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I really recommend you Jeff’s article: TV Shows Only Available on the Internet. Pulver proposes a possible classification, which includes different possibilities in this encounter: television and internet. He talks about five categories: TV on the Net, TV Shows Only Available on the Internet, User Created Content Sites, Sites to View TV and Misc.

Pulver predicts a near future where most sites go with approaches of the second of these categories, TV Shows Only Available on the Internet. On the subject, I wonder on last possible option:

Misc: for websites that didn’t fit in any of the other boxes above.

So… Somehow this would be right for a scenario where that space between television and computer is differentiated even clearly.

But, toward where do we walk? As these two realities mix, we discover some different dimension, that’s: new uses, new possibilities… What television is it and what’s internet at this time? Will they be an only apparatus? A mixture of both?

It comes from Wired, presented as an experiment in collaborative journalism. A chancy, attractive and innovative proposal.

Defiant question at the beginning: “But is there a future for wikis other than the encyclopedia model, or will open collaboration be the exception, not the rule?”

The article it’s worth reading and for sure we should extend more. Give it a glance.

Talking about artificial intelligence reminds me about Alice, or so called A.L.I.C.E, meaning Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity. That’s a free natural language artificial intelligence chat robot and the software is open source.

Test such a experience. But, as creators emphasize, remember: “you are really chatting with a machine!”

“What household robots should be like?”.

“R781 was designed in accordance with the not-a-person principle, first proposed in 1995 and which became a matter of law for household robots when they first became available in 2055. The principle was adopted out of concern that children who grew up in a household with robots would regard them as persons: causing psychological difficulties while they were
children and political difficulties when they grew up. One concern was that a robots’ rights movement would develop. The problem was not with the robots, which were not programmed to have desires of their own but with people. Some romantics had even demanded that robots be programmed with desires of their own, but this was illegal”. I’ve found it
on John McCarthy’s “The robot and the baby”, a science fiction story written by this Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University.

He helped organize the AI workshop in 1956, and at that conference, coined the term: “artificial intelligence”.

In Wired we can read an interesant article: AI Reaches the Golden Years

Conflicts and borders between journalism and blogging have been increasingly argued.
Nevertheless, has just arrived an original issue about it. Media mogouls and a new wave of tech entrepreneurs met recently in Sun Valley. It was mogouls idea, and the Post underlines perfect motto: “Keep your friends close but your enemies even closer”.

Surprisingly, or not?, theres is a condition: participants are banned from blogging. Martin Varsavsky, CEO of FON, mentions on his blog: “I Can´t Blog About What I am Doing These Four Days”. As José del Moral sees, “Tell them not to write about what they hear/see. Next year everybody will want to be over there”, this time that’s even marketing decision, but… what about next time? Several thouhghts must be pointed:

1-About blogging value: restraints and control suggest a lot in the growing importance of blogs.
2-Furthemore, what about the implications for bloggers acting conscious and deliberate as journalists? Are we in the presence of an off-the-record case or something else?

Yahoo has just lost supremacy on the net. According last tests, MySpace has surpassed yahoo world’s figures. MySpace community represents almost two in hundred internet visits, 1.9%. That’s a 4300% increase in visits over two years!! Bill Tancer talks about it.

But, on the other hand we must note down about MySpace affair with “Internet Tube Song”. That’s Andre Raff’s song inspired in senator Ted Steven’s words about internet as a “series of tubes”. After quick spreading, MySpace canceled Raff account, arguing a “credible complaint of violation in MySpace Terms of Services”. Forums pointed the interests in the telecommunications bill of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, which owned MySpace, perhaps not accidentally: Stevens heads Senate Commerce Committee.

In Wired Raff sees a “political lesson in the takedown — a foreshadowing of the kind of repression of speech that could become commonplace if phone companies prevail in their efforts to create a two-tiered internet”.

Cases of successful experiences as well as models of possible businesses being based on platforms of free software will be exposed tomorrow. Just received in mail. It’s a free attendance event. Nevertheless, seating is limited to the first registrants and attendance must be confirmed.

That’s usual. Regular practice in valuable net conferences show same tendence. Experts meet talking off line for an exclusive and small audience, even around subjects wich inspire about the net chance to achieve large audience on global issues.

So… why not webcasting it? Why so much knowledge lost in small activities within range so little people?

Several weeks after last post, although remaining active in other blogger ecosystem, I recover this place for blogging… and promise continuity.

A few weeks ago an activist gave me an Ubuntu Kit. That’s for several days, on the table, but I’ve no decided… Perhaps after knowing about Danny Tuppeny, I’ll find forces to try it.

I love these mixtures of science and fiction

“The colony aims to be self-sustaining in its requirements for sustenance, but it will nevertheless function in symbiosis with Earth. As a result, trade between the lunar colony and Earth will flourish, with the lunar colony contributing towards the development of research and scientific activities, such as, for example, the supply of alternative energy based on advancements in Helium-3 fusion power, and provision of structural materials for spacecraft and satellites in earth orbit as well as deep space”

Read the article in SpaceRef