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The Wikipedia democracy: the great myth
in Sox First, on December 1, 2009
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Wikipedia is often celebrated as a shining example of Web democracy, built by millions of Web users who all act as writers, editors, and voters. Look closer and nothing could be further from ... ...ample of Web democracy, built by millions of Web users who all act as writers, editors, and voters. Look closer and nothing could be further from the truth. According to this research , the top 1% o...
Growl for Windows 2.00:00
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-20
...ired Magazine
• Dash to D.C.! Tech Guru Will Head Gov't Incubator, Digitize Democracy
• Next-gen Flip camcorder to boast Wi-Fi
• Twash - Worthy tweets that should be remembered...
• Gelato... ...• Growl for Windows 2.00:00
• An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
• 海岸线 (38P)
• The Dubai Airshow As Seen From Orbit
• AT&T loses first legal battle against Verizon ads
• Condé Nast's ...
Seen that? - Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse
in P2P File Sharing, on October 31, 2009
... Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse at P2P File Sharing The following may appear to have nothing to do with P2P. But it does. There is a...
FTC Steps in to Regulate Bloggers
in Web 2.0, on October 12, 2009
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I liked the reaction of JD Lasica last week to the news that the Federal Trade Commission was going to start regulating product endorsement in blogs. I‘ve been struck by the varying reactions to this week’s news that the Federal Trade Commission will now begin to regulate pro...
Let's Retire F1's Bernie and Max Before it's Too Late
in carzz.org, on July 8, 2009
...sex games with paid floozies. Then Bernie reveals to a Daily Mail reporter his replusive views on democracy and Adolph Hitler. He attempts to withdraw his remarks but in a later interview reportedly...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
... governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. "They achieve this using the same playbook over and over again. The formula is rela...
3rd Party Blog
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-24
...search, scale and openness to community service
• Cinematical
• The Consumerist: Shoppers Bite Back
• Google Chrome 2.0.172.33 Stable
• 全球欢庆夏至到来
• Is freely available research better dissemi...
South Africa to Use World Cup 2010 to "Change World View of Africa"
in The Soccer Weblog, on March 13, 2009
...unity to put the "whole continent in general on the map"
Jordaan is looking to press for democracy, increase employment, tourism and infrastructure while increasing it's stature in the ... ...jumping at the opportunity to put the "whole continent in general on the map"
Jordaan is looking to press for democracy, increase employment, tourism and infrastructure while increasing it&...
Downturn hits democracy
in Sox First, on March 2, 2009
...ting urban unrest and violence and how it, in a replay of what we saw in the 1930s, was threatening democracy. Now added to that comes some alarming Economist Intelligence Unit data showing that th... ...
Early last month, I did a blog entry looking at how the global downturn was creating urban unrest and violence and how it, in a replay of what we saw in the 1930s, was threatening democracy. No...
Newspaper death roll
in Sox First, on February 26, 2009
...blem for society because when reporting gets reduced, or is turned more vacuous, it becomes bad for democracy. On the other hand, there is a hunger for real news out there. The question is whether tha... ...cago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, more newspapers look like going under. Add to that the news that Hearst is planning to close or sell its San Fran...
Senate Vote On Barack Obama's Stimulus Package May Take Place Today
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 6, 2009
President Barack Obama's stimulus package is still in the Senate undergoing scrutiny and debate on an intense level.
In addition to the expected delays and objections being raised by the Republicans and Conservatives the Democrats are also somewhat divided by certain provisions of the document...
Winter of discontent: will the Paris riots spread?
in Sox First, on January 31, 2009
... on the road to serious social instability, which could be extremely dangerous in some countries to democracy itself." As the Telegraph points out, we have seen riots and bloodshed in Greece, ...
Reshaping governance: interview with Lord Michael Hastings
in Sox First, on January 10, 2009
...erests of shareholders? HASTINGS: But the other way is clearly when there is a genuine shareholder democracy. You don't get that when the ownership is entirely with pension funds or investment fu...
Chinese Democracy Available for Streaming.... seriously!
in Digital Music - The Future, on November 20, 2008
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Axl Rose has finally done it; chinese Democracy is about to be released, in just 2 days people will be able to experience the product of over 10 years of work from 10s of talented muscians.
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Charges downgraded for Guns leaker
in Digital Music - The Future, on November 4, 2008
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Axl Rose has never been the most sensible of people, and with the over 10 year wait for Chinese Democracy finally coming to an end, he went a bit mad when the album leaked, getting the FBI on the ...
Guns 'n' Roses copyright scandal
in Sox First, on September 2, 2008
...right laws by posting copies of songs from the soon-to-be-released Guns N' Roses album, Chinese Democracy. Kevin Cogill, under the online Alias "Skwerl", has been charged with copyri...
Guns N Roses leaker arrested by the FBI!
in Digital Music - The Future, on August 28, 2008
...t; he wasn't actually messing around. A leaker of 9 tracks of the now hilariously late Chinease Democracy has been arrested by the FBI, and amazingly, under new law, could face up to 5 years in pr...
Cows & how the world works
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 24, 2008
... ****out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy....
A WELSH CORPORATION:
You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.
A... ...st now you are part of a Democracy....
A WELSH CORPORATION:
You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. Yo...
China's Internet: How BIG Will it Get?
in China Venture News, on July 22, 2008
...ecently on how 72% of Chinese people believe that the Internet will "become a tool for greater democracy" in China. In a country the size of China, with its history, political change always ...
Is Taiwan the Place to Be?
in China Venture News, on April 3, 2008
I saw a short but interesting piece in Today's Financial News (TFN) recently that proclaimed that Taiwan (not Mainland China ) was the place to invest your money. The author had reasons...
First, Taiwan is richer. On a per capita basis, Taiwans GDP is almost US$30,000 a year, compared to a...
Other Voices: Links for 3/21/08
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on March 21, 2008
...l bankers.
Why does a democratic country like India live mostly in abject poverty? The country has democracy right so why don't they vote themselves better leadership to greater prosperity? The c...
微软推出 Silverlight 2 Beta 1
in Wangtam, on 2008-03-07
...rovide citizens with the necessary tools to make informed decisions about democracy...
Stolen Sex Pictures Shake Up Hong Kong - and Reveal a Lot About the Web in China
in China Venture News, on February 13, 2008
How would you like to see a discussion thread on your online bulletin board get 25 million hits? The combination of celebrity gossip and sex scandal has done that in the past week or so for one China web board, according to the NY Times.
The story is simple, and it would seem common place in m...
Sponsored Post: Mobile Phones the New Social Activism Weapon
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on January 21, 2008
...ndividuality of perspective. Imagine a simple text message can inspire the whole country to protect democracy against greed and corruption. Call it weird or crazy but that's what exactly happened ...
The Future Of Management
in Sox First, on January 15, 2008
Many years ago, management thinker Gary Hamel was praising Enron just before the energy giant imploded . Never mind, Hamel's ideas are always provocative. And he has maintained that stance in his latest book The Future of Management . The hidden question Hamel is addressing is s...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 27
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on January 3, 2008
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or Monday. I was hoping for Monday. Saturday won by 2 to 1. It will be a while before shareholder democracy resurfaces at Berkshire. ... ... Part 27 of the series I've not been able to finish off offers a look at the words of wisdom of Warren Edward Buffett from the year 2003, as witnessed via his annual Letter to Berkshire Hatha...
USA: Bedenken gegen RFID-ID-Karte
in RFID Weblog, on 03.01.08
...listen abgeglichen werden. Allerdings, so kritisieren die Bürgerrechtler vom Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), würden die Daten auf dem RFID-Chip nicht verschlüsselt. Die Technik sei unsicher...
Primary color of the dollars
in Sox First, on January 2, 2008
....5 million. As the American Political Science Association points out in its 2004 paper American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality , money buys power. "Money is the oxygen of today'...
What is the Alternative Minimum Tax?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on December 20, 2007
...is providing greater capital for our wise leaders in Washington to use in making the world safe for democracy, or whatever they're doing there these days.
UPDATE: Hey, it's working already. C... ...h people from avoiding taxes by using a bunch of crazy loopholes and tax shelters to make it look as though they actually had no income for the year. The AMT basically says "If you make ov...
Let The People Speak!
in Celebrate Wine, on December 6, 2007
... Some might call this wine democracy. After years and years of being told what the Top 100 wines are, now the people can decide for ourselves! That's right, we don't need to listen to Wine S...
