"Beck (Beck Hansen) is famous for his underground, anti-folk, alternative, dreamy-yet-hook-driven music. His first biggie was "Loser" way back in 1994. But his ability to understand and reach his audience just went cosmic. He released a new album, but it's not a record or a CD or a series of MP3 files. Something way better. From the promo site: "In the wake of Modern Guilt and The Information, Beck's latest album comes in an almost-forgotten form-twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded.""

"Bienvenue sur la plateforme du RQIS! Cette plateforme est un carrefour permettant aux acteurs de l'innovation sociale : De mieux comprendre l'innovation sociale en pratique et en théorie  D'avoir accès aux ressources facilitant l'innovation sociale  D'intéragir et de développer des partenariats Plusieurs acteurs de l'innovation sociale travaillent avec nous afin d'alimenter cette plateforme en ajoutant des informations, des nouvelles et des outils. De jour en jour, vous pourrez constater les transformations apportées. N'hésitez pas à communiquer avec nous si vous souhaitez y apporter votre contribution. "

"Michael Maness, Knight's vice president of journalism and media innovation, said the foundation's interest in fact-checking is the result of a few factors. With fewer journalists working in large newsrooms, there are fewer people vetting statements by politicians and public figures. But there are arguably more claims and "facts" being spread than ever before."

In order to evaluate the severity of the situation, there are a few other relevant statistics in play. The bad news for the magazine industry was Tuesday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Audit Bureau recorded only a slight net decline in magazine sales, 0.1 percent; the loss in newsstand sales is generally considered an indication of a collapse in magazine appeal, especially among women and "prestige" audiences. Publications like Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, Christine Haughney's blog post for the Times notes, suffered even worse at the newsstand, along with celebrity magazines like People. How bad? About 18 percent declines for those three aforementioned magazines. Struggling numbers could be symptomatic of our repression economy. Newsstand sales are tied to shopping behavior in supermarkets, where consumers can exercise conscious restraint over impulse purchases. But the merely modest growth of digital sales, which John Harrington, an industry consultant quoted in Haughney's blog, called "minute compared to even newsstands and subscriptions," signal a more endemic problem. The magazine industry is falling apart, and the decay seems to be accelerating. Improvements in home and food magazine sales point to the real issue. Harrington told the Times, "by the time the magazine comes out, it's old news."

The global broadband revolution is in full swing and across the planet we are seeing people logging on the internet with faster and faster connections. It is new economies that are among the fastest. What is most astonishing - laggards like India & UK going zoom zoom.

"In summer of 2005, I started experimenting with online outsourcing. I tried eLance, Guru, and Rent-A-Coder. I tentatively started posting there programming projects that were not interesting conceptually (e.g., "crawl this website and store the data in a CSV file", "grab the CSV data from that website and put them in a database", "create a demo website that does that", etc) Quickly, I realized that this was a win-win situation: the code was completed quickly, the quality of the websites was much better than what I could prepare myself, and I was free to focus on my research. Once I started getting PhD students, outsourcing non-research coding requirements became a key part of my research approach: PhD time was too valuable to waste on writing crawlers and dealing with HTML parsing peculiarities."

"Marie is an avatar, a life-size image of a woman digitally broadcast from a projector onto an inch-thick glass screen coated with a special film, said Luis Vega, 39, the vice president of Parabit Systems, the company that built Marie. The device uses motion sensors to prompt Marie's 90-second script whenever anyone comes within 30 feet of her."

Des exploitants de petites salles aux riches producteurs hollywoodiens, toute l'industrie du cinéma est profondément bouleversée par l'arrivée du numérique. De ce constat, l'acteur américain Keanu Reeves a décidé d'en faire un film, en passant cette-fois derrière la caméra, rapporte Premiere.fr. Dans Side by Side, il décide d'aller à la rencontre d'illustres réalisateurs tels que James Cameron, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese ou encore Steven Soderbergh. Chacun donnant son sentiment sur cette révolution qui, de la 3D aux projecteurs numériques, a remplacé pour de bon l'historique « 35 mm ».

