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Stands for “user-generated content,” a new form of online scam in which you make all the content, and we keep all the money.It is teh truth.
[F]or other applications related to human beings, RFID appears to offer little benefit when compared to the consequences it brings for privacy and data integrity. Instead, it increases risks to personal privacy and security, with no commensurate benefit for performance or national security.
The country's national drink is not horse piss; it is fermented horse milk that merely tastes of piss. And Jew-baiting is not, actually, a national sport. It's more of a hobby, as in the phrase 'You're as tight as a Jew' or the practice of making 'a Jewish phone call' (when you get the other party to call you back on your landline). [...]
And then she takes us - Steve, my travelling companion, and me - into a cafe where we have a bit of cake.
'What's it called?' I ask.
'The cake? It is known as "nigger in the foam".'
Biblioteket.se is a national project to connect government libraries in Sweden (first Stockholm) and open an online service that let users browse library archives, download books, and leave user reviews on books and papers. The site is not yet operational but there is a clickable version at bibliotek.se.
Begreppet web 2.0, som bland annat handlar om att användarna är medskapare, förekom knappt i några artiklar alls förra året. I år är läget ett annat och webb 2.0 är det internetrelaterade begrepp som ökat mest i svenska artiklar.
Mr Pronk, 66, had a reputation for being outspoken as a minister in two Dutch governments but he took the unusual step of writing a regular weblog after his appointment as Mr Annan's special representative in Khartoum two years ago. This seems to have been his main sin. The weblog in which he often described the war in Darfur in graphic terms without the usual caution of a diplomat became required reading for everyone watching Sudan's war-torn western region closely.
Riktigt så rykande är inte de vetenskapsbloggar jag skriver om här [jämfört med den politiska sfären och Magnus Ljungkvkists avslöjanden]. Inte oväntat är de svenska bloggarna i ämnet rätt få. [...] Scienceblogs.com fungerar som en à la carte-meny för bloggar, nyheter, debatter, kommentarer. [...] Här kan man försjunka i glödande diskussioner som de svenska vetenskapsbloggarna saknar.
The lunacy of San Francisco politics can take several forms and town hall meetings are sure to attract some of San Francisco’s craziest nut jobs. (...) these local political gadflies seemed to feel that EarthLink and Google providing free WiFi to the citizens was akin to killing kittens because, they attacked (Google representative) Sacca with a venom that was absolutely shocking.
Okay. So, now, suddenly, sitting on top of a song for a hundred years starts to make sense. Thanks to the online distribution, where distribution cost is practically zero, you can keep selling and making money off that record until eternity. In practice, this will probably mean that in the near future we'll see more cries to extend the copyright indefinitely, just so that "the poor artists, dead for a hundred year, won't starve."
Mr. Vayner’s experience shows the not-so-friendly side of the social-networking phenomenon. While sites such as YouTube allow aspiring comedians or filmmakers to share their creations with millions of others, they also provide the ideal forum for embarrassing someone on a global scale. Materials can quickly make the rounds on blogs, via e-mail and through online hangouts like MySpace, becoming all but impossible to contain.
Of the 27,272 men who died, there were 7,697 deaths from cancer — significantly higher than the 7,206 expected according to national averages. Of 4,669 women, 1,667 had died of cancer, higher than the 1,454 expected according to averages.
Our own defining view is what you might call the long zoom: the satellites tracking in on license-plate numbers in the spy movies; the Google maps in which a few clicks take you from a view of an entire region to the roof of your house; the opening shot in “Fight Club” that pulls out from Edward Norton’s synapses all the way to his quivering face as he stares into the muzzle of a revolver; the fractal geometry of chaos theory in which each new scale reveals endless complexity. And this is not just a way of seeing but also a way of thinking: moving conceptually from the scale of DNA to the scale of personality all the way up to social movements and politics — and back again.
Jag tror dock inte att man ska underskatta communitymedlemmars förmåga att flytta på sig om marknadsförarna blir för påträngande eller en community tappar sin själ. (...) Webb 2.0 må vara en monokultur, men de tjänster som många uppfattar som Webb 2.0 är bara en liten del av det sociala Internet.
