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Źródło: Facebook plans for Web domination (Wikonomics)

Heute habe ich mal das Mobile-Interface von Wordpress ausprobiert - klappt fantastisch. Gleich darauf habe ich ein Foto von meinem Handy direkt in flickr hochgeladen - klappt auch fantastisch. Twittern tue ich ja schon seit einiger Zeit vom Handy aus. Also: Ab sofort gibt's mobile content hier und in meinen anderen Accounts. :-)

Original post:  8 May 2008
The Internet has been taken over by a new set of interactive, community-making technologies. This is really old news: blogs, RSS feeds, MySpace and Facebook and LinkedIn, wiki’s have been around for a number of years. They’ve vastly increased use of the Internet by everyone. Yet governments have been slow to adapt them for public agency use. There are good reasons for this – I firmly believe governments should NOT be on the bleeding edge of adopting new technologies – since we use taxpayer funds, we need to be careful in how we experiment.
But Web 2.0 technologies are all about building online communities and increasing interaction between people. And these are exactly what governments are all about! We have a natural set of communities – the people living in and neighborhoods existing within our city limits or county lines. And we have elected officials who thrive on interaction with constituents. We need to adopt at least some of these Web 2.0 technologies to improve government. I'm convinced governments are now on the verge of an explosion in the use of these tools (hence "government 1.9"). I’ve written a longer essay about this here, and I’ve collected a few examples of the pioneer government Web 2.0 implementations here.

In reality, Dmitri "the lover" is James Sears "A disgraced Toronto doctor who had his medical licence stripped for repeated sexual misconduct 16 years ago" as reported by the Toronto Sun back in April 13, 2008. His newest endeavor is trying to show men the art of seduction through his website. Contrary to his new profession, however, his technique seems to be lacking as is evidenced by the voice-mails that are still circulating on youtube.

For your viewing pleasure I present to you Eric Anderson's brilliantly lip-synced 3-part series of Dmitri The Stud's Voice-mails.

I thought lyrics from Bob Dylan’s popular song The Times They Are A-Changin’ were appropriate for this post.

“Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'.

It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'.”  Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’

This week our assignment was to investigate what is happening with the 2008 presidential campaign and social media.  Well, let me be the 1¹⁰⁰ person to report that political campaigns, they are a changin.  It appears that from my investigations that the Democratic Party is adopting to the changing landscape of a globalized world by embracing Web 2.0 and Social Media.  The Republican Party appears to be, to be kind, tepid in truly embracing Web 2.0 and Social Media platforms as part of their strategy.

For example here are my quick survey of three popular social media sites.  I could have continued the survey but I think this trend of greater support for Obama rather than McCain will continue on all social media sites.

Facebook; Obama 1,203,257 supporters / McCain 179,477 supporters.

MySpace; Obama 430,071 friends / McCain 59,946 friends.

Twitter; Obama 50,068 followers / McCain no official twitter feed.

As noted by our instructor Garrett Graff, and author of The First Campaign, the 2004 presidential election was the beginning of the end of the current campaign model used by the major parties.  Howard Dean’s campaign for the democratic presidential nomination was the first to realize and tap into the rising tide of social networking to organize supporters, spread messages and most importantly raise money.

The Democratic Party has taken the experiences of the Dean campaign and adopted them to their strategy for the 2008 race.  Clearly the Obama campaign dwarfs McCain’s efforts on-line.  The Republican strategy seems to be based on the model President Bush used in 2000 and 2004.

This coming November’s presidential election will be a water shed event for future political campaign strategies.  Does the advantage Obama has in the on-line world translate to real world votes?  Are Obama’s on-line supporters just people who have drank the Obama cool-aid and are patting themselves on the back in a huge circle jerk?  Do on-line supporters register to vote at the same rate as the general population?  Do registered to vote, on-line supporters, actually vote at the ballot box at the same, greater or smaller rate than the rest of general population?

In my opinion if Obama beats McCain in a landslide then pundits and talking heads will have evidence to argue that on-line social networking is directly proportional to votes cast in the ballot booth.  If McCain wins or Obama wins in a squeaker then that argument, at least for the 2008 election, is weakened.

But like Dylan said, “For the times they are a-changin'.”  There was phenomenal growth in Web 2.0 platforms and Social Networking from 2004 to 2008 and their use politically.  Is it enough to change the model of political campaigning?  If the growth of Web 2.0 / Social Networking continues from 2008 to 2012 is that enough to tip the balance in favor of new revolution of political tactics?

Our November 2008 Presidential Election will answer many questions.

