Why newspapers won’t die…

Today, I’ve picked this image on Igor’s Posterous:

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first I smiled, but then it came to me, that although this is certainly true for many journals, the reality also reminds me that as everything else, it depends where you stand and on what you’re aware of…

The thing is that the NEW media loves to write about the OLD media, which in turn loves to write about NEW media, funny isn’t it?

I read most of my news online, but from time to time I do LOVE to read what I’ve been calling Slow News (and i’ll promise that I’ll cover this in my next post), meaning that I do read paper magazines and newspapers. I am in fact paying subscriptions for those when available (yes living in Germany has it’s drawbacks if we depend on international press).

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Posted: November 20th, 2009 | Author: pecus
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Complexity of our times

Seeing this today at XKCD reminded me of Steve Johnson book ‘Everything Bad is Good for You‘ and how we’re coping with more and more intricate narratives, involving multiple characters and distinct timelines… and the reason why that implies a change in the way our brains have been changing and the resulting effects upon society as whole..

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Posted: November 4th, 2009 | Author: pecus
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Open Declaration on European Public Services

Open Declaration on European Public Services

Endorse the Open Declaration!

Let’s improve European public services together.

On November 19th, the EU governments will meet in Malmo to sign a Ministerial Declaration that will define the key priorities for e-government strategy in Europe for the next years.

A group of Web 2.0 enthusiasts launched an open collaborative effort to build an Open Declaration on European Public Services, which calls on European governments to embrace the values of transparency, participation and empowerment and so improve public services. The European Commission and the Swedish Presidency of the EU have accepted that we present the declaration in the official program of the Ministerial Conference.

We now need to collect thousands of endorsements in order to convince governments to fully embrace these values.

If you share the values of the Open Declaration, please add your name in this form. Together we can make a difference!

If you agree, you may sign it and then join the Facebook Group to start spreading the word.

Posted: November 4th, 2009 | Author: pecus
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Meet WikiReader

Wikipedia's Wikireader

In a world filled with noise and constant interruptions comes a device specifically designed to facilitate your focus. It’s a small, simple three buttons device, equiped with a e-ink thouch screen, low power comsuption and packs inside all the things we ever wanted to know more about (well almost everthying I bet!) just check out the introduction video:

Is it just me, or this reminds me the Hitchhiker’s?

Posted: October 14th, 2009 | Author: pecus
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1980 vs 2009’s advertising tools

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Posted: October 7th, 2009 | Author: pecus
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Amnesty “Dog’s Life”

Posted: October 6th, 2009 | Author: pecus
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Did you Know?

Posted: September 23rd, 2009 | Author: pecus
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Did you know??

A bit outdated, but always impressive:

read more on the ‘SHIFT happens presentation‘.

Posted: April 1st, 2009 | Author: pecus
Filed under: Artifacts, Futurology, History, Information Architechture, Vídeo, Web

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