How Facebook Updates Would Look in Real Life “Wild Justice” (Bob Black Introduction We’ve all heard the phrase “law and order” — as if they go together. The slogan assumes that law promotes order, and that crime subverts order. “Anarchists believe the phrase law and order is one of the great deceptions of our age.” [1] I’m going to discuss just one of the reasons why this slogan is a lie. Until recently, social scientists only noticed one way that crime promotes order. The Sources of Social Order We already live in a mostly anarchist society, in the sense that the state plays a relatively minor role in controlling antisocial behavior. It isn’t because of the fear of punishment that most people don’t kill, or steal, or use heroin, or run red lights. No doubt law imposes some order, for better or for worse. In Max Weber’s famous definition, the state “is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a given territory.” [7] He did well to place “successfully” in parentheses, and to speak of a mere “claim.”
Second Light BitTorrent visualization in processing.js You can use the 's' and 'p' keys to add new seeds and peers to the swarm. Hitting 'r' will remove one of the seeds or peers at random, but it takes a few seconds before it activates, just like the original. This visualization originally started off at aphid.org but that site doesn't seem to be up anymore. Jeff Atwood updated it to work with more recent versions of Processing (notably the 1.0 release which is theoretically API-stable and compatible with future versions). Works in pretty much any modern browser except IE (because IE doesn't have support for the <canvas> tag). Changes, if you're curious: processing.js was missing ArrayList.contains() so I implemented it processing.js didn't implement screenX() or screenY() so I had to calculate things manually with cos() and sin()
La mise en scène de soi sur internet - COLLEGE DE LA DOMBES Suite à l’intervention de la BPDJ au collège, les documentalistes ont poursuivi le travail avec les élèves sur la question de l’identité numérique en proposant à tous les élèves de 5e un cycle de réflexion sur la mise en scène de soi sur internet et les représentations. 6 séances en classe entière sont prévues au CDI ou en salle informatique : Séance 1 : Qu’est ce qu’internet me donne à voir ? Objectif de la séance : Introduction aux médias reprise de la visite de la BPDJ qu’est ce q’un média ? Travail à la maison : passer le test sur Séance 2 : Les images qu’on publie et celles qu’on ne publie pas Objectif de la séance : Le poids des photos Par binôme les élèves doivent choisir trois photos sur un thème précis donné par le documentaliste. Document distribué : Travail à faire à la maison :
On the poverty of student life On the poverty of student life considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual, and particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest proposal for its remedy Published by UNEF, Strasbourg 1966 First published in 1966 at the University of Strasbourg by students of the university and members of the Internationale Situationniste. A few students elected to the student union printed 10,000 copies with university funds. We might very well say, and no one would disagree with us, that the student is the most universally despised creature in France, apart from the priest and the policeman. There are reasons for this sudden enthusiasm, but they are all provided by the present form of capitalism, in its overdeveloped state. Up to now, studies of student life have ignored the essential issue. Modern capitalism and its spectacle allot everyone a specific role in a general passivity. At least in consciousness, the student can exist apart from the official truths of "economic life."
Social capital Social capital. The notion of social capital is a useful way of entering into debates about civil society – and is central to the arguments of Robert Putnam and others who want to ‘reclaim public life’. It is also used by the World Bank with regard to economic and societal development and by management experts as a way of thinking about organizational development. We examine its nature, some of the issues surrounding its use, and its significance for educators. Contents: introduction · social capital for starters · types of social capital · the decline in social capital · some critiques of the bowling alone theses · the benefits of social capital · social capital in organizations · social capital and informal education · conclusion – some issues with social capital · further reading and references · links · acknowledgements · how to cite this article Social capital for starters For John Field (2003: 1-2) the central thesis of social capital theory is that ‘relationships matter’. Links
12 Facts you didn't know about computers 12 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Computers. They book our hotels. They buy our books. They bring us the latest TV. 01 Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month. 02 The first computer mouse-waaaay back in 1964- was designed by a chap called Doug Engelbert, and constructed out of wood. 03 The average human being blinks around 20 times in a minute. 04 The very first electro-mechanical computer was called the Z2, and was developed back in 1939. 05 It’s estimated that by the end of 2012, there will be a rather ridiculous 17 billion devices that connect to the internet. 06 The internet might be a veritable feast of information, but in actuality five in six online pages are focused with, er, adults in mind. 07 Over one million domain names per month are registered online. 08 Facebook boasts over 800 million users. 11 Organised crime syndicates are responsible for 20.70% of online viruses. 12 The original engineers who designed the IBM PB were nicknamed ‘The Dirty Dozen’.
Du moteur de recherche aux moteurs de réponses et de recommandations Du moteur de recherche aux moteurs de réponses et de recommandations 5.00/5 (100.00%) 1 vote Historiquement, depuis 20 ans que le Web existe, les premiers outils permettant de trouver de l'information sur le réseau ont été des annuaires (le Yahoo! du début, le Guide de Voilà, Nomade, l'Open Directory, etc.) et des moteurs de recherche (WebCrawler, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos puis Altavista en 1995, etc.). Google a l'ambition de devenir un moteur de réponses En effet, un beau jour (indéfini, d'ailleurs) de 1998 est arrivé Google. Au vu des infos retournées par cette "onebox" (qui prend par ailleurs la majeure partie de l'espace visuel libre sans scroller), irez-vous consulter un autre site ? L'espace est occupé par : des liens publicitaires Google, Google Maps, Google+ local et le moteur vertical Google Hotel Finder. D'autres outils complètent cette stratégie : la recherche universelle, le Knowledge Graph, etc. Facebook peut-il proposer un moteur de recommandations ?
Tweet Forensics: Occupy vs. Tea Party Occupy Wall Street Twitter network as of November 15 2011. [Click the image for a larger version] Credit: Marc Smith/Social Media Research FoundationHere's an interesting analysis by Marc Smith at the Social Media Research Foundation in Belmont, California, of the difference between Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party tweeters. The above image shows the OWS network. Here's how it's described on Marc Smith's Flickr page: These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word occupywallstreet when queried on November 15, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another.
As Crowdfunding Grows, the Rewards Increase -- but So Do the Risks The campaign to front a movie based on the cult television show “Veronica Mars” through crowdfunding broke records for the fastest project ever to raise $1 million on Kickstarter. It was the website’s biggest film project so far, and it has the most backers of any project to date. What it probably didn’t do, Wharton experts say, is throw open the doors of crowdfunding to major motion pictures. But that’s OK: Crowdfunding is successfully helping entrepreneurs raise capital without the need for them to go Hollywood. What the “Veronica Mars” case does illustrate, however, is that Kickstarter and its crowdfunding brethren have proven their mettle as mainstream, reliable avenues of funding for both start-up businesses and established firms. Not only do crowdfunding websites provide a cheap, easy way for individuals to seek start-up funding, but would-be investors are also doing an excellent job of picking winners out of the crowd, according to Wharton management professor Ethan Mollick.