Content Generator

L’analisi riguarda il terzo e quarto trimestre del 2009 ed è stata pubblicata sul portale della community. Per leggerla occorre una pre-registrazione in cui sono chiesti alcuni dati di rilievo, ma grazie a Daniweb.com è possibile ottenere un quadro sintetico della situazione.

Numeri a parte, ne scaturisce un panorama abbastanza preoccupante che illustra come la Rete, in assenza di un’etica adeguata, stia diventando sempre più il ricettacolo di veri e propri malviventi del terzo millennio, nullafacenti, sfruttatori e truffatori. Dove trovare una fonte affidabile, non solo sotto il profilo della veridicità dei fatti ma anche sotto quello dell’etica morale, della compostezza e dell’onestà intellettuale è diventato davvero arduo.

Post che lanciano i cosiddetti buzz (i “si dice che…”) nel 13.7 per cento dei casi sono risultati latori di malware. Una certa riduzione dei siti apertamente indirizzati al malware, pari a circa il 3,3 per cento, si ritiene dovuto alla maggiore concentrazione di internauti e content generator nel mondo del Web 2.0, più diretto e meno formale, rispetto allo scorso anno. Non altrettanto rispetto alla prima metà del 2009, dove lo studio ne registra una crescita del 225 per cento.

Full Story: UGC: il 95 per cento è spazzatura - The New Blog Times (Blog)

He sat down recently for an interview with ExecutiveGov.com to talk about what he's learned and how he thinks every federal agency should balance security with accessibility.

"I found that Web 2.0 allows us to accelerate things," Carey said. "So I like to feel like at the end of every day that I have made a difference, however, small at times, to the lives and the information management and technology associated with the warfighters. I find that Web 2.0 becomes one of the vehicles to accelerate that because everyone can now be a user of the Internet and more of a content manager and content generator." Carey also talked about the importance of cybersecurity, as well as educating users about basic iSecurity precautions in dealing with phishing, email security and web browsing. He discussed how he has exchanged ideas with commercial Internet companies such as Google, Facebook and Craigslist about what security metrics they are using and how to strengthen the Navy's own cybersecurity initiatives.

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Robert Carey: I found that Web 2.0 allows us to accelerate things. So I like to feel like at the end of every day that I have made a difference, however small at times, to the lives and the information management and technology associated with the warfighters. So I find that Web 2.0 becomes one of those vehicles to accelerate that because everyone can now be a user of the Internet and more of a content manager and content generator. So you can make a difference, you can communicate on a broad scale that you couldn’t do 3-5 years ago at all. So I find that these tools will only expand and make it easier for us to do our jobs.

Robert Carey: First of all that fascinated me – that I was the first to get on that particular train.  I found that I could put ideas out and I could solicit feedback; so there is a little bit of a one way.  There really isn’t a dialogue – I’ll talk about that in a minute here.  It allowed me to put out ideas to the Department of the Navy and of course I could literally get worldwide feedback if I wanted.  There was no constraint to any email coming in.  We have moderated blogs but there was no constraint to anyone saying, “hey, that’s a good idea and that’s not.”  Most of the comments were from people who either work in the department or are contractors associated with the department and provided feedback – mostly pretty good and some constructive such that we could feed it into what we were doing.  I found that it was a good mechanism to get ideas from sources I never would have had in the past.  What we have done to advance that message is we are going to stand up a blog site that is accessible only by common access card credentials, so we can now have a dialogue with the Department of Navy on things that our office is working on in support of policy and strategy and guidance.  We can talk about cyber security and things that we are working on in cyber security and have a discussion with people about those specific attributes because they can log on using their common access card and post comments to this site.  We can have dialogue there that isn’t open to the general public.  We’re really excited about expanding the dialogue and harnessing the intellectual capabilities of the department to help my office help them.

Robert Carey: It’s really important to realize that when you sit down at the computer a condition of employment, if you will, is that in today’s age you are a cyber warrior.  The minute you plug in your common access card and you log into the network, you are either an asset, strength or you are a vulnerability because you are not doing the things you should be doing.  We’re really trying to approach this from two angles; education of every worker about certain minimal things they need to know, about phishing, about email security, about web browsing, certain things that they need to just be mindful of about privacy and things like that.  The next layer is the guys that are in the IT workforce running the networks; the admins if you will – educating them on the higher levels of network management, of things they need to know so that the network information is retained as secure; when we access it we know that it has not been touched and things like that.  We create the two layers – the users and the people that run the network to run in a homogeneous like manner to assure information arrives when it’s needed and when it’s needed in the right format.

Full Story: Exclusive Interview: Robert Carey, Department of the Navy CIO - ExecutiveGov

I've been a longtime fan of the WarioWare series of seconds-long games since the original WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! for the Game Boy Advance. But I've never been a fan of creating my own content in titles like LittleBigPlanet or Forza Motorsport, in part due to my limited attention span.

But the addition of a game editor to the next WarioWare game for the Nintendo DS —and the accompanying WarioWare D.I.Y. Showcase player for WiiWare—has changed that, turning me into an excited fan eager to start creating by offering a simple micro-game editor on top of the built-in 90 new WarioWare games.

While I didn't get to edit any games myself, I did get a chance to play some of the user generated micro-games already created for a demo version of WarioWare D.I.Y. and had the opportunity to see a game—one as simple and built from scratch.

Full Story: WarioWare DIY Has Made Me A User Generated Content Convert - Kotaku.com (blog)

PREDICTION : Several cities, besides Denver, that today still have multiple daily newspapers will become single-newspaper towns.

by the Detroit Newspaper Partnership in terms of frequency reduction will be emulated in several more cities (including both single and multiple newspaper markets) within the first half of the year.

PREDICTION : Even if both papers in Detroit somehow maintain a seven-day schedule, we’ll see several other major cities and a dozen or more smaller markets cut back from six or seven days to one to four days per week.

Full Story: Keeping Martin honest: Checking on Langeveld's predictions for 2009 - Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard