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Rhett Ferrin

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail - 0 views

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    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 28 Sep 10
       
      Rhapsody is awesome, but you should look into grooveshark.com. It follows the 'freemium' model discussed in class and has advertisements but I would like to hear what other people's experience is with it or any insights to how they make money.
  • Imagine if prices declined the further you went down the Tail, with popularity (the market) effectively dictating pricing. All it would take is for the labels to lower the wholesale price for the vast majority of their content not in heavy rotation; even a two- or three-tiered pricing structure could work wonders. And because so much of that content is not available in record stores, the risk of channel conflict is greatly diminished. The lesson: Pull consumers down the tail with lower prices.
Megan Stern

American Thinker: The Disappearing Middle Class - 0 views

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Communism Socialism digiciv Marx middle class Tea Party conservative

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  • The government is helping out, "redistributing" money to the bottom. "The Rich" can use their money and influence to get in. The middle class gets no special consideration or privilege. Because they do work hard, they get to work harder -- and the Ruling Class calls this "justice."
    • Megan Stern
      Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
       
      So. True.
  • And this is what the Tea Party is really mad about.
  • And the balance between the lower class and their upper-class leaders is upset by the injection of the middle class and its struggles to carve out its niche.
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  • His Communist Manifesto is nothing more than a rant about the evils of this group and how they have inflicted harm and damage to everyone around them through colonialism and ingenuity.
  • Marx and Engels envisioned a return to the simpler time, where a vast lower class was ruled by its betters. Not surprisingly, they saw themselves as leading the underlings to the new paradise.
  • their opinions are tainted by "greed" (the single biggest sin of the bourgeoisie).
  • The byproduct of this Socialization is the shrinking of the middle class. When you punish people for working hard, those people will stop working so hard.
  • se bailouts are transfers of wealth -- not from the rich to the poor, but from the working middle class to both the upper and lower classes.
  • True: all the
  • Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
     
    Concisely presents the consensual argument most conservatives adopt against Marx's principles in our day.
Katherine Chipman

The Engines - The Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum - 0 views

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babbage

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  • Difference engines are strictly calculators. They crunch numbers the only way they know how - by repeated addition according to the method of finite differences. They cannot be used for general arithmetical calculation. The Analytical Engine is much more than a calculator and marks the progression from the mechanized arithmetic of calculation to fully-fledged general-purpose computation.
  • Physical Legacy Aside from a few partially complete mechanical assemblies and test models of small working sections, none of Babbage's designs was physically realized in its entirety in his lifetime. The major assembly he did complete was one-seventh of Difference Engine No. 1, a demonstration piece consisting of about 2,000 parts assembled in 1832. This works impeccably to this day and is the first successful automatic calculating device to embody mathematical rule in mechanism. A small experimental piece of the Analytical Engine was under construction at the time of Babbage's death in 1871. Many of the small experimental assemblies survived, as does a comprehensive archive of his drawings and notebooks. The designs for Babbage's vast mechanical computing engines rank as one of the startling intellectual achievements of the 19th century. It is only in recent decades that his work has been studied in detail and that the extent of what he accomplished becomes increasingly evident.
  • Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10
     
    Great explanation of the difference between difference engines and analytical engines.
Madeline Rupard

Rebels Against the Future - 0 views

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digiciv science revolution

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  • Madeline Rupard on 05 Oct 10
     
    I wasn't aware that there was a legit, active anti-technology movement in the world today. Apparently there is.
Jeffrey Chen

Gene positioning effects evolution - 0 views

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paper evolution digiciv

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 19 Oct 10
     
    "We usually think of natural selection as acting directly on the genes that influence a specific trait," said Leonid Kruglyak, one of the co-authors on the paper and the William R. Harman '63 and Mary-Love Harman Professor in Genomics at Princeton. "This paper shows that there is an indirect evolutionary force that can override this direct effect -- selection acting on neighboring genes that just happen to travel together on a chromosome with the genes that influence the trait."
Shaun Frenza

Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1) - 1 views

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  • 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.
Bri Zabriskie

Three Problems that Make Me Leave Your Blog in Three Seconds - 2 views

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blogging tips

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Andrew DeWitt liked it
  • Bri Zabriskie on 07 Oct 10
     
    A good article on what makes a blog really work.
Trevor Cox

Industrial Revolution in Information Systems - 1 views

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digiciv Revolution media

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  • Trevor Cox on 11 Oct 10
     
    Are we on the verge of an industrial revolution in the IT industry? Databases are getting more complex and huge innovations may be on the horizen
Gideon Burton

Growing Up digital - 1 views

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net-gen millennials digital natives

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  • Gideon Burton on 28 Oct 10
     
    Seminal book on the net gen from 1997
Danny Patterson

Highly confidential report sent to government regarding nuclear waste leaking at the Ha... - 0 views

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Nuclear Waste Hanford

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  • Danny Patterson on 11 Nov 10
     
    This is an extremely interesting report sent to the government in August of 1991 titled: NUCLEAR WASTE Hanford Single-Shell Tank Leaks Greater Than Estimated. I love the note at the bottom: "RESTRICTED--- Not to be released outside the General Accounting Office unless specifically approved by the Office of Congressional Relations" Enjoy!
Andrew DeWitt

Media alert: BYU ROTC plans Veteran's Day events Nov. 11 - 0 views

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byu media alert ROTC veteran day news

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 11 Nov 10
     
    I won't be in class Thursday because of this, will someone take notes for me?
Gideon Burton

PressThink: The People Formerly Known as the Audience - 0 views

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participatory culture crowdsourcing journalism jay rosen audience

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  • Gideon Burton on 27 Oct 10
     
    Seminal article by Jay Rosen picking up off of Dan Gillmor's idea of the former audience and applying this to journalism.
Katherine Chipman

Facebook, texting help first-year students connect IRL - 1 views

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  • The first-year students averaged 52 minutes per day on social networks such as Facebook. On average, they sent between 11 and 20 text messages per day and spent 45 minutes texting or talking on a cell phone. Most students had between 150 and 200 Facebook friends.
  • More significantly, Jacobsen’s analysis reveals that Facebook and cell phones facilitated face-to-face interactions for this group of students. Initially the researchers suspected that digital media would partially replace offline socializing. Instead they found that face time increased by 10 to 15 minutes for every hour spent with social media and cell phones.
  • LeeAnne Lowry on 04 Nov 10
     
    BYU researchers are saying that Facebook is taking away from college students' social skills and face-to-face interactions....
  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 18 Nov 10
     
    This BYU study found that facebook actually increased time students spent together
  • Katherine Chipman on 03 Dec 10
     
    Very interesting results to a BYU study regarding Facebook and texting.
James Wilcox

[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" - PM | Number10.gov.uk - 0 views

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alan digiciv

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  • James Wilcox on 07 Nov 10
     
    Alan Turing made both changes in technology and mathematics along with changes in societal norms.  In this article it talks a little of his influence on the gender issue.
Sarah Wills

House Un-American Activities Committee - 0 views

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Red Scare

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  • Sarah Wills on 11 Nov 10
     
    I think this committee contributed to the culture of the Red Scare.
Gideon Burton

Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - 0 views

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culture philosophy adorno theory consumerism modernism

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  • Gideon Burton on 27 Oct 10
     
    Critique of consumer culture from an important theorist about modernism, Theodor Adorno (with Max Horkheimer)
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