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$2 billion buys a lot of nothing | Dayton Daily News Newspaper | Find Articles at BNET - 0 views

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- Kevin Watson on 27 Sep 10
  
  This is the scary view of the "virtual" world. It is the point when you know you are spending too much time online. Go outside! Go Hiking! Take someone to a restaurant! Spend your money on something TANGIBLE!
  
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Danny Patterson on 27 Sep 10

Addresses the current market within virtual economies and how people are spending REAL money for non-existing goods/services.

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America - 0 views

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- Andrew DeWitt on 23 Sep 10
  
  Interesting how more than half the entry is on what America offers as far as minerals. Today America seems to be in a deficit of materials and imports tons of goods.
  
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Katherine Chipman on 22 Sep 10

Encyclopedia entry on "America". It is fascinating to see what was known to the world about America 250 years ago.

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Participating in a gift economy: Are you giving enough? | opensource.com - 0 views

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digiciv open gift economy generosity indispensable

shared by Megan Stern on 26 Sep 10 - No Cached

Megan Stern on 26 Sep 10

Illustrates more clearly how a gift economy could be applied to actually making a living.

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Manifesto of the Communist Party - 0 views

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Katherine Chipman on 28 Sep 10

Translation of a 1847 document on communism. How it began.

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Open Government - 2 views

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shared by Kevin Watson on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached

Kevin Watson on 16 Sep 10

Great article on the Gov 2.0 conference, and how open government can be furthered by our use of the internet and technology we have today.

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Life According To Klar: Humans - 0 views

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- Kristi Koerner on 16 Sep 10
  
  Aren't these the questions we are discussing in class? Why, how, when, where, who...
  
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How Did All This Get Here?: Naturally.. - 0 views

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- Kristi Koerner on 16 Sep 10
  
  Is it possible then to have unselfish motives in anything?
  
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Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert - Collaborative Translation Project - Map of the s... - 1 views

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- Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
  
  This chart should look more like a web, showing the connections between the various areas. It is similar to getting an education, you can not get a complete education in one area, without dabbling in other areas. For example, the connections between theology, and religious history.
  
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- Rhett Ferrin on 25 Sep 10
  
  Sometimes before you can understand something you have to quantify it. These early natural philosophers were just organizing what they had learned so they could better understand it. How different is it from us today, trying to map the human genome?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Sometimes before you can understand something you have to quantify it. These early natural philosophers were just organizing what they had learned so they could better understand it. How different is it from us today, trying to map the human genome?</div>
  
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New Media Studies Syllabus - Rutgers - 0 views

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Gideon Burton on 23 Sep 10

Christina Dunbar-Hester talks through her new media studies course outline at Rutgers

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Gideon Burton on 23 Sep 10

This is a good example of how social filters work. A former student sent me the link to this via Twitter, and the professor for this course has made a very solid outline of issues that compare to our Digital Civ themes. Good bibliography, too.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is a good example of how social filters work. A former student sent me the link to this via Twitter, and the professor for this course has made a very solid outline of issues that compare to our Digital Civ themes. Good bibliography, too.</div>

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Wikimedia Foundation - 0 views

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shared by Kevin Watson on 22 Sep 10 - Cached

- Kevin Watson on 22 Sep 10
  
  It's interesting how many teachers will not allow you to use Wikipedia as a source, but in light of this digital civilization class, isn't it a form of Open Access Information, and shouldn't it be praised in a way?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It's interesting how many teachers will not allow you to use Wikipedia as a source, but in light of this digital civilization class, isn't it a form of Open Access Information, and shouldn't it be praised in a way?</div>
  
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Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.
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Anthropological history of YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Brad Twining on 28 Sep 10 - Cached

Brad Twining on 28 Sep 10

Presented at the Library of Congress by a professor from Kansas State. It is almost an hour long, but a great talk! He talks about the impact of YouTube on society and culture and how revolutionizing it and Web 2.0 has been.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Presented at the Library of Congress by a professor from Kansas State. It is almost an hour long, but a great talk! He talks about the impact of YouTube on society and culture and how revolutionizing it and Web 2.0 has been.</div>

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Communist Manifesto (Chapter 3) - 0 views

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- Kristi Koerner on 04 Oct 10
  
  The conflict with Christianity is interesting.
  
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disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  are these laid in contrast to the benefits?
  
