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This is an off shot of Toad's thread.
http://elbo.ws/vanilla/comments.php?DiscussionID=3589&page=1#Item_31
Basically, looking around, how band/media group using, exploring, working in the net era.
Involving: networking techniques, how to analyze, tools, problem-solution, insight, prediction, experience, content presentation, case study, ..bla bla ... etc
(in other word, another random thread about internet.)
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This is a samsung promo done by OK Go.
a) a youtube targetted ad
b) the band seems having fun with it.
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The Ease of Publishing an Ebook
"This article describes how easy it is to publish an ebook. The author details the costs to the writer for a major publishing house to publish a book and the savings to the writer by self-publishing. He looks to make the same profit selling the book at $2.99 on Amazon as he would going though a traditional publishing process. The book is formatted only for the Kindle right now, but the author explains how it can be converted for other readers, since there's no DRM."
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/16/1823230/The-Ease-of-Publishing-an-Ebook -
(hey, the future is here. You can watch TV without television, and the TV companies probably don't like you see their old prediction.)
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Paul Watson points us to yet another example of how engaging with fans of your work (even if, technically, they infringed on your copyrights) can lead to pretty happy outcomes for everyone. The basic details are that comic book artist Steve Lieber discovered that folks at 4chan had scanned in and uploaded every page of his graphic novel Underground. Now, the typical reaction is to freak out, scream "piracy," whine about "losses" and demand that "something must be done." But, in a world where obscurity is really a much bigger issue than "piracy," another option is to actually engage with those fans who liked his work so much that they put in the effort to share it with the world. And that's exactly what Lieber did. He went to the site and actually started talking about the work with the folks on 4chan (image from Paul):
Nice. But, what did it actually mean? Well, the day after he engaged with fans on 4chan, Lieber posted a blog post highlighting his sales. As he says, "pictures help us learn."
But "piracy" is killing the ability to earn money, right?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101021/10481211524/comic-book-pirated-on-4chan-author-joins-discussion-watches-sales-soar.shtml
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/22/174206/Comic-Sales-Soar-After-Artist-Engages-4chan-Pirates -
Motherboard is a news web series from VBS. TV that looks at everything technology related for the average VBS fan, full of news on sound technology, internet trends, video game design and more. The show looks in depth into each topic by going to specific newsworthy events and interviewing several relevant subjects to add insight for the viewer. The series is notable for following stories that the mainstream tech media does not, forgoing showcasing the newest consumer technology in favor of niche markets and unknown innovators. Several of the episodes follow musicians who are pushing the limits of technology in music to further their craft, including RJD2 and Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt. The stories span the entire US and beyond to find the most interesting technology related stories and highlight the men and women who are pioneers doing truly unique things with technology. Episodes range from short clips of 5 or 6 minutes to longer pieces that last for 30 minutes
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a follow-up to the launch of the Truthy Project we discussed last month. "Tens of thousands of tweets this election season have turned out to be automated messages generated by employees of political campaigns, Indiana University researchers have found. Quoting: 'In one case, a network of nine Twitter accounts, all created within 13 minutes of one another, sent out 929 messages in about two hours as replies to real account holders in the hopes that these users would retweet the messages. The fake accounts were probably controlled by a script that randomly picked a Twitter user to reply to, and a message and a Web link to include. Although Twitter shut the accounts down soon after, the messages still reached 61,732 users.'"
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/11/02/2043222/Truthy-Project-Uncovers-Political-Astroturfing-On-Twitter
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Go smartphone and internet tablet....! (hey this happens faster than I thought)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101105/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_internet_vs_pay_tv
Cable companies have been losing TV subscribers at an ever faster rate in the last few months, and satellite TV isn't picking up the slack.That could be a sign that Internet TV services such as Netflix and Hulu are finally starting to entice people to cancel cable, though company executives are pointing to the weak economy and housing market for now.
Third-quarter results reported Thursday by major cable TV companies show major losses, but don't settle the question of what's causing them.
If "cord-cutting" in favor of Internet video is finally taking hold, that has wide-ranging implications. Consumers who use the Internet to get their movies and TV shows bypass not just the cable companies, but the cable networks that produce the content. The move could have the same disruptive effect on the TV and movie industries as digital downloads have already had on music.