"Officiellement, les Serious Games seraient nés en 2002, via « America Army » jeu de simulation des exercices d'entrainement de l'armée américaine. Toutefois il est intéressant de noter que dès 1992, des jeux édités sur Super Nintendo et PC montraient déjà les mécanismes de scénarisation très proches de ceux qui font la philosophie des Serious Games appliqués à la santé. La thématique de ces jeux était orientés vers le diabète (Captain Novolin - 1992 / Packy & marlon - 1994). Aujourd'hui, les domaines d'applications des Serious Games dans le domaine de la santé sont très divers. Ils peuvent être destinés à l'éducation, à la prévention, à la publicité, aux soins et s'adressent aussi bien aux professionnels de santé qu'au grand public, en passant par les étudiants avec un apport pédagogique indéniable lié à l'immersion du « joueur » dans un environnement santé."

The health industry has not always been a leader in technology adoption. The current "high touch" model where caretakers deliver services within silos of care cannot be sustained because of high costs and other concerns. Making this even more of a challenge is a payment system that leaves little room for improved performance due to financial incentives. That's changing and the industry is moving toward greater "connectedness."  This new model will feature these characteristics: data-based transparency, personalized care, and consumer-directed care. Strategies such as predictive medicine and personalized care could allow players to create value in this new environment. This report outlines how executives should react and take advantage.

Get an under the hood look at the next frontier in Search, from the team at Google behind the technology. The Knowledge Graph is a huge collection of the people, places and things in the world and how they're connected to one another. With this technology, Google can get you the best possible answers and help jump start your discovery.

Google has opened its Knowledge Graph to the English-speaking world and has made intelligent voice search possible on mobile phones. Underneath it all, of course, are ever more-complex methods of analyzing data to make search smarter and easier than it has any business being.

"Google's fiber-to-the-home network may look like a loss leader for the search engine company, but its executive teams says it's profitable. Here are the three ways Google has managed to cut the costs of building out a network and beat ISPs at their own game."

"The research group notes that even with $45 billion in cash on hand, Google probably doesn't have the money to blanket the nation in its fiber. But it can cover enough ground to severely disrupt the pay TV business with a superior ISP/video solution."

Our future will be connected. Humanity is in the process of transitioning into a world in which we can be better understood as a richly connected collective than a set of individuals. Connectivity will drive our prosperity, both economic and social. Recognising this, governments around the world are all seeking to provide increased bandwidth and speed to their populations at the moment. What they can't agree on is which part of that process should be prioritised: the current debate in Britain over the choice between breadth of access and speed is a case in point.

Millions of pounds in public funds are being spent building a UK broadband network that will not be fast enough to deal with the internet needs of the future and may have to be replaced, the House of Lords has warned. The government's internet strategy and the way it is awarding £530m of public funds to extend connections to rural communities have been criticised as flawed and liable to widen the digital divide by the Lords communication committee, which on Tuesday published the findings of its six-month inquiry into the state of the nation's broadband infrastructure.

"If the Obama administration's smart disclosure initiatives gather steam, more citizens will be able to do more than think about personal data: they'll be able to access their financial, health, education, or energy data. In the U.S. federal government, the Blue Button initiative, which initially enabled veterans to download personal health data, is now spreading to all federal employees, and it also earned adoption at private institutions like Aetna and Kaiser Permanente. Putting health data to work stands to benefit hundreds of millions of people. The Locker Project, which provides people with the ability to move and store personal data, is another approach to watch."

"En Californie, la mSanté n'est pas l'apanage des médecins et des hôpitaux. Une pharmacie locale, Bi-Rite, a lancé un programme de messages automatiques pour rappeler aux patients qu'ils doivent prendre leurs médicaments."

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"OpenStack has had a great week with eBay coming out as a user and Rackspace rebranding around the open source cloud project, but life isn't all good in OpenStack world. There are still plenty of questions over its governance and development models that keep skepticism strong."