- Hadopi et l'histoire...
Pour moi, le rôle premier d'un gouvernement n'est donc pas de protéger le peuple, mais de l'aider à grandir. Tout médecin vous dira que, dans la guérison, il y a une part de responsabilité du patient lui-même. Et qu'on ne me dise pas que ce n'est pas possible, le modèle Anglo-Saxon en est beaucoup plus proche que le notre (je vous promets des larmes et du sang disait Churchill...) Alors ??? - Quand le quotidien La Presse méprise la blogosphère
«Quand je lis des titres ridicules comme: «Les journaux, kossa donne?» mon sang d'encre fait trois tours. Qu'est-ce que ça donne? À peu près tout ce que personne sur la blogosphère ne daigne faire: éplucher des demandes d'accès à l'information, entretenir des réseaux de contacts, couvrir des conseils municipaux, surveiller les dépenses des fonctionnaires, assister à des réunions de citoyens, questionner les élus sur leurs agissements, voulez-vous que je continue?» - A Bordeaux, une police trop zélée qu'il va falloir surveiller
En culotte au commissariat Interpellée à vélo à la sortie d'une réunion de travail tardive, Marie est contrôlée positive à l'éthylotest. Comme elle l'explique à Sud-Ouest : « je leur ai avoué avoir bu deux ou trois verres de vin ». Résultat : elle se retrouve en culotte dans une cellule du commissariat à se faire fouiller. Elle y passera la nuit, tout comme dix autres cyclistes. Ces interpellations et gardes à vues de « délinquants » à bicyclette s'inscrivent dans une politique : depuis quelques semaines, les contraventions se multiplient à l'excès. La polémique a pris de l'ampleur jusqu'à faire l'objet d'un article dans « The Times ». - Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers
This guest post is written by Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and the cofounder of Revision3 and Pownce. Kevin, who has over 88,000 followers on Twitter (making him the second most followed after President Obama), also "bloggs" at kevinrose.com. He is an investor in Twitter. - Steven Gjerstad and Vernon Smith: From Bubble to Depression?
But housing expenditures in the U.S. and most of the developed world have historically taken about 30% of household income. If housing prices more than double in a seven-year period without a commensurate increase in income, eventually something has to give. When subprime lending, the interest-only adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM), and the negative-equity option ARM were no longer able to sustain the flow of new buyers, the inevitable crash could no longer be delayed. - Now Comes the Journalist-Consultant
Thanks to the Web, companies have direct online access to consumers. Take that fact, stir in the surfeit of unemployed journalists (or fearful employed ones searching for safer perches), and you get novel kinds of businesses forming around news and media professionals. Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based company that sells anti-virus software, launched Threatpost.com on Mar. 11. The site, which focuses on computer and Internet security, aggregates articles and videos from across the Web. It employs two journalists to blog, edit the site, and produce its podcasts. - Analysis: Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use?
URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are offered and new ones seem to appear each day? - Is Twitter Killing RSS? | Venture Chronicles
In my own usage behaviors I noticed something starting when I followed ZDNetBlogs quite a while back, I stopped reading their RSS feed and started getting my story links through their twitter updates. Today I use the much improved Twitter search function to find profiles for the publications I like to read, following them and getting their content via links in tweets. For bloggers, the ability to follow provides not only the content updates in most cases but also the opportunity to interact with the authors and catch all their other updates that wouldn't even show up in RSS. - The dark side of Dubai
There are countless buildings half-finished, seemingly abandoned. In the swankiest new constructions - like the vast Atlantis hotel, a giant pink castle built in 1,000 days for $1.5bn on its own artificial island - where rainwater is leaking from the ceilings and the tiles are falling off the roof. This Neverland was built on the Never-Never - and now the cracks are beginning to show. Suddenly it looks less like Manhattan in the sun than Iceland in the desert. Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing - at last - into history.
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