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It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  city upon a hill
  
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The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society, minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements. They wish for a bourgeoisie without a proletariat.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  want everyone to be like them
  
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It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois — for the benefit of the working class
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These proposals, therefore, are of a purely Utopian character.
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the concentration of capital and land in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities.
- Parker Woody on 05 Oct 10
  
  Interesting how they appeal to the family and the loss of morals
  
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BYU IT Training - Learn how to... - 0 views

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Brian Earley on 30 Sep 10

This is the BYU training site for all those programs that everyone needs to be able to use.

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Trevor Cox on 30 Sep 10

This is great! Here's the link to register https://it.byu.edu/training/ click on "register for a class."

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Communist Manifesto (Chapter 2) - 0 views

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shared by Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10 - Cached

The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  We are for you. You should join us. We will help you become equals, but not into a better position.
  
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1. In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. 2. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  working to unite the proletariat, which according to chapter one should equalise them with the others.
  
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formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.
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The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  We don't recognise one world leader, or founder. Unlike capitalism (Smith) or democracy (Locke).
  
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but the abolition of bourgeois property.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  mean to abolish their symbol of status, but not divide it to the masses. Say that it is commonly held together.
  
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Abolition of private property
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We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.
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, that quantum of the means of subsistence which is absolutely requisite to keep the labourer in bare existence as a labourer.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  tells the labourer they ought to be getting more for their hard work in support of the system.
  
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allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the state requires it. A state in which you have no say, but they really do care about you.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the state requires it. A state in which you have no say, but they really do care about you.</div>
  
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By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free selling and buying.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  What other sort of freedom is there?
  
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It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property, all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  Isn't this what happened? Isn't this why they failed? They couldn't get man to work and produce enough products to support the country on virtue?
  
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bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness;
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  They have to work to keep all the property they supposedly have.
  
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Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  How are the children currently exploited?
  
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But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social. And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, &c.?
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  Secular learning might be taught in schools, but values, beliefs, toleration are all taught in the home. The only way to have successful society without these being taught in the home is to teach them in the schools. Which they currently are not.
  
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Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  They claim that this is universally true, but they forget the virtue of some people.
  
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to freedom of commerce, to the world market,
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  capitalism has begun a reduction of national barriers.
  
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The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.
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In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another will also be put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  Appealing to the 3rd world countries of the globe. trying to make communism a good thing.
  
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The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  We don't have anything to refute these claims, so we'll say they aren't important. Further we don't believe in religion because it causes differences, we can't refute something we believe in or think should exist.
  
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
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traditional property relations
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  People as defined by their property, in a physical sense. Defied by the reputation economy.
  
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to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  manipulate the people to steal from other people, and then all will be stolen from all people.
  
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Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
- Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
  
  Capitalism with the State having a monopoly in every area within the country.
  
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Comic | The Public Domain | - 2 views

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shared by Andrew DeWitt on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached

Andrew DeWitt on 13 Oct 10

What we learned in class about copyright, put into comic book form. Very easy to follow.

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Bri Zabriskie on 14 Oct 10

Wow, thanks for sharing. That's a great way to show how crazy copyright law is.

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Epigenetics, DNA: How You Can Change Your Genes, Destiny - TIME - 1 views

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The Darwin Awards - 0 views

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Sarah Wills on 18 Oct 10

A modern day reporting of how natural selection works. Although some are funny (in a I-can't-believe-this-person-actually-did-that sort of way) I will admit that some of the stories on here are sad.

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Mormon Church Enters California Gay Marriage Fight - 0 views

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shared by Jeffrey Chen on 21 Oct 10 - Cached

Jeffrey Chen on 21 Oct 10

An article sharing on how Mormon's fought against gay marriage through many means.

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Honors Fall 2010 Semester Courses - 0 views

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shared by Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached

In this course we will view western civilization through the lens of the digital revolution, learning both what the past has to say about how we produce and share knowledge, and what our experiences with modern technology lead us to discover about the past.
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Students will become fluent with the concepts and tools needed to be lifelong learners and active participants in a world where technological innovations change rapidly.
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Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10

Guide to the courses offered in the BYU Honors program for Fall 2010

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Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10

Check out our course description as shown on the Honors website.

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YouTube to MP3 Converter - Video2mp3 - 0 views

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shared by Megan Stern on 28 Sep 10 - Cached

Megan Stern on 28 Sep 10

This website should be a part of everyone's digital literacy. Rip the audio from Youtube videos with no viruses. I can't count how many times I've used it (legally). It's a great little website and I'm sure you'll enjoy it too.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This website should be a part of everyone's digital literacy. Rip the audio from Youtube videos with no viruses. I can't count how many times I've used it (legally). It's a great little website and I'm sure you'll enjoy it too.</div>

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