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- Les évolutions dans le domaine de la propriété des biens virtuels, ca se passe surtout en Chine et aux USA, c'est toujours intéressant : Quicklinks : Old News from China, Criminal Law Paper, and Second Life Banking Class Action Threat
- La censure a toujours le vent en pouple, cette fois-ci au Japon et dans le domaine des sites de news : Japan Seeking to Govern Top News Web Sites
- Un excellent article de la New York Review of Books sur Wikipedia, vraiment... : The Charms of Wikipedia
- Un réseau social thématique... une bonne idée, si elle est suivie : [fr] ZeFanClub lance demain un réseau social pour les fans de Foot
- Un important article sur l'importance de pouvoir continuer à disposer d'un accès gratuit à la culture... thème qui est de plus en plus débattu par rapport à l'émergence du marché des ebooks : Why free reading is important
- Un article sur le cours du dollar de Martin, le créateur de FON et l'investisseur de Netvibes : Martin Varsavsky : When is Low Too Low For the Dollar ?
- Machines à voter aux USA : Elections primaires : vers une rupture de stock dans les bureaux de vote ?
- Un grand article de Newsweek sur l'objectivité des médias : Newsweek Examines The "Myth" Of Media Objectivity
- Quand on regarde les chiffres, elle est un peu ratée la campagne web2.0 participatruc faite par Kinder : Publirédactionnel : Web 2.0 et casting en ligne pour les 30 ans de Kinder Chocolat
The Charms of Wikipedia
"By Nicholson Baker
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
by John Broughton
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It's fact-encirclingly huge, and it's idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking, and full of simmering controversies--and it's free, and it's fast. In a few seconds you can look up, for instance, 'Diogenes of Sinope,' or 'turnip,' or 'Crazy Eddie,' or 'Bagoas,' or 'quadratic formula,' or 'Bristol Beaufighter,' or 'squeegee,' or 'Sanford B. Dole,' and you'll have knowledge you didn't have before. It's like some vast aerial city with people walking briskly to and fro on catwalks, carrying picnic baskets full of nutritious snacks.
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Publirédactionnel : Web 2.0 et casting en ligne pour les 30 ans de Kinder Chocolat
"Un groupe Facebook qui a déja 168 membres, et un casting en ligne pour sélectionner les visages de quatre enfants de 3 à 10 ans qui orneront les paquets de Kinder Chocolat début 2009. La marque fête...
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Elections primaires : vers une rupture de stock dans les bureaux de vote ?
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Le Texas est le premier à appeler des renforts. Le comté de Fort Bend vient de demander 200 machines à voter supplémentaires pour pouvoir accueillir les électeurs texans le 4 mars.
Dans l'Ohio, ce sont ces mêmes machines à voter qui posent problème. Leur fiabilité est mise en doute. Cette crédibilté des machines à voter avait déjà fait polémique en Floride lors de l'élection générale de 2000. La ville de Cleveland teste une méthode de bulletins à lecture optique, tandis que des bulletins papiers classiques ont été commandés dans les autres villes de...
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Why free reading is important
"Neil Gaiman's got some good further ruminations on the nature and reason for free ebooks in a post he called "The nature of free." Bottom line: low-risk/low-cost books are how readers discover new authors, and the biggest threat writers face is the overall unpopularity of reading books, not people reading for free. The more barriers there are to reading, the worse the former gets.
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During one of the interviews recently, a reporter said something like, "Of course, a real publisher wouldn't give away paper books," and I pointed out that 3,000 copies of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy were given away by Douglas Adams' publisher, with a 'write in and get your free book' ad in Rolling Stone. They wanted copies of HHGTTG on campuses in the US, and they wanted people to read it and tell other people. Word of mouth is still the best tool for selling books.
See also: Free download of Neil Gaiman's American Gods
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[fr] ZeFanClub lance demain un réseau social pour les fans de Foot
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Rien de tel qu’une bonne vieille passion pour lancer un nouveau réseau social: et le foot en est certainement une bonne. Demain ZeFanClub ouvrira officiellement son service dédié aux fans de Foot. Il s’agit d’un réseau social exactement agrémenté de fonctionnalités à la Digg. Un facebook du foot quoi. Pas très excitant comme cela? A priori non, l’idée n’est pas nouvelle et les réseaux sociaux autour du sport sont déjà nombreux (Fanspot, iSporty, SportsMate, FanNation) sans parler des innombrables forums, groupes facebook et micro-réseaux sur ning dédiés au sujet.
L’intérêt ici est à plusieurs niveaux: Tout d’abord un focus sur le foot français en français. On ne trouve que cela sur le site, même si le nom générique laisse deviner que le site s’élargira à d’autres sports. Second intérêt l’équipe derrière ce projet qui réunit un serial entrepreneur, Jean Sébastien Cruz, ancien fondateur de MonVoyageur revendu à Prisma et une belle brochette de d’internautes stars dont Marc Reeb (Caramail) et de Pierre Greef (Directeur Marketing europe de iTunes). En revanche aucune figure du sport dans l’équipe.
Le site est assez bien fait et devrait plaire aux passionés. Le principe est le même que celui des autres réseaux mais les opportunités d’intéractions sont nombreuses. On peut aisément naviguer par ville et par équipe. Le site ouvre simultanément sur plus de 15 pays (dont l’allemagne, le brésil, l’angleterre et autres) mais j’imagine que l’inertie de base sera en France. D’autant plus que le plan marketing bétonné est essentiellement français. Dès le lancement une campagne TV va être lancée sur M6, Canal+ et W9 mais aussi l’OM TV et la chaîne des Girondins de Bordeaux sur W9.
Je ne suis pas suffisamment fan de foot et de sport pour apprécier cette idée mais je n’ai aucun doute que le site plaiera à des milliers de passionés. Je pense que le service n’est pas assez riche et que les fonctionnalités d’intéractions devraient être améliorées. On y trouve déjà des classements de club par nombre de fans (il semble que Marseille arrive en tête…). On y trouve aussi une zone vidéo fournie par Kewego. Par ailleurs le formulaire d’inscription devrait être revu car il comporte de nombreux champs par défaut que beaucoup d’internautes ne modifieront pas.
Jean Sebastien Cruz m’a confié deux autres informations: ils lanceront une chaîne de conversation vidéos avec Seesmic et Adidas a donné son accord pour être le premier sponsor du site. Je ne connais pas d’équivalent à ZeFanClub en France donc à mon sens la mayonnaise devrait bien prendre.
Promo: CrunchBoard jobs est de retour: offre de lancement 2 pour 1
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Newsweek Examines The "Myth" Of Media Objectivity
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She tried to make a joke of it. At the debate in Cleveland last week, Hillary Clinton brought up a "Saturday Night Live" skit about journalists fawning over Barack Obama at a mock debate. "Maybe we should ask Barack if he's comfortable and needs another pillow," said Clinton. Humor is often a substitute for anger, and if Clinton wasn't all that funny, maybe it is because she is sore at the press for seeming to go easier on her opponent. She has a point, but the truth about the media and the campaign cannot be caricatured simply as the deification of Obama and the hounding of Clinton.
The pols and the people invest the press with great power. Conspiracies abound. Right-wing talk-show hosts love to go on about the liberal media establishment. Lefty commentators accuse the press of rolling over for George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq. Politicians of all stripes accuse the press of being unfair, even cruel. Sometimes we are. On the day Vice President George H.W. Bush announced for the presidency in October 1987, he watched as his 28-year-old daughter, Doro, wept when she picked up NEWSWEEK's cover story that week, picturing Bush driving his speedboat under the cover line FIGHTING THE 'WIMP FACTOR.' Bush was, understandably, furious. The phrase "wimp factor" came from Bush's own pollster, and we said he was fighting it, but we nevertheless left the impression that we were calling the vice president a wimp. In the end, the story had little impact because voters already understood that Bush, a World War II hero, was plenty tough. He was elected president the next year.
Certainly, there are editors and publishers who would like to be kingmakers, or just kings. From William Randolph Hearst to Henry Luce to Rupert Murdoch, press barons have sought to leave their personal stamp, if not change the course of history. But for the vast majority of media, the reality is much more mundane; the press's impact on elections, as well as most other human events, is murky.
