Featured Blog Posts – March 2011 Archive (7)

Info via http://lapetition.be/en-ligne/petition-9491.html

PERSÉE IN DANGER, SIGN THE PETITION



PERSÉE – the leading program for digitizing and distributing french-speaking scientific content – is today threatened on account of a decision taken by the University of Lyon 2 - Lumière



Without prior consultation with Persée's staff, director and partners, the board of the Lyon 2 University has…

Via Sam Rose:

See http://rockethub.com/projects/1349-understanding-today-s-economic-transformation#

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Via Eli Farley:

 http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/OSE_custom_search_engine

It allows you to search the OSE wiki (http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/),…

Today, our rights and the overall quality of our life heavily depend on how software is used around us. Quite often, even people who already spend much time online don't realize all the ways in which computer influence their lives. With the Digital Citizens Basic online course I try to explain all this, in the simplest possible way.

This course is quite different from most courses with…

Via Andrew Paterson:

More info at http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/vv-reader

Dear All,



the Institute of Network Cultures is pleased to announce the publication of Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube. The printed copies have arrived safe and sound at the INC headquarters as we wait excitedly to launch the book at the Video Vortex #6 conference on Saturday,…

Via Daniel at https://ripplexchange.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=826:

Ripple has grown over recent months, from an interesting concept with dormant projects into an actively developing ecosystem.



The Ripple Project (http://ripple-project.org/) aims to build a new form of money which derives from existing social relationships rather than from…

The traditional left finds itself in a blind alley. It is quit incredible that just two years after the devastating financial crisis demonstrating the obvious bankruptcy of neoliberalism, the defenders of the “free” market and deregulation are already back in business. In the United States, the very same who caused the crisis and run to the state for their rescue, are now blaming the Democrats of causing huge deficits and demanding cuts in living standards of civil servants and the working…