Technologie et réseaux au service de la triche. Décidément, les réseaux sociaux sont en pleine tourmente, un peu comme toujours répondrez-vous. Cette fois la polémique qui rebondit est française : la triche au baccalauréat. L’addition des réseaux sociaux et des nouvelles technologies ne fait pas bon ménage pour les autorités. En revanche, elle fait le bonheur de nombreux étudiants. Pour le cas du Bac 2011, les étudiants expliquent que toute l’année leurs Smartphones les ont accompagnés pendant les divers contrôles et devoirs sur table. Pour le bac, un nombre de sujets impressionnants a été divulgué sur les réseaux sociaux (Facebook) avant les épreuves officielles. C’est sur des groupes Facebook que les sujets étaient mis en ligne et dévoilés aux yeux de tous, ces groupes étant « privés » seuls les élèves y avaient l’accès et ils pouvaient filtrer les personnes entrantes. Des étudiants qui parviennent à tricher toute l’année sont bien la preuve qu’il y a un sérieux problème. [Le Monde]
kgrandia: The Infamous 2009 LimeWire Pizza Fiasco. This is waaay too funny. July 1, 2009 – the day the music wars started in earnest. Last night the guys from Dovecote Records, a small music label based in New York, were hanging out at their local bar. Employees from file sharing startup LimeWire showed up to have a party. There was confusion over the ownership of some pizza, and a riot almost ensued. From the Dovecote Blog: Woman: “Who the FUCK are you? Then things really got out of hand. Paul’s anger builds. We usually side against the labels on just about everything, but in this case we’re with Dovecote. Whatever happens in the future with the battle between users and labels, we know one thing.
6 Ways to Be More Persuasive With Social Media Neil Patel is the co-founder of KISSmetrics, an analytics provider that helps companies make better business decisions. How can you be persuasive with consumers on social media? One of the best books on persuasion is called Influence, in which author Robert Cialdini describes six elements of effective persuasion. I share those tactics below and analyze how they can best be applied to a social media audience. 1. Reciprocation is built upon the theory that if you give something as a gift and then ask the recipient for a favor, they’ll respond in kind. For example, Dropbox will give you 2GB of storage space for free. Another common social media strategy is to give away ebooks. 2. When it comes to making decisions, we often look to other people for clues. Subscriber or follower counts – Are a lot of people following this blogger? Bottom line: When it comes to social media, a large audience is golden. 3. When Cialdini talks about “liking,” he doesn’t mean the “Like” button on Facebook. 4. 5. 6.
The Spectator - What Jacko needed was someone to say ‘No’ My defining memory of Michael Jackson — vulnerable, brilliant, otherworldly — is of watching him dance to the soundtrack of a movie. This was early in our friendship, around ten years ago in New York. I visited Michael in his hotel room and was amazed to find it decorated with Hollywood posters and eight-foot cutouts: Anakin Skywalker peeping out from the folds of Darth Maul’s cape, ET bicycling over the full moon. I told him he should see The Matrix, because of the spoonbending sequence, and he immediately instructed his aides to book a whole cinema. The response was instant: ‘Yes Michael!’ Nobody around him ever said ‘No’ to him… and during the tragedy that unfolded over the next decade, I often reflected that what he needed above everything was someone to tell him ‘No’ once in a while. We took Michael’s little boy to the Sony cinema, and sat side by side in the empty auditorium with boxes of popcorn and candy. He answered without hesitation. ‘It was the easiest thing to do.’
Twitter Secures $300 Million Investment by Saudi Prince The world's second largest social network, Twitter, has successfully secured a $300 million investment from Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed. The investment transaction is the final stage of several months of planning and negotiations between both Prince Alwaleed and Twitter. As one of the world's biggest and fastest growing social networks, Twitter will be using the money to improve their networking experience. With new features such as the iPhone and #newlook Twitter in the pipelines, this huge cash injection will be much appreciated in helping implement them and in brainstorming Twitter's direction and plans for 21012. Prince Alwaleed's Interest In Twitter As one of the richest men in the world, Prince Alwaleed is certainly in a position to be able to invest in what he wants, when he wants. Key Take Away With such a large sum of money now in Twitter's pockets, we look forward to hearing about how it will spend it and on what. ~Image source:
The Spotify Playlist | Britpop Spotify: The Case Against, And The Case Against As Universal Records release their Britpop compilation (reviewed by Ben Myers here), Quietus Editors Luke Turner and John Doran remember their encounters with the movement, and present two opposing Spotify playlists. There's currently a group knocking around on Facebook called 'Britpop Saved My Life'. The title might make 30-year-old me cringe somewhat, but perhaps that's in self-awareness at the foibles of a younger self. I was 16 in 1995, and the movement, for better or worse, took over my teenage years. It was finding groups like Suede and Pulp that made music an obsession for me, something to help define a personal aesthetic in that usual teenage way of creating an identity against the bullying attentions of rugger buggers at school, and Ben Sherman shirts in town of a Saturday night. There's a mistaken belief that all those who were into this music were a conservative bunch. So this Spotify mix is a personal trawl through the songs that I remember, and loved, from those days.
