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11 May 2008
07 April 2008
When Foreigners Buy Factories: 2 Towns, 2 Outcomes - New York Times
Ah le capitalisme en exploitant les autres, c'est toujours mieux que d'etre exploite chez soi, ou plus exploites du tout :)“They said, ‘There is nothing you can do to compensate for the fact that we are able to pay $1.57 an hour in Mexico,’ ” Ms. Granholm recalled during a recent interview. “That’s when I started to say, ‘Nafta and Cafta have given us the shafta,’ ” she added, using the acronyms for the North American and Central American free trade agreements.
HTML5: the foreign lands (mathematics and graphics) - Anne’s Weblog
c'est généralement ce que disent tous les potentats de pouvoir… va comprendre.Putting barriers in place so that people don't willy nilly extend the Web's core language is a good thing.
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06 April 2008
Des marchandises chinoises en 15 jours en Europe centrale grâce au rail : Economie > Actualités : Aujourd'hui la Chine
le train plus rapide que le bateauPouvoir envoyer des marchandises de Chine en Europe centrale en une quinzaine de jours, soit en moitié moins de temps que par la mer,
Video Parlons Révolution "la commune" P.Watkins (part2) - paris, commune, censure, histoire, syndicat - Dailymotion Partagez Vos Videos
Extrait du film de Peter Watkins sur la Commune de Paris (!5h45 en tout!), dans cette scène acteurs pro et acteurs militants dépassent le contexte historique de 1871...mais au final çà pourrait être aussi une discussion de troquet en 2007...
31 March 2008
Google has lots to do with intelligence
Rapport créations/contributeurs, pas très élevé…So far, 37,000 users have established accounts on the network, which contain 35,000 articles encompassing 200,000 pages, according to Dennehy.
ahah. Google ne fait pas que de l'indexation full-text, mais aussi structurée.Normally, Google ranks results on its consumer site by using the number of links to a Web page as a barometer of its importance. Doing so on Intellipedia isn't as effective because the service lies behind a firewall and is used by a limited number of people. Instead, material gets more prominent placement if it is tagged, or appended by the network's users, with descriptive keywords.
28 March 2008
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | 'Manners police' hit Japan metros
creation de brigades quand les individus du groupe ne repondent plus aux criteres passes.The team is mostly made up of over-60s, well acquainted with the standards of conduct associated with the "old Japan".
Just Another Emperor? The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism
Business involvement in philanthropy is increasing day by day, but is it a blessing, a curse, or somewhere in between? Just Another Emperor? is the first book to take a comprehensive and critical look at this vital new phenomenon. Whatever position you take, this will be one of the most important debates of the next 10 years. DOWNLOAD THE BOOK
Philanthrocapitalism: after the goldrush | openDemocracy
What separates good and bad performers is not whether they come from business or civil society, but whether they have a clear focus to their work, strong learning and accountability mechanisms that keep them heading in the right direction, and the ability to motivate their staff or volunteers to reach the highest collective levels of performance.
27 March 2008
Whimsley: Mr. Google's Guidebook
Construire sur les usagesAt some universities, administrators are taking a new approach to deciding where to put footpaths. At first they don't put footpaths anywhere; they just let students walk across the grass to get where they need to go, wearing away the grass and creating rough tracks as they do so. Then when it is clear where the popular tracks go the university can just tidy them up, put down some paving stones, and they have a path in the right place.
25 March 2008
CitizenLab :: Version 4.0
The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics. A "hothouse" that brings together social scientists, filmmakers, computer scientists, activists, and artists, the Citizen Lab sponsors projects that explore the cutting-edge of hypermedia technologies and grassroots social movements, civic activism, and democratic change within an emerging planetary polity.
24 March 2008
Re-entry Japan: What a wonderful world
Meuuuuh. Bientôt l'étiquette avec code barre, pardon RFID, sur l'oreille.Japanese electronic firm Omron has applied a proprietary image analysis technology to the recording and gender/age differentiation of passengers going through ticket gates.
FBI — Cyber Working Group - Press Room - Headline Archives 03-18-08
chaque membre est sur facebook?The latest meeting of the Strategic Alliance Cyber Crime Working Group … “We’ve learned a lot from each other, and it’s already paying dividends for all of us.”
Announcing: What’s Your 20?
Le rapport de gendarmerie de Laurent version web2.0, encore un grand moment… de débilité. Pas l'objet, mais le fait de le tourner en service à la sauce web 2.0WY20 facilitates the mapping of your everyday travels. WY20 both lets you update your location via text message anytime you like and also periodically sends you a text reminder to update your location (just in case you don’t think your present location is that interesting and didn’t tell WY20 about it). Once you update your location via a text message, it becomes available to any other third party applications that use the Fire Eagle platform. Aggregate location data can be visualized to show one’s personal history.
[BlogNot!] Mars 2008
On va voir si les editions theles attaquent pour contrefaçons de marques sur les tags?Mais l’article ne fait pas litige en lui-même, enfin, pas tout à fait. Si le responsable de Thélès prétend y percevoir du « dénigrement », il attaque sur un autre versant : la contrefaçon de marque. Et ce qu’il met en cause, c’est l’indexation de la page Web correspondante :
23 March 2008
anArchitecture: CO2 Architecture - Transport.
Sustainable design is not only about energy efficient buildings: Designer should also think about whether they can change people's behavior towards the environment. Can architecture do that?
19 March 2008
Google LatLong: It's your world. Map it.
En effet pourquoi s'arrêter là. Nous savons tous que la foule anonyme respecte la vie privée, défend des valeurs communes dans le meilleur intérêt des individus. Plus le Web progresse dans cette direction et plus je veux m'en extraire. Le seul problème, c'est que le Web fait partie de la société, et que même en faisant le choix conscient de s'extraire, les autres vous y mettent (dans tous les sens du terme).And so we thought: Why stop there?
Daily Kos: Barack Obama Speech Open Thread #2 (with transcript)
What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part – through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.
18 March 2008
Effect of Japanese Sitting Style (Seiza) on the Center of Foot Pressure after Standing JPA : Vol. 24 (2005) , No. 2 pp.167-173
Effect of Japanese Sitting Style (Seiza) on the Center of Foot Pressure after Standing
Community Life Cycle
The Golden Age, when you could always count on interesting interchanges, most of the personalities are familiar but there are enough new faces for things to be interesting. During this phase the software achieves a relatively stable form, the unwritten rules are written down so that they need not be explained and re-explained, it's a period of growth and discovery.
14 March 2008
…My heart’s in Accra » The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech
en effet.Web 1.0 was invented to allow physicists to share research papers.
Web 2.0 was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats.
13 March 2008
Laura, étudiante à tout prix
Elle a financé ses études en se faisant payer par des clients, racolés sur Internet. Laura, c’est un pseudo qu’elle a choisi pour un livre de témoignage, Mes Chères Etudes aujourd’hui en librairie
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Crossing Continents | France's sordid housing crisis
the requests are sexual, demeaning, bordering on the perverse. "Sex twice a month," is one blunt demand. Another asks for someone "open in spirit and elsewhere".
Searchlights on Health, 1920
brrrrrA Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood Advice to Maiden, Wife and Mother Love, Courtship, and Marriage
12 March 2008
"Build it Kenny, and they will come...": London calling
Scheduled for Sao Paulo in June, the Workshop aims to understand the specific challenges of using mobile phones and web technologies to deliver services to underprivileged populations in developing countries.
