NeuroFocus Uses Neuromarketing to Hack Your Brain Think Anonymously Undoing Power Undoing Power Klaus Krippendorff The Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia From: Critical Studies in Mass Communication 12, 2: 101-132, 1995 "Liberation is a way of talking about power." --- Bruce A. "Philosophers merely interpreted the world ... the point is to change it." --- Karl Marx, 1845 (1978, p.7) This essay speaks into power -- not about what the powerless lack or what the powerful have too much of and in terms of which empowerment would mean appropriating it from Others. As the deliberately ambiguous title, "undoing power," suggests, this essay not only explores the undoability of power, it also shows, to the extend that a written paper can, the power to "undo" such phenomena, whether as critical social scientists or in everyday life. In pursuit of these aims, I will start with an experiment in perception. Doing Ordinary Languaging Frankly, I much prefer talking to writing. Eskimo-indian Some Discourses on Power "Power" is first of all a word.
Google's Negative Ranking Factors - Whiteboard Friday By now you've heard about SEOmoz's study of Google ranking factors, but what about negative ranking factors? Sure, positive factors such as the correlations between social media shares and higher rankings earn a lot of attention - and they should. Smart SEOs look at all the factors, including those at the bottom of the list! Howdy, SEOmoz! Now, we talk about ranking factors a lot here at SEOmoz. Some of the more positive famous ranking factors that we talk about are such things as page authority, which has a 0.28 correlation to higher rankings. What we don't talk a lot about is the opposite effect, the negative correlation. Domain Name Length Starting with some simple ones, an obvious negative correlation is the domain name length, 0.07. Response Time Kind of a controversial one here - response time. AdSense Now here is a surprising one. Percent of Followed Linking Pages The most surprising result of this year's correlation data was the percent of followed linking pages.
En direct depuis le Chaos Communication Camp L'OWNI Team est au CCC 2011 toute la semaine. Retrouvez ici interviews, photos et vidéos, en direct de la base militaire de l'ex-RDA. [MAJ le jeudi 18 à 18 h 30]. OWNI a planté sa tente au Chaos Communication Camp pour 5 jours. Dans les épisodes précédents: - Jour 1 : Le Storify de l’arrivée de l’équipe d’OWNI sur place- Jour 2 : Interviews vidéo de James Carlson et de Quentin Noirfalisse- Jour 3 : Où l’on apprend qu’il y a des enfants dans un campement de hackers et ce qu’est le “Guerrila Knitting”- Jour 4 : Interviews de John Gilmore (EFF) et de Okhin (Telecomix)- Jour 5 : Interviews vidéo de Birgitta Jònsdòttir, Macro du C-Base, Mitch Altman, Benjamin de la Quadrature du Net et Eric Corley Le visage serein de Mitch Altman, le créateur de TV-be-gone, figure historique des hackers. Photo Ophelia Noor CC by sa nc #cccamp11 Day 5 Eric Corley – 2006 hacker quarterly : « c’est normal de présupposer qu’on ne nous dit pas la vérité. » À lire aussi sur OWNI, une interview de Mitch Altman. Utopie ?
The Conspiracy Theory Detector This past September 23 a Canadian 9/11 "truther" confronted me after a talk I gave at the University of Lethbridge. He turned out to be a professor there who had one of his students filming the “confrontation.” By early the next morning the video was online, complete with music, graphics, cutaways and edits apparently intended to make me appear deceptive (search YouTube for “Michael Shermer, Anthony J. Hall”). “You, sir, are not skeptical on that subject—you are gullible,” Hall raged. "We can see that the official conspiracy theory is discredited....It is very clear that the official story is a disgrace, and people who go along with it like you and who mix it in with this whole Martian/alien thing is discrediting and a shame and a disgrace to the economy and to the university." Conspiracy theories are a dollar a dozen. Nevertheless, we cannot just dismiss all such theories out of hand, because real conspiracies do sometimes happen.
Value Of Tech M&A Deals Nearly Doubled In Q2 2011 To $52.1 Billion While tech company IPOs have captured buzz of late, it looks like M&A activity in the sector has been booming. According to an Ernst & Young report, big deals drove the aggregate value of global technology M&A to $52.1 billion in the second quarter of 2011, nearly doubling the deal value from the first quarter (up 92 percent to be exact). Ernst & Young said that the surge was attributed mainly to industry consolidation and by ongoing innovations in areas such as cloud computing, smart mobility, internet and mobile video, the smart grid and solar energy. Overall, deal volume for the quarter increased 24% year-over-year (YOY) to 777 deals, but declined 2% sequentially from 794 deals in 1Q 2011. This past quarter’s M&A value was 69% higher than the same quarter in 2010, when M&A deals were valued at $30.8 billion. Microsoft-Skype was the largest deal in the quarter, followed by Texas Instrument’s $6.5 billion acquisition of National Semiconductor.
