The discontents derived from the bureaucratization of major institutions are very similar to the ones just mentioned. However, they are even broader in scope for the simple reason that bureaucratization has affected nearly every sector of social life.
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Discover, Monitor, and Protect Your Confidential Information - 0 views
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As business data for a company proliferates, it should also start looking at how to protect those data from outside infiltration. It is time SMEs should start taking data security even more seriously now.
EXCLUSIVE REVIEWS OF THE BEST ELECTRIC SHAVERS BY BRAUN IN MARKET - 0 views
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The act of shaving, regardless of the tools involved, has been around for so many years. In another word, A man who considers daily shaving as a sign of civility. They always shaving before they go to work or outside. That's one important step and manner when you meet others. Therefore, almost each man own one or two electric shavers. That's why electric shavers are popular on men's gift lists.
These Countries Give Visa on Arrival for Indians - Gossip Ki Galliyan - 0 views
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We all know the hassles that come with making preparations for a holiday. However, the most difficult thing is getting a visa for the destination we intend to visit. Going for a vacation outside India isn't just about packing your bags or choosing an exotic destination location, it is a rather long drawn affair and there is a lot of planning to do. The most important of them all is the procurement and management of visas to enter the country you plan to visit. To get that to happen, an interview at the respective consulate is imperative and despite hours of documentation, there is always the downright fatal chance of your visa being rejected. In order to solve this dreaded happening situation, how about visiting places that provide on arrival visa for Indian citizens? Sounds good, right? So here are 10 countries that offer visa on arrival for us, Indians:
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Enjoy your favourite show outdoor with this outdoor design TV wall mount, constructed from high quality steel materials and high grade outdoor powder-coated finish to prevents scratches and rust.
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Le boxeur congolais a été battu par le Cubain Yunier Dorticos pour le titre WBA des lourds-légers, vendredi soir à Paris. Au Palais des Sports, La ceinture mondiale fuit décidément Youri Kalenga. C...
Gives Life Meaning: Homeless Mind - Modernity's Discontents - 2 - 0 views
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A congregation of Tibetan Buddhist monks, let us say, transplanted to the United States, can start using electric razors without thereby altering the character of their social relations. If, however, this monastic community started to bureaucratize its procedures, the very fabric of its social life would change almost immediately.
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The individual is "surrounded" by bureaucracy far more effectively than he is by the technologized economy,
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'Online Social Networking on Campus' :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source f... - 0 views
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Facebook, for example, is understood by students as “real” with a complex web of rules that guide playful misrepresentation, for example.
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In our study, it was evident that student use of Facebook was governed by the degree to which students felt that they controlled self-presentation or digital agency
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A code of Facebook ethics for faculty currently exists on the site and I would recommend that faculty review it.
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Are the Creators of Twitter Living in the Last Dreamworld on Earth? -- New York Magazine - 0 views
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That is to say: Are we really becoming a nation of people who reflexively share information with everyone the minute we have it? We might be. Twitter has no choice but to hope so. They might be right.
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He would have been vilified by bloggers and Twitterers alike. His is a culture of sharing information. This is the culture Twitter is counting on. Whatever your thoughts on its ability to exist outside the collapsing economy or its inability (so far) to put a price tag on its services, that’s a real thing. That’s the instinct Stone was talking about. If the nation has tens of millions of people like Krums, that’s a phenomenon. That’s what Twitter is waiting for.
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On his personal blog, Krums, five days before the crash, posted that one of his goals for 2009 was to “Have over 1000 followers on Twitter,” adding, “this goal has no real purpose other that to prove that I can do it. It will make me feel better about myself.” Needless to say, after the crash, it worked: He’s at more than 4,000.
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That is to say: Are we really becoming a nation of people who reflexively share information with everyone the minute we have it? We might be. Twitter has no choice but to hope so. They might be right.
Arab Media: The Web 2.0 Revolution - 0 views
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The Cairo News Company, which provided satellite services and equipment for Al Jazeera, the BBC and CNN, was raided by police after it transmitted footage of the food riots.
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But new media applications were changing the rules. This was demonstrated by the arrest of a journalism student from Berkeley named James Karl Buck, who was detained along with his Egyptian interpreter as he photographed a street protest. Buck used the Twitter application on his cell phone to send a snapshot of himself and the text message “arrested” to a list serve of his contacts. His friends used the message to prompt intervention from Berkeley and the U.S. consulate. Buck was soon able to Twitter the word “free,” and mounted an online campaign to release his interpreter.
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police finally located him and tortured him for his Facebook password and names of the other group members (the vast majority of which he didn’t know).
