Surviving legacy code
http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/04/02/surviving-legacy-code
In the software industry, legacy code is a phrase often used as a negative by engineers and pundits alike to describe the anchor around our collective necks that prevents software from moving forward in innovative ways. Perhaps the correlation between legacy and stagnation is not so obvious—consider …
Source: Learning by Shipping
Présentation de Pump.io, la nouvelle référence du réseau social libre et décentralisé - http://mart-e.be/post/2013/04/02/pump-io-un-nouveau-reseau-social-libre-et-decentralise
Les usages sont très similaires, mais l’infrastructure est différente : SeenThis permet de s’abonner au flux d’un utilisateur de SeenThis mais Pump.io permet de s’abonner au flux des utilisateurs de n’importe quel site utilisant Pump.io et même de n’importe quel site parlant Activity Streams. Mais qui sait - peut-être qu’un jour SeenThis s’insérera dans un tel réseau... Ce sera la fin de Facebook, Google Plus et consorts.
Bien d’accord avec le commentaire de Vincent (en deux mots, pump.io réinvente la roue, et nous demande de créer encore un nouveau compte, alors qu’on a déjà XMPP). pump.io n’intéresse que les gens comme Nicolas Steinmetz (dans les commentaires) qui ne conaissent que Facebook.
XMPP et Activity Streams ne sont pas comparables : XMPP est un transport tandis que Activity Streams est un format de contenu.
Les premières implémentations d’Activity Streams utilisent HTTP parce que c’est plus communément déployé, mais rien n’interdit de faire passer de l’Activity Streams en pubsub - ce serait le rêve... Regardez https://buddycloud.org/wiki/XMPP_XEP et http://www.padgets.eu/Blog/tabid/61/EntryId/16/XMPP-as-a-protocol-for-social-media-platforms.aspx et http://onesocialweb.org/spec/1.0/osw-activities.html pour un aperçu des réflexions qui ont lieu à ce sujet.
Pump.io n’est qu’un service exploitant le protocole Activity Streams - or dans un système ouvert c’est le protocole qui compte et non le service... Même si un service de référence est souvent nécessaire pour tirer l’adoption du protocole.
L’enjeu d’Activity Streams est justement de permettre aux utilisateurs de plates-formes différentes d’interagir sans avoir à créer un compte sur la plate-forme de leur correspondant.
Saudi Arabia may end Twitter anonymity
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-arabia-may-end-twitter-anonymity
Saudi Arabia may try to end anonymity for Twitter users in the country by limiting access to the site to people who register their identification documents, the Arab News daily reported on Saturday.
Il semble c’est la même conclusion logique que toutes ces mesures qui, en France, reposent sur la dénonciation de l’« anonymat » sur internet :
“A source at (the regulator) described the move as a natural result of the successful implementation of (its) decision to add a user’s identification numbers while topping up mobile phone credit,” Arab News reported.
How Facebook could get you arrested | Technology | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/09/facebook-arrested-evgeny-morozov-extract
How Facebook could get you arrested
Smart technology and the sort of big data available to social networking sites are helping police target crime before it happens. But is this ethical?
Evgeny Morozov
The Observer, Saturday 9 March 2013 19.20 GMT
Illustration of imaginary Facebook policeman
Companies such as Facebook have begun using algorithms and historical data to predict which of their users might commit crimes. Illustration: Noma Bar
The police have a very bright future ahead of them – and not just because they can now look up potential suspects on Google. As they embrace the latest technologies, their work is bound to become easier and more effective, raising thorny questions about privacy, civil liberties, and due process.
Une excellente défense du #courrier_électronique contre la mode managériale actuelle qui voudrait que ce soit une perte de temps.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/16/in-defense-of-email
« I’m bemused by the CEOs who declare their companies are giving up email. [...] We tried that. It was called the ’80s. »
Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.
A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.
En plus, ils ont le sens de l’humour, le bouzin s’appelle RIOT !
