkowsky is an Internet expert, evangelist, and consultant, social commentator, gonzo futurist, media analyst and critic, organizer and activist based in Austin, Texas. He's cofounder and Chief Digital Officer of Plutopia Productions, a future-focused events, entertainment, and media company. This is their eleventh annual State of the World conversation on the WELL. Hello to all, welcome to the party. But we can always filter the photos intelligently.
<10> Ditto. More... Mozilla Drumbeat: Open Web Meets Open Learning. What if the same energy, ideals, organizational effectiveness, global army of volunteers and code wizardry that created the Firefox web browser could be applied to learning and education? Don't forget that the Mozilla Foundation is all about maintaining the openness and generativity of the Web. Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, told me recently "we need to do more than make a browser" for Mozilla to advance its larger goals.
I asked him why Mozilla decided to turn its attention and formidable energies to education and learning. "We looked at each other," Surman said, "and asked ourselves who kinda looks like the people who made Firefox? " Which is what brought Mozilla's attention to the kinds of efforts represented here on DMLcentral. "Learning, Freedom, and the Web" was the motto of the festival and remains the slogan of the ongoing movement. Other ongoing Drumbeat projects include: Book review: Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? In the mid-20th century, the French sociologist Jacques Ellul posed 76 "reasonable questions" that he thought we should ask about any new technology. They included moral questions such as "What values does its use foster? " and "What is lost by using it? " and social ones such as "What are its effects on relationships?
" Today, as we rush to embrace the latest gadgets and apps, we tend merely to ask: "What does it do? " Luckily, John Brockman, the founder of the online science-and-technology site Edge.org, decided to pose a bigger question to a varied group of 150 writers, artists, scholars, scientists and pundits: "Is the Internet changing the way you think?
" The result is a diffuse but provocative sampling of the ways in which we live with technology today and think about its effects. Although the sciences are heavily represented among Mr. These are not the laments of technophobes. The substitution of the virtual for the real is another common theme. Ms. Home - Edward Tenner. All Things Connected | Digital Culture. The Web Is a Customer Service Medium. Thursday, January 6, 2011 By Paul Ford I look forward to your feedback. I sometimes chat with people in the book- and magazine-publishing industries. They complain to me about the web. They worry about what is being lost. They can sound like this bookseller in Buffalo, New York: Books are not product. I call the people who say such things the Gutenbourgeois. “Look,” I say, “maybe you're doing it wrong.” “But,” they say, “we tweet.”
That's when I tell them about the fundamental question of the web. The Fundamental Question of the Web One can spend a lot of time defining a medium in terms of how it looks, what it transmits, wavelengths used, typographic choices made, bandwidth available. Here's one question: “I'm bored, and I want to get out of the house and have an experience, possibly involving elves or bombs. The answer: You could go to a movie. Here's another: “How do I distract myself without leaving the house?” You might turn on the TV. “I'm driving, or making dinner. Radio!
The Unconsulted. Mind Mapping Software. List of Influencer Identification Tools. After working on some influencer identification product reviews and stories recently, I decided it might be useful to compile a list of influencer discovery tools for your use. If I’m missing any software platforms or services in this list, please drop a comment or send me an email and I will update as needed. Consider this an ever-growing resource and bookmark it or share with your networks. I promise to update it and annotate it as needed.
This list is not (yet) comprehensive. Influencer Identifcation Tools The following software platforms and services offer the ability to identify online influencers and voices in the social media space that your company or brand may want to reach out to for your marketing efforts. Alianzo – Blog Catalog-like blogging community tool that lists and organizes blogs, Twitter and Facebook accounts by an impact/influence algorithm. Alltop – Blog RSS aggregator organized by topic. Peer Index – Twitter influencer tool. Hrheingold: How I use Twitter, search, Diigo Delicious, DEVONthink, Scrivener to find, refine, organize information -->knowledge. Our Most Read Posts in 2010. "The Anti-Social Network": Jon Stewart wonders why Facebook has one privacy policy for us and another for themselves! - UniqueVisitor.
The Importance of Vacation | Wired Science “Welcome to the workin’ week. I know it don’t thrill you, I hope it don’t kill you.” – Elvis Costello One of the great luxuries of the 21st century is vacation without e-mail. If I had to choose between a pampered resort with constant internet access or a dowdy motel without any cellphone service, I’d go for the motel every time.