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JourneyQuest: fan-supported, CC-licensed fantasy/comedy series
JourneyQuest is an independently produced, fan-financed, Creative Commons licensed comic fantasy series about "a wizard with a quest problem." It's just concluded its first season of seven short episodes; I've watched the first couple and am thoroughly hooked (and impressed! Great production values, acting and writing!). -
"The media scrutiny and the reaction are so tremendous that it actually eclipses our ability to understand it," he said, with "a tremendous rearrangement of viewings about many different countries".
Assange also gave a glimpse into why WikiLeaks had chosen to partner with traditional media organisations to release the files, rather than, as might have been expected, amateur bloggers. In 2006, "we thought we would have the analytical work done by bloggers and people who wrote Wikipedia articles and so on," he said.
But "when people write political commentary on blogs or other social media, it is my experience that it is not, with some exceptions, their goal to expose the truth.
"Rather, it is their goal to position themselves amongst their peers on whatever the issue of the day is. The most effective, the most economical way to do that, is simply to take the story that's going around, [which] has already created a marketable audience for itself, and say whether they're in favour of that interpretation or not."
Now, he said, the analytical work was "done by professional journalists we work with and by professional human rights activists. It is not done by the broader community." Social networks acted as amplifiers, he added – and, as WikiLeaks gained more publicity, an important supplier of source material.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/julian-assange-wikileaks-china-russia
actually, not entirely true, but good description.
a) most blogger has day job. the bigger name/professors/etc also have limitation what they can/cannot say.
b) I think it's the combination of established full time media + open internet. But what combination? and how to create those combination?
c) all in all there are still a lot of new technology being develop online.
for example:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/12/matt-stoller-end-this-fed.html
On the left, the last few years saw a remarkable grassroots coalition of economists and activists to bring transparency to the central bank, joining a long-sought libertarian crusade. I was a staffer for Rep. Alan Gryason working with that coalition to require an independent audit the Federal Reserve. Tomorrow, because of provisions put into Dodd-Frank by Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressmen Grayson and Ron Paul, the Federal Reserve will release details of its 2007-2010 emergency loans to the web.
This network of politicians, advocates, and bloggers will go to town on whatever revelations come out of that (though the Fed obnoxiously put its Maiden Lane disclosures in a non-copy or printable PDF format, so we’ll see how easy they make it to get this info). The defenders of technocracy are out in force as well. Paul Krugman is standing behind the institution, if not its every decision. The Democratic partisan class is going after right-wing Fed critics, while more liberal independents are pointing to the Fed in the 1940s and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as a very different monetary model.
Not since the populist movement of the 1890s has there been this much discussion of monetary structures among the public, and so much dissent about how money is created and circulated throughout the economy. It’s happening for a reason. The public is now paying attention to finance. We did a focus group in Orlando last year, and one of the surprising conclusions was that nearly every independent voter knew who Ben Bernanke was. People don’t like the structure of our financial oligarchy, and they are talking about it. Even the deficit hysteria and the Fannie/Freddie GSE fights are a function of this monetary debate.
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Once again Mr. Assange steps all over his dick and doesn't make sense.
He says: "The media scrunity and the reactions are so tremendous that it actually eclipses our ability to understand it...."
Then he later says, trying to justify what he does: "WikiLeaks analytical work was done by professional journalists we work with and professional human rights activists."
Analytical work? Professional journalists? Bullshit. The only difference between traditional media in the past and WikiLeaks now is WikiLeaks plays a dangerous illegal middleman. They obtain a massive amount of illegal docs, read through them and then give them to traditional media. The "scrunity and the reactions" are still the same and it still "eclipses our ability to understand it", nothing has changed due to WikiLeaks. In fact what they do makes traditional media and public reactions/scrunity more confused and chaotic.
All they do is engage in illegal activity. Gather illegal documents and mass release them to traditional media. They are actually making traditional media worse than ever. There is no value but to create more confusion.
Even Assange's family has spoken out. They say he is extremely intelligent but now has finally crossed the line, out of control.
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Merz, you can't even credibly compile a year end list as a music blogger. (I am not saying I can either) So he does have a point ...
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Yeah, that's a solid argument of my inability to compile a favorite album year end list vs. Assange being right. Explains a lot.
Analytical analysis? What/where is the analytical analysis? All I've seen is a massive dump of sensitive/secret documents to the mainstream media. When one does an analytical analysis, they usually publish that alongside the thing they have analyzed. I've never seen that with WikiLeaks.
