PUBLIC MARKS with tags politics & internet

Dans le prolongement de la remise au président ce jour, du rapport Nora intitulé "L'informatisation de la société ou la télématique" (rapport écrit par Simon NORA et Alain MINC), ce reportage est consacré à la télématique (informatique et telecommunication) et ses différentes implications. Explication de François de Closets sur des animations et des images d'illustration : évocation de la communication à distance via des satellites et de la fusion de plusieurs techniques via un seul et unique réseau. Ce rapport évoque également les problèmes inhérents à ces changements : l'emploi, la centralisation des informations, l'autonomie individuelle.

If you're the customer of a major American internet provider, you might have been noticing it's not very reliable lately. If so, there's a pretty good chance that a graph like this is the reason:

A COLLISION OF COMEDY & TECHNOLOGY BRINGING GOOD IDEAS TO “EARTH.”

"やっぱりロビー活動、政治献金するしかないでしょう。そしてマジョリティになるしかない。それが民主主義の原則です。いくら正論を振りかざしても、マジョリティでなければそれは正論ではないんです。"

Map of surveillance societeies around the world

Joke Originally Submitted by: aasimpy. "I made this over at Gizmoz.com - took a few minutes, and then I added in the flash bulbs and other audio fx on my own. The joke was from Letterman."

More than a month ago, atheists began to blaspheme the existence of God on the popular YouTube network. Today, Christians are turning the tables and taking up the challenge to stand up to their faith in Jesus Christ ...

a good overview of various aspects of Web2.0

random live webcams from the net, a new kind of documentary media, mostly surveillance

When The Operator Doesn't Listen Anymore! Random Thoughts... Random Questions... Random Exploits... Random Answers... Random Trivia... Random Rants... Random Praises... and anything else that comes to mind. Hey! Phuc Vu!

Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).

edited version of essay

an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.

large collection organized by thematic and political categories; useful for office door poster, flyer, or demonstration