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When AT&T announced that it was going to block FaceTime, Apple’s video chat application, we pointed out that this was a violation of the FCC’s Open Internet rules, and that AT&T’s attempted defenses fell short. We meant it. Today, with our colleagues at Free Press and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, we notified AT&T that, if it doesn’t reverse course, we plan to file a formal complaint with the FCC.
But if there’s anything in the music world that’s exactly the opposite of being a rock star, it’s sitting down for a piano lesson—the image evoked is one of a stuffy old instructor, an endless repetition of scales, and a house that smells like cats. Vance was convinced that there was a better way, something more engaging, more fun, and most of all, more relevant to how people enjoy music today. (via 1 | A Program For Piano Lessons That Won’t Put You To Sleep | Co.Design: business innovation design)
Aux origines des Kicks ! (kickstarter)
No Place Like Home (par Dominic Wilcox)
(Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Deux contributeurs respectés de l’encyclopédie libre Wikipédia sont sous le feu des projecteurs. CNet rapporte qu’un responsable de l’association Wikimedia britannique, Roger Bamkin, est soupçonné de conflit d’intérêts, après avoir mis en avant des articles liés à Gibraltar en août, par le bloc “Le saviez-vous ?” en page d’accueil et le projet culturel GLAM. Gibraltar était le second sujet le plus mentionné dans ce bloc en août, après les Jeux olympiques. Des suspicions sont rapidement apparues.
Désormais, on dépasse l’ignorance simple de la science, il s’agit de systématiquement critiquer et contester tout résultat scientifique qui ne correspond pas au sens commun, voire de fabriquer ses propres résultats.
« So are book highlights as social objects going to be a phenomenon? I’m skeptical. Highlighting and note-making in e-books is a personal thing. I make highlights in a book because I want to remember a passage or idea in it. While I am curious sometimes to see what other people highlighted from a book I read, it’s far more valuable to me to see what books other people are reading – and Goodreads is the place to go for that. So I think Amazon is doing the right thing by keeping highlights and notes private by default ». (via Why Book Highlights Are Anti-Social)