Assange is a disturbed wolf in sheeps clothing. There is no WikiLeaks analytical analysis. Just a bunch of idiots hiding and mass distributing sensitive documents. It's all for shock value and to work up the general public.
It's the remotest thing from journalism. It's an insulting bad joke.
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If you are given all those raw files, do you have the capability to know if you are being fed information vs. genuine internal leak?
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I don't even have the capability to compile a year end music list, remember? Plus no one is going to feed me anything raw. If it's not cooked then fucking forget it. I went to Japan years ago on business and those dudes were eating raw chicken. No lie. They tried to get me to eat it and I told them to fuck off.
Assange is a computer hacker. They say he is very intelligent. But the fact is he is not a professional journalist. He has no formal education in journalism and is just making it up as he goes.
If he claims WikiLeaks is run by professional journalists then why doesn't he prove it and prove that they are truly capable to correctly analyze these raw files? Instead they hide behind a cyber wall. Who knows who these people are? So, we trust/believe some unknown clandestine group of people to reveal the real truth to us? It's like believing in Santa Claus. I don't trust people I have no information about to tell me something as critical as how the world is run. That's ridiculous. If I was stupid enough to do that, I would be eating raw chicken for dinner every night too.
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Print die-hards won't like this, but the writing has been on the wall for a long time - online media companies are now in a neck-to-neck race with traditional news outlets.
A set of slides that yesterday kickstarted Business Insider's conference on the future of media, "new" online media properties are collectively within spitting distance of "old" media companies.
For example, Google makes content and sell ads so it's basically a media company whose market value eclipses any other media company, including the likes of Time Warner, News Corp, and Disney.
Facebook, another new media company with market value pegged at $50 billion, is worth more than Yahoo or iTunes, both valued at around $20 billion.
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Could be an interesting one to watch. This sort of thing is going to be censored soon in the US.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/6/926181/-Global-banks-beginning-to-fear-unruly-peasants -
If you follow the latest cache of diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks and reported by the Guardian, The New York Times and others it is impossible not to conclude that this is a pivotal moment for journalism, its teaching and its practice. In a masterly piece on The Guardian’s website, John Naughton writes that :
The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing.
I would urge anyone interested in the case as it unfolds to follow John’s excellent Memex1.1 blog where he both aggregates and writes some of the most thoughtful pieces about the ongoing saga.
The idea that this is the first real battleground between the political establishment and the open web is very arresting. It also forces journalists and news organisations to demonstrate to what extent they are now part of an establishment it is their duty to report. Some like the Guardian, which has a long tradition of free speech attached to it, has been at the heart of disseminating Wikileaks cablegate information.
Last summer when the Iraq warlogs were made public the Columbia Journalism Review published an account of the nuts and bolts of the collaboration between mainstream media and Wikileaks. which illustrates the type of collaborative bargaining and process behind the publishing efforts. But not all news organisations have been so keen to spread the hundreds of thousands of words.
The Wall Street Journal for instance has struggled to place the news from the leaked cables at all prominently in its news agenda, despite having a readership which is no doubt ferociously interesting in international relations. The Journal has carried much anti-Wikileaks and anti-Julian Assange sentiment on its op-ed pages, including a plea from Mort Zuckerman to tighten cyber security, which made up in length for what it lacked in technical knowledge. And today California Senator Dianne Feinstein again contributed to the newspaper with a suggestion that Assange be prosecuted under the Espionage Act 1917 even though a number of lawyers have already publicly noted that this would be both difficult and unlikely.
http://emilybellwether.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/how-wikileaks-has-woken-up-journalism/
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After twenty-two years, The Onion has decided to both get out of the print business and double down on print at the same time.
The popular satirical newspaper and website has made the decision to franchise its print edition out to local partners. Franchisees will pay a weekly fee to license Onion content; they’ll sell their own ads, pay to print and distribute the papers, and keep the profits from the ads they sell. In turn, The Onion expands its readership and drives more readers to their ever-expanding website.
“It’s a win-win” deal, says Onion CEO Steve Hannah, but one that only recently started to make sense to him and his colleagues. Hannah says The Onion has received countless similar inquiries in the company’s twenty-two-year history. “We’ve always emphatically said no, because we’re incredibly protective of the Onion brand,” he says.
The Onion crew has protected that brand at each stage of its growth, maintaining the same sharp sensibility and a consistency of tone throughout its print and online text, in its bestselling books, and, most recently, the Peabody-award-winning and almost shockingly high-quality Onion News Network videos, produced daily. ONN is debuting two new weekly television shows in January: Onion SportsDome, an ESPN-SportsCenter parody, will air on Comedy Central; another one for the Independent Film Channel (IFC) will “look like Fox News on steroids,” as Hannah puts it. Both shows will also be available for viewing online after they air on television.* While just about every traditional news organization across the country was in the process of reimagining themselves as “multimedia content providers” rather than mere newspapers, The Onion is one fake news organization that was doing just that.
http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/you_too_can_own_a_piece_of_the.php
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The "legal blackmail" business: inside a P2P settlement factory
UK pornographer Jasper Feversham was fed up. The Internets were sharing his films, quality work like Catch Her in the Eye, Skin City, and MILF Magic 3. He wanted revenge—or at least a cut. So Feversham signed on to a relatively new scheme: track down BitTorrent infringers, convert their IP addresses into real names, and blast out warning letters threatening litigation if they didn't cough up a few hundred quid.
"Much looking forward to sending letters to these f—ers," he wrote in an email earlier this year.
The law firm he ended up with was ACS Law, run by middle-aged lawyer Andrew Crossley. ACS Law had, after a process of attrition, become one of the only UK firms to engage in such work. Unfortunately for Crossley, mainstream film studios had decided that suing file-sharers brought little apart from negative publicity, and so Crossley was left defending a heap of pornography, some video games, and a few musical tracks.
After the group's data flood knocked the ACS Law website offline for a few hours, UK tech site The Register called up Andrew Crossley to ask him about the attack. The site was "only down for a few hours," Crossley said. "I have far more concern over the fact of my train turning up 10 minutes late or having to queue for a coffee than them wasting my time with this sort of rubbish."
He has something to be concerned about now. After these comments, Operation Payback hit ACS Law a second time, knocking out the site. In the process of bringing it back up, someone exposed the server's directory structure through the Web instead of showing the website itself. Those conducting Operation Payback immediately moved in and grabbed a 350MB archive of ACS Law e-mails, then threw the entire mass up on sites like The Pirate Bay.
This is more than a matter of mere embarrassment. The UK has tougher data protection laws than the US, and the country's Information Commissioner has already made it clear that ACS Law could be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of pounds. That's because, in addition to his iTunes receipts ("Hooray for iPads. I love mine," Crossley says at one point) and Amazon purchase orders, the e-mails include numerous attachments filled with all manner of private information: names, addresses, payment details, passwords, revenue splits, business deals.
All of which is horrible, terrible, awful news—unless you want to know how a firm like ACS Law actually works.
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The research confirms the existence of a network of investment super-connectors with extraordinary media influence and reach. These super-connected new influentials are, for the most part, not well established voices in the media but individual bloggers who fiercely champion their independence….In the US, the network functions as the unofficial voice of Wall Street & the US federal bank with no mainstream media players at the centre of the network.
Given how many of these top blogs are critical of the status quo, this map may be hopeful sign that the blogosphere is beginning to become a important channel of discourse outside the reach of the PR machinery of major corporations and government entities.
The top 20:
1. Naked Capitalism
2. Infectious Greed
3. The Big Picture
4. Jesse’s Cross Roads Cafe
5. Zerohedge
6. Mish’s Global Economic Analysis
7. Calculated Risk
8. Paul Krugman’s Blog
9. FT Alphaville
10. Ludwig von Mises Institute
11. The Market Trader
12. WSJ Blogs
13. The Epicurean Dealmaker
14.Credit Writedowns
15. Dealbreaker
16. China Financial Markets
17. Max Keiser
18. The Angry Bear
19. The Economist
20. Jr. Deputy Accountant
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This series uses the same bigram dataset as the word spectrum visualization. Please refer to that page for an extended description of the data and processing.
