Sobre la web 2.0
Carolina Martín, 13 febrero 2010: «Internet y las redes sociales movilizan por su inmediatez y 'viralidad', pero no son el germen de las revueltas. En el espacio "híbrido" entre lo real y lo virtual surgen 'gurús' que mueven a la gente»
«Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restricted rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group.»
Richard Stallman, sobre el software como servicio.
«Facebook and similar centralized social networking services like to talk about their "privacy settings." This is mere deception, a simple act of deliberate confusion. These "privacy settings" merely determine what one user can see of another user's priva
«In Internet culture, the 1 percent rule reflects a theory that more people will lurk in a virtual community than will participate. This term is often used as a euphemism for Participation inequality (...) The term was coined by authors and bloggers Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba[2] although there are earlier references to the same concept[3] that did not use this name.»
Me ha costado, pero aquí está: Charles Arthur, 20 July 2006: «It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the
Historia de informática
Unas cuantas paradojas
Fomentan el comportamiento correcto, dan la respuesta inmediatam., evitando la ansiedad, tienen una función motivadora y permiten autonomía del aprendizaje (ritmo individual)
Graham Attwell, 12 de diciembre de 2010. Con video de Asimov de 1988: «fascinating discussion of the idea of computer mediated instruction being anything but dehumanizing»
The mother of all demos. 1968: hiperenlaces, trabajo colaborativo, modos gráficos, ratón... ¿qué se ha inventado después?
«Program for the Future (video, about 80 minutes) where Alan Kay and Andy van Dam discuss Doug Engelbart's ideas in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the mother of all demos
(I picked this up from mark miller's site: Tales of inventing the future)»
Análisis de Facebook
Dreig, sobre la necesidad de defender los derechos digitales, y sus sospechas acerca de la política de Facebook. 18 de febrero de 2009.
29 de julio de 2010: «Ron Bowes, un hacker de Skull Security, ha logrado recopilar más de 100 millones de perfiles provenientes de Facebook. Según ha publicado la web especializada Thinq, para conseguir su objetivo ha utilizado un programa dedicado a recoger las páginas de los usuarios listados en un directorio abierto de esta red social.»
Marshall Kirkpatrick, 3 de febrero de 2010 «I'm not saying Facebook is a better way to read news than through an RSS reader. I'm saying no one uses RSS readers, even after years of their being as obviously life-changing as many of us know they are. Instea
10 de enero de 2010
First Monday, vol. 15, n. 1 (4 de enero de 2010): «This paper explores how 20-something Facebook users understand and navigate privacy concerns. Based on a year-long ethnographic study in Toronto, Canada, this paper looks at how - contrary to many mainstr
5 de junio de 2008, vídeo sobre quién hay detrás de FB
14 de enero de 2008. "What's In-Q-Tel? Well, believe it or not (and check out their website), this is the venture-capital wing of the CIA."