“Hace unas semanas, unos investigadores de la Universidad de California, en Los Ángeles, y de Harvard empezaron a estudiar una clase de alumnos de primero de carrera a través de esta web [Facebook] para “analizar la información que dan de sí mismos y cómo se relacionan entre ellos”, en palabras de Nicholas Christakis, un miembro del equipo. Sólo hay un detalle atípico: los estudiantes no saben que están siendo observados. En Facebook aseguran que no hay ninguna cláusula que prohíba estudios sociológicos. Porque el único límite de privacidad lo imponen los usuarios.”
Ben Elton’s latest novel Blind Faith raises questions about privacy in the age of life streaming. This is the book description in Amazon.com:
“Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person “feels” and “truly believes” is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable is condemned as heresy. A world where to question ignorance and intolerance is to commit a Crime against Faith.
Imagine it. Or just wait until After The Flood.
On a hot Sagittarian morning in the year 56 ATF, Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of near-naked commuters. He is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish Confessor. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does he think he’s different or special in some way? Better than his fellow man and woman? Does he have something to hide?
Ben Elton imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a confessional sex-obsessed, self-centric culture to create a world where nakedness is modesty, ignorance is wisdom and privacy is a dangerous perversion. A chilling vision of what’s to come? Or something rather closer to what we call reality?”
“Es viu, es pensa i s’escriu en format beta, un tipus de pensament de curt abast que dificulta distingir entre coneixement i soroll. Més informació amb menys rigor és igual a més confusió.”
Representacions gràfiques en 3D, mapes conceptuals, connexions, “llistes elàstiques”… Smashing Magazine llista les maneres de visualitzar la informació que corren per la Web… Un bon recurs amb imatges i enllaços que inclou fins i tot una taula periòdica dels diferents mètodes de visualització…
Es diu HBO Voyeur i és la darrera joguina de la cadena nord-americana HBO. Un experiment multimèdia que convida l’usuari a endinsar-se en la vida dels inquilins d’un edifici de Nova York amb episodis de cinc minuts. Un ‘Gran Hermano’ de disseny, sense diàlegs i amb una banda sonora composta per artistes com Clint Mansell, Dean&Britta o Theodore Shapiro. És interessant. L’aplicació està bé. La música també. Però a mi no m’acaba d’enganxar…
“… is to organize, tag, and link information to a specific location. (…) We’re beginning to see the first threads of this next big idea. Pictures and Wikipedia articles are now linked to Google Earth. You can access information about a location, but it’s still at your desk. The real revolution will come when this information can be accessed completely and easily from a mobile device, while you’re at that location.”
“It’s been 10 years since the blog was born. (…) The consumption of blogs is often avid and occasionally obsessive. But more commonly, it is utterly natural, as if turning to them were no stranger than (dare one say this here?) picking one’s way through the morning’s newspapers. The daily reading of virtually everyone under 40 — and a fair few folk over that age — now includes a blog or two, and this reflects as much the quality of today’s bloggers as it does a techno-psychological revolution among readers of news and opinion. (…) The appropriate question about blogs, 10 years into their first appearance, is not whether they are a form of exhibitionism, or journalism, or theater. It is, instead, this, and I pose it with a courteous apology to Tom Wolfe: What would we do without blogs?
Representacions gràfiques en 3D, mapes conceptuals, connexions, “llistes elàstiques”… 