To eliminate occlusion, I developed an entirely different layout. Now, instead of a continuous spectrum of words, words are bucketed into one of 25 different rays. Each of these represent a different tendency of use (ranging from 0 to 100% in 4% intervals). Words are sorted by decreasing frequency within each ray. I render as many words as can fit onto the canvas. There is a nice visual analogy at play - the "lean" of each ray represents the strength of the tendency towards one of the two terms. As in the word spectrum visualization, font size is based on a inverse power function (uniquely set for each visualization, so you can't compare across pieces). Common words (a, the, for, as, etc.) are not shown.
I was really pleased at how many interesting details get packed into these fairly simple visualizations. I think they offer an interesting insight into our language and what topics are prevalent on the web.
This is only a subset of possible word pairings. If you have a interesting idea for a word comparison, email me.
Warning: the visualizations use actual word frequencies from the web - foul language is present!
Each thumbnail links to a PDF version.
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/wordassociation/index.html
http://gizmodo.com/5731779/google-shows-why-the-world-is-screwed
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whew. ... I just hope this video doesn't go viral. (I am tracking because this is big deal. Obama just lost the intellectual backing in african american community, or at least being harshly criticized.)
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The $300 Action Movie
. It's quite impressive! The acting, not so much.
This isn't to say the movie is a flop or undeserving of our praise, because it is! And the acting isn't terrible, actually, because I watched all the way to the end earlier today. There's just this whiff of cheese about most of the performances and edits. Something to consider for the inevitable sequel, I suppose.
As a demo of what one can pull off with just $300 and a bit of skill this is quite a feat. I was nearly motivated to open iMovie and start something up myself before I realized I can barely write, let alone make movies.
http://gizmodo.com/5741093/the-300-action-movie
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Some friendships are short and fleeting, while others may last years. Although a wide variety of factors go into determining the strength of our relationships, the long-lasting ones seem to share a number of the same characteristics, according to a recent study.
Using data from nearly 2 million people and 8 million phone calls over the course of a year, physicist Cesar Hidalgo from the University of Notre Dame and sociologist Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile have investigated the persistence of relationships within the cell phone network. Somewhat intuitively, they found that the leading cause of persistent relationships is reciprocity - returning a friend´s call. Further, they could use these characteristics to predict the nature of relationships in the future.
As the researchers explain in their study, the persistence of the connection between two individuals is a measurement of how often they call each other. The scientists analyzed 15-day intervals, and determined if the two callers made contact within each interval. The greater number of these chunks of time in which contact occurred, the higher the pair´s persistence value was.
The scientists found that the majority (60%) of ties between two callers lasted for just one 15-day interval. The next 20% of ties disappeared slowly throughout the course of the year, and the remaining 20% persisted for the entire one-year period.
http://www.physorg.com/news128075710.html
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Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More
http://torrentfreak.com/google-starts-censoring-bittorrent-rapidshare-and-more-110126/It’s taken a while, but Google has finally caved in to pressure from the entertainment industries including the MPAA and RIAA. The search engine now actively censors terms including BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent, RapidShare and Megaupload from its instant and autocomplete services. The reactions from affected companies and services are not mild, with BitTorrent Inc., RapidShare and Vodo all speaking out against this act of commercial censorship.
The entertainment industries’ quest to root out piracy on the Internet has yet again resulted in commercial censorship. A few weeks ago Google announced that it would start filtering “piracy related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete‘ and ‘Instant‘ services and today they quietly rolled out this questionable feature. Without a public notice Google has compiled a seemingly arbitrary list of keywords for which auto-complete is no longer available. Although the impact of this decision does not currently affect full search results, it does send out a strong signal that Google is willing to censor its services proactively, and to an extent that is far greater than many expected.
Among the list of forbidden keywords are “uTorrent”, a hugely popular piece of entirely legal software and “BitTorrent”, a file transfer protocol and the name of San Fransisco based company BitTorrent Inc. As of today, these keywords will no longer be suggested by Google when you type in the first letter, nor will they show up in Google Instant.
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you mean I have to type the word "rapidshare" now? Ugh. forget it.
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This Guy Is Making $100,000+ From YouTube Videos For "Simple Minded People"
To put it in simpler terms, Williams made $3,000 for every one million
video views throughout that "good month." With three ads (banner,
overlay, and pre-roll) per non-embedded video, each ad placement yielded
an average of $1,000 per one million views – for an effective CPM of $3 per video view.
