pimg alt="dow_jones_venturewire_Nov_08.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/dow_jones_venturewire_Nov_08.jpg" width="160" height="43" /a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_auletta"Walter Mossberg/a, who has been reviewing technology since 1991 for the a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/us"Wall Street Journal/a in his weekly "a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com/"Personal Technology/a" column, is convinced the companies that succeed in this type of a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/category/econaclypse/"econaclypse/a, as a href="http://allthingsd.com/"AllThingsD/a has dubbed the economy, will be those that focus on innovation. "It has been my observation that while things do slow down in bad times, they don't stop," Mossberg said.br / br / Speaking to a packed room this week at the a href="http://showcase.dowjones.com/"Dow Jones VentureWire Technology Showcase/a in Redwood City CA, Mossberg, the "a href="http://www.time.com/time/digital/cyberelite/50.html"Most Influential Computer Journalist/a" according to Time Magazine, described the trends that excite him right now as happening both in computer hardware and computer software: strongoutside the browser Web applications, service in the cloud, and hand held computers/strong./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12665amp;cb=12665' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12665amp;n=12665' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pMuch like during the mid to late eighties, when we saw advances in the personal computer, Mossberg explained we are once again witnessing advances in hardware innovation. This time however, we are not getting excited about the a href="http://www.pc-history.org/comm.htm"Commodore/a, a href="http://www.robert.to/reports/trs80rsc3.html"Radio Shack/a and a href="http://apple2history.org/"Apple II/a devices; instead, a new model of computer is energizing the world of consumer technology. The super smart phones or hand held computers as Mossberg prefers to call them: the a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/"iPhone/a, the a href="http://www.t-mobileg1.com/"G1/a, and the a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20081119/blackberrys-storm-presses-into-the-touch-phone-fray/"soon to be released BlackBerry Storm/a./p pIn much the same way, this time also reminds Mossberg of the mid to late nineties as we are once again observing a swell of Internet innovation; this one happening on the software front with widgets/Web apps and service in the cloud./p pWith so much information available on the Internet, and the instant gratification demanded by consumers today, the melding of these products is inevitable. Mossberg, who believes widgets will flourish on hand held computers, suggested that while the new class of mobile devices offer better browsing than their predecessors, it is in the apps that he sees competition, innovation and ideas fermenting. "We don't necessarily need to go through a browser," he said./p pThe problem of course is replicating data across devices in a smooth, cohesive manner to ensure that data available on the Internet is available on the handheld. And that's where service in the cloud comes in. While corporate America has enjoyed technologies such as a href="http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/server/"BlackBerry Enterprise Server/a, a href="http://www.microsoft.com/EXCHANGE/default.mspx"Microsoft Exchange/a, and a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes/"Lotus Notes/a that have enabled data to be replicated between devices [servers, desktops, laptops and handhelds], according to Mossberg, nobody has yet been "wildly successful" in bringing this technology to the wider consumer world via the cloud. /p pAnd so the race begins. While Mossberg has always claimed he is not responsible for business coverage of tech companies, the fact remains that for the past 17 years, a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/mossberg.html"the star of the Wall Street Journal/a has accurately assessed innovation within the consumer tech market. Given his insights this week, the only questions that remain are: who will bring cloud services to the masses, and will it happen during the econaclypse? /p pemRead the transcript of Mossberg's keynote below./p pstrongWalter Mossberg: Dow Jones VentureWire Technology Showcase 2008/strong/p pstrongEffects of the economy/strong/p pI think it's obvious to everybody that we're in for a serious recession. The question is only how serious. Barack Obama probably had thirty seconds of feeling happy and now has a whole lot to worry about./p pAt AllthingsD.com, our website, we have coined a term for the economy; we're calling it the 'econaclypse' and I think we are in kind of an econaclypse./p pMy observation, and I have been writing about tech for 17 years, I don't fund anything, but I do get pitched like VCs do./p pI see all kinds of new companies, sometimes many months, sometimes over a year before their product ships. And it has been my observation that while things do slow down in bad times, they don't stop.br / br / There is a digital tidal wave in the world, all kinds of digital products, whether they are hardware products, software products, services, web 2.0, whatever the hypesters are going to call the next phase of the Web. That stuff doesn't stop. It slows