février 2012
People using pseudonyms post the highest-quality... →
untanglingtheweb:
two interesting things in this article from Poynter:
1) “real identity” is described as “verified by Facebook”
2) “many news sites have been using [Facebook’s plugin] to verify identity… and raise the level of discourse”
I’m ISO any research that correlates “raising the level of discourse” and “real identity”. It’s for #hate.
HT the magnificent Meg Pickard.
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alaingerlache:
Expulsés des Etats-Unis, à cause...
janvier 2012
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Lire la vidéoloungeagainstthemachine:
Orson Whales
A mash up of Orson Welles reading Moby Dick drawn in the pages of Moby Dick with Led Zep and John Bonham playing Moby Dick… with some Champagne thrown in for good measure.
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Lire la vidéonotationnotes:
RGB CODE
Aestheticode (by Rob Seward) is a machine readable and human readable aesthetic encoding system. It is similar in function to a barcode. Its complexity is similar to that of morse code.
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Twitter Develops Fine-Toothed Censorship Tool →
futurejournalismproject:
Twitter has refined its ability to block posts from appearing (read: censor) in user streams on a country by country basis.
As explained on the Twitter blog:
As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there....
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Yes, you can make money without exploiting the... →
I was (briefly) a guest on a BBC World Service radio program this morning discussing Obama’s state of the union speech and income inequality in general. To my mind, this has always been a no-brainer. My argument is: we’ve done this experiment (of lowering taxes on the rich) twice now, once in the 1920’s and again in the 1980’s (and doubled-down in 2000). We have also done the control experiment....
Au commencement était le web.: #30J, les risques... →
alaingerlache:
En Flandre, les discussions à propos de la grève de lundi prochain font rage sur les réseaux sociaux.Le paradoxe, c’est que c’est l’ABVV, la FGTB flamande qui est à l’origine de toute cette agitation. Elle a mis en place une stratégie de communication tout azimut pour mobiliser en vue de la grève…
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