O tagging vem sendo cada vez mais utilizado como forma de classificação de conteúdos. Estes por sua vez deixam de respeitar uma hierarquia rígida, e passam a reflectir a forma como nós, humanos, "arrumamos" a informação na nossa mente. Se esta tendência continuar prevejo alguns dos profissionais da Arquitectura de Informação (AI) a perder os seus empregos, pois eles tratam exactamente de hierarquizar a informação.
No artigo sobre esta matéria também na MIT Technology Review, podemos ler (texto a bold inserido por mim):
"Without Google, Yahoo, and their brethren, using the Web would be like wandering through a library where a prankster has restacked the books at random..."
"Imagine instead being able to call on the group judgment of other users, people who are constantly skimming the latest Web content and arranging the best stuff into neatly labeled piles."
"It's called tagging, and it's going on at a handful of free websites--Delicious, Flickr, Furl, and Rojo, among others--where members are voluntarily classifying and categorizing thousands of pieces of content each day."
"...there's a twist that makes tagging a collectivist undertaking: everybody can see everybody else's tags."
"There's no uniformity to the way people tag Web pages, so the same tag might wind up being applied to very different kinds of content. But to most developers, that's actually a strength of the technology, not a weakness."
O Tag e o RSS serão, para já, duas tecnologias que têm ajudado a revolucionar os serviços electrónicos, com a vantagem de serem duas soluções muito simples do ponto de vista tecnológico.
31.3.06
As maravilhas do "photo sharing"
o BubbleShare é um novo rival do Flickr, e pelos vistos possui argumentos de peso para enfrentar o gigante da Yahoo, no armazenamento e partilha de fotos entre utilizadores, uma das novidades é o BubbleBar, descrito no artigo do MIT Technology Review
"The BubbleBar pulls images from your online BubbleShare albums and sends a parade of thumbnails down the side of your computer's desktop, like a filmstrip; placing your mouse over one of the thumbnails pulls up a larger version, along with captions and comments. But that's not all. The BubbleBar also watches for new albums published on BubbleShare by your acquaintances and downloads them automatically. So, if your photographer friends are sufficiently prolific, you can wake up to a new set of images every day, without lifting a finger."
"The BubbleBar pulls images from your online BubbleShare albums and sends a parade of thumbnails down the side of your computer's desktop, like a filmstrip; placing your mouse over one of the thumbnails pulls up a larger version, along with captions and comments. But that's not all. The BubbleBar also watches for new albums published on BubbleShare by your acquaintances and downloads them automatically. So, if your photographer friends are sufficiently prolific, you can wake up to a new set of images every day, without lifting a finger."
30.3.06
Wikipedia: Smart Mob
"The smart mob is a concept introduced by Howard Rheingold in his book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. According to Rheingold, smart mobs are an indication of the evolving communication technologies that will empower the people."
"A smart mob is a group that, contrary to the usual connotations of a mob, behaves intelligently or efficiently because of its exponentially increasing network links. This network enables people to connect to information and others, allowing a form of social coordination."
"...the smart mob is a practical implementation of collective intelligence. According to Rheingold, examples of smart mobs are the street protests organized by the anti-globalization movement."
"A smart mob is a group that, contrary to the usual connotations of a mob, behaves intelligently or efficiently because of its exponentially increasing network links. This network enables people to connect to information and others, allowing a form of social coordination."
"...the smart mob is a practical implementation of collective intelligence. According to Rheingold, examples of smart mobs are the street protests organized by the anti-globalization movement."
Wikipedia: Collective Intelligence
"...is a working form of intelligence which overcomes "groupthink" and individual cognitive bias in order to allow a collective to cooperate on one process—while maintaining reliable intellectual performance. In this context, it refers to robust consensus decision making, and may properly be considered a subfield of sociology"
"the capacity of a human community to evolve toward higher order complexity thought, problem-solving and integration through collaboration and innovation."
"the capacity of a human community to evolve toward higher order complexity thought, problem-solving and integration through collaboration and innovation."
Online Collaboration: What Are The Key Traits Of Ideal Online Collaborators?
Mais um excelente texto em Kolabora.com com o título Online Collaboration: What Are The Key Traits Of Ideal Online Collaborators?
"In reality, through the survey they have found out that trained, facilitated teams achieve more creative breakthroughs, faster, and are more likely to achieve extraordinary results, accomplishing things as a team that the individuals working individually could never have achieved."
"Collaboration can be hard work, since it requires us to think outside our 'frames' and see things from others' perspectives."
"To some extent that is the message that this survey gives us: Attitude is most important, and if we believe collaboration will succeed, it will, and if we don't, regardless of our group's skill, experience, and personality, it won't."
