Marcos por acaso sabes onde fica a informação quando o kernel tem um problema e aparece o popup para o reportar? Ontem isso aconteceu-me e eu fiz send sem olhar muito para aquilo e esqueci-me de ficar com o id do bug. thanks
- ovigia
"Consider the Open Source model for software, where long-distance collaboration produces innovative, effective, robust, and freely-available software and systems. Could a variant of this model be applied to problems in healthcare, community safety, disaster response, education, energy sustainability, environmental protection, and other contemporary issues? A group led by Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland is proposing to explore this. They've written a White Paper on a "National Initiative for Social Participation". "
- Howard Rheingold
This Luxus Edition unites the new NEUN WELTEN opus "Destrunken“ and the limited EP "Dämmerung“, containing unreleased demo songs of "Destrunken“. Both CDs come in a small handmade bag of cloth, ennobled by a NEUN WELTEN monogram. The Luxus Edition is strictly limited to 100 copies!
- Marcos Marado
"A quem pertence a Internet? Ao homem que, há cerca de duas décadas, inventou as hiperligações e o primeiro motor de busca? Esse homem chama-se Tim Berners-Lee, um físico subatómico defensor de uma Internet livre e acessível. "A Internet deve servir a humanidade" foi a principal mensagem de Berners-Lee durante a reunião anual do STOA, um painel de investigação científica do PE que, juntamente com peritos externos, contribui para a elaboração de políticas de natureza tecnológica ou científica."
- Miguel Caetano
from Bookmarklet
"Está aberto concurso para atribuição de duas Bolsas de Investigação (BI), para a área de sistemas informáticos apoiados em plataformas de mundos virtuais"
- Marcos Marado
from Bookmarklet
er... 1. Duração e Regime de Actividades: Duração de 1 ano, com início previsto para Fevereiro de 2009, em regime de exclusividade. As bolsas poderão ser prorrogadas por um período adicional de 24 (vinte e quatro) meses.
- Ricardo Saraiva
deve ser gralha, porque o anúncio está datado de 30 de Novembro de 2009
- paula simoes ☃
EEK! Eu li isso, mas interiorizei "2010", nem tinha topado a gralha...
- Marcos Marado
Deepak: This is not normal personal cloud storage. Please see http://tr.im/Gstx on why this costs slightly more than other services.
- Dan Cohen
Dan, I read that and am well aware of the challenges of high availability/high durability storage (I manage business development for Amazon EC2), hence the question, especially since you're using S3. Perhaps more information than you can share in public. Call it intellectual curiosity
- Deepak Singh
Haven't tried it in ages, but when I last looked there was an option to specify the storage directory. Put that in Dropbox/ and you're done. Would give you backup and sync, if not share.
- Neil Saunders
@Neil I do the same, straight into dropbox, job done
- Frank
Not exactly the same thing, but my Papers library resides on dropbox
- Deepak Singh
You've always been able to bring your own storage to Zotero, for free. There's a pref for that. This new storage, in addition to providing extra personal storage, provides real-time sync of files across groups, among other things. That means if you are in a science Zotero group with a thousand people, your 2 GB dataset will propagate to all of those people upon upload. When someone new joins the group, they'll get all the data too. As Deepak knows, those syncs are tricky and also use a lot of bandwidth.
- Dan Cohen
Dan, thanks for the clarification. So this is more of a "advanced" feature and not targeted at personal repositories. This would be a really cool feature for companies.
- Deepak Singh
"O correio electrónico, as mensagens instantâneas e a procura de notícias são os serviços mais usados pelos portugueses que acedem à Internet, segundo um estudo do Observatório de Comunicação (Obercom) a que a Lusa teve acesso. O uso da Internet tem vindo a crescer nos últimos anos em todo o mundo e Portugal não é excepção, passando de uma taxa de 29 por cento em 2003 para 38,9 por cento em 2009."
- Miguel Caetano
"Google and the groups suing it --the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers-- released a revised version of their settlement agreement on November 13. Judge Denny Chin gave it preliminary approval six days later. (For the major documents, see the links at the end.) Many sharp eyes and sharp minds are looking at what the revised agreement says, how it differs from the original agreement from October 2008, how well it answers objections levelled against the original, and whether the preliminary approval ought to become final approval. I won't do any of that here. I want to focus on the settlement's implications for OA."