Madness of groups
in Sox First, on December 4, 2007
...ion's surreal vision of conquering Muslim hearts and minds and transforming Iraq into a western democracy. While the urge for cohesive thinking is part of the normal group process, an encourageme... ...sks that stand in the way of any desired course of action: "Nothing can stop us!" Stuart looks at possible solutions to the problem: building more diversity into the group so that you get a...
Farewell Wee Lassie?
in Eagle Par Birdie, on December 1, 2007
... Hawaiian ocean breezes or Arizona sunshine here.
It's a rock and a hard place. The bedrock of democracy is that the people's will carries the day but the people aren't always right. Whic... ...eenshire Council is opting for the lure of the money while the infrastructure services committee is looking further down the road and worrying about permanent damage to a protected area of the ...
Shareholder rights wronged
in Sox First, on December 1, 2007
... the board. The majority can still vote the other way. Someone should tell Cox that it's called democracy. Professor Randal C Picker's Legal Infrastructure of Business blog makes a similar ...
Miro 1.0 Open-Source-TV-Player
in Das Open Source Weblog, on 19.11.07
...rnet-Fernseher. So die griffige Formel auf der Webseite von miro. Der schon länger unter dem Namen Democracy Player (DTV) ist ein Peer-to-Peer-TV-Programm ( P2PTV ) zum automatischen herunterladen und...
Yahoo: evil in China
in Sox First, on November 15, 2007
... organizations setting out what they could report about the approach of the 15th anniversary of pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. That says a lot about China. But it speaks volumes ab...
开源网络视频软件Miro发布 1.0版
in WappBlog, on 2007-11-15
... Miro 是一款开源的视频播放软件，它的 前身是Democracy ，于7月19日左右正式改名为Miro，它由 Participatory Culture Foundation 开发创建。
昨天，Miro在其 官方Blog上 正式宣布发布1.0版，同时伴随着此次新版的发布，Miro团队还声称将建立一个真正的开放式视频平台。
下载地址： http://www.getmiro.com/dow...
Court blow for BAE and British Government
in Sox First, on November 12, 2007
...decessor Tony Blair. That's the same government that sent troops in to Iraq to fight for democracy while colluding with bribes to the Saudi Arabian regime. It's also a blow for BAE whi...
The South Pacific's Last True Kingdom
in Hidden Travel Gems, on November 11, 2007
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Tonga is one of the world's last remaining absolute monarchies. There have recently been pro-democracy demonstrations. However, the South Pacific archipelago is still a safe place to visit. The...
Brazilian President Doesn't Want a 3º Term For Himself, But For Hugo Chávez
in Latina Viva, on November 5, 2007
...a said:
" I can only speak for Brazil. I think that Brazil cannot play with a thing called democracy. Democracy was delayed, and many people has suffered to consolidate it. I was against one r... ...d, but he's not whiling to tell the truth to his pal, Chávez. What a shame! Well, let's look at the bright side: at least he's not planning to do the same in Brazil.
Source (in Portuguese...
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Is The First Female President Elected in Argentina
in Latina Viva, on October 29, 2007
... won by a large margin, maybe by the largest margin between the first force and the second, since democracy was reinstated" in 1983, said Fernández.
"This advantage, instead of putting us...
Global Online Freedom Act Would Make Some Types of Cooperation With China Criminal
in China Venture News, on October 29, 2007
...companies from cooperating with repressive regimes that restrict information about human rights and democracy on the internet and use personally identifiable information to track down and punish democ...
Supercapitalism
in Sox First, on October 18, 2007
... reigns. What makes it even worse, he says, is that money and market forces have spilled over into democracy and corrupted it. As a result, the corporate lobbying business has exploded and the corpor...
Watching Myanmar (Burma)
in Hidden Travel Gems, on October 4, 2007
...he best news portal at Irrawady.com . there are also several blogs ( here , here , and here ) by democracy activists. These are the information outlets I am familiar with. I'm sure that there a... ...formation outlets I am familiar with. I'm sure that there are others. Let us know where else to look by posting a comment below. Thanks....
International Bloggers' Day for Burma on the 4th of October
in Creative Weblogging, on September 29, 2007
...pants , whether or not you're a blogger, website owner or someone who wants to point the way to democracy and freedom in Burma! ...
