Comunità digitali

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This new series looks at mass phenomena that occur on a global scale. Similarly to the first Running the Numbers series, each image portrays a specific quantity of something: the number of tuna fished from the world’s oceans every fifteen minutes, for example. But this time the statistics are global in scale, rather than specifically American.

Finding meaning in global mass phenomena can be difficult because the phenomena themselves are invisible, spread across the earth in millions of separate places. There is no Mount Everest of waste that we can make a pilgrimage to and behold the sobering aggregate of our discarded stuff, seeing and feeling it viscerally with our senses.

“ The Village Voice, on the other hand, has built this sales force over five decades as a weekly newspaper. So it is acting as a local ad network for Curbed, Mr. Steele said, selling local businesses ads for its Web site as well as the Curbed blogs and then sharing revenue. In return, it gets to offer Curbed’s articles and readers, in addition to its own, to lure advertisers.

— A Partnership Between Old and New Media - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

“ In the end, if we can find new and daring solutions to these problems of engagement (formerly known as audience), effectiveness (advertising), and efficiency (operations), we can improve news as a product (and process), its relationship with its public, its value to its customers, and its sustainability. That’s the goal.

— The X Prizes for news (and media) « BuzzMachine

“ The reason why mobile phones are so valuable to people in the poor world is that they are providing access to telecommunications for the very first time, rather than just being portable adjuncts to existing fixed-line phones, as in the rich world.

— A special report on telecoms in emerging markets: : Mobile marvels | The Economist

“ Rather than spend a day travelling by bus to the nearest bank, recipients in rural areas can spend their time doing more productive things. The incomes of Kenyan households using M-PESA have increased by 5-30% since they started mobile banking, according to a recent study.

— Telecoms: The power of mobile money | The Economist

“ E’ solo nella fantascienza che si trovano descrizioni realistiche (sì, realistiche!) del mondo in cui viviamo.

— Evangelisti: “Una narrativa adeguata ai tempi” | G I U S E P P E G E N N A

“ La domanda diventa concreta quando si apprende che in Questura a Milano da tempo esiste un fascicolo personale intestato “Boffo Dino”. Prima che si alzasse la buriana, il carteggio era custodito in archivio. Ora, non c’è più. Tecnicamente è “in trattazione”, ovvero un ufficio l’ha richiesto per “lavorarci” sopra.

— Libero News - I Blog: LA QUESTURA AVEVA UN FASCICOLO RISERVATO SULLA STORIA DI BOFFO

“ If Internet service providers are allowed to choose among content, it would be bad for everyone but the service providers.

— Editorial - Access and the Internet - NYTimes.com

“ Let’s stop asking how to get people to pay for content, because they never did. Let’s stop asking: How do we reinvent journalism? Opportunity abounds here. The new digital tools are allowing us to create deeper, richer journalism than ever. And more people than ever are reading my journalism. Journalism is doing fine. Instead, newsrooms need to ask: > How do we reinvent local community on the web? > And how do we reinvent the local marketplace online?

— MediaShift Idea Lab . Future of Local News About More Than Paid Content | PBS

“ For most newspapers, Facebook and Twitter have become the primary social-media outlets. The Post boasts eight official Twitter accounts, while its Facebook network spans 16 different memberships — including one for former employees

— The Risks, and Rewards, of Social Media for Newspapers