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There was a time when we had to depend on the mass media for coverage of events we couldn’t attend. Today the coverage is interactive and collaborative: participants comment live on the internet (Olivia Mitchell has published an interesting ebook about the use of backchannels like Twitter).

Some events, like Intercon, offer platforms to map, encourage and add value to content that the public shares, even calling on the public to write articles for an official collaborative book about the event. Others, like TEDxSP also have real-time coverage via Twitter. Read more…

Non-hierarchical patterns of relationships, distributed flow: these are the things I thought about when I saw the title of the book Olhares da Rede (Perspectives on the Net), written by students from the Cásper Líbero College. It revolves around a discussion between five international authors who develop their opinions on the themes, and it can be downloaded for free!

The other electronic book that awakened my interest is CulturaDigital.Br, written by members of the CulturaDigital community, which was created by the federal government to stimulate discussion and collaboration around the use of the Internet by everyday people in everyday life. Read more…

For some time we’ve seen professionals and companies talking about how it is economical, fast and secure to host data on remote servers - instead of buying your own infrastructure for hosting. That (and then some) is what is known as cloud computing. Software as a Service (SaaS) is also part of it. Read more…