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24 Oct 09

Digital Papers: Twitter: Communication tool or pointless vanity? - eDemocracy

  • has
    become an increasingly relevant and much talked about tool for the digital
    politician. As recently as December 2008 only two MPs were regularly
    dispatching 140-character ‘tweets', as a twitter message is known. Today, this
    has risen to 79 or just over 12% of MPs.
  • Twitter's 140 characters are most widely
    used as a broadcast medium, replicating the other web tools. But it offers much
    more and, used well, becomes a platform for engagement and to listen.
20 Oct 09

Reporters Sans Frontières

  • L’Europe a longtemps été exemplaire en matière de respect de liberté de la presse, mais cette année, plusieurs pays européens reculent très nettement. Même si les treize premières places restent occupées par des Etats européens, d’autres tels que la France (43e), la Slovaquie (44e) ou l’Italie (49e), continuent leur descente, perdant respectivement huit, trente-sept et cinq places. Ils se font distancer par de jeunes démocraties africaines (Mali, Afrique du Sud, Ghana) ou latino-américaines (Uruguay, Trinidad et Tobago).
18 Oct 09

Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China - washingtonpost.com

  • it isn't just new immigrants who are returning home, we learned. Some 27% of the Indians and 34% of the Chinese had permanent resident status or were U.S. citizens. That's right?it's not just about green cards.
17 Oct 09

Balancing Work And Social Media Addiction – WorkAwesome

  • social media is not paying our bills. If your work load is very heavy one week, then you should scale back your social media activity.
14 Oct 09

Branding Part 2: Avoid the Kitchen Sink Resume | Psychology Today

  • A kitchen sink resume is the antithesis of what employers are seeking.  Employers don't have hours to ponder the nuances of your resume to find that gem of an experience you had three years ago. They are faced with large stacks of resumes and are looking for ways to eliminate you, not keep you, unfortunately.  And the kitchen sink resume is the first to g
11 Oct 09

How Iago Explains the World - NYTimes.com

  • In 21st-century America, the quest for openness, so often pursued in the name of democracy, can lead to the violation of a sacred democratic principle: the right to privacy.
09 Oct 09

Obscure Google Features

  • 2. Google Reader's auto sorting. "This works by prioritizing subscriptions with fewer items. So, with this setting, your friend's blog with one item a month will not be drowned out by higher volume sites such as the New York Times because we'll raise the blog to the top."
05 Oct 09

Applications make Twitter a more powerful tool

  • "Basically, Twitter is the digital water cooler," said Deborah Schultz, an analyst with the Altimeter Group, a Silicon Valley technology consulting firm. "Just like a real-world water cooler, what you hear about the office depends on whether you're standing there at the moment. If you're not there at that given moment in time, how do you identify what's of interest to you?"
04 Oct 09

Administration eyes ways to help laid-off workers - Yahoo! News

  • The administration has stopped short of calling for a second economic stimulus package to augment the $787 billion measure approved this year. But with the jobless rate continuing to climb, President Barack Obama said Saturday he is exploring "additional options to promote job creation."
30 Sep 09

Retraite : 2 actifs sur 3 sont prêts à cotiser plus longtemps (30/09/09)

  • Selon une enquête de France Retraite, spécialiste
    de la reconstitution de carrière et du calcul de retraite auprès
    des entreprises et des particuliers, 70 % des personnes interrogées
    ont intégré la nécessité d'une réforme
    des retraites en raison de l'accroissement de l'espérence de vie.
    65 % considèrent qu'il serait normal de cotiser plus longtemps. 45,5
    % accepteraient une augmentation des cotisations salariales et 70 % seraient
    favorables à un accroissement des cotisations patronales. Par ailleurs,
    1 personne sur 2 se dit globalement bien informée par les media et
    les sites Internet spécialisés mais seulement 1 sur 5 juge
    l'être suffisamment via les caisses de retraite.
27 Sep 09

New languages more foreign to U.S. students | mansfieldnewsjournal.com | Mansfield News Journal

  • Virtually all European and Asian elementary students study a second language, but 97 percent of Ohio and Kentucky students do not because their schools don't offer it

Facebook Advertising: "Beating The S--- Out Of Its Numbers"

  • Last week, Facebook reported it was cash-flow positive. The news came nearly a year before even Facebook expected it to. Inside Facebook's sources credit three new types of ad buyers:
  • Performance advertisers -- "the sorts of businesses like online education company University of Phoenix, are finding that ads on Facebook can be targeted so precisely that they are getting a clear return on investment."
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23 Sep 09

Du droit de citation sur l’internet « Decryptages : droit, nouvelles technologies…

  • La citation doit être courte. La brièveté de la citation se mesure à l’aune du texte cité et du texte citant
  • obligation de citer la source et le nom de l’auteur. Il s’agit là de préserver le droit moral de l’auteur de l’oeuvre citée
09 Sep 09

La génération Y va tout changer | ReadWriteWeb France

  • plus de trois Français sur quatre (77%) encourageraient leur enfant à devenir fonctionnaire si celui-ci le souhaitait et la moitié des actifs (50%) opterait pour le secteur public si leur choix de carrière était à refaire
05 Sep 09

Is the instruction manual heading for extinction? | Mark Miodownik |Technology |The Guardian

  • Many people think this process is inevitable, and point to the products made by companies such as Apple as being the future. Apple makes machines that don't need instruction manuals because they "just work", and because they are well engineered their owners have time to develop a relationship with the technology. Online user forums and software upgrades now take the roles of repair and troubleshooting once covered by a proper instruction manual.
28 Aug 09

Internet, un réseau socialiste?

  • Bill Gates s’est un jour moqué des partisans de l’Open Source avec le pire épithète qu’un capitaliste puisse employer. Ces gens-là, a-t-il dit, sont « une nouvelle race de communistes », une force maléfique décidée à détruire l’incitation monopolistique qui soutient le Rêve Américain. Gates avait tort : les fanatiques de l’Open Source sont plus proches des libertariens que des communistes. Il y a pourtant une part de vérité dans son propos. La course effrénée à laquelle on se livre partout sur la planète pour connecter tout le monde avec tout le monde dessine doucement les contours d’une version revue et corrigée du socialisme.
26 Aug 09

The Associated Press: Wikipedia testing new method to curb false info

  • While anyone can still edit articles, the site is testing pages that require changes to be approved by an experienced Wikipedia editor before they show up. If the site's users respond well to the test run, the new restrictions will apply to all entries for living people.
  • Wikipedia has set the criteria for "experienced editor" status relatively low. Users who are registered for a few days can give changes the OK, said Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the site.
23 Aug 09

Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes

  • U.S. grad school admissions for would-be international students plummeted this year, according to the Council of Graduate Schools—the first decline in five years.  The decline was 3% on average, thanks to increases from China and the Middle East, but some countries saw double-digit declines in interest in a U.S. education. Applicants from India and South Korea fell 12% and 9% respectively—with students turning their sights on schools in Asia and Europe instead.
  • Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech; that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.

The Reader : atrocité et culpabilité, la génération du 3e Reich - Actualitté - Une page de caractère

  • Si ceux qui commettent des crimes monstrueux était juste des monstres, ce serait plus simple. Le problème est qu'ils ne sont pas simplement des monstres.
17 Aug 09

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company

  • "The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros," says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton.
  • The edupunks are on the march. From VC-funded startups to the ivied walls of Harvard, new experiments and business models are springing up from entrepreneurs, professors, and students alike. Want a class that's structured like a role-playing game? An accredited bachelor's degree for a few thousand dollars? A free, peer-to-peer Wiki university? These all exist today, the overture to a complete educational remix.
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