Looking for the The Google Font? It is Catull, but found out more about the Google logo by reading the Google Font Page
Fancy reading my Looking for the Spam collection ? It's even getting multilingual
Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux... want to try it ??? Knoppix is really nice. And easy. Download, burn, reboot. Et voila, Linux is running...
Leur liberté, cest la liberté des opprimés. [...]Notre liberté, cest la liberté des bons vivants.
Mais, si les Français ne portent pas leur regard outre-Manche, c'est aussi que Tony Blair dérange. A droite, son succès met en relief les échecs du gouvernement de Jacques Chirac. A gauche, la croissance, la baisse du chômage, la forte hausse du smic sont volontairement cachées pour ne pas voir que la troisième voie , ça marche.
Originally there was no weblog spam and yet conversation and discussion still existed. If an individual posted something and another individual wanted to respond to it, they simply wrote a post on their own site linking to the original. This environment was entirely free of spam. It was completely clean. I can't help thinking that maybe we need to start thinking in terms of approaches like that - where there is no automated functionality that could be robotically exploited. Or perhaps we should be looking in other directions - how can we abstract out the kind of social networks that lie behind Flickr to structures that we could overlay across the internet as a whole.and in the comments
Before blogs, there were mailing lists. And I miss the sense of community, focus and closeness they had. The ability to self publish in blogs is wonderful, but in the process we've spread the conversations in mailing lists all over the web without really providing the tools to bring it all back together in one place.Un contrepoint Gens de lettres, les lecteurs du Monde écrivent au Monde.
Interaction for humans is problematic, especially with groups. If there's too much interaction or the wrong kind, groups end up being less intelligent. The more we talk to each other the dumber it's possible for us to become.
Human being herd: "Better to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally."
Human beings imitate "If a lot of people think that something is valuable, then it must be valuable -- a generally reasonable assumption."
His solutions: be loosely tied, be exposed to many diverse sources of information. Inject randomness into the system, see evolution's law of necessary variation.
Two ways to get to independence from the ideas of those around:
- isolation
- its inverse: the net's cacophony, the bombardment of information and voices.
They're spending $3M a year on free software. Why? Because if it goes down, they can chain their staff to their desks until it is fixed. Their words, not mine. Because they can't buy an adequate support service guarantee from their existing vendor or from the vendor who has the productized version to meet this critical support need.(via Doc Searls' IT Garage)
Bernard Ourghanlian, directeur technique de Microsoft France précise : "Nous demeurons farouchement opposés à la GPL qui oblige un acteur à reverser ses travaux à la communauté. De notre point de vue, les travaux issus du centre de recherche pourront être commercialisés de toutes les manières, sauf via la licence GPL".(la source exacte de la citation est l'article de ZDNet Microsoft et l'Inria s'accordent pour ouvrir un centre de recherche commun.) Le syndicat national des chercheurs scientifiques (SNCS-FSU) souligne [...] dans ce cas de figure, nous nous posons la question de lexploitation de nos résultats.
The revamped site will also be more text-based, because, Depke said, focus groups seem to confuse editorial graphics with advertisements. "Conducting our research, we've found that art--unless it's an important part of telling the story--is distracting to users," said Depke. The site will also favor lighter tones and simpler layouts, which focus groups prefer, she added.HACKERS HEART PLAIN TEXT
Jacques Delors, lui, a parfaitement résumé sa préoccupation du moment : "Faut-il dire ce que l'on fait et faire ce que l'on dit, ou est-ce qu'en l'annonçant il en résulterait un discours tellement triste que nous ne gagnerions jamais les élections ? Pour ma part, vous connaissez ma pente naturelle, mais je ne suis pas sur d'avoir raison."
jm - @writeme@