December 2008
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“The less you share, the less power you have.”
– Isaac Mao talking about Sharism
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“Ve con aquellos que alimenten tus posibilidades de ser grande, mantente lejos de...”
– W. Shakespeare (via)
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Internet and low participation projects
In The miraculous power of scale Chris Anderson points an interesting view: in a environment as huge as the Internet it’s easier to reach the critial mass that makes a project sustenaible. That is, Internet is making possible a lot of ideas that were not possible before.
Examples? YouTube (0.1% of its users are contributors), Wikipedia (0.01%) and, of course, spam (0.00001%).
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Better Than Free (Kevin Kelly)
The more we get immersed into the digital world (and specially into the Internet) the more we see digital contents are becoming free as making and distributing copies of it has no perceptible cost for us.
In this scenario Kevin makes an interesting essay on what comes next. If copies are not valuable, what is it?
He points 8 main values that I’m just going to enumerate:
Immediacy
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“Si necessites instruccions per fer servir una cosa és que està mal dissenyada.”
– Alfons Cornella a Innovacions que han fet història: l’iPod
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Alan Smithee, the alienated films director
From IMDB:
‘Alan Smithee’ is a common pseudonym for directors whose film was clearly taken away from her/him and recut heavily against her/his wishes in ways that completely altered the film. The Directors Guild contract generally does not permit a director to remove her/his name from films. The Directors Guild has been striving for decades to establish the director as the...
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Gmaps Pedometer
Gmaps Pedometer, is a simple pedometer build over Google Maps that it’s perfect to plan simple routes whether you go hiking, running or cycling.
Some of its features:
Distance calculation (in kilometers and miles)
Two ways to draw routes: straight lines or following roads
Elevation graph
Route saving (as link)
Calories burned calculator