The mainstream media (the "MSM" the bloggers love to rail against) are prejudiced, but not ideologically. The press's real bias is for conflict. Editors, even ones who marched in antiwar demonstrations during the Vietnam era, have a weakness for war, the ultimate conflict. Inveterate gossips and snoops, journalists also share a yen for scandal, preferably sexual. But mostly they are looking for narratives that reveal something of character. It is the human drama that most compels our attention.
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- First, it is old news, but I’d not seen this courts-and-virtual-property story until a reader sent it in. Apparently, way back in December, 2003 a Chinese court “ordered an online video game company to return hard-won virtual property, including a make-believe stockpile of bio-chemical weapons, to a player whose game account was looted by a hacker.” China’s courts aren’t known for giving stare decisis the same weight western judicial systems do, so it may be more of a blip than anything else, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
Today, of course, the debate rages on. Most recently, someone known only as avatar ‘Arthur Burma’ threatened yet another Second Life “bank” (BNT Financial, managed by ‘IntLibber Brautigan’) with a class action lawsuit (via an in-world notecard written in sufficiently advanced legalese and with just enough reserve to make me think a lawyer might have had something to do with it). The text of the notecard is available at Your2ndPlace.com. The core claim is that “BNT misrepresented the condition of the institution and perpetrated a ponzi scheme by taking deposits while restricting access to accounts and ignoring requests for records and adjustments.” I have no idea if the claim has merit (I’ve not looked into this bank in particular) but there’s no procedural reason people could not bring a class action suit based on a loss of real money to BNT.- Finally, there’s a new academic paper up at SSRN on criminal law as applied to actions in games and virtual worlds. It’s by Orin Kerr at George Washington University Law School, and it adds significantly to the growing body of literature on virtual law. I’d have cited it in Virtual Law: Navigating The Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds (which is slated for publication April, 2008) but just finished final edits. It encourages a fairly hands-off approach which will resonate with game designers. I disagree with some of Kerr’s conclusions (particularly to the extent he lumps pure games and social virtual worlds with real economies together) but it is a thought-provoking piece and well worth reading.
Quicklinks : Old News from China, Criminal Law Paper, and Second Life Banking Class Action Threat
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Virtually Blind periodically runs “quicklinks” — items that are not long enough for a full story, but are worth a click. Here’s today’s, slightly less “quick” than usual.
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Martin Varsavsky : When is Low Too Low For the Dollar ?
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The US dollar hit 1.52 vs. the Euro this week. A few years ago, the dollar was considerably stronger than the Euro, a currency that most in the States thought was destined to fail. For Americans, this does not just mean an inability to visit Europe due to the astronomical cost of a European vacation when measured in dollars. There are many other implications to the dollar collapse, most poorly understood. As the dollar evaporates in value and the US economy rapidly shrinks in global significance (the dollar has been on a free fall against all significant currencies in the world) we should wonder when will the dollar reach a value that makes the financial world crack.
When will the Arabs stop taking dollars for their oil? When will the sovereign funds, now the most significant global investors massively shift their holdings to euros? When will the Chinese get tired of buying US debt and holding US dollars, especially since the US government seems to block them on any significant purchase Chinese companies want to in the US for security reasons? When will the US regulators realize that the world financial center is not New York City anymore, but London, because not only the dollar is such an unstable currency but because the US is beginning to look like a bureaucracy compared do the Old Empire? Can the US really be a super power and at the same time the world biggest debtor with an economy that is less and less relevant in global terms? I apologize for a post that mostly contains questions but I believe that the US government not only has shown to be an irresponsible global power in the security arena but equally important it is now showing the same by neglecting the dollar. If trends continue the talk will not be about petrodollars anymore but about peso dollars and how the USA joined the rest of Latin America as a nation unable to rise above its financial troubles.
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Japan Seeking to Govern Top News Web Sites
"RemyBR writes "A Japanese government panel is proposing to govern "influential, widely read news-related sites as newspapers and broadcasting are now regulated." The panel, set up by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, said Internet service providers (ISPs) should be answerable for breaches of vaguer "minimum regulations" to guard against "illegal and harmful content." The conservative government, led by the Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, is seeking to have the new laws passed by Parliament in 2010."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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