Social webbdesign bör handla om att tillhandahålla generella och neutrala verktyg som användarna själva kan välja hur de vill använda.Låter som en bra princip. Peter raddar dessutom en rad designprinciper för hur ojämlikheter i sociala webbappar kan jämnas ut, hämtade från Jakob Nielsens nyliga artikel om just det. Good stuff.
För två tredjedelar av dom undersökta annonsörerna rankades wikipediaartiklar mellan 1 och 45, det vill säga bland dom fem första Googlesidorna. För dessa 39 annonsörer var medianvärdet på wikipediaranken 5 och medel drygt 9. Ofta presenterade Google wikipediaartikeln innan annonsörens egna webbplats(er).
En god start är att studera i vilka sociala medier man förekommer och skapa system för att varsamt lyssna på marknadens konversationer - samt stå emot frestelsen att försöka kontrollera det som sägs.
The researchers find an overall rise in both cable-TV access and autism, but autism diagnoses rose more rapidly in counties where a high percentage of households received cable than in counties with a low percentage of cable-TV homes.
My theory: when it rains a lot, parents watch more TV, see more shows about autism, and this leads them to seek out a diagnosis of autism for their kids. They have the same kids, it is just that TV makes them believe that their kids are autistic.
It might be academically expedient to praise the ways in which the hip kids are crowdsourcing and building Web2.0-communities, but in its attention to these matters, the author quite willfully ignores the manifold of ways in which the world has stayed the same, and although the book is written in a careful and deliberate way, one often feels as if this merely exacerbates the matter – masking but not quite concealing the problem.
- Det Attention är jävligt bra på, och som tidningen är omtyckt för publicistiskt, är trender. Möjligtvis är magasin inte den bästa formen för det och därför gör vi en ganska exklusiv digital produkt istället.
Today, most individuals and companies making social web applications are existing in a monoculture that robs them of the broad perspectives, influences, and understanding necessary to create a community that's sustainable over the long term.
Vi måste bekmämpa monokultur av samma orsaker som får oss att avsky DRM, bekämpa sterila genmanipulerade grödor (GURTS) eller argumentera för en öppnare upphovsrätt i stil med Creative Commons. Verktygen för att uttrycka sig och för att kommunicera måste kunna nås av alla, de måste kunna bära frukt för dem som återanvänder dem eller använder dem i nya sammanhang och de måste vara tillgängliga för alla att bygga ut eller bygga vidare på.
The four schools that have the most students join the 'Smile State' group will earn a free on-campus concert by an up-and-coming artist (only for members of the group, of course).
It's not because of their religion or their wanting to destroy democracy and drag the world back to the Middle Ages and enslave women and make everyone be Islamic like them. Most of these things are not so relevant after all. But what upsets the hacker community is that we are told on Slashdot that the radical Islamofascists hope to impose DRM legislation in their countries and employ software patents that would rob us of the freedom to hack. This we cannot tolerate!
Men det visade sig ju att Orhan Pamuk befann sig inte i Istanbul, utan på Manhattan (för att han ska undervisa på "mitt" Columbia, i kreativt skrivande). Så det var bara att dra ned till Midtown. Jag och några kolleger – inte alls många, inget pressuppbåd utan "bara" jag, Sveriges Television, Sveriges Radio och Reuters – hängde på det amerikanska förlagets kontor tills vi fick en intervju med The Man. Han tyckte inte det var jättekul att bli intervjuad, kan jag säga, men gjorde sin plikt.
Det är där [bland bloggarna] fördomarna kommer fram. Det är där omdömeslösheten frodas.Idag skrev hon:
Bloggen håller på att bli politikens skarpaste verktyg.Antingen har hon ändrat uppfattning, eller så har hon en väldigt cynisk uppfattning om vad politik är.
Life moves pretty fast - if you don't stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it
If you’re going to dance, then DANCE! But do it with passion.