Pues resulta, que hace ya unas semanas, hablaba con el amigo Pedro Laguna un sábado por la mañana y me preguntaba si alguna vez había visto el noticiero ese de La 2 hecho para sordos. Como podeis imaginar, una cosa lleva a la otra y al final, por algún extraño motivo, acabó buscando "lesbianas sordas" en Google. ¿El resultado? Esto:

P.D: Tambien podeis probar con la búsqueda de "chicas sordas", en cuyo caso sugiere "chicas gordas".

Por eso Google ha dado a conocer en una fase beta su nuevo portal llamado Knol que pretende competir con la Wikipedia ¿Que aporta Knol que no tenga Wikipedia? la caracteristica de que sus articulos o definiciones sean un poco mas profundas y detalladas, hechas y realizadas por personas que sepan el tema a diferencia de Wikipedia donde las personas comunes puedes subir definiciones un poco mas para el lenguaje cotidiano.

¿Podra este ser un buen acercamiento de Google para destronar al rey de las enciclopedias?. Por el momento esta en una fase beta, asi que no tiene muchos articulos, ni traducciones a otros idiomas, pero sera cosa de que empiece avanzar un poco mas.

URL: Knol Citado: Doovive

1. Gliffy is a tool that allows you to easily create and share professional looking diagrams, flowcharts, floor plans, etc. Just think how useful this is for classroom brainstorming, storyboarding and mind mapping activities!
2. Remember the Milk is on online task manager that helps you stay organized and remember to do important things like picking up milk on the way home from school, writing interim report cards, staying on top of faculty meetings, etc. The best part about it, is that you can add and access tasks from both your phone and the web and its free!
3. Slideshare is a free online application that allows you to find and share slide presentations from people around the globe! Using this application, I searched for literacy presentations and came across the presentation below by David Warlick on Literacy Learning for the 21st Century. This presentation is a great reminder that as we prepare children to be literate for the 21st Century (the Information Age), we must aim to teach them how to teach themselves. Warlick writes, "For the first time in history our job as educators is to prepare our students for a future that we cannot clearly describe."

Take a look at the presentation below! Very thought provoking in terms of its pedagogical implications for the literacy classroom!

[slideshare id=31186&doc=literacy-learning-in-the-21st-century-14085&w=425]

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My favorites -

Don’t think that social media is just another marketing channel to starting shouting on.

Don’t blog just because everyone else is doing it. And if you do, don’t let it languish for long periods of time.

Don’t think that social media and traditional marketing are an either/or situation. The best campaigns utilize both types where appropriate.

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When there was still real competition between search engines in the late 90s, the size of a search engine's index was one of the main methods of comparing search providers. Today, the number of pages in any given search engine's index has dropped out of our collective conscience - and that might be a good thing, as the focus has shifted towards returning relevant search results over the ability to return the most results.

That, after all, was the real advance that Google brought to the search engine market. Early search engines like Altavista, Excite, or HotBot simply weren't able to return the most useful results to users.

Regarding the e-mail feature, Yahoo's Zimbra will support not only Yahoo Mail, but  also AOL Mail Web and strangely Gmail, regardless it is a service provided by Yahoo's greatest competitor. The other features will be based on the correspondent Yahoo's services (like Yahoo! Calendar).

As stated the greatest feature of Zimbra is that it will cache all the data on the user's computer, so it can be used even while off-line; of course the greatest benefit of this is that you can take advantage of the benefits of a standard application while you are at your computer and in the same time you can still access all the information while you travel. This is especially true for documents, managed by Zimbra Documents, that can be created and edited without switching between desktop programs or e-mailing them.

Yahoo bought Zimbra for $350 million in September 2007 in order to add Web 2.0 features to its traditional services.

Yahoo Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3 can be downloaded for free from its site.

Links

Yahoo's announcement: http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=324243;

Yahoo Zebra's official site: http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html.

Also: Wenn dieser Beitrag in meinem Blog erscheint, hat es geklappt. :-)

Come ha annunciato sul suo blog, Luca Mercatanti ha avviato un nuovo servizio web 2.0 che raccoglie una lista di video archiviati sotto varie categorie, ma tutti con uno scopo in comune: stupire gli amici. Fateci un salto o magari iscrivetevi ai feed!

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Initially Energy:

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Not that sort April 3rd Birthdays:

Marsha Graver-Character man-65
Wayne Newton-Blues singer-65
Flossy Orlando-Chorine-63
Alec Baldwin-Practical joker-49
Eddie Murphy-Upholder/Joke writer-46
Jennie Garth-Foil-35
Cobie Smulders-Theatrical-25

Différents outils ont été développés pour permettre une utilisation facile et efficace de ces flux: on appelle ces solutions des agrégateurs. Il en existe plusieurs, même si certaines sont bien plus connues et utilisées que d'autres. Parmi ces derières, Feedburner, Google Reader ou Netvibes, l'un des rares agrégateurs francophones, dont je suis un fervent utilisateur.