#surveillance #raytheon
Comme le souligne The Register, les outils d’analyse du comportement des internautes sont monnaie courante dans le monde du marketing, notamment de la part de géants comme SAS ou IBM. La différence est qu’il s’agit de données souvent anonymisées et agrégées. Le site spécialisé estime que l’attention portée à l’outil de Raytheon est disproportionnée face à la puissance d’outils « #marketing » ou des bases de données de Google ou de Facebook, qui pourraient égalementpermettre de créer des profils individuels détaillés.
On est ravi de l’apprendre : au moins les vendeurs de publicité en ligne se réjouissent du « Printemps arabe » qui remplit de cash leurs tuyaux. Comme ils disent : « Il n’y a pas de doute que l’activisme arabe en ligne a réveillé les hommes d’affaire et les gouvernements. » Apparemment, ce n’est même pas de l’humour...
Has the Arab Spring turned into a torrent of cash ? | Middle East Public Relations | Spot On PR | Communications | Marketing | Media | Social Media
http://www.spotonpr.com/has-the-arab-spring-turned-into-a-torrent-of-cash
An introduction to diagrams
http://flowingdata.com/2012/12/14/an-introduction-to-diagrams
December 14, 2012 to Network Visualization by Nathan Yau
As a teaser for a larger project on diagrams, Jane Nisselson describes how they exist in the real world.
Diagrams are everywhere — from the established conventions of highway signs to the newly emerging visualizations appearing on social networking websites. Most people have a personal experience of diagrams whether drawing directions or figuring out how to operate a new computer. Yet very few people are familiar with how we read or construct diagrams.
This short film introduces the language of diagrams and their role in visual thinking and communication. As only a film can do, it reveals the vocabulary “in the wild” and in the context of making and using diagrams.
NFL’s Kluwe Slams Archbishop’s Anti-Gay Views - masteradrian’s posterous
http://masteradrian.posterous.com/nfls-kluwe-slams-archbishops-anti-gay-views
NFL’s Kluwe Slams Archbishop’s Anti-Gay Views
By Jason St. Amand
Web Producer / Staff Writer
Thursday Oct 11, 2012Chris Kluwe
Chris Kluwe
Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has been making headlines recently for his strong support for marriage equality and gay rights. The football player has called out athletes and politicians and has now criticized the archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis for a letter he wrote to a woman pleading for acceptance for her gay child.
Truth Wins Out and Think Progress have circulated a 2010 letter written by Twin Cities Catholic Archbishop John Nienstedt on social networking websites. The two-year-old letter is a response to a woman’s letter where she asks for acceptance for her gay child. But the bishop says that she might go to Hell if she comes to terms with her child’s sexual orientation.
“I write to inform you that the teaching of the Catholic Church on homosexuality, as described in paragraphs 2357 and 2358 and 2359 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is rooted in Scripture and based on the Natural Moral Law,” Nienstedt wrote. "It, therefore, shares in God’s revelation to us. Catholics are bound in conscience to believe this teaching. Those who do not cannot consider themselves to be Catholic and ought not to participate in the sacramental life of the Church.
“Indeed, some might find this is a hard saying but many of Jesus’ teachings were likewise received as such,” he continued. “I urge you to reconsider the position that you expressed in your letter. Your eternal salvation may well depend upon a conversation of heart on this topic.”
Nienstedt’s letter sparked Kluew to respond in an op-Ed piece in the Minneapolis-St.Paul Pioneer Press.
“It fills me with great sadness and regret that a steward of the Catholic Church on this Earth feels the need to take a stance of oppression, intolerance, and fear,” Kluwe wrote.
“Millions of children grow up raised in the Catholic faith. Some of these children will be gay, through no choice of their own, but because of how God created them,” he continued. "What does it say to those children when the head of their religion in this state, a man who claims to ’explain and defend the teaching of the Church because I have been ordained to do so and I believe those teachings with all my heart,’ a man acting under the direct auspices of the Pope himself, tells them that they can’t be as worthy as everyone else, even though they believe in the teachings of Jesus?
