U.S. Hopes Exports Will Help Open Closed Societies - NYTimes.com
“The more people have access to a range of Internet technology and services, the harder it’s going to be for the Iranian government to clamp down on their speech and free expression,” | source : www.nytimes.com
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 10/03/10 00:47 | permalien
Deliberation – Lessons from Brazil | openDemocracy
Swiftly, the conversation moves to the ups and downs of the participatory council I’ve been studying since 2003. Abelardo’s from the rural areas, from a farm settlement in which there is abject poverty; he only had a few years of primary schooling, but has acquired, over the years, a keen interest in local affairs and knowledge of the policy process and of the complexities of local government bureaucracy that would rival that of any researcher. | source : www.opendemocracy.net
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 13/02/10 03:02 | permalien
Social Action Networks Defined
# Tend to focus on creating substantial change for an issue, movement or political candidate. # Serve as a hub where people can become members of a particular movement for change. # Have the potential to globally connect like-minded people around issues that they care about. # Encourage members to share their view and thoughts while contributing content and building awareness for a cause. # Encourage their members to transform their passion on an issue into action. # Provide opportunities for members to participate both within the network and offline. # Are transparent and allow for uncensored and open discussions to take place between members. # Usually have specific outlined goals | source : www.bivingsreport.com
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 24/01/10 07:20 | permalien
All the news that's fit to blog - CNET News
Last spring, an assembly of editors was asked how many of them knew who Craig Newmark was? A few hands in the audience went up. And how many had heard of Craigslist? A few more people added their hands. | source : news.cnet.com
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 11/01/10 06:28 | permalien
Open Left:: A fifth major lesson of 2009: center-left disagreement is essential to center-left governance
I would add a fifth major lesson: stop expecting, or even hoping, for the center-left coalition to agree with itself. The longstanding internal argument within the center-left coalition over whether the change on the table goes far enough or not is an essential part of the process to any progressive change happening at all. Without that disagreement, progressive governance of any sort would be impossible: [...] All of this makes ongoing, prominent, the center-left disagreement absolutely necessary to making progressive change happen within government. Center-left unity would actually end any prospect for change, both in the short-term and the long-term, rather than increase it. This is a basic principle for progressive governance that more people should learn, no matter which side of the center-left divide they fall on at any given time. It is interesting that former President Bill Clinton has long been one of the biggest proponents of understanding the need for center-left disagr | source : www.openleft.com
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 07/01/10 08:27 | permalien
ArtGerust - Otorgan poder al usuario
El usuario puede juzgar, colgar, editar o dar a conocer escritos, ¿por qué otorgarle un poder tan grande? Por una sencilla razón, en el mundo en que vivimos, interactivo y con Internet en primer plano, y en el que se ha "democratizado" todo, no tiene sentido no dárselo. Lo que tiene sentido es que la relación con Internet sea horizontal: creador-usuario, en donde el usuario es también creador. No tiene sentido que el creador emita un texto y nadie lo juzgue. Si no se puede enjuiciar una obra, no podemos saber si es buena o mala. Una obra que no pueda enjuiciarse nos conduce a saber de ella a través de las editoriales que la publican y las reseñas que la califican. Que el público pueda juzgar es una de las cosas que mejor puede catalogar una obra. | source : www.reforma.com
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 03/01/10 21:45 | permalien
Op-Ed Columnist - The Obama Way - NYTimes.com
Obama baffles observers, I suspect, because he’s an ideologue and a pragmatist all at once. He’s a doctrinaire liberal who’s always willing to cut a deal and grab for half the loaf. He has the policy preferences of a progressive blogger, but the governing style of a seasoned Beltway wheeler-dealer. This is a puzzling combination, for many, because we expect our politicians’ principles to align more neatly with their approach to governing. Our deal-making Machiavels are supposed to be self-conscious “centrists” (think Ben Nelson or Arlen Specter). Our ideological liberals and conservatives are supposed to be more concerned with being right than with being ruthlessly effective. It’s also puzzling because Obama promised exactly the opposite approach while running for the presidency. He campaigned as a postpartisan healer who would change the cynical ways of Washington — as a foe of both back-room deals and ideology-as-usual. But he’s governed as a conventional liberal who believes in th | source : www.nytimes.com
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 26/12/09 20:23 | permalien
A Class Reaches Out and Touches High-Tech Art - NYTimes.com
Like many of us, Mike Nourse is both irritated and entranced by iPhones — their ubiquity, their utility, their unique power to extinguish conversation. Unlike most of us, Mr. Nourse, a co-founder of the Chicago Art Department, is in a position to do something useful with his internal conflict. And so he has, introducing a five-week class called “iPhone Art” at his nonprofit arts education organization. | source : www.nytimes.com
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 21/12/09 02:02 | permalien
Ping - Google Goggles, Searching by Image Alone - NYTimes.com
When you snap a picture with Goggles, Google spends a few seconds analyzing the image, then sends it up to its vast “cloud” of computers and tries to match it against an index of more than a billion images. Google’s data centers distribute the image-matching problem among hundreds or even thousands of computers to return an answer quickly. [...] It is also easy to think of scarier possibilities down the line. Google’s goal to recognize every image, of course, includes identifying people. Computer scientists say that it is much harder to identify faces than objects, but with the technology and computing power improving rapidly, improved facial recognition may not be far off. | source : www.nytimes.com
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 21/12/09 01:59 | permalien