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Anonymous - Encyclopedia Dramatica - 0 views
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Anonymous, in addition to being responsible for 85% of all quotes ever made, is the source of 91% of all internet truth and justice and 32.33, repeating of course, daily dosage of Vitamin /b/. Anonymous is void of human restraints, such as pity and mercy. Those who perform reckless actions or oppose Anonymous will be eliminated. Failure is not tolerated. Enemies are to be dealt with swiftly and efficiently. Anonymous must work as one. No single Anonymous knows everything. Anonymous is everyone and noone. You are. I am. Everyone is. Anonymous is humanity when the gloves come off.
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Anonymous is not a person, nor is it a group, movement or cause: Anonymous is a collective, a commune of human thought and useless imagery. A gathering of sheep and fools, assholes and trolls, and normal everyday netizens.
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Anonymous is not so much unlike other web communities, it has in-jokes, culture, extended debates, etc, just like everyone else.
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the best ethnography of anonymous out there, written by anonymous
SLumming » Almost a Year: Education (in SL) - 0 views
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I believe that any college or university which accepts US federal dollars and requires students to use second life as a classroom space is in violation of regulation 508 because SL is not accessible to individuals who are blind.
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The creation of an inaccessible school is a de facto violation of US laws governing accessibility including IDEA, and regulations 504 and 508.
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The much bruited installation of “voice chat” as accessibility option is merely an indication of how very little the educational establishment actually understands the issue of accessibility.
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Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - 0 views
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In the case of the One Machine we should look for evidence of self-governance at the level of the greater cloud rather than at the component chip level. A very common cloud-level phenomenon is a DDoS attack. In a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack a vast hidden network of computers under the control of a master computer are awakened from their ordinary tasks and secretly assigned to "ping" (call) a particular target computer in mass in order to overwhelm it and take it offline. Some of these networks (called bot nets) may reach a million unsuspecting computers, so the effect of this distributed attack is quite substantial. From the individual level it is hard to detect the net, to pin down its command, and to stop it. DDoS attacks are so massive that they can disrupt traffic flows outside of the targeted routers - a consequence we might expect from an superorganism level event.
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Unsurprisingly the vast flows of bits in the global internet exhibit periodic rhythms. Most of these are diurnal, and resemble a heartbeat. But perturbations of internet bit flows caused by massive traffic congestion can also be seen. Analysis of these "abnormal" events show great similarity to abnormal heart beats. They deviate from an "at rest" rhythms the same way that fluctuations of a diseased heart deviated from a healthy heart beat. Prediction: The One Machine has a low order of autonomy at present. If the superorganism hypothesis is correct in the next decade we should detect increased scale-invariant phenomenon, more cases of stabilizing feedback loops, and a more autonomous traffic management system.
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3) Perhaps 4chan is its face? Perhaps Anonymous speaks for the ii? Memes drift up out of the morass of /b/tards into the world, seemingly without a concrete source. “I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER” may be the global intelligence saying “hi”… or perhaps more poetically, babbling like a baby. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121564928060441097.html?mod=rss_E-Commerce/Media
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Kevin Kelly is an amazing theorist about technology and here outlines the potential of it creating a global superorganism. Section II about autonomy is very interesting in context and a commenter suggests that perhaps Anonymous is the emerging face of this autonomous superorganism. Very intriguining indeed, but do you buy it?
Political Freelancers Use Web to Join the Attack - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Mr. Greenwald’s McCain videos, most of which portray the senator as contradicting himself in different settings, have been viewed more than five million times — more than Mr. McCain’s own campaign videos have been downloaded on YouTube.
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Mr. Greenwald shows how technology has dispersed the power to shape campaign narratives, potentially upending the way American presidential campaigns are fought.
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But in the 2008 race, the first in which campaigns are feeling the full force of the changes wrought by the Web, the most attention-grabbing attacks are increasingly coming from people outside the political world. In some cases they are amateurs operating with nothing but passion, a computer and a YouTube account, in other cases sophisticated media types with more elaborate resources but no campaign experience.
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Annotated Culture of Celebrity - 0 views
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The real contribution of Baker's book, however, is that he sees in Willis's career a host of important issues that drive to the heart of antebellum celebrity culture: the commercialization of intimacy, the marketability of exposure, the public's desire for scandal, gossip, and confession. Other commentators have described this version of celebrity as a twentieth-century phenomenon. Baker corrects the record, demonstrating that by 1840, celebrity culture was thriving in the trans-Atlantic world. -- DHB
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"The Glorified Self: The Aggrandizement and the Constriction of Self."
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these players developed a "reflected self" based on their perception of how others saw them
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Stryde Hax: The Spy at Harriton High - 0 views
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packet sniffer
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Perbix describes his use of this feature outside of school grounds repeatedly during a conversation with Absolute Software employees. They were enthusiastic... now they're throwing LMSD under the bus?
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spent hours reading forum posts, messages, and communications from Mike Perbix, his "digital shadow".
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