“What will these children think, as they suffer the barbed insults of their classmates and teachers; I ask you, sir, what will these children think as they are belittled and tormented due to teachings you espouse? What judgment will be passed on your soul when yet another poor child reaches for the knife or the noose to end his or her earthly torment due to your example?”
Kluwe, who also calls out Pope Benedict XVI, asks why the Catholic leaders don’t practice empathy and uses the Bible’s teachings to make his point for equality.
“If you strike me, I shall turn the other cheek. If you ask me to walk with you for a mile, I will do so,” the athlete writes. “If you ask me to respect your faith, your beliefs, then all I ask is that you do the same for everyone else. For is that not the most pertinent of Jesus’ teachings, and one that everyone, no matter their religion, can strive to achieve?”
Nienstedt’s letter may have been from two years ago, but it seems as though the bishop still hasn’t changed his anti-gay marriage views. Last week EDGE reported that Nienstedt sent a letter asking Roman Catholic followers to support a legislation that would ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota.
When the letter was read, many parishioners were so upset that they walked out during church services.
LiquidFeedback – Interactive Democracy
http://liquidfeedback.org
est-ce que parmi vous quelqu’unE a expérimenté ce type de plateforme ? ça m’intéresse…
Liquid Feedback is an open-source software, powering internet platforms for proposition development and decision making.
LiquidFeedback is an independent open source project published under MIT license by the Public Software Group of Berlin, Germany.
http://liquidfeedback.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/head62-english1.png
je suis curieux moi aussi, d’autant que cette plateforme pose question au sein du PP allemand comme signalé par @klaus voilà deux semaines http://seenthis.net/messages/87809 #open_gov #lqfb #liquidfeedback
J’ai un peu joué avec (disclaimer : je suis pirate), et il y a du bon et du mauvais. Dans le mauvais, je ne suis pas convaincu que cette approche soit la bonne, je pense qu’elle a un certain nombre de problèmes (notamment au niveau de l’idée de délégation par sujet). Dans le bon, je suis profondément convaincu qu’il faut renouer avec l’expérimentation en démocratie, et à ce niveau là c’est un très bel exemple.
Il faut arrêter de penser que la démocratie n’a comme forme que celle qu’on avait quand nous sommes nés. C’est avec ce genre de bidouillage qu’on peut apprendre ce qui peut changer, et comment faire évoluer nos institutions.
On a essayé Crabgrass, le logiciel de réseau social de riseup.net,
https://we.riseup.net/crabgrass/about#crabgrass-une-application-web
et finalement on est retourné sur Trac puis Redmine. C’est un peu laborieux, y’a moins le système de votes, mais le système de tickets est fondamental pour avancer sur les différents projets au sein d’un collectif. Et puis ça permet à tout le monde de préparer les réunions, d’assurer un suivi des décisions et de discuter. Crabgrass intègre aussi un système de vote et de tickets.
La démocratie liquide, ça vous dit ? | Courrier international
http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2012/09/25/la-democratie-liquide-ca-vous-dit
La démocratie liquide est très efficace pour ces mouvements, mais elle doit être appliquée à la lettre pour fonctionner correctement. « Plusieurs étapes sont nécessaires. Premièrement, le nombre de votants doit être suffisamment important pour éviter un ’coup d’État’. Deuxièmement, il faut surveiller de très près l’Admin (l’administrateur de la plateforme) pour qu’il n’ait pas trop de pouvoir et qu’il n’influence pas le vote si celui-ci est ouvert. Troisièmement, il faut un règlement très strict concernant la gestion pratique de la plateforme et la certification des mandats »,
On Diaspora’s Social Network, You Own Your Data - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-10/on-diasporas-social-network-you-own-your-data
Big players, however, were watching them closely. In June 2011, Google released Google Plus, its big, this-time-is-for-real push into social networking. Tech bloggers quickly noted how much the new site looked like Diaspora—Google was “drinking Diaspora’s milkshake,” said the blog ReadWriteWeb—and, in particular, how Google’s “Circles” resembled Diaspora’s “Aspects.” That Google “took their open ideas” made Zhitomirskiy very proud, his mother says. “They clearly cribbed a bunch of stuff from us,” Salzberg says. Google says its designs predate Diaspora.
