Disruptions: Life's Too Short for So Much E-Mail Tony Cenicola/The New York TimesRoyal Pingdom, a Web site that monitors Internet usage, said that in 2010, 107 trillion e-mails were sent. Corporate employees sent and received 105 e-mails a day. Just thinking about my e-mail in-box makes me sad. This month alone, I received more than 6,000 e-mails. It’s not that I’m so popular. Last year, Royal Pingdom, which monitors Internet usage, said that in 2010, 107 trillion e-mails were sent. Sure, some of those e-mails are important. All of this has led me to believe that something is terribly wrong with e-mail. I’ve tried everything. Last year, I decided to try to reach In-box Zero, the Zen-like state of a consistently empty in-box. Meanwhile, all of this e-mail could be increasing our stress. A research report issued this year by the University of California, Irvine, found that people who did not look at e-mail regularly at work were less stressed and more productive than others. Ms.
June 2005 A Chronicle In Three Parts. glastonbury! we've been here for about four hours. We play tomorrow and up until now every festival that we've played has been an excercise in patience but generally good. having to be a cog in a large machine and only getting 30 minutes to explain your band is a difficult fucking task. We've been driving from country to country on our tour bus, landing in the middle of nowhere and trying to orient. Every crowd has been crazy and great excpet for yesterday, in london at the wireless festival in hyde park, where we encountered our First Real Unresponsive Audience in the history of the band. -Next day- I found where I belong at this festival: it's a land in the corner of the edge of nowhere called Lost Vagueness and that's where people are sporting full period ballroom dress and other fancy clothings (and wellington rainboots, which makes for a beautiful and poetic sight). But there's tonight, and inebriated is a possibility.
How magazine publishers are innovating in video A number of magazine publishers have become media companies, having shifted from producing monthly print titles to daily videos. Several are making significant revenue from YouTube in addition to the money they bring in through video plays on their own sites. In this feature we look at how four publishers – Dennis Publishing, Future, IPC and Vice – have moved beyond magazines and are now producing videos for their existing audiences and to attract new ones. Types of video The four publishers are producing a range of videos, tackling a huge variety of subjects, with production values ranging from videos lasting a few seconds and shot on a phone, to hour-long documentaries filmed on high-end HD cameras. At the top end of the scale in terms of production, Vice, which started out as a fanzine and now has offices in 34 countries, has just produced a series for HBO. Complementing content across platforms All four publishers we spoke to talked about how video and print can complement each other.
I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was "corrupting my soul." It's a been a year now since I "surfed the web" or "checked my email" or "liked" anything with a figurative rather than literal thumbs up. And now I'm supposed to tell you how it solved all my problems. But instead it's 8PM and I just woke up. I didn't want to meet this Paul at the tail end of my yearlong journey. In early 2012 I was 26 years old and burnt out. I thought the internet might be an unnatural state for us humans, or at least for me. My plan was to quit my job, move home with my parents, read books, write books, and wallow in my spare time. My goal would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years But for some reason, The Verge wanted to pay me to leave the internet. My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years. This was going to be amazing. Read next
here’s another one from the vaults… left to... - AMANDAPALMER.TUMBLR.COM Cartoons: Triumph of the nerds IN 1989 Bill Watterson, the writer of “Calvin and Hobbes”, a brilliant comic strip about a six-year-old child and his stuffed tiger, denounced his industry. In a searing lecture, he attacked bland, predictable comics, churned out by profit-driven syndicates. Cartooning, said Mr Watterson, “will never be more than a cheap, brainless commodity until it is published differently.” In 2012 he is finally getting his way. This burst of new life comes as cartoons seemed to be in terminal decline. Cartoons go way back before newspapers. But it was the combination of the rotary printing press, mass literacy and capitalism which really created the space for comic art to flourish. Newspapers filled with sensationalist reporting sold millions. That was the golden age. The decline of newspapers and the rise of the internet have broken that system. Perhaps thanks to the technical skills needed to succeed, web cartoonists tend to be young—few are over 30—well-educated and extremely geeky.
Les 3 dernières études à découvrir [France] Mais qui sont les nouveaux déconnectés ?…. Les étuis smartphones : un marché à 133 millions d’euros…. [E-commerce] La livraison : toujours source d’insatisfactions pour les internautes…. Zoom sur trois nouvelles études. [France] Mais qui sont les nouveaux déconnectés ? Havas a-t-il voulu créer le buzz ? L’étude indique ainsi que 25% des foyers français n’ont pas accès à internet, un chiffre qui grimpe à 57% pour les foyers dont les revenus sont inférieurs à 1500 €. Ainsi, 65,2% des sondés déclarent avoir envie de se déconnecter des nouvelles technologies tandis que 59,7% le font effectivement par intermittence. Au niveau des réseaux sociaux, 62,9% des interrogés estiment qu’ils peuvent devenir une véritable drogue alors que 39,5% considèrent l’inaccessibilité à internet comme un véritable manque. Fort de ces résultats, Havas Media a identifié 4 catégories de populations déconnectées : Les Minitélites, qui représentent plus de 2M d’individus.
