Traditional methods for protecting community from the effects of scale and poor behavior are now manifestly unfeasible. Raising barriers to entry, relying on the assumption that users will maintain only one registered account, and placing faith in the ability of admins and user moderation to reproduce a forum's organic culture are all easily circumvented, gamed, and/or ineffective when faced with the problems of scale. Moreover, they tend to reinforce self-destructive behaviors, by increasing returns to the most persistent rather than the most constructive, reinforcing groupthink, and providing ample targets for trolling and griefing. This article attempts to fundamentally rethink what constitutes community and society on the web, and what possibilities exist for their maintenance and reconstruction in the face of scale and malicious users. The recommendations reached, after analyzing the weaknesses of the web forums we all know and love
Un famoso violinista cae en coma. La sociedad de amantes de la música determina en base a registros médicos, que tú, y sólo tú, puedes salvar la vida del violinista, si te mantienes conectado a él durante nueve meses.
Silicon Valley Blog for early adopters, technology geeks, RSS addicts and Mac freaks.
(May also occasionally contain some TiVo, media, sports and politics...)
OpenTrace is a brand new environmental infrastructure that aggregates product materials' information from bottom up and dynamically calculates the environmental load to indicate them. Existing indicators are well-authenticated, but are very complex and static when calculating the environmental load, so it costs us so much money and time. OpenTrace approaches to this difficult problem from a totally different aspect which is simple and free for use. Based on simple and flexible calculation method, it provides many environmental tools to meet users' needs including;
[Calculation] convenient web-interface for producer
[Labels] printable environmental labels to indicate CO2 emission, usage of fishery-resources, and distances such as food miles
[Search] various product search for consumers by keyword, product code and location
[Web API] provide interface that external service can use for their service
[License] provide GPL-like license to propagate its philosophy
This is main web page for Computers In Society course (CIS) at the University of York. This page provides links to material for the topics in the course.
Media reform is required to enable dissident voices to be democratically heard. This paper examines the complex interface between mass media & social movements, and collective actions to improve activism's media coverage.
“re:publica - Leben im Netz” greift als Konferenz das auf, was einige unter “Web 2.0″, andere unter “Open Source” oder “Social Media” verstehen:
Soziale Netzwerke, Blogs, Podcasts, Videocasts, Online- und Offline-Communities und -Services - all diese Aspekte werden bei der re:publica ebenso umfassend zur Sprache kommen wie Hintergründe, die Philosophie, die Prinzipien, die rechtlichen Grundlagen der sozialen (R)evolution im Netz.
Kurzum: Es geht um Kultur.
Neben den Diskussionen und Vorträgen wird es Workshops geben und auch kommerzielle Aspekte kommen zur Sprache: re:publica wird diskutieren, ob und wie man als Blogger oder Podcaster seinen Lebensunterhalt verdienen kann und auf bisherige Erfahrungen zurückblicken.
S. Haikola, и S. Jonsson. Libri: International Journal of Libraries & Information Services, 57 (4):
209-218(декабря 2007)M3: Article; Haikola, Simon 1; Email Address: simonhaikola@gmail.com; Jonsson, Sara 1; Email Address: saraj80@hotmail.com; Affiliations: 1: Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), Göteborg University and Högskolan i Borås, Sweden.; Issue Info: Dec2007, Vol. 57 Issue 4, p209; Thesaurus Term: PRIVACY, Right of; Thesaurus Term: LIBRARIES & state; Thesaurus Term: LIBRARY surveillance; Thesaurus Term: LIBRARIES & the Internet; Thesaurus Term: INTERNET access for library users -- Law & legislation; Thesaurus Term: COMPUTER security; Subject Term: SWEDEN -- Politics & government -- 1973-; Subject Term: WEB analytics; Subject Term: NATIONAL security; Subject Term: ELECTRONIC surveillance; Subject Term: CIVIL rights; Subject: SWEDEN; NAICS/Industry Codes: 928110 National Security; People: FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Political & social views; Number of Pages: 10p; Document Type: Article.