Andrés at Joensuu

New media is stealing power from traditional media. However, big money cows still belong to big corporations. Young generations are fed with whatever Viacom(proud owners of MTV and Paramount) offers to them. Big corporations have secured the revenue stream, they actually own the whole revenue stream!!! The produce the content, and they distribute it, they even reward themshelves with prizes. New Media is the place where conversations are produced. And where trust is built collaboratively.

In not a distance future, people will realize the power new media has to offer. Bands won’t need to beg for a distribution contract. Unfortunately, when that day comes, it will be to late. Old-media will have conquered “New Media”. Conversations will be going on, but corporations will have the power to guide them to their own interests. It will be just one product more.

Someone may say that the new media has the future. You don’t require big investments to get into NewMedia, tools are already available. And that New Media appeal to the human touch is a winning position. Both advantages (low-cost and direct contact) do not stop corporations from going inside. It will not enter the sacred places of NewMedia (e.g Boing-boing), but consumers will remain consumers, and go where they told them to go. Money-wise, it is more efficient 1-minute long advertisement in MTV, that the buzz the blogsphere can create in one year around one product.

Summarizing, new media can affect how journalism is done. At the end, money will stay in the same hands. And I do not like it :(.

I will start cross-posting the entries I write for a virtual course I am currently taking: New Media. The first one goes as follows:

The new media term sounds more like a psychological term than a concrete term. With “new”, it says that there is an old one, and that everything that is not from the old media belongs to the new media. I wonder if old media can apply to be upgraded to this “new media”, and get more attention from the audience. They have the money, after all, so it should be possible.

Let’s make a division of what I consider new and old. Old vs New:
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From Sunday I will be attending Mekrijärvi Summer School on Educational Technology in Cultural Context. It is part of the seminars and courses offered by the International Multidisciplinary PhD Studies in Educational Technology (IMPDET). The course will focus in Adaptivity and Distance Learning, it seems to be tailor-made for my needs.

The school is expected to gather 20 participants from around the globe: English, Mexican, Italian, Spanish, and Finnish. It will last until Friday and I expect it to be eventful, despite of being located far from civilization, ok, it is only 5 km far from Ilomantsi, but still, far from Madrid, birthplace of the modern civilization.

I will be posting from there everyday to keep track of what we do and what we do not.

See you there!!

From my previous post I create the following nice playlist from the music in my hard drive.

The Delgados The Light Before We Land
Belle and Sebastian Dont Leave the Light On, Baby
The Raspberries I Reach For the Light
I Am Kloot Where the Sunlight Hits the Snow
Richard and Linda Thompson I Wanna See the Bright Lights Tonight
The Smiths There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Lambchop Under the Dream of a Lie (almost light :))
Pearl Jam Low Light
The Jayhawks Real Light
Jon Auer When the Lights Go Up
Boards of Canada Open the Light
Kraftwerk Neon Lights

If you like it and you do Soulseek you can download them from my folder called “light”, ah, my user: andilos2004

For more of themed lists head to Pepsounds or aygolive, both in Spanish …

I have been testing Google Desktop Search GDS, and while it may be fast, it is, I expected a bigger interaction with the windows shell, like copying and pasting groups of documents, and an easier way to make advanced searches, (e.g. just PDF docs, from a date). While you can use the old Google tricks (filetype:PDF), it is not really intuitive. Maybe I should have a look at Yahoo version, not the MS, that scares me. Of course, it really excels when searching for that document with that precised text.

I have installed some plugins to GDS, to seek for Java docs, music, and to allow GDS to remember CD and DVD compilations.

The test case was to search for songs containing the word light. GDS took 5 seconds, while windows took minutes. In GDS I had to query once for “light filetype:MP3″ and another time for “light filetype:wma”, if anybody knows a better way, please stand up. Windows returned 109 results, it included folders with the light name and some other file formats, all of them audio related. GDS brought back 22. Both of them gave me duplicated results, strange…

You can see the results in the following post.

3 Shadows
Originally uploaded by andresfib.

This a picture taken at Cuenca. From left to right: Javi, kind of brother-in-law, Fran, real little brother, and Juancar, lobo solitario.

People should try to start visiting old cities at odd hours as we did that night. From 4 am seems a good moment. Cuenca was beautifully illuminated by that time, and the streets were completely empty, making a great scenario for some small, and not so small, talking.