Je viens de recevoir un message de Diaspora qui présente leur dernière invention :
Thus, Makr.io <http://makr.io/>was born, and we launched last week
<http://allthingsd.com/20120816/diasporas-next-act-social-remixing-site-makr-io>! We wanted to spend some time on a unique problem we discovered while working on
Diaspora* the past couple of years—the value of ownership. Existing social networks do not encourage their users to feel like they have the power to MAKE things on the internet. Rather they are just “capturing” the ephemeral social actions that define social networks today. With Makr, we are making creativity accessible to everyone, in the hopes it enables people to realize that what you post and create online is *worth* owning. The idea is simple: make a new post
with words and photos, and then any other user can ‘remix’ your post, creating an endless collective conversation that can be inspiring or hilarious.
You can read more about our Makr mission <http://makr.io/about>here.
https://d2v75xn1eqsd0m.cloudfront.net/screenshots/f6f1adeae7933464.jpg
J’ai l’impression qu’ils viennent d’inventer un truc qui existe déjà mille fois. Il faudrait sortir plus souvent au lieu d’essayer de battre le record mondial de créativité devant l’écran.
Facebook deletes Hezbollah, Al-Manar TV pages for ‘inciting violence’ (via @alaingresh)
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Aug-17/184907-facebook-deletes-hezbollah-al-manar-tv-pages-for-inciting-viole
Facebook pages created by Al-Manar television station have been removed from the site, after a decision by the social networking website to halt activity connected with Hezbollah after their appearance on the State Department’s list of terror organizations.
Instagram is debasing real photography
The Instagram/Hipstamatic/Snapseed filters are the antithesis of creativity, and make all pictures look the same
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jul/19/instagram-debasing-real-photography
Facebook IPO engulfed by insider trading scandal
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/face-m24.shtml
Facebook IPO engulfed by insider trading scandal
By Barry Grey
24 May 2012
Multiple investigations and lawsuits have been announced following reports of deceptive practices and insider trading in connection with last Friday’s $16 billion initial public offering of Facebook stock.
On Tuesday, Reuters reported that the social networking company and its bank underwriters downgraded their forecasts for the company’s earnings shortly before they increased the number of shares and raised the offering price in advance of the IPO. Neither Facebook nor the banks publicly announced their downgrades. The major banks involved are Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.
Twitter is for “promoting lies”: Saudi Mufti
http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/twitter-is-for-promoting-lies-saudi-mufti-2012-01-29-1.439921
Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti (religious chief) has launched a virulent attack on the social networking site Twitter, saying it has become a platform for promoting lies, newspapers in the Gulf Kingdom reported on Sunday.
« Girls only code-writing camp hits Toronto »
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1116533--girls-only-code-writing-camp-hits-toronto
Pourquoi les anglo-saxons ressentent-ils le besoin de répéter les clichés les plus éculés sur les femmes, dans les articles censés encourager à leur libération ? « Girls learn differently than boys and prefer to work on projects », « women have a bit of a different perspective on the development of technology », « As the field of technology changes to focus on interaction and behavior change, such as social networking and smartphone app development, Saunders believes more women will be interested in tech careers » (la citation la plus énorme, qui reprend l’ultra-cliché comme quoi les filles sont forcément intéressées par le social, et pas par la technique)...
Unlike Us: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/2-amsterdam/program
Alternatives in Social Media
@seenthis devrait y aller (moi ce que j’en dis hein !)
Israeli students to get $2,000 to spread state propaganda on Facebook | The Electronic Intifada
http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook
The National Union of Israeli Students (NUIS) … has launched a program to pay Israeli university students $2,000 to spread pro-Israel propaganda online for 5 hours per week from the “comfort of home.”
The union is also partnering with Israel’s Jewish Agency to send Israeli students as missionaries to spread propaganda in other countries, for which they will also receive a stipend.
