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Shaun Frenza

Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1) - 1 views

www.marxists.org/...ch01.htm

shared by Shaun Frenza on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • holy alliance to exorcise
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Religious diction
  • All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Man is responsible for technology which is responsible for a fast paced world, which they don't like
  • It compels all nations, on pain of extinction,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Japan
    • Shaun Frenza
      Shaun Frenza on 05 Oct 10
       
      Seems a little singular - is there a specific reason why you only say "Japan"
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  • The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Capitalism has taken over the world, and those that were slow to buy into the idealology are being left in the dust, and dependant on others, which they don't like.
  • Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Communists retaliate by not producing enough goods.
  • He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Paints these people as the suffers, clearly appealing to them to call for "equality"
  • Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      In Communism all become slaves of the state and the state leaders, how is that better?
    • Shaun Frenza
      Shaun Frenza on 05 Oct 10
       
      Or they become the machine - They are not the slave, they are the mechanizm together... at least that is what they tell themselves.
  • All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Conflicts with the MIT lesson, except for those that have to work. (in regard to females working) again an appeal to the working class people, who are the masses to revolt. This works less well in America because of the American dream and the possibility for change fostered by it.
  • At this stage, the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984, they hope lies in the masses of uncontrolled people
  • Thereupon, the workers begin to form combinations (Trades’ Unions) against the bourgeois; they club together in order to keep up the rate of wages; they found permanent associations in order to make provision beforehand for these occasional revolts. Here and there, the contest breaks out into riots.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      The working class fights back
  • so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      they aren't alone in their cause
  • The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family relations;
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      The shear fact of having money and therefore time to spend with children brings these differences.
  • The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.
  • Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Doesn't believe capitalism can survive.
    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 05 Oct 10
       
      Wait, all these sound like good things. Is he saying its bad to have Toyotas? Is it bad to have bannanas in December?
  • rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.
    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 05 Oct 10
       
      Can someone help me out here? Is he being sarcastic? He says capitalizm is bad then says that the bourgeoisie 'rescued' people from the 'idiocy of rural life' Thomas Jefferson thought the rural life was the ideal and to be sought after. I can't tell if Marx is for or against it.
  • By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour
  • By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live.
  • immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation
    • Shaun Frenza
      Shaun Frenza on 05 Oct 10
       
      Notice how we are in the same situation now as were were then - the facilitation of communication with the internet and how it shapes the world to become more homogenous.
Gideon Burton

Internet of Things and Kickstarter - Internet of Things News | Postscapes - 0 views

postscapes.com/rnet-of-things-and-kickstarter

iot internet of things networking

shared by Gideon Burton on 11 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 11 Sep 12
     
    Recommended by Chris Anderson
Gideon Burton

The Internet? We Built That - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...he-internet-we-built-that.html

internet history anthology

shared by Gideon Burton on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • it’s impossible to overstate the importance of peer production to the modern digital world.
  • What sounds on the face of it like the most utopian of collectivist fantasies — millions of people sharing their ideas with no ownership claims — turns out to have made possible the communications infrastructure of our age.
  • Peer networks laid the foundation for the scientific revolution during the Enlightenment, via the formal and informal societies and coffeehouse gatherings where new research was shared. The digital revolution has made it clear that peer networks can work wonders in the modern age.
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  • We have an endless supply of folklore about heroic entrepreneurs who changed the world with their vision and their force of will. But as a society we lack master narratives of creative collaboration.
  • what the Internet and its descendants teach us is that there are now new models for doing things together, success stories that prove convincingly that you don’t need bureaucracies to facilitate public collaboration, and you don’t need the private sector to innovate
Greg Williams

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Focus and Priorities - 0 views

www.lds.org/...index.jsp

lds priorities information

shared by Greg Williams on 31 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • principle of accountability also applies to the spiritual resources conferred in the teachings we have been given and to the precious hours and days allotted to each of us during our time in mortality.
  • The significance of our increased discretionary time has been magnified many times by modern data-retrieval technology. For good or for evil, devices like the Internet and the compact disc have put at our fingertips an incredible inventory of information, insights, and images. Along with fast food, we have fast communications and fast facts. The effect of these resources on some of us seems to fulfill the prophet Daniel’s prophecy that in the last days “knowledge shall be increased” and “many shall run to and fro”
  • homely story
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  • “Do you think we need a bigger truck?”
  • our biggest need is a clearer focus on how we should value and use what we already have.
  • But to what purpose?
  • “knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word,” in which “wisdom” is “lost in knowledge” and “knowledge” is “lost in information”
  • We have thousands of times more available information than Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Yet which of us would think ourselves a thousand times more educated or more serviceable to our fellowmen than they?
  • I could never complete my assigned task within the available time unless I focused my research in the beginning and stopped that research soon enough to have time to analyze my findings and compose my conclusions.
  • we must begin with focus or we are likely to become like those in the well-known prophecy about people in the last days—“ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7).
  • But a bale of handouts can detract from our attempt to teach gospel principles with clarity and testimony.
  • Stacks of supplementary material can impoverish rather than enrich, because they can blur students’ focus on the assigned principles and draw them away from prayerfully seeking to apply those principles in their own lives.
  • Each of us should be careful that the current flood of information does not occupy our time so completely that we cannot focus on and hear and heed the still, small voice that is available to guide each of us with our own challenges today.
  • Our priorities determine what we seek in life.
  • “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth”
  • Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time.
  • Good choices are especially important in our family life. For example, how do family members spend their free time together? Time together is necessary but not sufficient.
  • I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.
  • Greg Williams on 31 Oct 12
     
    Available information wisely used is far more valuable than multiplied information allowed to lie fallow.
anonymous