Mayne vs Murdoch
in Sox First, on September 13, 2007
...ges their interest. "News Corp is a company which passionately promoted the idea of spreading democracy to places like Iraq, so it seems inappropriate that our own system of democracy is severel...
Nase voll von Real-, Avi-, Quicktime- und und und -playern?
in Das Open Source Weblog, on 23.08.07
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Democracy-player - Ich hab sie jedenfalls mehr als reichlich voll die Nase. Kaum interessiere ich mich für ein Video im Internet muss ich mir auch schon einen neuen Player auf meine Windows-Kiste ...
Terabitz: Every Bit on Real Estate
in Wangtam, on 2007-08-18
- Terabitz: Every Bit on Real Estate
Terabitz is a comprehensive and customizable real estate Web site that fundamentally changes the online real estate industry by helping consumers make smart decisions before, during, and after the property transaction in ways never before possible.
- Skype ...
Hugo Chavez Wants to be President Forever, Fidel Style
in Latina Viva, on August 12, 2007
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No, Chavez wants to be president forever, Fidel style . Hugo Chavez doesn't give a sh*t about democracy; if he's so sure the people love him so much, why can't he wait to come back in 20...
People for the American Way Launches Democracy Wireless
in The Wireless Weblog, on August 6, 2007
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On Friday, People for the American Way ( PFAW ) joined the MVNO craze by launching Democracy Wireless , a mobile phone service powered by Working Assets (over Sprint's network), through ...
Ooma: Well Funded, Stupid Ideas Are Still Stupid
in The VoIP Weblog, on July 19, 2007
...Evans
Ooma? No Ma from Aswath Rao
Oh Boy, Just What We Need. Another VoIP Provider. from IP Democracy
Ooma Hysteria from Rich Tehrani
Oompa Loompa Oompa from Ken Camp @ Realtime Unifie... ...alls are routed to other Ooma customers through their local phone lines.
Personally, if you're looking to VoIP-enable your phone lines, I think PhoneGnome is a better deal. Their box is only $6...
Bürgerfernsehen mit Miro: Lösung für den eigenen Internetfernsender
in Digitaltivi, on 19.07.07
Wer sich von den offiziellen Fernsehmedien nicht ausreichend informiert fühlt, kann demnächst auf einen Bürgerjournalismus mit bewegten Bilden hoffen. Mit "Miro", einer Synthese aus Video-Player, RSS-Reader, FTP- und bittorrent -Client sowie Programmführer und passendem Server sol...
More Futuristic, Less Technological
in Philoneist, on July 17, 2007
I was reading this article about the 20th anniversary of the famous Reagan speech "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall". Even reading it today gives me the chills. Has it been 20 years already??
The author opines subtly that it is possible that the wall would have come down with or w...
US corporate governance - 9 flash points
in Sox First, on July 12, 2007
...are the ridiculous situation regarding majority voting ("We pride ourselves on being the great democracy. We run around the world trying to impose our democracy on everyone, except when it comes ...
MA: 33 种免费在线收看电视的途径
in Wangtam, on 2007-06-19
老样子，MA 搜罗的 33 种免费在线收看电视的途径 ，其实也大都是网络电视服务网站，也有诸如 Joost 这一类 P2P 的客户端。没有包含中文服务：
Democracy Player 0.9.6
in Wangtam, on 2007-06-08
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Democracy Player 是一个兼容多平台、开源的媒体播放软件，集网络电视播放、管理和收藏于一身，频道资源丰富（超过 500 个频道），下载速度理想（整合了 Bittorrent 下载方式），播放效果清晰。更重要的是，Democracy Player 支持目前流行的 RSS 格式，无需开启浏览器，便可将各种视频、Podcast 一网打尽。此外，在 Democracy Player...
Hey!Watch发布新服务，播客创建工具Hey!Cast
in WappBlog, on 2007-06-08
Hey!Watch 是一款我常用的在线视频转换工具，它功能强大，支持大量的视频共享网站及多种视频格式，而且可转换成很多流行的视频，通过设定可一键转换，具备高度的自动。虽然它是一款付费服务，每转换一个视频需支付0.1USD，但我对它还是青睐有加。近日，Hey!Watch又结合本身的功能推出了一个新服务，名为 Hey!Cast 。
Mode - die angewandteste Kunst
in Feschsamma, on 06.06.07
...shion Cities" (Entspringen besondere Formen der Kreativität bestimmten Städten?), "Democracy of Fashion" oder "Styling versus Content" versprechen 2 total interessante Modetag...