#israel #palestine #internet #propagande via @opironet
C’est affligeant ! À l’âge ou tu te dois d’être punk, d’être rebelle, ils font de toi le larbin d’un état facho.
Le pire, c’est qu’ils doivent y croire et le faire en pensant être de gôche et combattre le fascisme.
Je vais devenir de plus en plus parano maintenant sur seenthis.
#nakba
Il est désormais clair que nous sommes à l’aube d’une véritab le guerre de l’information numérique.
UK cops face disciplinary action over Facebook posts - Computer Business Review
http://media.cbronline.com/news/uk-cops-face-disciplinary-action-over-facebook-posts-020112
More than 150 police officers faced disciplinary action during 2008-2010 over their behaviour on the social networking site
More than 150 police officers faced disciplinary action in England and Wales during the period 2008-2010 over their behaviour on the social networking site Facebook, according to details released by Press Association.
Policemen have used Facebook to harass former partners and ex-colleagues, to make comments on their counterparts wives and some even suggested having beaten up members of the public during protests, figures collected from 41 of the 43 forces show.
An officer in Hampshire was dismissed without notice in 2009 for posting a racist comment on Facebook, while another officer was dismissed in early part of 2011 for referring to a colleague as a “grass” and a “liar” on Facebook and harassing a policewoman.
Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/occupy-facebook/all/1
“I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a team of activist-geeks redesigning social networking for the era of global protest.
#internet #réseauxsociaux #bigbrother #espionnage
Social networking : What facebook knows about you
taz.de
The Austrian law student Max Schrems managed to get his data from facebook. We visualised his data.
This graph shows you the exact login-times. Bild: Michael Kreil
A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked facebook to send him all their data stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this. Because facebook is based in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then facebook sent Max a CD with 1222 PDF files.
Schrems was surprised how much the social network knows about him and his friends. And how much it remembers. In theory, people at facebook could read all of his facebook messages. And find out what he has written on criminal law.
A voir plus particulièrement la petite vidéo et le graph des « log in » ...
cc @fil
How the US Justice Department legally hacked my Twitter account | Birgitta Jónsdóttir | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/11/us-justice-department-legally-hacked-twitter
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/red/blue_pics/2011/11/11/birgittatweet_460x276.jpg
Before my Twitter case, in which the US Department of Justice has demanded that the social media site hands over personal information about my account which it deems necessary to its investigation of WikiLeaks, I didn’t think much about what rights I would be signing off when accepting user agreement in my computer. The text is usually lengthy, in a legal language that most people don’t understand. Very few people read the user agreements, and very few understand their legal implications if someone in the real world would try to use one against them.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/11-3
A Virginia district court judge has ruled the U.S. government can collect the private information of three WikiLeaks volunteers from the social networking site, Twitter. The government has subpoenaed all the account information of Icelandic lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir, Dutch activist Rop Gongrjip and programmer Jacob Appelbaum. Thursday’s ruling upholds a lower court judgment in March that found the subpoena does not violate constitutional protections against unreasonable searches.
The Great Tech War Of 2012 | Fast Company
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook
#amazon #apple #google #facebook #tech_companies
via @opironet
Et pour les récents développements cf. http://www.fastcompany.com/1788728/the-great-tech-war-of-2012-ongoing-skirmishes
MEXICO: Decapitated woman mourned by social media website
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/09/mexico-twitter-nuevo-laredo-woman-victim-social-media-.html
A woman found decapitated in the border city of Nuevo Laredo is being mourned as an apparent member of a social networking site used by local residents to share information on drug cartel activity.
Facebook and Twitter Will Say No to Social Media Blocking in Wake of Riots
- Techland - TIME.com
http://techland.time.com/2011/08/24/facebook-and-twitter-will-say-no-to-social-media-blocking-in-wake-of-
Good news for rioters and social networking ne’er-do-wells (and, those groups notwithstanding, anti-censorship folk in general): Facebook and Twitter won’t knuckle under to calls they be shut down when citizens get unruly—as England’s citizenry did just a few weeks ago in London and several other British cities.