Twitter, the earthquake, and the future of breaking news
February 27, 2008 10:35 am
categories:
Business, Technology, World, cyberculture
As I told before, Twitter is changing the concept of publishing breaking news. Today I read two good articles by Josh Catone about this that worth the reading:
Earthquake in UK? News Broken on Twitter
The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse
Is microhoo already settled?
February 25, 2008 7:54 pm
categories:
Technology
Today I had a newer version of Yahoo Messenger installed on my computer. I got surprised when saw the new interface of the buddy info window. The old one used to bring me just some little info about the one I was looking, but this new one it`s completely overcrowded with useless buttons. It’s the Allan Cooper’s Dancing bear principle, it seems that the guys thought in every single thing a user could want to do and put it all there.
The point is: the newer version brings so much information that you spent more time to scan and identify what the hell is going on there! A precious IM button now lives with ugly brothers like “Call”, “Call mobile”, “Call work”…
Maybe I was just used to the older interface and got shocked with the new one. Maybe it’s really easier to click on a buddy and have more interactions options to choose. But I think the first impression is the most important, and I really got confused.
In fact, I’m wondering if Microsoft have already bought Yahoo and nobody told me…
The millions of buttons at the Buddy info window of the new Yahoo Messenger
Watchmen…can’t wait!
February 20, 2008 10:41 am
categories:
Arts & Culture
I’m really really anxious about the ‘Watchmen’ movie. It takes me back to the 90’s when I had to wait each month to buy the next number of the comic book. And that was a torture, I can tell you that.
Seeing the movie’s storyboards with the comic’s arts side by side it’s amazing. Check this one from the sequence where Rorschach attacks a policeman and the final filmed version.
The classic Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen covers
I hope it doesn’t disappoint me the same way Sin City (the movie) did. Although it was a great movie (and a great adaptation), the comics narrative are hard to surpass. Surely Watchmen is a big challenge. Guess we’ll have to wait and see…may the force be with us!
A volta d’A teoria do fusca: onde tem um tem outro
February 19, 2008 11:40 am
categories:
Arts & Culture, Sillies, cyberculture
Meu amigo Luish Moraes Coelho reativou seu saudoso site sobre sua deliciosa “A Teoria do Fusca: Onde tem um, tem outro“. Já se vão 10 anos do seu lançamento e, depois de um puxão de orelha, esta semana o danado resolveu, para nossa alegria, reativar essa pérola da web brasileira.
Material de divulgação original do site, que caracteriza bem a época em que foi criada a teoria…os velhos álbuns fotográficos, há 10 anos atrás, ainda eram associação direta ao ato de fotografar
Pioneiro em relação aos atuais projetos de UGC (User Generated Content), o site contava com contribuições dos usuários para comprovar a teoria. Alguns internautas mandaram suas fotos. Infelizmente, por conta da época em que foi lançado (1999), era uma tarefa mais trabalhosa registrar os fuscas, já que era ainda o modelo revelar+ampliar+scannear. Lembro que registrei alguns casos em algumas viajens que fiz por Minas Gerais, mas as fotos ainda em papel fotográfico tinham que ser digitalizadas, e eu não tinha scanner na época. Agora, com as máquinas digitais, com certeza o site vai ganhar muitas contribuições.
Campus Party BR
February 12, 2008 10:14 am
categories:
Brasil, Technology, cyberculture
The traditional spanish Campus Party is taking place at São Paulo, Brasil during this week. Named as the “Technology Woodstock“, lots of geeks and techies are camping and chating and twittering and flickring and streaming video directly from the event, that seems to be very interesting. I’m following the postings and having fun at a safe distance, but I’m really glad to see that such a remarkable event is taking place here at Brasil, showing the strengh that, in a certain way, our country has on the techie world. Hope this one will be the first of a series of events from this nature, helping to develop our market and cyberculture as well!
The sleeping facilities.
Photo by Wagner Montes, O Globo Online.
s1mone caught in action.
Photo by Wagner Montes, O Globo Online.
The great arena, where all the “interaction” take place.
Photo by Wagner Montes, O Globo Online.
Read more about the Brazilian Campus Party.