There is something truly decadent about turning off e-mail, quitting Twitter, signing off Facebook and going to the beach. The first few hours are a bit bumpy — I hallucinate the ping, ping, ping of my inbox — but I eventually get over the anxiety of my digital disconnectedness. And then I begin to enjoy it. This blog post is an elaborate rationalization for why such lazy vacations are so useful. Look, for instance, at a recent experiment (“Lessons from a Faraway land: The effect of spatial distance on creative cognition“) led by the psychologist Lile Jia at Indiana University. A prisoner was attempting to escape from a tower. Consider a field of corn. Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite Info: Tech News « Evan Williams and I have known each other for a long time. From a struggling entrepreneur who started Blogger, to a successful founder who got liberal funding for his podcasting start-up Odeo, to the accidental launch of Twitter — to me, he has been pretty much the same person.
He prefers to stay out of the limelight, leaving (most if not all the media duties) to his co-founder Biz Stone. And even in crowds he is quiet. But occasionally he speaks freely. A few weeks ago, he and I discussed the future of the Internet, Twitter and the curse of too much information. It was a long conversation, sometimes rambling, but quite enjoyable.
Om Malik: Ev, when you look at the web of today, say compared to the days of Blogger, what do you see? Evan Williams: I totally agree. Om: A scaling problem? Ev: It was true with browsing web and (that is when) Google came in. Evan Williams with co-founder, Biz Stone (Photo: Om Malik) We can let people follow as many accounts as possible. COMIC CON 2008: Wil Wheaton talks internet culture. Twitter Directory and Search, Find Twitter Followers. Exploring and Defining Influence: A New Study. InShare100 Influence is bliss… The socialization of media is as transformative as it is empowering. As individuals, we’re tweeting, updating, blogging, commenting, curating, liking and friending our way toward varying levels of stature within our social graphs.
With every response and action that results from our engagement, we are slowly introduced to the laws of social physics: for every action there is a reaction – even if that reaction is silence. And, the extent of this resulting activity is measured by levels of influence and other factors such as the size and shape of nicheworks as well as attention aperture and time. Defining Influence The word influence as well as the individuals referred to as new influencers are elusive in terms of standard definition. To help, I drafted a working definition to address influence and influencers as slightly modified from its longstanding definition in standard dictionaries. The Influencer Poll Defining influence is just the beginning. Demographics. 20 free, awesome social media monitoring tools. Take the pulse of the social Web by hitting these rich targets Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, brands, businesses, NGOs, educators, independent publishers, individuals.
In this social media monitoring series: • Guide to monitoring social media conversations • 10 paid social media monitoring services for nonprofits • How to build & manage a monitoring dashboard Ready for a listening program? There are a wealth of free monitoring tools to choose from. 10 social media monitoring tools: a downloadable flyer Free monitoring tools may fill your needs if you work for a small nonprofit or your business has no need for more sophisticated services (coming tomorrow). And a word of advice: Don’t begin with the tools. Yesterday we covered why monitoring is essential to your organization.
Here is our Guide to Free Social Media Monitoring Tools. Monitor social campaigns Wildfire: How is your brand performing in social? Monitor social networks & blogs Social Mention: Widgets & social search. Le Web 2010 Wrap Up from Social Media Clubhouse 5 | From The Clubhouse. As promised Social Media Clubhouse 5, in collaboration with af83media and ReadWriteWeb France have shared nearly 30 panel and one-on-one interviews from leading industry experts in social media, technology, mobile, startups and entrepreneurship. With so much content, we wanted to highlight some of the main takeaways from Social Media Clubhouse 5: Innovative Global Village hosted at Le Web 2010, Paris, France. If you're hungry for more there are more than 8 hours of footage that you can find at Social Media Clubhouse.
There were many excellent interviews and panel discussion around the future of mobile, localization, social media but these are a some of the meatier discussions. Web Semantics in Web 2.0 Peter Crosby (Viadeo) , Andraz Tori (invZemanta) and François-Yves Vuillemin (Imaginatio). Solid discussion around what we can anticipate with the innovation of sites becoming more intuitive based on our preferences. Product Localization The future of large brands Online Activism. Collaborative Culture: Insights from Peter Senge on the Foundations of Organizational Learning « Driving innovation in a digital world. CHARLOTTE, NC. January 2011, by Chris Jones On the road to unlocking collaboration, our culture series has taken us through a review of Schein’s many layers, Handy’s four structural models, and Kotter’s eight steps for change – lots of ways to slice and dice the cultural barriers. To me, it was important progress and worth the deep dive, tapping dozens upon dozens of insightful comments, for which I remain grateful.
