Integration of radio and video

Some interesting ideas from Riccardo Del Castello on how he sees the integration between radio and video.

What is a “browser”

I think we should spend much more time on communication…
P.S.: thanks @gaurisalokhe

Socialmedia and the Iranian Election

I found this very interesting article on how socialmedia are supporting the events and the information sharing process during the events which followed the Iran Elections.

I really think it’s worth reading it to have an idea of how information, people and Internet go together today.
UPDATE: more from the same source: a [...]

Barry Schwartz at TED

Some inspiring points extrapolated from recent Barry Schwartz’s speech at TED:

- Human interactions involving kindness care and empathy are essential part of the job.
- Wise persons:

know when and how to make the exception to every rule;
know how to improvise;
are like jazz musician, using the notes on the page but dancing around them, inventing combination that [...]

1981: predicting the birth of Internet

Have  a look at what techcrunch found out somewhere, somehow around Youtube.

This video is really fantastic and gives a flavor of what, less than 30 years ago, seemed to be only science-fiction.
The speaker ended her note mentioning speed and cost of the new service and concluding that it wouldn’t be able [...]

Jan Chipchase at TED

These days we are ending the Forum on Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas with the question: “What is your vision for the future? Here we are looking for suggestions for new services or improving existing services, and ideas for collaboration going forward?“

Some interesting ideas from Jan Chipchase at TED about the future of mobile. I’ll [...]

In My Name

I find this initiative pretty interesting:
Youtube with Oxfam, Save the children, CARE and other organizations, is launching this video channel on the web, called “In my name“, to influence world leaders about the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. As Youtube states in its official blog:
“… through November 1, visit www.youtube.com/inmyname [...]

Writeshop on Video for development

These days FAO is hosting a very interesting writeshop about how to use Video for development. Introducing the event, the organizers declare the objective to:
document experiences and provide guidance to readers on the application of video for rural and agricultural development
So FAO, CTA, gtz and the University of Wageningen, gathering experts in Rome, want to [...]

The week of videos

Last week was a continuous discovering of interesting videos. Have a look at:

TED Talks – Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration
DLD08 – Day3 – Generation web on sevenload.com
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns

p.s.: unfortunately it is a bit problematic to embed them in this [...]

Great video about Web 2.0

Thanks Professor Michael Wesch, Kansas State University, for having created this video. It explains this strange word: Web 2.0.
Having a video to show a concept rather than a sentence to describe it, represents itself a significant step in the communication process!

Videos in Ramallah

My friend Claudia is living in Ramallah where the situation is really difficult. She wrote me: “There is now a danish artist working in Ramallah, and his one minute film on the rush hour in Ramallah is a jewel. Really do check it out at: http://www.mystictruths.net/day7.html“

Look at these two kids playing http://www.mystictruths.net/day17.html These images and [...]

What is KM?

Some interesting video interviews collected by David Gurteen at the ECKM 2006 conference in Budapest in September 2006. The question was “What is Knowledge Management?“:

You can see the complete list of videos on Gurteen web site or on Google Video

Power of community

As just announced, yesterday Google acquired YouTube, the most popular steaming video site and the 10th most popular online destination. I found very interesting the analysis of some blogs around about one of the main reason for Google to spend 1,65 billion dollars…
“Why would Google buy YouTube? To start, 35 million users in the US [...]