Ayant souvent rencontré des gens intéressés par le concept de syndication mais peu à l'aise avec les solutions disponibles, j'ai décidé de créer ce petit tutorial (sans prétention) consacré à Netvibes. vous trouverez ci-dessous les quelques éléments de base permettant d'utiliser Netvibes facilement.

Lorsque vous vous arrivez sur Netvibes, cliquer sur Connexion en haut à droite vous donnera la possibilité de vous créer un compte. Par défaut, Netvibes vous propose un certain nombre de flux (météo, informations et autres) que vous êtes bien sûr libres de supprimer.

Passons maintenant à la phase principale: il va falloir intégrer à votre page principale les flux RSS des sites que vous voulez surveiller. Pour cela, allez dans le menu Ajouter du contenu qui se trouve en haut à gauche et se présente sous cette forme:

Sur le site dont vous voulez intégrer le flux, vous allez normalement (dans une grande majorité de cas) apercevoir un bouton orange à droite de la barre d'adresse de votre navigateur:

Cliquer sur ce bouton orange (qui symbolise le flux RSS) vous donnera l'adresse du flux pour ce site:

C'est cette adresse qu'il vous faut rentrer dans le menu Ajouter un flux; une fois l'opération confirmée, le flux du site apparaît sur votre page personnelle sous la forme d'un widget, une sorte de petite fenêtre qui accueuillera désormais automatiquement tous les nouveaux contenus postés sur le site qui vous intéresse. En répétant cette manoeuvre, vous avez donc la possibilité de surveiller tous les sites qui vous plaisent depuis une seule et même page.

Une fois que vous aurez pris vos marques, l'interface est facilement modifiable afin d'organiser vos flux en onglets (thématiques par exemple) ou de modifier l'arrière-plan selon vos préférence. Il suffit pour cela de cliquer sur le bouton Options en haut à droite:

Dernier point: la navigation au sein de vos différents widgets. Chaque nouvel article (ou autre type de contenu) apparaît en gras pour vous signifier que vous ne l'avez pas encore lu. Selon les sites, l'article peut être disponible en partie ou dans son intégralité. Dans tous les cas, en cliquant sur le titre de l'article, vous arriverez aussitôt sur le site qui l'a publié:

Voici donc un moyen simple et extrêmement pratique de centraliser l'information, outil rêvé dans un monde 2.0 au sein duquel les blogs (notamment) se caractérisent précisément par un rythme de publication soutenu.

Itu di Amerika, negara dengan fasilitas internet yang tentunya lebih maju daripada Indonesia. Tapi siapa nyana, melengkapi sukses Obama juga ternyata ada kisah gaptek-nya McCain dan "kegagalan" timnya dalam ber-web2.0 ria.

Apakah ada kekuatan politik di Indonesia yang akan mengulang kisah sukses serupa? Siapakah "Obama" dan siapa pula "McCain"-nya? Jawabannya akan terlihat dalam rentang 9 hingga 14 bulan mendatang. Ketika masa kampanye pemilu, pileg dan pilpres digelar dalam tajuk pesta demokrasi 5 tahunan.

Nah, liputan KOMPAS seperti tertaut di atas itu menyorot betul tentang masih minimnya kualitas situs parpol di Indonesia. Tapi tulisan ini tidak juga berniat mengulas secara wah tentang tema serupa. Ini sekedar celetukan akan perlunya alternatif penyegaran dalam mengenalkan diri (baca: parpol) ke khalayak luas. Lebih tepatnya, khalayak pemakai internet yang diprediksi sudah berjumlah 25.000.000 (25 juta) orang di tahun 2007 kemarin.

Setiap yang segar, segar, dan segar hampir pasti lebih memiliki daya terobos yang dahsyat. Karena relatif tidak terbebani pencitraan masa lalu. Malah sebaliknya, bebas dan bergairah dalam mengungkapkan cita dan citra baru. Termasuk pula penyegaran dalam pengelolaan nama domain website parpol. Sebab bisa jadi "selama ini" situs resmi sering dipakai sekedar profil atau publikasi acara rutinan, itu-itu saja.

Atau malah lebih parah, jarang, jarang, dan jarang di-update secara berjangka. Yang terakhir ini, bisa ikut menurunkan citra parpol: sebagai tak optimal mengelola situsnya sendiri. Dan pada gilirannya dalam lingkup tertentu, sang parpol bisa dipandang gagal dalam mengkomunikasikan atau mengenalkan dirinya kepada khalayak.