Journal du Pirate 10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web Not everything on the web will show up in a list of search results on Google or Bing; there are lots of places that their web crawlers cannot access. To explore the invisible web, you need to use specialist search engines. Here are our top 12 services to perform a deep internet search. What Is the Invisible Web? Before we begin, let's establish what does the term "invisible web" refer to? Simply, it's a catch-all term for online content that will not appear in search results or web directories. There are no official data available, but most experts agree that the invisible web is several times larger than the visible web. The content on the invisible web can be roughly divided into the deep web and the dark web. The Deep Web The deep web made up of content that typically needs some form of accreditation to access. If you have the correct details, you can access the content through a regular web browser. The Dark Web The dark web is a sub-section of the deep web. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Exclusive: SEC Will Likely Toughen Rules for Secondary Markets U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials in March met with secondary market executives to warn them of impending regulatory changes, peHUB has learned. The regulators told the executives that they want more stringent checks of individuals’ accreditation and improved diligence regarding the financials of companies being auctioned to investors, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. One participant in the discussions, who asked not to be named, said he expects the agency to formally propose new regulations for the secondary market by the end of this year. “You will likely see more requirements coming out,” from the SEC, the source said. Another source acknowledged that the SEC may push to have all financial statements distributed by private stock auctioneers subjected to an audit that is presented to secondary market investors — adding a substantial layer of compliance for auction sites. Murphy declined to provide specifics on talks held with the SEC.
Anonymous Twitter Alternative Created For Protesters & Revolutionaries There was a mass of news back in August about the London riots and how social media (especially Twitter) and the BlackBerry Messenger service (BBM) enabled the rioters to organize themselves via broadcast messages and tweets. After discovering a lot of rioters got busted from their Tweets and BBM messages (which are of course traceable) – some smart fella game up with a new form of instant messaging anonymously. It works in a geographic location and allows you to broadcast messages within a certain locality that expire after a certain time. This comes not long after the Anonymous social network Anon+/AnonPlus was announced back in July 2011. After discovering that BBM and their Twittery playthings fed straight into the hands of the cops, smartphone-toting revolutionaries have taken up a new type of instant messaging – Vibe.Like Twitter in that it is open and lets you mass-message, Vibe is unlike Twitter in that all messages or “vibes” are anonymous. Vibe By Zami.com Source: The Register
Data Mining Reveals How Conspiracy Theories Emerge on Facebook During the Italian elections last year, a post appeared on Facebook that rapidly became viral. The post’s title was this: “Italian Senate voted and accepted (257 in favor and 165 abstentions) a law proposed by Senator Cirenga to provide policy makers with €134 billion Euros to find jobs in the event of electoral defeat”. The post was created on Facebook page known for its satirical content and designed to parody Italian politics. It contains at least four false statements: the senator involved is fictitious, the total number of votes is higher than is possible in Italian politics, the amount of money involved is more than 10% of Italian GDP and the law itself is an invention. The parody struck a chord with disenchanted voters who shared it some 35,000 times in less than a month. The meme was re-posted with additional commentary on a Facebook page devoted to political commentary. Welcome to the murky world of conspiracy theories. The results make for interesting reading.
Google throws a tantrum -- accuses Microsoft, others, of "hostile, organized campaign" A few weeks ago, Google was involved in bidding for 6,000 patents being offered by Nortel, which many thought if Google should win, would beef up their defense against patent litigation. Instead, they lost to a consortium of Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Sony, EMC and Ericsson for $4.5 billion. Basically everyone won except Google. At the time this story was spun two ways: Nortel's patent were old, outdated and not worth the money for GoogleGoogle wasn't taking it seriously, with Reuters calling their behavior "mystifying" because their bids reflected famous mathematical constants (Brun's, Meissel-Mertens and Pi). Yes, Google actually bid Pi ($3.14159 billion). After all the gnashing of teeth by tech analysts, who kept pounding Google on their lack of patent strategy, Google has come out with some name calling and accusations of their own: That's David Drummond, Senior VP and CLO of Google, who can't even get that's its called Windows Phone, not Mobile. Source: The Official Google Blog