Gold stars to YouTube, Google, and their respective investment bankers for how they handled this one... Settle on basic deal terms and a provisional price, leak details so the market has a couple of days to chew on the idea, see how the stock reacts, neutralize the market's single biggest concern (lawsuits) by announcing a distribution pact with the main guy who might sue you, fix the price, rubber-stamp the press release, and go.
“The YouTube committment to enforcing copyright is very consistent with Google’s,” said Google SVP David Drummond.Öh?
In architecture, this mathematical yet unstable form has been used to mock classical reason, most wondrously by the baroque architect Francesco Borromini in the great ovoid staircase of the Barberini palace in Rome. It is by looking at Borromini that you can see how Höller has done far more than simply give people fun at the museum by installing some slides. He collides the wild imaginative play of the baroque with the rational, straight-lined classicism of Tate Modern.
Granted, I’ve got a lot of blogging experience, but nothing I’m doing is rocket science. It all boils down to just putting up good content on a consistent basis, but nevertheless people think you need VC and an ad campaign and press releases and all this other horseshit just to start a professional blog these days.
It’s an incredibly entertaining and enlightening six-hour mindf*ck that hopes to show you how all the news is not fit to print…and how some of the most important never gets printed at all. It does so by featuring some of the most brain-changing, cortex cracking tall tales to not be referred to as urban legends.
Duuuuuude. If you've ever wondered what it is that motivates complexity theorists, roll this one up and smoke it.
In other words, instead of spending years working on giant, deeply integrated software packages and doing one big, heavily marketed release, Microsoft needs to think more like Google and other next-gen Internet companies – designing and releasing software faster and in smaller interchangeable pieces and then letting online user feedback guide improvements. The goal is radical and risky: embrace a variety of revenue models, including monthly subscriptions and online advertising, to become more competitive.
In another sign of Google Inc.'s growth from start-up to corporate behemoth, the company's top executives said Thursday that they had begun telling engineers to stop launching so many new services and instead focus on making existing ones work together better.
Strictly speaking, if you take something from someone without their consent, it's stealing, but if, in this case Starbucks consents, it's not. Whether or not the company charges too much is irrelevant. It's not that you cross an ethical line in how much milk you pour. The line is when Starbucks says, 'no.'
What are the limits of free milk? That is, Starbucks provides free milk so that customers who want to add milk to their coffee can do so. (Is it fair to call this the permitted use or intended use?) Customers know their optimal coffee/milk ratio and can best achieve that by doing it on their own. Unlike the DMCA and DRM, which imposes technological limits on how content can be used, Starbucks has no simple way to control how “free” milk is used at Starbucks.
The Connectivity Map (also known as cmap) is a collection of genome-wide transcriptional expression data from cultured human cells treated with bioactive small molecules and simple pattern-matching algorithms that together enable the discovery of decisive functional connections between drugs, genes and diseases through the transitory feature of common gene expression changes.
(ABA) is an interactive, genome-wide image database of gene expression in the mouse brain. A combination of RNA in situ hybridization data, detailed Reference Atlases and informatics analysis tools are integrated to provide a searchable digital atlas of gene expression. Together, these resources present a comprehensive online platform for exploration of the brain at the cellular and molecular level.
In situations where lofty words are needed, grammar ought to take a back seat to cadence.
I remember when it would take months for the web to churn through the next new meme or weird link. Now it takes a matter of days, sometimes hours. Digg, YouTube, and Myspace have made content a popularity contest that has crept into blogs, even this one.
In 2002 there was a lot of excitement about the independent web. The fallout from the .com era had passed and those still left standing were anxious and making plans for the return of the non-commercial web. Blogs certainly played a major part in helping bring that initiative online and started the self publishing movement. It's my hope that as another four years have passed and again money, and now monotony, have crept back into our content that we'll all keep at least a little part of what we do free from what has become blahgs.
I thought of my family. There was no point reaching for my cellphone to try a call — there was no signal. And as our hopes sank with the sun, some of us jotted notes to spouses and loved ones and placed them in our wallets, hoping the notes would later be found.
" I am concerned the bill's provisions are overbroad and may unduly burden the numerous beneficial new applications of contactless technology".
