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Churnalism is a form of journalism in which press releases, wire stories and other forms of pre-packaged material are used to create articles in newspapers and other news media in order to meet increasing pressures of time and cost without undertaking further research or checking.
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According to a new survey by mobile advertising network Greystripe, mothers with iPhones regularly let their children use their phones, download games specifically for their children and often use their phones at grocery stores to compare prices and check their grocery lists (…)
Monthly Archive for October, 2009
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TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC or server all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it.
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There is a whole generation of people who need to change how they communicate with the world. Just this week, Michelin hired TBWA to create a Facebook campaign around their slogan "The right rite changes everything," in an attempt to rebrand the Michelin Man.
Companies like Michelin just don't get it. That kind of thinking will get you nowhere on the social web. The world doesn't work that way anymore. We don't want to connect with a slogan. We don't follow a logo. We don't care about your message.
Traditional marketing is not compatible with the social world. The social web is not just a different format; it is a completely different form of communication. (…)
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Extract an mp3 audio file out of any youtube video.
Via Korben
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Les libraires vont encore moins apprécier…
Le virage redouté par certains, à l'issue de l'annonce de l'Expresso Books Machine le mois dernier, devrait se dresser en 2010 : en effet, à l'issue de la Foire du livre de Francfort, Google a annoncé se lancer dans la vente de versions numérisées de livres, avec une vague titanesque de 2 000 000 titres. Une aubaine pour les librairies en ligne, dont les éditions seront intégrées au moteur de recherche. Pas d'acheteur ? Aucun problème, Google à‰dition fournira gracieusement 20% du livre en libre lecture, largement suffisant pour se faire une meilleure idée de l'ouvrage.
Mais Google ne se borne pas à proposer la vente dans son enceinte, et c'est le plus malicieux : le géant californien percevra 37% des ventes si l'internaute souhaite acquérir un ouvrage (63% pour les ayant droits), mais… 55% si la vente s'effectue vers l'un de ses 30 000 éditeurs partenaires !
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Selon une étude menée pour l'éditeur O'Reilly, la courbe des ventes de livres repartirait fortement à la hausse au moment où les ouvrages sont piratés. De quoi tordre le coup à bien des idées reçues.
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tv videos & web-documentaries, in French.
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Online tutorial to web2.0 in French.
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Geekish set theory version of the definition of geek, nerd, dork, and dweeb. Super efficient!
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Fonctionnement
-Vous choisissez la part de votre consommation électrique annuelle que vous voulez couvrir par de l'énergie d'origine solaire. Les services industriels de Lausanne (SIL) ainsi que son partenaire SIE SA font produire cette énergie qui vous est livrée à domicile à son prix coûtant.
- Vos souscriptions servent à financer la construction de nouvelles centrales photovoltaà¯ques et non à amortir les centrales existantes.
- Par ce choix, vous stimulez donc la production d'énergie renouvelable, non polluante, et vous préservez l'environnement.
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via Fabrizio Cantinotti
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A user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups.
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Free web server uptime monitoring. Via Presse-Citron
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Super-simple Jailbreak (for officially unsimlocked iPhones only). Via Thierry Weber
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Human poaching drives rise in tusk-free genes of elephants
January 5th, 2007 · 1 CommentMore male Asian elephants will be born without tusks because poaching of tusked elephants is reducing the gene pool, Chinese researchers say.
Their study, conducted in the southwest province of Yunnan where two-thirds of China’s Asian elephants live, found the tuskless phenomenon is spreading, according to a report in the China Daily.
The tusk-free gene, which is found in between 2 and 5% percent of male Asian elephants, has increased to between 5 and 10% in elephants in China, says zoology researcher Associate Professor Zhang Li, from Beijing Normal University.
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The E. coli long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) is an ongoing study in experimental evolution led by Richard Lenski that has been tracking genetic changes in 12 initially nearly identical populations of asexual Escherichia coli bacteria since February 24, 1988.
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Goldbach's conjecture is one of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory and in all of mathematics. It states: Every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes.
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The JREF organization offers a prize of one million U.S. dollars which it claims it will pay out to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. The JREF also maintains a legal defense fund to assist persons who are attacked as a result of their investigations and criticism of people who make paranormal claims.
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At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. The JREF does not involve itself in the testing procedure, other than helping to design the protocol and approving the conditions under which a test will take place. All tests are designed with the participation and approval of the applicant. In most cases, the applicant will be asked to perform a relatively simple preliminary test of the claim, which if successful, will be followed by the formal test. Preliminary tests are usually conducted by associates of the JREF at the site where the applicant lives. Upon success in the preliminary testing process, the "applicant" becomes a "claimant."
To date, no one has passed the preliminary tests.
