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Chris is expanding this article into a book, due out in May 2006. Follow his continuing coverage of the subject on The Long Tail blog. In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called Touching the Void, a harrowing account of near death in the Peruvian Andes.

E-learning revolution Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.

Welcome. Please come in. Imagine that we're together, you and I, seated at the edge of a vineyard laden with fruit. If you accept this invitation, you'll be stepping into ripening time - the theme of this site. Ripening, as I use it here, means coming to our full flavor as human beings.

excellent reference in English

Full list of links to training slides, handouts, assignments and exercises, videos about wikimedia projects

Unusual : a promotional video by a private company http://www.howcast.com/guides/592-How-to-Use-Internet-Search-and-Web-Browsers

Petit quiz sur la netiquette en anglais

A TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee a lancé un appel pour "des données brutes, maintenant" - afin que les gouvernements, les scientifiques et les institutions rendent leur données publiques sur internet. A l'université TED en 2010, il montre quelques-uns des résultats intéressants que l'on obtient en reliant les données. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web's standards and development. Language : english Subtitles : french

Ce bref clip en anglais résume sommairement la différence entre copyright et copyleft.

Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to differ. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.

TEDxDeakinUniversity (Melbourne) invited Bruce Sterling as a speaker. The theme of his talk was Alien Aesthetics. He's American science fiction author who is best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre.