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Cloud Culture
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«Yet if we are not vigilant we will find our culture will belong to corporations and governments rather than us. And because the cloud will be with us wherever we go, in a myriad of different ways, so they will be as well. That is why we need an Open Cloud Declaration, a set of principles for a global campaign to keep open a large, public, diverse space to be filled by clouds in as many possible shapes and sizes as possible.»
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Charles Leadbeater, leading thinker on creativity and innovation, writes here about the issues he addresses in his new pamphlet "Cloud Culture: the global future of cultural relations"
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Pay to Play
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«With the New York Times announcing that it will start charging for its website, an examination of why scientific and journalistic publishing seem to be headed in opposite directions.
Sometime in the near future, an important organism in the online informational ecosystem will radically change its behavior. Readers relying on it for intellectual sustenance will have to expend more resources hunting it down, or look elsewhere. »
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«If the future of publishing means that we're all going to pay to play», says Evan Lerner, «we're going to need a new way of minding the register.»
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Apple Sees New Money in Old Media
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«With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry- and expand Apple's influence and revenue as a content middleman.
In developing the device, Apple focused on the role the gadget could play in homes and in classrooms, say people familiar with the situation. The company envisions that the tablet can be shared by multiple family members to read news and check email in homes, these people say.»
[Apple Sees New Money in Old Media
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Rumors and speculations from Wall Street Journal
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Brain Scans Reveal Video Gamers' Secrets
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«The researchers found that certain regions of the brain, the striatum in particular, were indeed bigger in the most successful players. "Bigger is better in this case, at least among healthy tissue," Kramer said.
The findings seem to confirm that parts of the striatum, which is nestled deep inside the cerebral cortex, determine a person's ability to learn both motor skills and new concepts, and also to adapt to changing situations, the researchers wrote.»
[Brain Scans Reveal Video Gamers' Secrets
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Researchers found that certain regions of the brain are larger in young people who do a better job of playing a specially designed video game.
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Dying Days of Giant Publishers
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«Amazon led the market by creating the Kindle and Kindle editions, and Apple and Google are inventing their own book markets. The giant publishers are trying to catch up. But Amazon (soon to be joined by Apple and Google), by leading the market defined it and is setting the terms. Amazon is also applying the Dell lesson: You can have an ebook in any format you want as long as it is a Kindle format. The giant publishers, who should have led, instead fumbled so badly that they are in disarray over how to catch up. More importantly, perhaps, for the publishers is that Amazon is turning them into the bad guys in the public relations war for the consumer soul. It's the problem of the giant publishers being a sumo wrestler when a ballerina is needed - and not recognizing the problem.»
[Dying Days of Giant Publishers]
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Interesting analysis from An American Editor. «Publishers are confused about who are their customers», he says. And they have to rethink their relationship with the market. (The next part is here)
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