There’s a new magazine I humbly think whe should keep and eye on. I’m speaking about We Magazine, an on line, print on demand or PDF publication, under creative commons, that gets some of the most interesting guest authors on the Internet together.

We Magazine first issue, apart from explaining their aim to analyze and support the Internet phenomena that provide us (as an anonymous audience composed by prosumers), features articles from and interviews with Stephen Downes, Ethan Zuckerman, Joichi Ito, Dan Gillmor and UOC UNESCO Chair Fifth International Seminar speaker Sugata Mitra.

One of the hottest articles on this first issue is Stephen Downes’s Ten Futures. On the text, Downes says “this is a bit linear, but has the virtue of identifying future trends, not things that are around today”, referring to the ten ways that the www might evolve acording to Richard MacManus ideas.

Some of those futures are:

• The Pragmatic Web: understood as a contextualized www where web sites know about our likes, social connections and trends, etc. to offer us different interaction choices.
• Extended Reality: as a sensorial extension of the real world. Downes explains: “This reality will not just be a simulation of ’reality‘. Rather, what will emerge as the combination of the two is a kind of ’hyper-reality‘, where objects exist both in the physical world and the digital world”
• The Human Grid: the idea of the human mind, able to take decisions, recognize paterns and communicate, as the captain of this “technology sheep” is basic. The human intervention will be the key of the right operantion of the companies.
• Holoselves: “No person can be in two places at once, of course, but one’s avatar can travel one place while you travel to another”.
• More futures on We Magazine

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Well, the end of august is a pretty quiet period, so I think it’s much more accurate for useful content rather than for reflections and deep thoughts. That’s why I have a new list to talk about today.

Chris Brogan, social media consultant, recently compiled a list of 20 books about 2.0 that are available to download. The list mixes some marketing oriented titles with some others that analyze social media from a less specific point of view. Not all of the titles are one hundred per cent related with the topics of this weblog, but there they are:

• The New Rules of Viral Marketing – by David Meerman Scott
• Marketing Apple – by MarketingApple.com
• Masters of Marketing – by Startup Internet Marketing
• Podcast Marketing eBook – by Christopher S. Penn
• Google Adwords Secrets – by SEOBook
• Get Viral Get Visitors – by Stacie Mahoe
• Marketing With Case Studies – by Dynamic Copywriting
• How to Write a Marketing Plan – by Geisheker Group
• SEO for WordPress blogs – by Blizzard Internet
• Social Web Analytics – by Social Web Analytics
• Geeks Guide to Promoting Yourself With Twitter – by Geekpreneur
• The Zen of Blogging – by Hunter Nutall
• What is Social Media – by iCrossing
• A Primer in Social Media – by SmashLab
• Effective Internet Presence – by Effective Internet Presence
• Introduction to Good Usability – by Peter Pixel
• Increasing the Response to Your Email Marketing Program – by CRM Transformation
• We Have a Website. Now What? – by Craig Rentmeester
• Blogs & Social Media – by PRSA
• The Podcast Customer Revealed – by Edison Media Research

Via Tíscar Lara.

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Following the topic openned on the last post, the more specific we list items, the more useful they are. Here you have thirtyfive more reassons to go on surfing the net. This time, someone (this time is Sean P. Aune, but what is more important: the author or the content?) has published a list of 35 tools for teachers. They are learning management systems and social networking communities for students related and can be a good motivation during the process of working on the beggining of the new year.

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This is just a quick entry to make a reflection about how useful can lists be. We have found a very interesting one on Smartteaching.org: 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers.

It’s amazing to check how information and communication technologies are making a slow but safe way to the classroom, and how videos (specially those aimed to explain how some technologies work) are being more and more used on it everyday.

The video above, titled “What is moodle?”, is just an example on the list. Enjoy it.

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As we said yesterday, quoting Fray Luis de Leon, one of the fields on communication that has experienced one of the biggest changes is the narrative language. Social media in plain English, the last video we published on this blog, is a good example of how the Internet is causing a deep redefinition of the audiovisual code.

Some authors have done efforts to analyze, organize and explain this reality. Paul Hazel, from the Swansea Metropolitan University, made a very interesting presentation on the Narrative in Interactive Learning Environments 2008 conference, that took place on Edinburgh last 6-8th August.

Hazell’s idea is to set the bases of a proper use of the narrative on the new media and to analyze the its main problems. His presentation (ppt, 2,2m) is highly recomended for those readers interested on the field.

There’s another presentation from the same conference that deserves a mention for its original focus. The title is Inspired Storytelling: The Digital Re-tellings of a Traditional Tale, created by Deborah Maxwell, Catriona Macaulay and Tom Inns, and makes a very interesting travel trough the history of storytelling: form the mouth-ear ancient tradition to all the actual options a storyteller can choose to communicate the content. The very romantic idea behind all the presentation is clear: stories don’t die, they are reborn.