mars 2012
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La fin de l’Encyclopaedia Britannica papier
Gary Marchionini, the dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the fading of print encyclopedias was an inexorable trend that will continue. There’s more comprehensive material available on the Web, Mr. Marchionini said. The thing that you get from an encyclopedia is one of the best scholars in the world writing a description of that phenomenon or that… →
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Les leçons à tirer des films catastrophes
Their special effects can be realistic enough to make us feel like we are right there in the heart of the storm. But frequently, the heroes and heroines of these movies respond to disasters in ways that bear no resemblance to what people in the real world should do. We can nevertheless use disaster films to consider how the characters could have been more prepared or how they should have… →
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Un cas d’école d’inculture économique
Le Wall Street Journal commente aussi l’affirmation, dimanche, par Nicolas Sarkozy à Villepinte, selon laquelle la France ne pourra plus financer son système social «si les frontières ne sont pas mieux contrôlées» : «C’est une pensée immonde, pas seulement en raison des sentiments bas auxquels elle fait appel, mais aussi parce qu’il s’agit d’un cas d’école d’inculture économique. Parmi les menaces à l’Etat providence français, figurent le vieillissement de la… →
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La Turquie et les journalistes emprisonnés
Quick: What country jails the most journalists? If you guessed China, you were close, but no cigar. Twenty-seven reporters are in prison there, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York. If you guessed Iran, you’re getting warmer—forty-two in prison there—but you’re still off. How many of you guessed Turkey? » Turkey’s Jailed Journalists, Daily Comment – The New Yorker. Une centaine de journalistes sont emprisonnés en Turquie.… →
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The dying demographic of right-wing talk radio
Ninety-eight major advertisers—including Ford and Geico—will no longer air spots on Premiere Networks’ offensive’ programs. Insiders say the loss will rock right-wing talk radio. (…) But this latest controversy comes at a particularly difficult time for right-wing talk radio. They are playing to a (sometimes literally) dying demographic. Rush & Co. rate best among old, white males. They have been steadily losing women and young listeners, who are alienated by… →
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Pour Access Copyright, un lien internet est une copie
Access Copyright collects royalties for course packs, anthologies of readings from books and journals compiled by professors. Under the agreement, the fee has been changed from $3.83 plus 10 cents a page to a flat fee of $27.50 for all course packs, which students pay. The agency also states that hyperlinks to copyright material — contained in an email from a professor to a student, for example — fall under… →
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La guerre à la drogue comme politique raciste
The book marshals pages of statistics and legal citations to argue that the get-tough approach to crime that began in the Nixon administration and intensified with Ronald Reagan’s declaration of the war on drugs has devastated black America. Today, Professor Alexander writes, nearly one-third of black men are likely to spend time in prison at some point, only to find themselves falling into permanent second-class citizenship after they get out.… →
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Pinkwashing
But Saturday’s protesters felt differently. Palestinian queers have reached out to us, said Emmaia Gelman of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and you can’t fight for queer rights in a state with no civil society. Several protesters, many of whom said they were Jewish, invoked what they called pinkwashing, Israel’s alleged touting of its progressive stance on gay rights as a way of deflecting global attention away from its treatment of Palestinians.… →
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Mieux utiliser Facebook
» How to use Facebook, Al Jazeera Unplugged 101. Une animation pas con qui explique les fonctionnalités de bases du site et qui répond à beaucoup de questions que les néophytes n’osent pas poser de peur de passer pour des cons. Al Jazeera a aussi fait une video de ce type pour Twitter. Dans le même ordre d’idée, Facebook propose un «cours» en ligne pour mieux utiliser les pages Facebook… →
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Louis CK veut se taper Ewan McGregor (et nous aussi)
Holy fuck, look at that man, il est de plus en plus beau, c’est hallucinant. (Petit touch-up sur le visage, non?) [via] →
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A no-brainer
