Personally, I see the Cowbird - project launched this week by the artist and engineer Jonathan Harris internet - like one of those things that gives me reason to never lose enthusiasm for the web. It combines unique factors when we try and separate the wheat from the chaff: text, sound, images, links, maps, dedications, timelines, or a mix of them all. And no, the Cowbird is not competing with Facebook or Tumblr, not far ...
In short, the project is summarized in a kind pessoaclopédia where individual stories are shared and which are targeted by tags. When covered in more detail, to give notice because the Cowbird walks snapping ultra-empathetic reviews of vehicles like the Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Mashable, TechCrunch and many others.
It is a platform very, very well done, where its members - invited storytellers - contribute and distribute their own content, enriched by a nice mix of media and in an environment very friendly to the reader.
The contents of the Cowbird not only glides before our eyes, but also inspires and invigorates the personal character and so well thought of as a project. The idea is to join the most common elements in the composition of stories to technology resources more readily available.
According to the definition of its own creators, the stories produced - when they are relevant and interesting to the rest of the Internet - eventually culminating in a production cooperative and result in large "sagas" or important records of a particular event or moment, such as collection of 522 stories that make up the movement Occupy there.
The result is a peculiar constellation of each surfer looks, produced with his personal vision and mingling with the other around any topic, drawing a picture quite atypical of perceptions and ideas.
From a practical standpoint, the Cowbird defines himself as a kind of Wikipedia for the life in which, instead of collecting information of a canonical by its members, it collects, organizes and redistributes their personal experiences.
Besides the nice idea, is how the site works. The fusion of images and text with audio - like that of many of the existing legal stories in the collection - the leading blogging and also consume information and art for a very different level.
From that perspective the Cowbird can not be considered a social network, but a common environment that compartmentalizes and slows the pace of social networking to a more individual experience. He also is not a tool of social co-content, as Storify cool. Since the project does not focus on preferences, but in experiments, the Cowbird eventually produce a large seam of interesting stories that are organized on a non-linear and non-chronological also; what separates clearly the category of daily or simply blogging.
Even the choice of name is humorous, as the birds and cowbirds are different from those piam everywhere (a reference to the rebate Twitter?) And are known to be opportunistic and even kind of "necessarily" social, putting their eggs in the nests of other birds. When eggs are removed from the nest, they return to the same place and detonate the other eggs of the host as well. Something like "share or die" if we philosophize much about ...
The fact is that the site is incredibly attractive and although not a very large amount of users (12,580 members as of this matter), if the forecasts of all major portals and Internet experts are correct, are projects with the same footprint the Cowbird that will manage the way we recorded our view somewhat more consistent and as we give testimony relevant to our time.
And in a time when the talent to break up all the trash is actually a survival tool online, small valuables honest, well-made are more than a mere finding.
In short, the project is summarized in a kind pessoaclopédia where individual stories are shared and which are targeted by tags. When covered in more detail, to give notice because the Cowbird walks snapping ultra-empathetic reviews of vehicles like the Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Mashable, TechCrunch and many others.
It is a platform very, very well done, where its members - invited storytellers - contribute and distribute their own content, enriched by a nice mix of media and in an environment very friendly to the reader.
The contents of the Cowbird not only glides before our eyes, but also inspires and invigorates the personal character and so well thought of as a project. The idea is to join the most common elements in the composition of stories to technology resources more readily available.
According to the definition of its own creators, the stories produced - when they are relevant and interesting to the rest of the Internet - eventually culminating in a production cooperative and result in large "sagas" or important records of a particular event or moment, such as collection of 522 stories that make up the movement Occupy there.
The result is a peculiar constellation of each surfer looks, produced with his personal vision and mingling with the other around any topic, drawing a picture quite atypical of perceptions and ideas.
From a practical standpoint, the Cowbird defines himself as a kind of Wikipedia for the life in which, instead of collecting information of a canonical by its members, it collects, organizes and redistributes their personal experiences.
Besides the nice idea, is how the site works. The fusion of images and text with audio - like that of many of the existing legal stories in the collection - the leading blogging and also consume information and art for a very different level.
From that perspective the Cowbird can not be considered a social network, but a common environment that compartmentalizes and slows the pace of social networking to a more individual experience. He also is not a tool of social co-content, as Storify cool. Since the project does not focus on preferences, but in experiments, the Cowbird eventually produce a large seam of interesting stories that are organized on a non-linear and non-chronological also; what separates clearly the category of daily or simply blogging.
Even the choice of name is humorous, as the birds and cowbirds are different from those piam everywhere (a reference to the rebate Twitter?) And are known to be opportunistic and even kind of "necessarily" social, putting their eggs in the nests of other birds. When eggs are removed from the nest, they return to the same place and detonate the other eggs of the host as well. Something like "share or die" if we philosophize much about ...
The fact is that the site is incredibly attractive and although not a very large amount of users (12,580 members as of this matter), if the forecasts of all major portals and Internet experts are correct, are projects with the same footprint the Cowbird that will manage the way we recorded our view somewhat more consistent and as we give testimony relevant to our time.
And in a time when the talent to break up all the trash is actually a survival tool online, small valuables honest, well-made are more than a mere finding.
