Seattle Sketcher on the move

Gabi Campanario has been featured on ManifestN5 and sends this update.

“You may know that my blog is moving to The Seattle Times, where I’m joining their team of talented bloggers. This is a huge deal for me and hopefully a good thing for sketchblogs in general. I appreciate if you take a minute to register and leave your feedback on the new blog’s home.”

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/seattlesketcher/

Sailing to new shores at the Seattle Times

Morning Essentials

Taken at Cafe’ Fixe in Brookline, MA.

Manifest N17

Manifest N17

In this issue:

• Editorial: a business model for airlines and airport operators
• 30 thoughts in 30 minutes by Beth Adams
• Publishing your first novel by  Calin Neacsu
• How Social Media Really Works by Matthew Haughey

Perseverance

Perseverance, n: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

Newspapers printing, distribution costs…

According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, average subription prices for the following magazines are:

Newsweek:                     $0.47

BusinessWeek:             $0.77

The New Yorker           $0.87

Fortune:                         $0.89

Allure:                            $0.89

Bon Appetit                  $1.00 (slightly above)

The Economist:            $1.96

Today, 13th of April saw an interesting spike in articles by major newspapers about the newspaper-business.

When newspaper make the news

The New York Times talks about:

• ‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers
  

and how a” handful of Web sites emerge to cull local content from government data, blogs and news media.”

• That the sale of the Boston Globe “has brought together civic leaders and residents, speaking out about the paper’s role in the region.”

• and that some Magazines Think About Raising Prices

Meanwhile, the Boston Globe reports about “what went wrong” at… the Globe itself.

Splitting your identity into bits

Splitting your identity into bits!

Editorial: ManifestN16

“Hello, My names are Esther Diane, am really in search of a good partner or friend who understands the meaning of partnership or friendship as trustfulness, faithfulness and honesty in each other, rather than one who sees both as the only a way of fun but a mature person with nice vision of what the world is all about, so please reply to me with my private e-mail address below and i hope that you will grant my request. Thanks and remain bless, Am Esther.”

You may be familiar with this kind of electronic communication which is better known as “Spam”. Interestingly, the email signs-off with: please remember that distance do not matter in this our relationship, thanks. It is true that distance does not matter in some areas of electronic communication, provided, you have established trust before. In this case, it is clear that the person is not to be trusted because her, or his, identity cannot be established.

There are several indicators for this and I will highlight three. First, the sender’s email address is different from the one we are asked to reply-to, indicating that the sender’s email has been taken over to try to legitimise the source. Secondly the message is too good to be true. Thirdly, it is riddled with grammatical mistakes. While many internet users can now easily avoid such pitfalls, they are still struggling with the converse problem: how do I convince my interlocutor that I am who I say I am?

In a presentation on Digital Identity, Dick Hardt makes the following points: identity helps predict behaviour and allows transactions to take place. A third party knows who you are partly because you supply information such as name, surname, driver’s licence, passport, pictures, address, phone numbers, email, birth certificate., pin numbers, passwords etc… Once they are cross-references, a transaction can take place: buying a plane ticket online for instance.

In a not-too-distant future, computers and hand-held devices might be able to scan your retina or read your DNA to make identification easier and even more secure. This system of identification however, only deals with one aspect of identity; one that deals with coordinating transactions,crossing, or not crossing, boundaries. In general it establishes the rules by which society tells its members what they can or cannot do. Technology also allows you to change identity in a heartbeat. A serf 600 years ago, was a serf, pretty much throughout his life. Now you can be an architect, a fishing enthusiast, a Beatles fan all within a minute, sending an email here, a message there and while talking on the phone.

Complaints about shortening attention-spans abound and show no signs of abating. Perhaps, we will evolve into a species whose bodies host an ever-increasing number of unrelated personalities, After the 15 minutes of fame, come an endless series of 15 seconds of highly focused attention-span to deal with an ever-increasing number of identities.

The Guardian Newspaper switches to Twitter

Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink

• Newspaper to be available only on messaging service
• Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

Manifest N16

In this issue:

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• Editorial: Digital Identity
• Rising Waters: Two perspectives from Kiribati and Scilly Islands
• April Fool’s Day: The history and the news, both real and fake
• A Facebook interview with Italy’s former vice-minister of Foreign Affairs with Vittorio Craxi (aka Bobo)

Perseverence, n

Perseverance, n: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

What is identity?

Editorial, Manifest N16
Splitting your identity into bits!

“Hello,
My names are Esther Diane, am really in search of a good partner or friend who understands the meaning of partnership or friendship as trustfulness, faithfulness and honesty in each other, rather than one who sees both as the only a way of fun but a mature person with nice vision of what the world is all about, so please reply to me with my private e-mail address below and i hope that you will grant my request.
Thanks and remain bless,
Am Esther.”

You may be familiar with this kind of electronic communication which is better known as “Spam”.
Interestingly, the email signs-off with:

please remember that distance do not matter in this our relationship, thanks.

It is true that distance does not matter in some areas of electronic communication, provided, you have established trust before. In this case, it is clear that the person is not to be trusted because her, or his, identity cannot be established.

There are several indicators for this and I will highlight three. First, the sender’s email address is different from the one we are asked to reply-to, indicating that the sender’s email has been taken over to try to legitimise the source.

Secondly the message is too good to be true. Thirdly, it is riddled with grammatical mistakes.
While many internet users can now easily avoid such pitfalls, they are still struggling with the converse problem: how do I convince my interlocutor that I am who I say I am?
In a presentation on Digital Identity, Dick Hardt makes the following points: identity helps predict behaviour and allows transactions to take place.

A third party knows who you are partly because you supply information such as name, surname, driver’s licence, passport, pictures, address, phone numbers, email, birth certificate., pin numbers, passwords etc…

Once they are cross-references, a transaction can take place: buying a plane ticket online for instance. In a not-too-distant future, computers and hand-held devices might be able to scan your retina or read your DNA to make identification easier and even more secure.
This system of identification however, only deals with one aspect of identity; one that deals with coordinating transactions,crossing, or not crossing, boundaries. In general it establishes the rules by which society tells its members what they can or cannot do.

Technology also allows you to change identity in a heartbeat. A serf 600 years ago, was a serf, pretty much throughout his life. Now you can be an architect, a fishing enthusiast, a Beatles fan all within a minute, sending an email here, a message there and while talking on the phone.
Complaints about shortening attention-spans abound and show no signs of abating.
Perhaps, we will evolve into a species whose bodies host an ever-increasing number of unrelated personalities, After the 15 minutes of fame, come an endless series of 15 seconds of highly focused attention-span to deal with an ever-increasing number of identities.

Wahyd Vannoni