- Miguel Caetano
"In order to force a change in the law, last month a man reported himself for breaching copyright more than a hundred times, hoping an anti-piracy group would take him to court. The group’s lawyer said they would respond by today – they haven’t – so the Danish copyfighter is now reporting himself to the police."
- Miguel Caetano
We have the same problem in Portugal. You have the right to do several things with your digital objects, for educational purposes or private use, but only if they don't have DRM.
- paula simoes ☃
"Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others by recording your pronunciations in your own language."
- Mário Pires
Finalmente! Sei pronunciar Slolichnaya correctamente! Obrigado!
- Luis Canau
Interessante: "Portuguese speakers have always been very active at Forvo. They have just made their language to be the one with more pronunciations making English number 2 for the first time." Os portugueses têm obviamente muito interesse na língua. Ou simplesmente passam muito tempo na Internet :P
- Luis Canau
"It's not elegant and it's not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible. Launching today at Blackwell's Charing Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait. Signalling the end, says Blackwell, to the frustration of being told by a bookseller that a title is out of print, or not in stock, the Espresso offers access to almost half a million books, from a facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland to Mrs Beeton's Book of Needlework. [...]"
- ianf ⌘
from Bookmarklet
Right now these machines cost a bundle, but, with economies of scale, can "One Hour Bookstores" be far behind? Goodbye print-on-demand, welcome print-on-a-whimsy cottage industry!
- ianf ⌘
The great question is why order from Amazon, when you could pop in and have it made up for you, whilst you wait.
- zeroinfluencer
Perhaps. It rather depends on the range (breadth) of genres and back-order titles in each venue. Traditional publishing is in many senses a license to print money, and so the industry isn't too keen on giving it up. If "Expressoed" copies turn out to be as costly as traditional ones, prospective buyers may opt for better "offline" quality from the big A. Then again, they may not... book...
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- ianf ⌘
Amazon has been using print-on-demand at their processing centers for a while to handle low-volume titles, the logical next step is for it to move out even closer to the end users. Its very similar to the fax machine actually: initially FedEx installed fax machines at their local offices and offered fax as a premium service, sending the fax across the country to the nearest FedEx office...
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- DGentry
Denton, indeed. Thus on-demand is not a product; imagine the use case: I'm about to take a journey. book a flight, it's long haul, so I order a book (profile & recommendations); the book stand at the airport prints it up for me ready for collection on the way through to departure lounge (or collect at departure as business service).
- zeroinfluencer
Yes, Denton, but there always will be that £175.000 threshold such a machine costs, which will limit frequency of their occurrence. Amazon may yet end up the winner, because of the economies of scale in distrubution, esp. if/ when beleaguered traditionals elect to lower their prices to stay afloat. It's tricky business really.
- ianf ⌘
Think of the remix capabilities too. Selection of chapters from different books. Pick and Mix editorial in a book format, lovely. Just in time + bespoke = everyone's happy.
- zeroinfluencer
You can dream, David, but this won't be happening for a long time yet. Simple reason, copyrights. As with daily newspapers where you have to buy it all, but nobody expects you to read it cover to cover, so books are largely made up of parts you will read, those that you might, and those you'll perhaps browse through (all too often, I am afraid). Publishers will not permit selling of just some topical chapters of interest to you, you'll have to buy all the "superfluous" ones as well. Alas.
- ianf ⌘
Bad analogy, also American-parochial one I'm afraid. You do not "subscribe" to chapters of books floating by, you buy a book whether you only intend to read the tasty bits on pages 92-101.
- ianf ⌘
I've been playing around with FriendFeed and this http://www.tabbloid.com/, to get nice productions as PDFs. The source of 'content' will depend on the open licence of creative commons BY-SA, and artists are getting to understand that. Stephen Fry on Twitter for example.
- zeroinfluencer
Consumption/use habits are based upon what the technology of the time allows/affords. DRM tried to play havoc with the watching experience.
- zeroinfluencer
Good concept but, unless you can freely mix-and-match, and you'll never be able to provide just that to general public, a niche product. Even if well executed one, as this seems to me. That said, I dislike PDFs just for the reason that they make potentially dynamic information static, and kowtow to absolute page extent aesthetics even on a screen.
- ianf ⌘
I've read about these "Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008" which is a niche product with an enormous production cost-to-distribution ratio. Author never says what they charged for the 1000 numbered copies, but I bet it was a bundle, £39.95? Only when there are fully automated tools to do that (perhaps a suitable application for Wolfram/Alpha?) could this become of use for the public @large...
