In frisch aufgetauchten Technologien stets das Dumme, Gefährliche und Verwerfliche zu sehen, ist kein neues Phänomen. Neu ist lediglich die Geschwindigkeit, mit der das Netz einen Teil der Gesellschaft durchdringt, während der Rest kopfschüttelnd daneben steht.
This company is known for its great editorial product, and it should be. But the biggest surprise is [the role of] technology and openness in enabling us to grow so fast. ... It's the whole content management system that our team has that enables editors to do their own search engine optimization and [content] sharing right at their desks and to get updates on how well their stories are doing every fifteen minutes. We had one of our really strong editors here leave to go to another news organization, a very large newspaper, I won't say which. When she was hired, everybody's like, "Do that magic the way you did at the Huffington Post.
The map shows all trains (yellow pins) on the London Underground network in approximately real time.
By 2015, it's estimated there will be one trillion connected devices. People with pacemakers will be monitored by wireless systems. In the near future, automobiles will run on 64-bit, multi-core processors, running millions of lines of code.
It's a future that IBM believes will be increasingly dominated by a "system of systems," where software scales on devices that interconnect to create a convergence of mechanical, electronic, and digital technologies.
The rise of streaming tools, though, is leading to a new state, where long-format blogging is being imploded, turned into content for the short-format stream, like radio was cannibalized for TV.
We'll see a new logical layering. At the bottom will be the web of pages, a vast archive of HTML connected by links: a giant hypertext.
At the top will be the web of flow, as typified now by Twitter microstreaming. Users will consider themsleves as 'logged into' Twitter (or other microstreams) where microsyntactic references, via URLs, hashtags, or other techniques will allow users to pull in larger format or richer content, like text, audio, video, or images. This is where people will operate, share, comment, question, and argue converationally.
Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress.
That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions.
A look inside The New York Times newsroom and stories being covered Wednesday, Tusday, Monday ...
Reminds me at German Focus-Markwort-Advertising.
And some intelligent opinion.
The Huffington Post is launching a “Twitter edition” that is intended to serve as an extension and a distinct entity from the main news and opinion site, the company told paidContent. The primary purpose is to harness the social networking aspects of the site to create a real-time news service for each of HuffPo’s 19 sections.