"In reality, through the survey they have found out that trained, facilitated teams achieve more creative breakthroughs, faster, and are more likely to achieve extraordinary results, accomplishing things as a team that the individuals working individually could never have achieved."
"Collaboration can be hard work, since it requires us to think outside our 'frames' and see things from others' perspectives."
"To some extent that is the message that this survey gives us: Attitude is most important, and if we believe collaboration will succeed, it will, and if we don't, regardless of our group's skill, experience, and personality, it won't."
Location-based games overview
Se alguém na Ydreams está a ler este post, talvez se interesse por este artigo:
Location-based games overview
Location-based games overview
Information versus Knowledge
Nicolas Nova faz uma recensão de um texto da Harvard Business Review, ao qual não tive acesso, mas que vale a pena reproduzir aqui. Basicamente demonstra a enorme diferença entre Informação e Conhecimento na Web:
“Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance – or, soon, even language.”
"What’s the difference between information and knowledge? Information is a message, one-dimensional and bounded by its form: a document, an image, a speech, a genome, a recipe, a symphony score"
"Knowledge results from the assimilation and connecting of information through experience, most often through apprenticeship or mentoring."
"...global conversation is essential to achieving true democratization of knowledge. But simply giving everyone access to e-mail and Google will never in itself flatten the earth."
“Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance – or, soon, even language.”
"What’s the difference between information and knowledge? Information is a message, one-dimensional and bounded by its form: a document, an image, a speech, a genome, a recipe, a symphony score"
"Knowledge results from the assimilation and connecting of information through experience, most often through apprenticeship or mentoring."
"...global conversation is essential to achieving true democratization of knowledge. But simply giving everyone access to e-mail and Google will never in itself flatten the earth."
Are bloggers authoritative sources at big companies?
Robert Scoble, autor do livro Naked Conversations, coloca uma questão no seu blog: Are bloggers authoritative sources at big companies?
28.3.06
Social Computing
A Technology Review tem também um dossier especial sobre computação social que vale a pena explorar...
The Evolution of IM
O Instant Messaging ainda é, ou cada vez mais, uma óptima ferramenta de colaboração, mas há umas que estão a evoluir mais que outras, segundo o artigo na Technology Review do MIT.
"Ideally, according to Gizmo's Robertson, people should be able to send instant messages or make an Internet phone call as easily as sending an e-mail message. Someone who uses Microsoft's free web-based Hotmail service, for instance, can transparently send messages to Yahoo Mail or Google's Gmail. This inter-operability dates back to the early days of the Internet, when all e-mail servers were designed to use the same protocol, Saint-Andre says.
IM, however, started out as proprietary software and has stayed that way. Robertson wants to change that with initiatives like Gizmo. "The world I'm trying to create is one in which you have one screen name that works everywhere, very similar to e-mail," he says. "That's not the way IM works today. It's a big mess."27.3.06
Visual Complexity
Para quem gosta de mapas de sistemas complexos, sejam eles de transportes ou de comunicações, entre outros...Visualcomplexity.com
24.3.06
Digital Media "empowering users"
Num artigo da BBC News, pude ler:
"the customer is king" is fast becoming the industry's new catchphrase.
"People want to connect to information and connect to their friends," he said. "The focus will be on highly personalised experiences."
"Collaborative usage of the internet is rising," said Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia written by thousands of users. This is a social innovation, and not just a technological innovation,"
"...consumers of news from the media were transforming themselves into providers of information."
"Ms Twohill cited a recent quote from News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch - "We tell you less, you tell us more." - to illustrate how some of the global media were engaging with the potential power of citizen journalism."
"the customer is king" is fast becoming the industry's new catchphrase.
"People want to connect to information and connect to their friends," he said. "The focus will be on highly personalised experiences."
"Collaborative usage of the internet is rising," said Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia written by thousands of users. This is a social innovation, and not just a technological innovation,"
"...consumers of news from the media were transforming themselves into providers of information."
"Ms Twohill cited a recent quote from News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch - "We tell you less, you tell us more." - to illustrate how some of the global media were engaging with the potential power of citizen journalism."
23.3.06
The Power Of Open Participatory Media And Why Mass Media Must Be Abandoned
Já com destaque no irrealTV e Ponto Media, este artigo é sem dúvida a não perder para se perceber a revolução em curso nos media tradicionais, com destaque para a falta de democracia do modelo actual de distribuição de media.
"In order to better understand the mass media's inherent lack of democracy, it is useful to imagine a communication system that allows and fosters participation by everyone."
