Why politicians don’t get the Internet: http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/why-politicians-dont-get-the-internet - the very definition of a culture gap... Required reading !
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Ah, tiens, il y a une conférence à Pas Sage en Seine cette année sur ce thème (« les politiciens ne comprennent pas l’Internet ») http://www.passageenseine.org/pses-2012
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Thème : Le technocrate, le geek et le politique ignorant
Intervenant : Stéphane BortzmeyerLe synopsis donne envie.
La politique est l’un des rares domaines où il faut savoir parfois interpréter comme de la malice ce que partout ailleurs il faut voir comme de l’incompétence.
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Along the same theme, this article published today : “The problem with nerd politics” - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/14/problem-nerd-politics - “If we don’t operate within the realm of traditional power and politics, then we will lose”.
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No-one owns it: governments are defined by what they control.
Everyone can use it: in government, making laws means imposing restrictions on people.
* Anyone can improve it: Business and government cherish authorized roles. It’s the job of only certain people to do certain things, to make the right changes. -
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Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers | Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/03/death-of-drm-good-newsAt the end of April, Tor Books, the world’s largest science fiction publisher, and its UK sister company, Tor UK, announced that they would be eliminating digital rights management (DRM) from all of their ebooks by the summer. It was a seismic event in the history of the publishing industry. It’s the beginning of the end for DRM, which are used by hardware manufacturers and publishers to limit the use of digital content after sale. That’s good news, whether you’re a publisher, a writer, a dedicated reader, or someone who picks up a book every year or two (...) Source: The Guardian
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demain est la journée internationale de refus des DRM.
http://www.april.org/journee-internationale-contre-les-drm-edition-2012
Cory Doctorow en parle aujourd’hui dans The Guardian ►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/03/death-of-drm-good-news
à propos en particulier de l’abandon de ce mode de marquage par Tor Books.