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-guy-is-making-6-figures-off-his-youtube-videos-for-simple-minded-people-2010-9#
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Beating the competition: Scientists discover how the size of networks can skyrocket
(PhysOrg.com) -- A single new connection can dramatically
enhance the size of a network – no matter whether this connection
represents an additional link in the Internet, a new acquaintance within
a circle of friends or a connection between two nerve cells in the
brain. The results, which are published in Nature Physics, were
part of a theoretical study carried out researchers from the Max Planck
Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), the Bernstein
Center for Computational Neuroscience Gottingen and the University
Gottingen. This study mathematically describes for the first time the
influence of single additional links in a network.
Imagine the following scenario: In your sports team you get to
know a new player and arrange to go out and see a movie on the next
weekend. The new team member brings along three friends - and suddenly
by adding one new contact, your own circle of friends has grown by four
people. Growth processes of this sort occur in many networks: Neurons in
the brain constantly establish new connections, websites link to each
other and a person travelling infected with influenza creates a network
of infected places with each intermediate stop. From a scientist's point
of view, such growth processes are still poorly understood: How does a
network change when single links are added? How quickly does a network
grow in this way?http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-competition-scientists-size-networks-skyrocke.html
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How Major Film Studios Manipulate YouTube Users
"A year before the major movie companies were offered the chance by
YouTube to 'block, monetize or track' uploaded copyrighted material,
studios such as Disney were already commissioning PR companies to create
bogus YouTube users — complete with authentically 'trendy'
semi-literate user-profiles, on accounts that appeared to be set up by
young and 'edgy' teenagers. These faux 'users' were able to post
high-definition videos from copyrighted movies without being penalised
or impeded by YouTube's Content ID algorithms, and their posts,
deliberately crammed with piracy-related search terms and timed (even to
the day, in one case) to coincide with related DVD and Blu-ray
releases, sometimes accrue a million and a half hits or more, whilst
those of genuine YouTube uploaders fall at the site's Content ID
firewall. This article looks at how the major studios have reacted to YouTube in the last four years, and also examines in-depth three such examples of apparent 'astroturfing' involving the theatrical or disc releases of Toy Story 2, Speed Racer and Spider-Man 3."
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The Egyptian Revolution on Twitter
http://slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/1544254/Visualization-of-Egyptian-Revolution-On-Twitter#comments
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Uh oh, the public is waking up, and getting creative. Watch out bankers. You gonna find your head posted on internet pages soon.
Notice to All Banker Types from a Teacher
Grades will be posted weekly in every newspaper in the country, along
with individual names of bankers who are underperforming. We will be
asking suggestions from other people we find in the line at the bank in
order to help you to make AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress.) If you fail
to meet AYP, your bank will be rated as failing and will undergo
sanctions.In order to win the future, it is my belief as a self-stated expert
that ALL depositors must hit certain benchmarks by 2014. Your bank will
be monitored for progress towards these goals.Here are the benchmarks:
By 2011, 60% of your depositors must have at least $100,000 in their savings accounts.
By 2012, 75% of your depositors must have at least $500,000 in their savings accounts.
By 2013, 90% of your depositors must have at least $750,000 in their savings accounts.
By 2014, 100% of your depositors must have at least $1,000,000 in their savings accounts.
We believe these are reasonable benchmarks that will ensure all
depositors our constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. We the people standing in line at the bank reserve the right
to increase these benchmarks any time we feel we don't have enough
money.If you fail to meet these benchmarks your bank will undergo sanctions including, but not limited to:
Having your failing grade posted in the newspaper along with directions to the nearest successful bank.
Cutting the number of workers in your bank in half and doubling the workload for everyone else who is left.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/07/953476/-Notice-to-All-Banker-Types-from-a-Teacher
AHAHAHAHAhahahahaa..................
I can't wait until people start tracking naughty bankster and post their every move on the net.
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Indie Band Tops a Million Downloads, Breaks BitTorrent Record
Shipping an album to more than a million people is a dream for every
artist, but one that only comes true for a privileged few. Or does it?
With help from BitTorrent, indie band Sick of Sarah have now joined a
seemingly exclusive club of artists whose albums have been downloaded
more than a million times. In the process, the girls also set a new
record for the most-seeded torrent ever.