Her views expand to feminism and her opinion that men should be welcomed into the movement. « I don’t think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion … we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys, » she says, before adding that she is particularly surprised that more gay men don’t see themselves as feminists. « I would like to see the gay population… →
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La chute vertigineuse des revenus publicitaires papier (USA)
The decline in newspaper ad revenues to a 60-year low is amazing by itself, but the sharp decline in recent years is pretty stunning. Last year’s ad revenues of about $21 billion were less than half of the $46 billion spent just four years ago in 2007, and less than one-third of the $64 billion spent in 2000. » Newspaper Ad Revenues Fall to 60-Yr. Low in 2011, Carpe Diem.… →
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Armes de dissuasion
Dangereux aussi : pour Denis Robert, l’acharnement judiciaire de Clearstream contre lui a duré dix ans, pour une soixantaine de procès. Aujourd’hui, Bouygues réclame 9 millions d’euros (!) au Canard enchaîné pour avoir révélé en décembre l’ouverture d’une information judiciaire, notamment pour « corruption » et « trafic d’influence » dans le chantier du Pentagone à la française. Les procès, quotidien des journalistes d’investigation, font souvent office d’armes de dissuasion.… →
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Le mort, le masque à gaz et la presse locale
Il était alors dit, selon nos informations, que la scène était pour le moins étonnante et inquiétante : l’homme était couché sur le ventre, les mains menottées dans le dos. Il était vêtu d’une combinaison de plongée de type shorty dont l’arrière, au niveau des fesses, était découpé. Plus scabreux, le visage du mort était couvert d’un vieux moDé?le de masque à gaz. Tout autour du corps, différents objets établissaient… →
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Les limites de TED
But: We live in a world of increasingly networked knowledge. And it’s a world that allows us to appreciate what has always been true: that new ideas are never sprung, fully formed, from the heads of the inventors who articulate them, but are always — always — the result of discourse and interaction and, in the broadest sense, conversation. The author-ized idea, claimed and owned and bought and sold, has… →
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Les graffitis de Pantin
Pantin is home to one of Paris’ most popular, eye-blasting graffiti spots, an abandoned grain warehouse circa 1930 that has sustained severe internal injuries. With most of its windows long since knocked out, the site is regularly visited by taggers who hop the fence to spray, scribble and splash all over its surface. Its multitiered balconies and modular bays make it especially delightful for street artists; to joggers who use… →
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Fillon veut moderniser certaines traditions religieuses (mais pas toutes)
Les religions devraient réfléchir au maintien de traditions qui n’ont plus grand-chose à voir avec les connaissances de la science. » L’interview: François Fillon, Europe 1. (9″40 à peu près). Content de voir le Premier ministre conseiller aux catholiques de reconsidérer leurs positions archaïques sur l’ouverture du mariage aux couples de même sexe. Ah non, ce n’est pas ce dont on parle? Le Premier ministre n’est pas revenu sur ses… →
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Le rôle de la colonisation en Afrique dans l’épidémie de sida
For decades nobody knew the reasons behind the birth of the AIDS epidemic. But it is now clear that the epidemic’s birth and crucial early growth happened during Africa’s colonial era, amid massive intrusion of new people and technology into a land where ancient ways still prevailed. European powers engaged in a feverish race for wealth and glory blazed routes up muddy rivers and into dense forests that had been… →
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Les 5 plus grosses armées privées du monde
With more than 625,000 employees, this listed security giant is the second-largest private employer in the world (behind Wal-Mart). While some of its business is focused on routine bank, prison and airport security, G4S also plays an important role in crisis-zones right around the world. » A Look At The World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Armies, Business Insider. Il y a même une adresse où s’adresser si on cherche une nouvelle… →
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La facilité de vieillir
J’ai peur de la vieillesse. Oui, franchement, j’ai peur. Et j’ai peur surtout de la lente mais inévitable dégringolade vers l’incapacité physique et, finalement, la mort. Je ne crains aucunement la mort, mais je ne peux pas m’empêcher de me souvenir des paroles pensives de ma mère et de l’amie écrivain, qui m’ont répété maintes fois, dans des circonstances tout à fait différentes, « tu verras, il n’est pas facile… →