Government controlling CSR? Bad Idea
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 3, 2007
...t - the paper trail, where the buck stops, and who really answers to whom. America is not a perfect democracy. It is a democratic republic. Which means the people have a very limited say in what an el... ...e ignorant to what is going on around them, thinking CSR has nothing to do with them, than actually look around and see the lasting effects of what social irresponsibility has done.
You may think you...
Mozilla 投资 Democracy
in Wangtam, on 2007-06-01
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Mozilla 官方 Blog 宣布 ，日前，Mozilla 基金会投资了一个视频分享网站 Democracy ，但是他们并没有透漏任何细节，而在不久之后 Democracy 也将改名为 "Miro"。Mozilla 在开源、开放的立场上，希望能有一个同样开放的视频分享平台，来挖掘桌面互动的潜力。从某种意义上来说，与 Democracy 很类似却发展迅速的 Joos...
Immigrants and National Identity
in Latina Viva, on May 28, 2007
...elp the pope rule the United States from Rome, and that immigrant anarchists would destroy American democracy. Some eugenicists thought that the dark-skinned immigrants from Southern Europe would cont... ...;s no reason to fear immigration. The US - the government and the citizens - should embrace it, and look for ways to allow immigrants to benefit the nation and contribute to the country's developm...
Shareholder votes: the myth of investor democracy
in Sox First, on May 22, 2007
Much has been said about shareholder rights to exercise their views. But companies are not democracies and management has enormous power to get its way when it comes to pulling in votes for issues like stock option plans, equity grants and giving mergers the go-ahead. How big a problem? Check a...
The Public's Right to Know
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 3, 2007
...d by and scripted for corporate or government clients," as defined by the Center for Media and Democracy in their report on these VNRs . Here's one example of how low they will go:
WTOK-1... ...fake news - video news releases. They're just "pre-packaged broadcast segments designed to look like television news stories, that are funded by and scripted for corporate or government clien...
Vuze - 基于P2P技术的高清晰视频分享朏务
in WappBlog, on 2007-04-21
...ide, G4, A&E Networks (including A&E, History, and Biography channels), National Geographic和Starz Media签署内容叏议。可是我了解的是Vuze也并丏是DRM-Free，就是说还是可能会对柏些影像进行收费制度的。 摘自Paikia
有了内容及技术上的俏诏収，相信Vunze是一...
SURGE IN ONLINE GAMBLING
in Play Las Vegas, on April 11, 2007
...s is an arrogant, self-appointed moralistic government that, despite its assertions that it spreads Democracy throughout the world, is determined to control the lives of its citizens.
... ...
Source:www.cicd-volunteerinafrica.org
For what its worth the US Government isn't looking very good in the eyes of many foreign countries when it comes to the issue of banning online gamblin...
Grameen Bank Brings to Life Fishes and Loaves Story
in Bizinformer, on April 6, 2007
... because the prize committee noted that their campaign to support society's poorest had boosted democracy and human rights as well.
The idea is that women in under privileged countries can apply... ... reminiscent of the Grimm's Brothers?
Well, I personally don't think so, but let's look at a more recent example and you tell me what you think.
The story of the Grameen Bank is n...
Executive pay democracy distorts the market
in Sox First, on April 7, 2007
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Disturbing revelations from Bloomberg's Graef Crystal on the new pay democracy among the Wall Street Five. His piece on pay being set in smoke-filled rooms goes pretty close to suggesting o...
American Idol, Democracy and Racial Diversity
in Latina Viva, on March 19, 2007
...oticed how they seem to be trying to be "racially correct" in American Idol, this season? Looking at the 24 finalists , you can see a good deal of racial diversity - Caucasians, Blacks, Lat...
Did Yahoo betray her husband?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on March 17, 2007
...and is now in Beijing Prison No. 2, serving a 10-year sentence for inciting subversion with his pro-democracy internet writings. According to the written court verdict, the Chinese government convicte...
A Little More About Bush and Home Arrest
in Latina Viva, on March 16, 2007
...cause of this "invasion" and maltreatment of the favela folks? Baggio's Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (CDI) runs a very successful computer clinic in the favela (and ...