- ianf ⌘
They never charged for the paper - it was an experiment / proof of concept - I've got a copy - it's lovely. Yes, nice inclusion for Alpha.
- zeroinfluencer
Nice (badly hidden envy), but it makes it even more of a vanity project. Tried to look it up on ebay (0 items found), and google for a copy for sale, without much success <http://google.com/search...>
- ianf ⌘
I live VERY CLOSE to this store. If I try it out, I'll take pictures and post!
- Zach Landes
Here's a movie of the EBM 2.0 in action <http://www.youtube.com/watch...>. Perhaps, for a change, you should just walk in, cup in hand, and ask for an "Espresso"? (refill optional). Then curse them loudly for misinforming the public (and photograph that instead!)
- ianf ⌘
I am actually seriously considering doing that. Good idea, ian
- Zach Landes
What would make this a real bonus is when they can come out with the color edition. Ok, so I am thinking comic books here, but what an awesome way for a small comic artist to do on demand comics.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Dan, all dandy, except it won't be happening, not in this iteration of EBM. It's strictly publisher-controlled selective-backlist only, no option to come in from the street with print-ready manuscript in hand and do a small print run. Or, should that eventually be on offer, it will be prohibitively expensive.
- ianf ⌘
Hold on, I need to amend the above. In the video at around 50 secs mark, it is claimed that the client CAN upload own file, either electronically or from a CD. That information hasn't been mentioned in any press report about it that I've read - so the EBM can be made to accept non-list matter, but perhaps it is up to the actual machine's owner (in this case either Blackwell's or some...
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- ianf ⌘
Meanwhile, there's a better quality (same as above promotional) video here <http://www.boston.com/video...> and a Boston Globe report of a local Espresso installation says this: »[the bookstore] wanted the new machine to connect the store’s customers to millions of book titles. That part of the business has developed slowly,...
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- ianf ⌘
[^*] an euphemism for "the publishers are demanding extraordinary sums for us making it possible for them to make money off their back catalogs. In effect they want us, the franchiser of the EBM, to commit to sell a minimum # copies/year of each title @ current in-print prices (or some such)."
- ianf ⌘
David, thanks for keeping me posted. It's not a light read though, so, before I embark on it later in the week (alas), could you please express it in High-Concept terms, e.g. what [physical size/ quality] "newspapers" you have in mind; and what this your "service to help people make their own newspapers" will be servicing: a single-point electronic drop-off box perhaps for client material - out comes a pack of 20-or-so 16-page tabloid papers prewrapped for dropping off a van at a stand?
- ianf ⌘
Hey Ian, It's not my project, I just know the guys behind it. (Sorry for the confusion - I mentioned it above as an example of what I was talking about - the process is dissimilar from Purefold). No idea how it's going to roll out - but it's a fine experiment to follow via their blog.
- zeroinfluencer
[December 2] Following up on a post from 27th of April—the Expresso Book Machine [aka #EBM] is prominently featured in this week's BBC World Click programme, a video of which is available for international online viewing, all 11m40s of it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... “[Click: 27 November] How printing on demand services and the internet have enabled anyone to publish their books. Plus, a look at the latest eBook readers.”
- ianf ⌘
Thanks! Weirdly, I was thinking about this thread last night. How are you Ian?
- zeroinfluencer
"O músico inglês Morrissey pediu aos fãs para não comprarem os discos que a EMI se prepara para reeditar, relativos à sua carreira a solo entre 1988 e 1995. Numa página web que utiliza para comunicar com os fãs (www.true-to-you.net), o ex-Smiths adiantou que não receberá qualquer verba pela venda dos discos, e que a discográfica avançou para a edição sem o seu consentimento."
- Marcos Marado
from Bookmarklet
Required reading: British Council's Martin Rose: A SHARED PAST FOR A SHARED FUTURE: European Muslims and History-making http://www.britishcouncil.org/canada-...
Mais de 95 por cento da música que ouço pertence a editoras independentes ou já foi lançada comercialmente há mais de 20 anos... A questão é que essas indies ainda acreditam que o seu modelo de negócio se evaporaria com a legalização da partilha de ficheiros, o que penso que não é de todo verdade...
- Miguel Caetano