While
the major record labels are doing everything in their power to fight
the illicit distribution of ‘their’ music on BitTorrent sites, several
indie labels and artists are choosing a different path.Last month the punky girl-rock band Sick of Sarah
decided to release their latest album ’2205′ to the public on
BitTorrent, at no cost. In order to gain maximum exposure the band partnered with BitTorrent Inc. who helped to promote the free download through an app in the uTorrent BitTorrent client.http://torrentfreak.com/indie-band-tops-a-million-downloads-breaks-bittorrent-record-110317/
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I knew it. 40% of earth population are martians and vampires. Either that or the spammers have been really busy.
Over 10B Social Network Accounts Created Already
"Analyst firm In-stat has calculated that well over 10 billion social networking and online world accounts have been created
by the end of 2010 with nearly half of them (4.5 billion) still active.
The growth of free social networking websites like Facebook or Twitter
can be credited for the exponential rise in the number of so-called SNOW
accounts. Where before, virtual worlds were the realm of paid-for
subscription-based gaming services like World of Warcraft, the
pervasiveness and ease of access of the newcomers means that more people
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Once the magnitude of the March 11 disaster became clear, the online world began asking, "How can we help?"
And for that, social media offered the ideal platform for good ideas
to spread quickly, supplementing efforts launched by giants like Google and Facebook.A British teacher living in Abiko city, just east of Tokyo, is
leading a volunteer team of bloggers, writers and editors producing
"Quakebook," a collection of reflections, essays and images of the
earthquake that will be sold in the coming days as a digital
publication. Proceeds from the project will go to the Japanese Red
Cross, said the 40-year-old, who goes by the pseudonym "Our Man in
Abiko."The entirely Twitter-sourced project started with a single tweet
exactly a week after the earthquake. Within an hour, he had received
two submissions, which soon grew to the 87 that now comprise the book.Quakebook involves some 200 people in Japan and abroad, and the group
is in negotiations to sell the download on Amazon.com. It didn't take
long for others to notice. Twitter
itself has sent out a tweet about Quakebook, as has Yoko Ono.
Best-selling novelist Barry Eisler wrote the foreword for the book.
Organizers, including Our Man in Abiko, will hold a press conference at
the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Friday."I just thought I want to do something," he said in a telephone interview. "I felt completely helpless."
Another project, "World's 1000 Messages for Japan," is an effort to
convey thoughts from around the globe. Writers can leave short notes on
Facebook or through e-mail, which a group of volunteers then translate
into Japanese. The translations are then posted on Twitter as well as
the group's website.
"The news of the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown in Japan has
mostly been horrifying. But it has also served as a reminder of the
strength and resolve that comes out of Japanese culture," said one
recent message on the project's Facebook page.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-japan-disaster-social-media.html
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permutation and color combination.
http://designfestival.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-matters-to-web-designers/Summary
Playing around this idea, I’ve come up with some
basic principles that seem to work. Firstly, your stacking order tends
to work best when it’s constructed like an upside-down pyramid.
The stacking order model
You
can afford to make the bottom layer quite small and repetitive as much
of it gets overwritten by all the layers above. In fact, it’s likely
that only 20 – 40% will remain unobscured.On the other hand, your upper-most layer should always have the largest image dimensions but also the most thinly-scattered imagery, as these image elements will never be blocked out by other layers. It’s also probably best to not include highly-distinctive, eye-catching detail on your uppermost layer. Keep it scarce and generic.
Either way, some trial and error is almost always required.
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Interlocking directorate
Socio-political importance
Interlocks allow for upper class cohesion, coordinated action, and unified political-economic power.[3] They allow corporations to increase their influence by exerting power as a group, and to work together towards common goals.[4]
They help the upper class maintain a class advantage, and gain more
power over workers and consumers, by reducing intra-class competition
and increasing cooperation.[2][5]
In the words of Scott R. Bowman, interlocks "facilitate a community of
interest among the elite of the corporate world that supplants the
competitive and socially divisive ethos of an earlier stage of
capitalism with an ethic of cooperation and a sense of shared values and
goals."[6]Interlocks act as communication channels, enabling information to be
shared between boards via multiple directors who have access to inside
information for multiple companies.[1] The system of interlocks forms a "transcorporate network overarching all sectors of business".[7] Interlocks have benefits over trusts, cartels,
and other monopolistic/oligopolistic forms of organization, due to
their greater fluidity, and lower visibility (making them less open to
public scrutiny).[4]
They also benefit the involved companies, due to reduced competition,
increased information availability for directors, and increased
prestige.[2][8]Some theorists believe that because multiple directors often have
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking_directorate
interests in firms in different industries, they are more likely to
think in terms of general corporate class interests, rather than simply
the narrow interests of individual corporations.[6][9][10]
Also, these individuals tend to come from wealthy backgrounds,
socialize with the upper classes, and tend to have worked their way up
the corporate hierarchy, making it more likely that they have
internalized values that will cause them to personally support policies
that are beneficial to business in general.[6]
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I have no idea what this thread is about anymore.