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 2 views

www.newyorker.com/...101004fa_fact_gladwell

activism socialmedia

shared by anonymous on 03 Feb 12 - No Cached
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      Do you agree with this?
  • This is in many ways a wonderful thing. There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world. But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism.
  • The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction; they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.
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  • Boycotts and sit-ins and nonviolent confrontations—which were the weapons of choice for the civil-rights movement—are high-risk strategies. They leave little room for conflict and error. The moment even one protester deviates from the script and responds to provocation, the moral legitimacy of the entire protest is compromised.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      But it was just a phone.
  • A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get phones back from teen-age girls.
  • These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.
  • “It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, in Foreign Policy. “Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.”
  • The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • What mattered more was an applicant’s degree of personal connection to the civil-rights movement.
Madeline Rupard

Example of Blog that is Boosting Advertising Industry - 0 views

theoutgoingblog.blogspot.com

Digiciv economy capitalism search engine blog

shared by Madeline Rupard on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 29 Sep 10
     
    I made a comment in class today about how there is a large industry that is kind of developing on the internet. That is an industry that is paid to give businesses higher profiles on the internet. My mother works at a company that inserts links onto benign blogs, just to get links to show up more often when you look things up on a search engine. Check out this guy's blog as an example. This guy isn't too sneaky about it: He puts his purpose in the title. Its just interesting to see the jobs that are opening up through the internet.
Brandon McCloskey

How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords - 1 views

lifehacker.com/...ow-id-hack-your-weak-passwords

security digiciv

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 10 Dec 10 - Cached
  • If you invited me to try and crack your password, you know the one that you use over and over for like every web page you visit, how many guesses would it take before I got it?
  • One of the simplest ways to gain access to your information is through the use of a Brute Force Attack. This is accomplished when a hacker uses a specially written piece of software to attempt to log into a site using your credentials.
  • And how fast could this be done? Well, that depends on three main things, the length and complexity of your password, the speed of the hacker's computer, and the speed of the hacker's Internet connection.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 10 Dec 10
     
    Now, I could go on for hours and hours more about all sorts of ways to compromise your security and generally make your life miserable - but 95% of those methods begin with compromising your weak password. So, why not just protect yourself from the start and sleep better at night?
Gideon Burton

Things as They Really Are - Ensign June 2010 - ensign - 0 views

www.lds.org/...things-as-they-really-are

Bednar LDS internet danger reality

shared by Gideon Burton on 03 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 03 Sep 12
     
    A key talk about the digital realm from the point of view of an LDS apostle.
Kevin Watson

A VC: Freemium and Freeconomics - 1 views

www.avc.com/...freemium-and-freeconomics.html

digiciv free freeconomics chris anderson

shared by Kevin Watson on 27 Sep 10 - Cached
  • the Internet allows an entrrepreneur to enter a market with a free offering because the costs of doing so are not astronomical. And most entrpreneurs who take this approach will maintain an attractive free offering of their basic service forever. But that doesn't mean that everything they offer will be free. That's the whole point of freemium. Free gets you to a place where you can ask to get paid. But if you don't start with free on the Internet, most companies will never get paid.
    • Kevin Watson
      Kevin Watson on 27 Sep 10
       
      Not everything in the world will be free in a "free economy". "Free" is just a ploy to get you into a position where you will want to buy better things to work with.
  • Kevin Watson on 27 Sep 10
     
    Blog Article about Chris Anderson's book "Free" with some great insights on freemiums and what they will do to the economy.
Erin Hamson

Consumer How To - Swipe Auctions Saving Consumers Up To 95% Off Retail Prices - 0 views

www.consumerhowto.com/...consumers-save.html

free Digiciv economy

shared by Erin Hamson on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Each bid placed on SwipeAuctions costs users $0.60. By collecting $0.60 for each bid placed, SwipeAuctions is able to afford giving away products on the cheap such as Macbooks for $23.72 or Nikon Digital Cameras for $57.42.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 29 Sep 10
       
      The "free" business model
  • There is no longer a need to spend several hours online looking to see where the best deal is. The answer is simple. It's on SwipeAuctions! Whereas scouring the internet for to save an extra 5% works for some people, why waste your time when you could save 75%! SwipeAuctions is so much more than economical.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 29 Sep 10
       
      Time v. price
  • Erin Hamson on 29 Sep 10
     
    Here is an example of a business model that is giving away the "free" stuff and making profit on other things.
  • Erin Hamson on 29 Sep 10
     
    Exactly today's topic!
Gideon Burton

the creative internet (106 things) - 5 views

docs.google.com/...view

Google design creativity digital

shared by Gideon Burton on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached
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  • Gideon Burton on 29 Apr 11
     
    Amazing set of creative uses of the new media put together by Google.
  • Andrew DeWitt on 30 Apr 11
     
    Its really amazing what is out there!
anonymous

How The World Spends Its Time Online | - 3 views

www.visualeconomics.com/nds-its-time-online_2010-06-16

shared by anonymous on 27 Sep 10 - Cached
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 27 Sep 10
       
      I love the graphics on this page. I think I gained a substantial amount of info in bout 2 minutes by just glancing through.
    • autumn gardner
      autumn gardner on 28 Sep 10
       
      to me it's too much. we are spending our lives online in a world that can be valuable, but most of the time is not. it is so hard to balance time online with time doing other productive things. So much of our lives requires us to be on the computer, ugh.
  • Gideon Burton on 27 Sep 10
     
    I'm as interested by the host site for this graphic (visualeconomics.com) as I am the information it reveals about how we spend time online.
  • Andrew DeWitt on 27 Sep 10
     
    So, this begs the question... are we spending too much time on the Internet, too little? Or are we using our time online poorly or wisely? (We - personally, nationally, globally).
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