categoria ~ blogosphéra

estamos no japão, claro. a empresa de ti kayak co. desenvolveu uma sofisticada interface botânica que permite que plantas publiquem suas sensações na internet. um vegetal doméstico da espécie hoya kerii chamado midori-san começou a postar há uma semana.

sensores captam os sutis sinais bioelétricos produzidos pelas folhas da planta, que normalmente carregam respostas ao ambiente imediato que as cercam: temperatura, umidade, ondas eletromagnéticas e até atividade humana. um algoritmo especialmente criado para vegetais traduz os dados para frases em japonês, que alimentam o blog diariamente:

so far, the plant's highly structured posts summarize the day's weather, temperature and lighting conditions, describe its overall physical condition, tell how much light it received via the user-activated lamp, and explain how much fun the day was. each post also includes a self-portrait photo and a plant-themed pun (in japanese), which midori-san likely did not write. a graph at the top of the sidebar shows the plant's surface potential in real-time.

é basicamente um concorrente orgânico do climatempo.

via pink tentacle.

e sabe abrir a boca pra reclamar.

;D

muitas outras relações em indexed.

absorvido por esse propósito, caetano demorou alguns anos até perceber que a internet apresentava alguma dissonância à ditadura discursiva da cultura de massa. isso só foi acontecer agora, quando, ao experimentar o privilégio subjetivo de manipular um blog, ele pôde enfim compreender o que é ter uma mídia só pra si. aí já viu, colega. tá implantado o regime da verdade tropical.

(...)

o blog obra em progresso era para ser o acessório 2.0 de seu novo projeto musical, iniciado com uma temporada de shows no rio ao lado da banda cê. quem assistiu ao vivo ou pelo youtube sabe que o despojamento zona sul dos amigos de moreno veloso anda mesmo fazendo bem a seu pai, que continua em forma para compor, cantar e fazer stand-up comedy acts. num dos shows, por exemplo, ele tirou da cartola três travestis pra criar a fenomenologia do caso ronaldo. em outro, disse que preferia barack obama a hillary clinton por gostar mais de preto do que de mulher. decididamente, o cara não é bobo.

a íntegra translumbrante em fogo de artifício, via dica de la beber no gtalk.

melhor refeição da blogosphéra nas últimas semanas.

o grande trunfo de repercutir está na forma que o repercussor apresenta o objeto para seus leitores.

ontem michael bierut, do design observer, falou de man on wire, filme sobre o cara que atravessou as duas torres do world trade center andando numa corda em 1974. para bierut, a moral da história é:

as a 50-year-old designer who spends more time in meetings that at my (imaginary) drawing board, i find it conveniently reassuring to value concept over execution. man on wire shows how easy it is to have an idea, and how hard - and sometimes even miraculous - it is to see it realized.

pretendo averiguar se o filme é tão delícia quanto o post completo.

se ela regressa à blogosphéra, todos temos o que festejar.

;*

1. newspapers did not make a huge mistake by giving the content away for free. duh, look at the internet. everything except the porn and the dating services is free.

- agree. many stupid brazilian online newspapers want you to sign up for their pages in order to offer the entire content to you, though.

2. journalism can be done, and done well, without newspapers. it's okay if you love newspapers, but they're really expensive to produce and the audience is abandoning them, as are the advertisers, so it doesn't help us much to go on talking about newspapers.

- agree. and many say that there will be a foldable screen to carry in our bags and read online newspaper anywere.

3. journalism costs a lot of money to do (and especially if it's done well), because it requires dedicated people. so we can't pretend that the work will get done for free. it will not.

- agree. those people must update their carreer plans and move to something else in order to make the money they deserve. although deserve is questionable those days.

4. citizens and amateurs and well-meaning whistle-blowers, etc., etc., will sometimes commit wonderful acts of journalism. but they will not do so reliably, day in and day out, and there aren't enough of them with the interest, free time, and goodwill to do everything journalists have been doing for about 400 years.

- true. agree. but it´s still better than liable corporations speaking about the facts of the world.

5. newspapers were a nice business. publishers could make the product insanely cheap (remember the penny press), and the advertising would cover the expenses, plus generate fantastic profits. however, this is clearly over. It's done. it worked for a long time, but now, like trans-atlantic leisure travel in big passenger ships, it will never work again.

- agree. and advertisers should move on too. i have a feeling that traditional ad is coming to an end.

6. no one today goes to one spot online as the trusted information source. people don't even go to five or six. everyone goes to dozens, hundreds - more. a subscription scheme is therefore not workable. (update: many people worldwide are not online. i know that. many people are illiterate and cannot read newspapers. let's move on.)

- agree. but i think this thing about going to dozens of spots daily is not a brazilian habit yet.

7. future generations will not read newspapers. ever.

- agree. even though i don´t know why.

8. journalism is vital to a democratic system of government, because without independent busybodies (yes, journalists) sticking their nose into everything, governments and large corporations can cheat, oppress, and starve people. (nobel prize-winner amartya sen famously said there has never been a famine in a democratic country because the news about food shortages or distribution failures cannot be hidden and suppressed)

- obviously agree, even though i´m widely more interested in anarchy than democracy.

9. the business model to sustain journalism in the 21st century has not been seen yet.

- agree. that´s why publishers are still acting so conservative.

10. newspaper companies, in particular, seem unlikely to blaze the trail toward a viable business model for journalism.

- agree. same comment of number 9.

the hole enchillada here.

o amplo clã de brilhantes designers que prolifera pela internet rapidamente autuou as imagens photoshopadas pelo governo iraniano sobre seu lançamento de mísseis. tipo, risos. e muito mais risos com a guilda de chacotas que os mesmos brilhantes designers andam publicando blogosphéra aphórah.