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La révolution informatique de la Maison Blanche
In eight weeks, 40 applications were built, including a parking application that had previously been done in Excel, and a printer dashboard to tell them when a printer was running out of toner. The program also led to the development of survey tools, memo generators, and an online tool that replaced paper-based goods and services
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Commentaires et auto-censure
L’heure serait donc grave. Pour Nick Denton, les journalistes, anticipant les railleries qu’ils pourraient provoquer, en viendraient à «avoir peur d’écrire certains articles». Bref, la crainte de recueillir des commentaires négatifs provoquerait même, dans les rédactions, de «l’inhibition», les journalistes se censurant pour éviter les tacles. Telle serait la véritable tragédie des commentaires. » Les
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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
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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 —
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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
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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
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Pinterest plus fort que Facebook pour les Féminins
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Beginning this summer, Pinterest became the top social referrer for marthastewartweddings.com and marthastewart.com, sending more traffic to both properties than Facebook and Twitter combined. Pinterest is on track to become the second highest traffic driver (after Google) to Cooking Light’s website, up 6,000% from just six months ago. The social bookmarking site already drives three
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The cold heart of a spammer
Because even today, Horse_ebooks has the cold heart of a spammer. The links Horse_ebooks tweets in between its beautiful nonsense lead to pages of bullshit products— »Divorce Secrets Every Woman Should Know » was the latest—plugged into the Clickbank affiliate marketing network. Someone is making money from the sales and clicks generated by Horse_ebooks. Social media consultants
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Campagne virtuelle
Mais l’étude sur la « webcampagne » de l’institut CSA (.pdf, 410Ko) pourrait bien jeter un froid sur les ambitions bouillonnantes des candidats sur le web. L’organisme s’est penché sur les pratiques politiques en ligne des internautes, afin de discerner l’impact réel de ces développements sur l’élection à venir. Le verdict, pour le moment, est sans appel:
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Ligne de crédit
» Le Véritomètre de iTélé et Owni.fr, au 20 février 2011. Ya bon le factchecking : La droite ment plus que la gauche. Mais je suis un peu déçu, Eva. Le Véritomètre est impitoyable et absolument impartial. Les grands rendez-vous médiatiques de François Bayrou, François Hollande, Eva Joly, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon et Nicolas
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Saeed Malek
Saeed Malekpour wrote a program to upload photos to the Internet, an accomplishment that could cost him his life, Amnesty International reported Friday. Authorities in the Islamic Republic claimed his program was used by someone else to upload pornography and charged him with « insulting and desecrating Islam. » Malekpour, who is a Toronto resident, was arrested
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Une communauté de lecteurs
Parmi ces services, Readmill sort du lot. L’approche de la jeune startup allemande va à contrepied du reste du marché : interface épurée pour optimiser la lisibilité du texte, API ouverte pour permettre aux développeurs de concevoir des applications branchées sur le service (comme ReadMore ou le très intéressant The Book Report etc.), plug-in Kindle
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Remix, Reuse, Use, Abuse
As I wrote immediately after the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear our appeal: « Today I urge everyone to make sure that the entertainment industry does not profit from them anymore. Stop seeing their movies. Stop listening to their music. Make sure that you find alternative ways to culture. « Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse,
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Open
In many if not most cases, the -webkit-* properties WebKit-specific web sites are using do have -moz-*, -ms-*, -o-* equivalents. Gradients, Transforms, Transitions, Animations, border-radius, all interoperable enough to be browser-agnostic. Their web authors need only a few minutes to make the site compatible with Mozilla, Microsoft or Opera. But they never did it. Without
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90MB
I did a complete snapshot of ALL the Pirate Bay torrents, in case somebody wants to close it or something similarly crazy, he told TorrentFreak. Using this script, allisfine managed to copy the title, id, file size, seeds, leechers and magnet links of 1,643,194 torrents. Comments were not copied to keep the files as small
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Nothing to do with piracy
But, once again, let’s look at what really happened here. The key reason why the sales fell over that time was because as most people shifted online, the studios fought as hard as possible to keep movies from being sold online. Instead, they focused on a ridiculous, years-long fight over which would be the new
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Les restaurations cachées d’Urban eXperiment
UX is sort of like an artist’s collective, but far from being avant-garde—confronting audiences by pushing the boundaries of the new—its only audience is itself. More surprising still, its work is often radically conservative, intemperate in its devotion to the old. Through meticulous infiltration, UX members have carried out shocking acts of cultural preservation and
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Pas de romance homo pour SWTOR?
Tony Perkins, le président du très conservateur et très homophobe Family Research Council, part en guerre contre BioWare, la société qui commercialise le dernier jeu vidéo inspiré de la saga de La Guerre des étoiles. Parce que les personnages peuvent y entretenir des relations homosexuelles. Dans sa chronique radio du 27 janvier, Tony Perkins a
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How To Bypass The New Twitter Limitations
As we reported, Twitter announced today that it may block specific content on a country-by-country basis if required. However, it seems very easy to get around these upcoming limitations. Indeed, Twitter’s Help Center itself gives a good clue on how to bypass them very easily. Here’s a step-by-step explanation: » Worried about possible restrictions on
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Space Canuck
Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched a homemade balloon carrying a Lego passenger and four cameras. It fell back down to Earth 97 minutes later with astonishing footage from an estimated 24 kilometres above sea level, three times the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft. » Toronto teens send Lego man on an