Nah, salah satu cara untuk "keluar" dari "kebekuan" situs parpol semacam yang terakhir tadi ialah dengan membuat website, situs, laman baru. Ya, baru, baru, dan baru. Hanya kali ini, fokusnya lebih jelas, yaitu untuk KAMPANYE PEMILU 2009. Otomatis, nama domainnya pun harus memiliki "keunikan" tersendiri. Supaya nuansa segarnya menjadi terasa.

Salah satu alternatifnya ialah dengan mengkreasikan nama domain. Misalnya dengan menambahkan angka tahun 2009. Misal: Golkar2009, PDIP2009, PKS2009, dst. Ini untuk menguatkan kesan rentang waktu dan fokus utama: PEMILU 2009.

Tapi lebih enak lagi kalau nama domain juga dimanfaatkan sebagai sosialisasi nomor urut parpol. Jadi misalnya: GOLKAR23, PDIP28, PKS8, dst. Dan di sanalah, di website baru itu, parpol leluasa untuk menyuguhkan kesegaran-kesegaran dan penyegaran-penyegaran baru bagi masyarakat maya.

Isinya tentulah harus mewadahi hal-hal seperti interaktivitas, partisipasi komunitas, dan kebaruan. Sekedar contoh, isi/konten dapat berupa:

1. Pemuatan utuh dan lengkap daftar calon legislatif / calon anggota dewan yang diusung
2. Galeri foto kepartaian baik dari kesekretariatan partai atau kader dan simpatisan
3. Rekaman video aktivitas kampanye dialogis / kampanye tertutup parpol
4. Pusat agregasi dari blog/situs resmi atau layanan social networking. Baik yang dikelola oleh lembaga resmi parpol, atau juga oleh para simpatisan dan kader
5. Forum tukar pendapat yang membedah visi, misi, konsep, program parpol, dlsb
6. Pusat download/pengunduhan seluruh materi kampanye

Yang paling menarik sepertinya poin 1. Di mana "masyarakat luas" dapat ikut meranking, memberi peringkat dan penilaian tentang caleg yang diusung parpol. Paling tidak, sekedar memberi komentar.

Begitulah, sekedar usul sederhana. Apalagi setelah dicek, kecuali pks8.com, pan9.com, pdk20.com, dan ppp24.com, semua kombinasi parpol lain dan nomor urutnya masing-masing masih tersedia dalam .com

Dengan begitu, nama domain jadi jauh lebih singkat (4, 5 sampai 8 "huruf") sekaligus unik. Mudah diingat, dan siapa tahu, jadi makin menarik.

Ich denke gerade drüber nach, ob der eigentliche Nutzwert von Twitter vielleicht ein ganz anderer ist als der, den man vordergründig sieht. Das mit dem "follow" ist ja ganz nett. Insbesondere für Leute, die nicht so viel zu tun haben.

Da gehöre ich aber nicht dazu.

Für mich ist das Ding vor allem deshalb genial, weil ich immer und von überall mit meinem Handy via Twitter und RSS-Feed kurze Texte auf meinem Blog veröffentlichen kann.

Je länger ich das nutze, desto mehr stelle ich fest: Das ist supereinfach, geht schnell und macht Spaß. Vielleicht brauchen wir genau solche Mechanismen, um die Blogosphäre entscheidend zu vergrößern. Für mich eine schöne Vision.

Auch wenn Skeptiker natürlich sagen werden, dass komplexe Gedankengebäude natürlich mit 140 Zeichen sich nicht bauen lassen. Und dass viele Tweets ja schlicht banal sind. Nur: Die Rosinen rauspicken, das mußte der Mensch schon immer.

Der Vorteil dieser Lösung liegt auf der Hand: Ich spare mir neben der Kosten für die Software auch die große Festplatte auf dem Computer. Und: Ich kann von jedem Internet-Zugang auf meine Daten zugreifen!

Natürlich fallen auch die Nachteile dieses neuen Internets ins Auge: Ich mache mich von großen Anbietern, z.B. Google, abhängig? (Fragt sich was dabei anders ist, denn bisher bin ich wohl von Microsoft abhängig!?). Was ist, wenn es nicht mit dem Internet klappt? (Sicher, aber in den nächsten Jahren wird wohl der DSL-Zugang so präsent sein, wie die Stromversorgung). Wie ist es mit dem Schutz meiner Daten gegen unberechtigte Nutzung bestellt? (Ja, das macht mir auch die meisten Sorgen).

Wenn ich jetzt diesen Beitrag in der aktuellen ZEIT lese, erleben wir hier aber gerade die Vorboten einer Revolution im Netz und sollten uns wohl um die Nachteile keine großen Gedanken machen, sondern lieber versuchen, den Anschluss nicht zu verpassen.

Also packen wir es an, denkt
HoSi