Looking back, I’m increasingly convinced: Cultures can, over time, be intentionally shaped and directed by visionary and resilient leaders. We need some breakthrough thinking. Where do we turn now? Peter Senge, in his 1990 watershed work The Fifth Discipline (latest ed. 2006), laid an important foundation for Learning Organizations that still resonates today. While Senge advocated 5 critical disciplines for the modern organization, I struck gold on several foundational takeaways, each resonating with my views on collaborative innovation.
Let’s look at them: Like this: Human Rights in the Information Society: Utopias, Dystopias and Human Values by Giovanni Sartor. European University Institute Law DepartmentNovember 11, 2010 Abstract: I shall discuss the relevance of human rights for the information society. First I shall introduce the opportunities and dangers pertaining to the information society, referring to some literary or philosophical utopias and dystopias. I shall argue that human rights may provide some guidance for addressing such opportunities and dangers. I shall then consider how different human rights are involved in the deployment of information technologies, and the connections between such rights. Finally, I shall provide some considerations on what approach to humans rights may be more useful for promoting human values in the information society. Number of Pages in PDF File: 21 working papers series Suggested Citation Sartor, Giovanni, Human Rights in the Information Society (November 11, 2010).
Google’s Nifty Guide To Web Technology; It’s iBooks-Like But Built With HTML5. Changing Times: Learning in a socially connected world. Digital Ethnography. 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2011. Crap Detection 101: How to Distinguish Good and Bad Information Online - O'Reilly Media. The Mine! Project. World Values Survey. 10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010. Planetwork.net. Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die | Magazine. SeeYourImpact.org. 290+ Social Media Resources From 2010. You’ve Got to Have (150) Friends. Reflections on the year — Thoughts for the next. A vision of students today. The Augmented Social Network. Jon Udell. Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly | MIT World. Social Networking: The Future.
Crap Detection 101 : Howard Rheingold : City Brights. Crap Detection 101. OU makes e-Books available on iTunes - 10/29/2010. Uncovered Gem: Marshall McLuhan on The Global Village. The Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map. Walking on Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age. Loose ties vs. strong: Pinyadda’s platform finds that shared interests trump friendships in “social news” Facebook’s Social Inbox Wants to Take Over Your Email: Tech News « How should we use data to improve our lives? - By Michael Agger.
Can Twitter Make You Smarter? The Case For Social Media in Schools. Top Trends of 2010: Social Shopping. The ethics of content theft in a digital world. Use of Social Network Sites and Instant Messaging ... [Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2010] - PubMed result. The Digital Disruption: Connectivity and the Diffusion of Power. Everyone Forever Now: Subcultural Storytelling.
A Distracting Article About Digital Distraction. Visualizing Enlightenment-Era Social Networks. Welcome to digitalculturebooks | digitalculturebooks. Web 2.0 productivity tools. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality. What is Digital Culture? INSC 598 Digital Culture. Cities Without Borders: Digital Culture and Decentralization. The Daily (daily) Don Tapscott: New York Times Cover Story on "Growing Up Digital" Misses the Mark. « Get ready. Social scoring will change your life. »» Social Media best practices, Social scoring, careers, personal branding »» Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}
The Trouble w/ Silos: Lessons from Charles Handy « Driving innovation in a digital world. Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now. Lewis Hyde, author of Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. Everything’s Connected - Why All Marketing Will Become Social. The Art of Immersion. Brain Pickings | Remix. Report warns of 'digital Dark Age' if digitisation is left to private sector. Marshall McLuhan in Conversation with Mike McManus - Friday May 7 2010 2010 at 10:30 pm ET. Free Children's Books Online from A Story Before Bed - A Story Before Bed. Open Culture. Distracted pedestrians - chicagotribune.com. Bibliography | conference.archimuse.com.
Q: What Does Quora Mean For The Future Of Blogging? A: Business As Usual. Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite Info: Tech News and Analysis « Clive Thompson on Secret Messages in the Digital Age | Magazine. The Rise of Digital Multitasking [STATS] Digital Lifestyle Archives. Geek Culture Will Never Die...or Be Popular. New Books in Digital Culture — Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Facebook, Twitter and Groupon: The Next Economy or the Next Tech Bubble? - Derek Thompson - Business. The Evolution of the Geek. Preparing for Your Digital Death | Ideafeed | January 20, 2011.