20 Game-Changing Twitter Chats Have you ever participated in a Twitter chat? If yes, then you already know how valuable they are. If you haven’t, then hopefully this post can provide some insights into what they offer and why you should get involved with one. Twitter chats are one of the most underutilized, untapped resources in social media. This year saw the creation of some fantastic new chats and huge growth in others. As their popularity continues to grow, so does the value they offer to participants. Increase Your Network If nothing else, twitter chats are a killer way of meeting fantastic new people. Establishing Brand Expertise There has been A LOT of talk about personal branding over the past few years. Now that we’ve qualified a few of the benefits of twitter chats its time to get involved. Monday 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Tuesday 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Wednesday 13. 14. 15. Thursday 16. 17. 18. Friday 19. Sunday 20. Resources The above list was just meant to be a starting point.
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Dr Dre's Detox ghostwritten by Ludacris? Original G? ... Dr Dre drafts in Ludacris to write his rhymes. Photograph: Corbis Since the release of Eminem's Relapse, Dr Dre's Detox is the now most anticipated album in hip-hop. Starting out as a member of NWA, Dre is now primarily a producer for hip-hop heavyweights including Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent. But as Detox's latest leak arrives on the internet, what emerges is that it is not Dre rapping. "With 30 mil sold, where's the fucking gratitude," Ludacris raps on OG's Theme.
Steven Wells Says Goodbye | In Extremis As commenter 293 below wrote at 9:04 this morning, "FUCK!!!!!!" Two years ago today our friend, colleague and (in ways we're just fully understanding now) mentor Steven Wells passed away. We still miss him dearly. And, of course, we're not alone. He meant a whole lot to a whole lot of people. Editor's note: Our friend and colleague Steven Wells died Wed., June 24, 2009 of the cancer he had documented so well in two cover stories for Philadelphia Weekly. Why is it that the people with the most profound stuff to say are also those who are the least capable of being able to express that profundity? I am talking about us. But then as one nudges closer to the edge, in the eye of the tiger storm (Tiger Storm, quite possibly the worst line and the best band name ever written), one is more inclined to shit oneself (literally and figuratively) than to throw shit at the system. Flowers Flowers for the family can be ordered through Fox's Jenkintown Flower Shop and Greenhouse. Me?
Butterz.co.uk - Is BACK! Heavy Sifting: Sasha Frere-Jones: Online Only One of the trusims about the web is niche-ism, which is stupid. In Berlin now. I just posted a promo mix for my 'chinese shadows' EP which is coming out in August, featuring an edit I did of Fleetwood Mac's "World Turning:" needless to say, I love dark scary Fleetwood, and sinister-decadent strung-out 70s rock in general. kind of a big Night Plane influence. I'm a critic for Resident Advisor and a dj/producer in Brooklyn. I have a regular podcast and I post lots of edits by well-known types but also unreleased edits, tracks etc by myself and my crew, under different aliases, dance stuff but also pretty left-field sometimes. I'm twenty-eight and I've played piano all my life. When I'm not musicking, I'm a Ph.
Morning, campers As we rounded the corner to our tree-lined row of bungalows, something feathery twitching on the grass surprised one of my companions. He took a step back before leaning in to inspect the suspicious object. “Is that a . . . real duck?” All Tomorrow’s Parties (or ATP) is ten years old now, but it was one of the first of a new breed of music festivals that swapped the usual tented mudbaths for holiday camps – in this case, Butlins (as it now styles itself), Minehead. Indie rock, or certainly the literate, arty variant on show at ATP, is middle-class to the core. The main entertainment complex at Butlins, the Skyline Pavilion, is a huge, white, spiky marquee, apparently intended to look like the world’s biggest meringue, and it contained a trifle-like mess of competing themes and activities. Festival purists see modern indulgences such as basic hygiene, beds and ceilings as unbecoming. When you get back from a music festival everyone’s first question is “What was the highlight?”