Leia-se também a primeira parte deste artigo: Why Mass Media Are Bad: Weaknesses And Limitations Of Commercial Mainstream Media
"In order to better understand the mass media's inherent lack of democracy, it is useful to imagine a communication system that allows and fosters participation by everyone."
Leia-se também a primeira parte deste artigo: Why Mass Media Are Bad: Weaknesses And Limitations Of Commercial Mainstream Media
22.3.06
Weblogs. Diário de Bordo
Neste momento, estou a ler o Livro de Elisabete Barbosa e António Granado, para já com um bom prefácio de Manuel Pinto que enquadra muito bem o tema em questão, onde afirma:
"...é, sobretudo, a ideia que está na concepção dos blogs que é "revolucionária" e de um alcance indivídual e cívico repleto de potencialidades. Desde logo, porque abre terreno para a democratização do acesso à palavra, ao espaço público, ao enriquecimento da conversação social."
21.3.06
Kolabora.com
Uma excelente fonte para quem se interessa em estudar as novas ferramentas de colaboração online.
17.3.06
Entrevista a Jakob Nielsen
16.3.06
"A Newspaper and Citizen Journalism Reading List"
Um bom ponto de partida para quem, como eu, quer saber um pouco mais sobre Citizen Journalism, é esta lista de livros e artigos online. Da lista destaco We the Media de Dan Gillmor, que já está editado em português.
Link: A Newspaper and Citizen Journalism Reading List
Link: A Newspaper and Citizen Journalism Reading List
6.3.06
1 ano = 162 posts
Só hoje reparei que este Blog comemorou 1 ano no passado mês de Fevereiro!:)
Como sou distraído, venho com alguns dias de atraso assinalar a data. Quem acompanha o HCI-U (secalhar ninguém, :)), deve reparar que ao longo deste último ano abordei questões como a Usabilidade, Human-Computer Interaction, TV, Narratividade, Identidade, Location-Based Services, entre outros.
Por vezes olho para trás, e pergunto-me - Será que estou a construir um capital de conhecimento válido para o meu futuro!? - Bom, fico na dúvida, mas ando sempre a saltitar entre vários temas que me interessam, não consigo evitá-lo!.
Como já devem ter reparado, o nome HCI-U representa Human-Computer Interaction e Usabilidade, respetivamente... Mais tarde alterei o título no topo da página para "Human-Context Interaction / Useful", uma vez que já sentia a necessidade de ter um nome que se adequasse a temas mais variados.
Neste momento estou a preparar a tese num tema que acho fascinante, numa àrea que está a revolucionar a forma como se comunica e se produz informação, que são os Blogs - e outros meios - como ferramentas para aumentar o poder dos cidadãos, nivelar a sociedade horizontalmente, e criar conhecimento! Por outras palavras - Democracia! Espero que gostem.
Até já
BJ
Como sou distraído, venho com alguns dias de atraso assinalar a data. Quem acompanha o HCI-U (secalhar ninguém, :)), deve reparar que ao longo deste último ano abordei questões como a Usabilidade, Human-Computer Interaction, TV, Narratividade, Identidade, Location-Based Services, entre outros.
Por vezes olho para trás, e pergunto-me - Será que estou a construir um capital de conhecimento válido para o meu futuro!? - Bom, fico na dúvida, mas ando sempre a saltitar entre vários temas que me interessam, não consigo evitá-lo!.
Como já devem ter reparado, o nome HCI-U representa Human-Computer Interaction e Usabilidade, respetivamente... Mais tarde alterei o título no topo da página para "Human-Context Interaction / Useful", uma vez que já sentia a necessidade de ter um nome que se adequasse a temas mais variados.
Neste momento estou a preparar a tese num tema que acho fascinante, numa àrea que está a revolucionar a forma como se comunica e se produz informação, que são os Blogs - e outros meios - como ferramentas para aumentar o poder dos cidadãos, nivelar a sociedade horizontalmente, e criar conhecimento! Por outras palavras - Democracia! Espero que gostem.
Até já
BJ
TF1 lança canal para Bloggers
Segundo o jornal Público de hoje, a TF1 francesa prepara um canal, cujo os conteúdos serão programados por bloggers.
"Chama-se le.buzz e é apresentado como o projecto mais inovador da TF1 francesa na àrea da multimédia. Trata-se de canal de televisão realizado por bloggers a partir de conteúdos propostos pelos internautas."
"Chama-se le.buzz e é apresentado como o projecto mais inovador da TF1 francesa na àrea da multimédia. Trata-se de canal de televisão realizado por bloggers a partir de conteúdos propostos pelos internautas."
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