The Nielsen Family Is Dead | Underwire From Game of Thrones to the new Arrested Development, television is better than ever. And it’s not just a lucky accident. Turns out that networks and advertisers are using all-new metrics to design hit shows. Under these new rules, Twitter feeds are as important as ratings, fresh ideas beat tired formulas, and niche stars can be as valuable as big names. The New rules of the Hyper-Social, Data-Driven, Actor-Friendly, Super-Seductive Platinum Age of Television Illustration by LAMOSCA On February 7, the fourth season of Community kicked off on NBC. Until recently, those 4 million viewers would have been the end of the story. All of your favorite shows are ratings dogs. And the TV experience doesn’t stop when the episode ends. Since Mad Men debuted on AMC in 2007, the cable channel’s subscriptions, licensing fees, and ad revenue have all grown dramatically. Total Twitter followers Networks are finding new ways to measure popularity. The Many Faces of Alison Brie. Breaking Bad Mad Men Suits
How Apple Really Lost Its Lead In The 80s Steve Jobs gives the finger to rival IBM When Android surged past Apple in smartphone market share, a lot of people squawked that computer history was repeating itself. The story of the 80s, according to these people, was that Apple pioneered the personal computing industry with the Apple computer. It then stumbled because of its closed approach while Microsoft flourished, spraying its software everywhere through low-cost personal computers. Apple went from being the wealthy market leader to an also-ran in the blink of an eye. It's going to happen again, too, warn these people, if Apple doesn't learn anything. You see, the iPhone was the innovative market leader, but a cheaper alternative from Google, Android, is being sprayed all over the place. It's an entertaining story, but it turns out it's not exactly accurate. Goldman Sachs released a massive report on the warring tech giants this week. First off all, Apple was never really a market leader in the 80s. Goldman Sachs Screenshot
Nous ne serons plus jamais déconnectés… Jenna Wortham (@jennydeluxe) pour le New York Times a commis un de ces papiers faciles sur les vertus de la déconnexion à l'heure d'un monde toujours plus connecté. Alors qu'elle se rendait à la piscine, elle a été invitée à déposer son téléphone et a pu profiter pleinement de sa journée, sans avoir à consulter avec anxiété ses comptes Facebook et Twitter pour regarder ce que ses amis faisaient. La peur de manquer quelque chose (Fomo, pour Fear of Missing Out) que décrivait Caterina Fake, cofondatrice de Flickr, s'évaporait quelques instants. Notre connexion permanente aux médias sociaux nous rend plus attentifs à ce que l'on rate et vous donne le faux sentiment de participer à ce que font les autres par leur intermédiaire, estime Caterina. Mais ce n'est pas une peur, c'est un plaisir, lui répondait l'entrepreneur Anil Dash en évoquant la joie de manquer quelque chose (Jomo pour Joy of Missing Out). Image : cc Staying Social par Leon Fishman. A quoi sommes-nous vraiment "accros" ?
Home | We Live in Public | Negative Effects Of The Internet Mais pourquoi contribue-t-on ? La question des motivations revient dès que l’on évoque les mécanismes de contribution dans l’open data ou les données collaboratives. On a parfois du mal à comprendre pourquoi des individus a priori sains de corps et d’esprit consacrent une partie de leur temps libre à ce type d’activité, qu’il s’agisse de développer une application mobile sans grand espoir de gain, ou de cartographier son quartier pour Open Street Map… Les processus contributifs et participatifs sont au coeur de l’open data. Dans le concours organisé par Rennes Métropole en 2010, deux tiers des participants étaient des particuliers. Il y avait certes parmi eux quelques apprentis entrepreneurs et quelques rares militants de la cause du logiciel libre et de l’open source, mais plus généralement les motivations n’étaient ni pécuniaires ni politiques. 1 – Une approche par les motivations : mais pourquoi contribuez-vous ? En résumé, les grandes catégories de motivations sont : 3 – Ne pas sous estimer le facteur d’opposition
Kit Kat offre un break sans Wifi Le Wifi est désormais disponible partout : dans les bars, restaurants, trains, aéroports, supermarchés…elle est même disponible sur le Mont Everest. Besoin d’un break ? A Amsterdam et Amstelveen, la marque a installé des No-Zone WiFi qui, dans un rayon de cinq mètres, bloquent les signaux afin que les gens puissent échapper aux e-mails, mises à jour et autres envahisseurs d'espace. Dans ces endroits privilégiés, ils peuvent s’adonner à la lecture, à la discussion et surtout à une pause Kit Kat bien méritée.Une initiative de JWT Amsterdam. Le coït, une aberration totale (sauf si on regarde sa fonction dans le patriarcat) | jeputrefielepatriarcat Je viens de découvrir avec beaucoup de joie une phrase de Christine Delphy dans la video de sa présentation du livre "femmes de droites" d’Andrea Dworkin à Violette & Co. Enfin un peu de bon sens! Elle parle brièvement de l’arnaque du "libéralisme sexuel" et la fonction qu’ont les contraceptifs et avortements dans le maintien de l’asservissement des femmes par les hommes – (qui passe par le coït): "l’avortement, c’est ce qui va rendre toutes les femmes disponibles à tous les hommes. [...] Une des excuses que les femmes pouvaient fournir pour ne pas coucher avec un mec c’était qu’elles ne pouvaient pas être enceinte, car après elles n’avaient plus la contraception, elles n’avaient plus l’avortement". Or, aujourd’hui, la pilule et l’avortement font que nous n’avons plus ce moyen de négociation possible, nous n’avons plus d’excuses pour refuser le coït aux hommes. On ne pourrait pas être plus loin de la vérité. Voici ce qu’en dit Factcheckme: Nous avons donc les facteurs suivants: 2. 3. 4.