Here's an interesting description by D. Roberts about social media as a collection of knowledge assets that have to be organized, in order to achieve what he calls "Tangible Knowledge, the Holy grail of finance". Some highlights from my transcription below... (continue...)

I lend media on ya to a him & looking the smoke & noise (the rosie condition) (...)

"A new microformat for online news has been developed by the Media standards Trust and the Web Science Reaseach Initiative: it's called hNews. The goal is to make relevant elements of news articles machine-readable, and at the same time, to disply these metadata in a user-friendly format. ....."

Interesting slides, that "introduce the necessity of a new language that can set a link between the machine process of cyberspace and the uman collective intelligence, which is dynamic, in constant change and made in different languages, from different approaches."....

Nice slide presentation from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about the evolution of the Web, with reference to social networks & issues related to libraries. My personal highligths from this work: * The turn from groups to social networks lays the basis for a new social operating system * Being more civically engages on social networks helps building better communities (continue...)

"The first International Open Access Week is scheduled to take place October 19-23; it is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research......."

Hopefully by the end of the year, the semantic search technology of Twine will make a further step into the construction of structured data on the Web, and its successor T2 will be released. From an interview with Nova Spivack (CEO of Radar Networks, the company behind Twine) we can argue four main points..........

"Although the Semantic Web (SW) is still very much in its infancy, there is already a lot of data out there which conforms to the proposed SW standards (e.g. RDF and OWL). Small vertical vocabularies and ontologies have emerged, and the community of people using these is growing daily.... "

A Brisbane-based, international remixable literature project named Remix My Lit released this summer their first publication, "Through the Clock's Workings": it's defined as the world's first remixed and remixable anthology of literature. (continue....)

Kaltura is an open source video platform, from its video codec to its back-end systems for uploading, hosting, embedding, syndicating, analyzing and inserting advertisements into videos. Anyone can use the code for free: clients pay only for custom installation, integration, and support, depending on their level of traffic. Kaltura is also co-founder of the Open Video Conference that took place in NYC..........

An interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below: We're seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are circulating on the Internet. Copyright law is all about balance........

Berkan we find some key points: * structured data is not equivalent to semantic technology. Simply organizing information in a database, to pull results for the search engines inside their SERP, it's not making semantics..........

The Open philosophy as applied to movies & animations deals with three related concepts: * open, collaborative projects maintained by a community; * open source software; * the copyleft / public domain side of the digital rights spectrum.

A project by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been created to help teachers provide accurate informations about the laws concerning digital rights & the concepts of copyright and piracy.

This is project intends to: 1. Transcribe and upload relevant citations from key texts related to history and theory of media/technology change, 2. Make these citations searchable in database format, and 3. Visualize this information in a manner that graphically highlights interconnections and gaps between technologies, chronologies, geographies, and theories.

Here's a great video presentation I found about the Semantic Web; I transcripted all the main parts here below. Text transcription: The Internet as we know it today is in an extending success: more than 1.300.000.000 (1,3 billions) people are connected to the Web across the globe. In 2006, 161 EB of informations were created or replicated world wide. IDC estimates the increase over 6 times this metric by 2010 - to 988 EB, or to 1 ZB a year.......

Trent Reznor decided to quit social media, or Twitter at least, as you may already know. As he stated quite clearly, he finally found out that "the problem with really getting engaged in a community is getting through the clutter and noise." (continue...)

What does "real-time web" actually means? Basically, getting all the informations you're looking for at the very moment they're are produced, from your sources of choice. (continue...)

In the music business Corey Smith can be considered a case study, as he has been capable of raising millions of dollars giving away his music for free and building at the same time a closer relationship with his fans... (continue...)

Primal Fusion is a Waterloo-based startup that is about to come out of stealth mode, with a technology focused in semantic data retrieval. You can find transcription of the main issues of this video presentation down here below: .......