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US Uncut Stages Flashmob at Bank of America Over Its Failure to Pay US Income Taxes
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times in his weekly op ed
discussed the use of humor in protests in Serbia and Egypt, as well as
in changing attitudes on teen smoking. Funny that he did not mention UK
Uncut, which has staged large scale rallies over the fact that many
major corporations pay little in the way of tax when they are showing
record profits yet ordinary citizens are expected to pay more in taxes
and suffer large reductions in social services. Its US sister is
starting to get a foothold, as a video of a protest at Bank of America
in San Francisco attests.And before you defend the current bias in our tax regime toward
individual versus corporate taxes, consider this discussion from Richard Wolf in the Guardian (emphasis his):During the Great Depression, federal income tax receipts
from individuals and corporations were roughly equal. During the second
world war, income tax receipts from corporations were 50% greater than
from individuals. The national crises of depression and war produced
successful popular demands for corporations to contribute significant
portions of federal tax revenues.US corporations resented that arrangement, and after the war, they
changed it. Corporate profits financed politicians’ campaigns and
lobbies to make sure that income tax receipts from individuals rose
faster than those from corporations and that tax cuts were larger for
corporations than for individuals. By the 1980s, individual income taxes regularly yielded four times more than taxes on corporations’ profits…Corporations repeated at the state and local levels what they
accomplished federally. According to the US Census Bureau, corporations
paid taxes on their profits to states and localities totalling $24.7bn
in 1988, while individuals then paid income taxes of $90bn. However,
by 2009, while corporate tax payments had roughly doubled (to $49.1bn),
individual income taxes had more than tripled (to $290bn).
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Rumba Rave "banquero" en el Santander realizado por www.flo6X8.com
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Reverend Billy, Brave New Foundation, The Other 98% and Koch Brothers Exposed
among others, conducted a modest face-lift on the upscale building, or
perhaps a "facade lift" with a huge sticker suggesting new ways to think
about our rich overlord patrons of the arts and their hitherto covert
orchestration of trumped-up grassroots organizations spewing falsehoods
while waving flags.
Unbeknownst in the planning stage to our graphic agitators, the
evening was a red carpet event for Koch Theater funders and Board of
Trustees. People like Sandra Bullock were in attendance, and security
was triple-heightened. A friend of mine was part of a four person team
in charge of putting two 18-foot ladders on the side of the building and
applying an 11-foot by 4-foot sticker above the building's titling
signage while 700 people gathered for a mystery "event" at the other
side of the building. The "event," a short film about the Koch Bros
projected on the far side of the building, was both attraction and
distraction, so that the tag-team could work their magic fifteen feet
off the ground. It seems that sleight-of-hand and magician's art of
distraction can work for more folk than corrupt state governors and
their lapdog legislators...A massive projector in a nearby hotel room displayed this short
satirical movie while free popcorn was handed out to the 1,000 people
gathered in the street. Meanwhile, our brave stickermen finished their
work, took off their uniforms and hats, and smoothly blended back into
the swelling crowd.
Once the sticker was applied, a live marching band accompanied by
Reverend Billy (who writes some fine Kos diaries, btw) walked with the
people from the other side of the building to view the sticker along
with another video projection - also projected from a strategically
selected hotel room across the street. The second projection showed
caricatures of the Koch Bros. saying such things as "I trademarked
Greed. That's right, I own it" and "I love democracy. That's why I buy
elections." Security arrived, and were not pleased. It took the guards
about 15 minutes to get the sticker down, though that allowed for plenty
of time for pictures and celebration. The projection continued for
about 40 minutes.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/12/975464/-Koch-Brothers-Exposed:-Sticker-Shock-and-Street-Theater-?via=siderec
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