Episode28
From Technolotics
Contents |
Everyone by the campfire
- A discussion of the democratizing impact of citizen media, distributed distrobution, folksonomy, podcasting, vidcasting and the future of news, entertainment and human communication
Buzzwords: Web2.0, emergent, folksonomy
Content Creation: Geocities -> Google Pagemaker
Media: NBC, Sky, Fox -> Indymedia, Channel 101, Revision3
Knowledge: Britannica -> Wikipedia
Productivity: WordPerfect -> Office -> Writely, Thinkfree, EyeOS
Blogging: Livejournal -> Blogger -> Wordpress
Bookmarking: Bookmarks -> del.icio.us, furl
Homepage: Portals (yahoo etc) -> netvibes, pageflakes
Search: Altavista -> Google -> Technorati, Kosmix, Rollyo
Community: Six Degrees -> Orkut -> Myspace, Bebo, FaceBook
Storage: XDrive -> Ourmedia -> Google locker - infinite free personal storage
News: Slashdot, Google News -> Google Alerts, Newsvine , Digg
Collaboration: Usenet -> Mediawiki -> Wetpaint, WikiWyg
The Future of Science
- Kevin Kellys new work in progress - discusses the future of science
- Kelly suggests potential near term advances in the scientific method
The New Methodology
Some of the Tools Kelly suggests science may adopt
- Compiled Negative Results - the recording and analysis of negative results
- As things stand - only studys which find a significant result tend to be published - creating a significant 'file drawer problem' - and failing to uncover flaws in exisiting theory / paradigms
- Triple Blind Experiments - experiments which occur ubiquitously, without the awareness of participants - raw data collection over masses of variables - allowing flexability of post hoc data analysis / study design
- Combinatorial Sweep Exploration - sampling and analysis of randomly constructed massive samples of models of studied objects - e.g.: brute force attacks on the analysis of genomic structure - through modelled or constucted recombinations genotyping
- Evolutionary Search - the evolution of a problem solution (e.g.: computer program, useful polypeptide) through iterative evolutionary simulation - 'Wolfram science'
- Deep Simulations - hypercomplex simulations of life systems - from weather patterns, to genomes, to animal brains
- Wiki-Science - multiple author continuas work in progress leading edge discussion / papers
Links
Podcasting Consultancy Goes Mainstream
- Conn Ó Muíneacháin on the Sunday Business Posts article about Irish podcast consultancies
- Digicast
- Doop - producing podcasts for the band whipping boy - [1], and Irish Emigrant magazine
- Century Homes - have commissioned a series of podcasts for the construction industry
- Digicast - plans sponsored casts like a tour of Dublin - have a proprietary download system
- This is important - as caching makes it difficult to realistically judge podcast downloads
- Links:
Googlenews - Googleblogger
- Gdrive - googles theoretically unlimited storage solution has been confirmed [2]
- More limited hacks - allowing use of gmail or goole pages storage for data back up are already available
Media Pimp
Gareth
- The Power Glove [3]
- The IT Crowd First Season [4]
- Diggnation on Time [5]
- Spore Gameplay Video [6]
- House of Cosbys [7]
Jason
Francis
- Real Life Simpsons [10]
