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New roads for publishing at PodCamp Barcelona
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona, Programme, Publishing, Workshops on August 12, 2010
New roads for publishing aims to find a dialogue space to discuss a question that is driving everyone crazy in the industry:
What the hell is going on?
The publishing market is in a considerable mess, and has been for quite a while. As an example we can see what happened when Amazon recently published certain data (in a press release). From one data item (the already famous 143 sold e-books for every 100 hardcovers), it reached the point where it was claimed that there were more e-books sold than paper books (such as in the article on B&N in el País ).
We are undoubtedly in a time of change, and book publishing, and even more critically magazines and newspapers publishing, must adapt.
That is what we will talk about: what can we do with the coming storm. We'll talk about the options offered by new tech, and if at all possible we'd love to avoid talking about the sad loss of the smell of a new book or of the happy and full live of the tree that will be saved from death to publish the latest best-seller.
That's not the idea. What we want is to see the new opportunities awaiting us there, for readers, publishers, authors and all those interested in the universe of writing, to create and read better works, far more rich and interactive than what we were used to.
Without pretending to set limit to the conversation (from 6 to 8pm, although if we are in the mood it can be extended… forever), we'd like to pose some items that are possibly interesting (if they aren't, there you have the comments, and this post can be edited):
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Literary creation and new technologies (just an example: Electronic literature collection v1)
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Epub, Mobi, Kindle, iPad… whatever is going on with the formats? (also, why it seems to be so difficult to use several formats for the same work, as the Pigs, Gourds and Wikis post can demonstrate)
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Community literature, with an without a main author (such as http://www.elbazardeloslocos.org/, a fairly recent initiative to publish a book written through Twitter w/ #bazarlocos)
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The paper is not dying or what's with all the fuss: POD and new value paths without print runs and permanent availability.
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Oh, I just inserted a video in the book. Is it still a book? Who cares?
@pdavenne awaits you at El Masnou on September 15th, at 6PM, to talk until 8PM, and further if it feels like it… ¡Cheers!
Kfé Innovación special at PodCamp Barcelona!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, Programme, Workshops on August 3, 2010
The second of the workshops programmed during PodCamp Barcelona is the Kfé Innovación/Innovation Café which will take place on September 14 in the cafe La Tarte du Jour (C/ Torrent Vallmora, 16, El Masnou) from 18:00-20:00.
Here's the post that the innovation cafe folks have written about it:
In the special PodCamp Barcelona Kfé Innovación we've decided to give another twist to our format. The idea that we've developed in Kfé Innovación Seville (one expert, 10 participants, thousands of ideas) will be taken to the extreme to create a "list of concerns and recommendations" arising from the "most difficult questions of the summer". Let's explain…
In the next few days Kfé Innovación and PodCamp Barcelona will launch a series of questions in social networks, with the objective of discovering general "concerns" with respect to the Internet (innovation, businesses, institutions etc.). This is what we mean by "the most difficult questions of the summer".
What will we do with the answers? Participants of PodCamp Barcelona will get together on Tuesday, 14th of September in a debate about your opinions and suggestions. The aim is to develop a summary of your contributions.
The questions are the following:
1. What is innovation? #KFEPC1
2. What is the possibility that Internet will provoke a real social change within five years? 0=none, 10=every (you can include comments) #KFEPC2
3. Which sector or institution needs to urgently change to incorporate the "2.0 philosophy"? #KFCPC3
4. An example of best practice in education. #KFEPC4
5. An example of best practice in public administration. #KFEPC5
6. An example of best practice in business. #KFEPC6
7. An example of best practice and citizen participation. #KFEPC7
Each question has an associated #. Opinions will be channelled (always using the corresponding #, please) in the following ways:
– Twitter. Please, don't forget the #
– As a comment on this post. You can answer all the questions in the same comment if you want. Please put the corresponding # at the beginning of each answer.
– By leaving a comment on our Facebook fan page.
– On the PodCamp Barcelona website, as a comment on the post (same format as above, with the corresponding #).
We remind everybody that the special Kfé Innovación session will be on Tuesday 14th of September at 1800 in El Masnou. If you can't attend you'll be able to follow the session on Twitter with #KFEPC or via streaming on the PodCamp Barcelona website.
(NB this event has no intention of being thought of as representative of the opinion of society. It's not a survey. The idea is simply to open the debate which will take place in the Kfé Innovación session at PodCamp Barcelona 2010).
Scratch Català at PodCamp Barcelona!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, Programme, Workshops on August 1, 2010
The first workshop in PodCamp Barcelona 2010 will be: Scratch programming workshop for kids from 8-99
The workshop, led by Eugeni Català from Scratch Català, will take place from 18:00 to 20:00 on September 13 at Els Viensos.
What is Scratch?
Scratch is a fun visual programming language created by people at MIT and focused on youngsters from 8-99. With it you can create interactive stories, animation, games, music, art. Your imagination is the only limit.
The main character is the cat Scratch, but it is possible to use other existing figures or create new ones to use in the projects.
"Construction blocks" are arranged by type and colour to make it easy to follow the programme and have to be placed in the corresponding space for the cat to do what is desired on the stage.
Once the programme has been made it can be posted to the MIT website so everybody can see and enjoy it — you'll be surprised by the number of people who'll be interested in your project. There are more than 1,209,000 projects which can be learned from as all our public and can be downloaded to see how they were created without any type of limitation, everybody shares their work and the community learns together.
It really teaches knowledge and experience sharing in an open and collaborative way.
How does programming help kids education?
Programming helps in the acquisition and improvement of mathematical concepts such as coordinates, variables and random numbers as well as comparisons and conditions. It also stimulates creative expression, logical thinking and the use of new technologies. This knowledge will open the door to future professions.
Many schools are incorporating this discipline in their curriculums, thereby achieving the development and improvement in the process of design and creation. Kids begin with an idea, create a prototype, experiment with it, evaluate what doesn't work well, look for collaboration with others to finally revise and redesign.
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