down a little, but doesn't stop/p pAnd the companies obviously that can hold together and continue to work on their innovation, whether it's business model innovation, but especially if it's product innovation, those are the companies that come out of these things strongest. /p pObviously this is not a typical company and I realize the model is different when you have 25 billion dollars in cash in the bank and no debt - which is what this person has - but Steve Jobs said, it was about a month ago or three weeks ago, Steve Jobs jumped on their a href="http://theappleblog.com/2008/10/22/apples-quarterly-earnings-call-summary/"earning call/a - he rarely deigns to be on their earnings call as many of you know - and he jumped on their earning call and said: in the last recession, that's when we opened our Apple stores, that's when we did... and he mentioned a couple of different innovative and expensive projects they'd taken on during the downturn, and he says we're going to try and keep innovating our way out of it. /p pObviously on a smaller scale and without the 25 billion in cash, and maybe with a little debt that he doesn't have, still I think it's the right thing to do. And even if you don't manage to do that, somebody else will./p pJust because the market is in the eight thousands instead of the eleven thousands or unemployment - which is actually the more serious number in my opinion for gauging the length of the recession - is 8.5 percent, which it might get to rather than 4 percent, it doesn't mean people stop working on new ideas, particularly in tech and particularly in consumer tech./p pstrongMossberg's take on consumer technology today/strong/p pLet me talk about what I think is going on, kind of the big picture of where we are and then we'll do some QA if you want./p pThis period we're in right now if we put the econaclypse off to the side for a minute, this period we're in right now, to me reminds me a lot of the mid to late eighties and the mid to late nineties at the same time. And here's what I mean. It reminds me a little bit of the mid to late 90's because we have another wave of Internet innovation going on. /p pThere is obviously a million different things going on in the Internet but there are two categories I look at - and you've got to remember I don't write about, and I don't pay any attention to corporate technology, or niche technology. I also don't ever use the word enterprise, because the least enterprising and least entrepreneurial part of the entire economy are these giant bloated corporations to whom that term is often applied. I don't see anything enterprising about Ford Motor Company I just call them big corporations or big government agencies or whatever they are. Fine with me that they buy technology - it's great that they buy technology, and sure there is wonderful technology being produced for those folks, but it's not my job to write about them. So everything I say is in the context of consumer/p pSo what do I mean when I talk about things going on on the Web that are to me as exciting and there is as much fervor and ferment and intellectual energy as there was when the Web was getting going in the mid to late nineties?/p pThere are two buckets.br / br / One is outside the browser - it's these widgets, web apps, whatever you want to call them, that did start on the PC and Mac. Actually in a funny way, some of them were tried in Windows 95 with what was called a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_desktop"Active Desktop/a. Unfortunately the way that Microsoft presented it to the world was as sort of selling your personal computer desktop to Disney and Warner brothers, which allowed me to write a couple of great fulminating columns, and not just me./p pBut it was kind of this idea. And then the next instantiation of any importance, of any sort of economic clout was when Apple put this dashboard aspect into the Mac OS and then Microsoft followed with the sidebar in Vista. But really the place where I think it flourishes is on handhelds. Hand held computers, the iPhone class of computers of which there are now about to be three, and I'm going to get to that in a minute./p pSo, that's the first bucket, and I think there is colossal developer energy, intellectual energy, going into this question of "okay we have the Web out there, the Internet out there, it's just full of all kinds of information; commerce engines, and search opportunities, and entertainment opportunities, but we don't necessarily need to go through a browser - we can go through an app that takes advantage of the processing power and the graphics engine and all that on the computer that is narrowly focused on whatever it is. /p pHow many people here have an iPhone or an iPod Touch? I'm talking about everything from the simple stock widget on there, to the now over 7000 apps for that phone - for that hand held computer. That's since 11th July. Two million downloads and 7000 apps for that phone, for that hand held computer. So that's one big area of excitement.br / br / The other one, of course, is trying to take what has been true in corporate America for a long time, which is a sort of service in the cloud - whether it's the Blackberry Enterprise Server, or Microsoft Exchange or Lotus products that replicate data across devices and, push e-mail and other data out and bring that to the wider consumer world. /p pYou see Google making some effort, you see Microsoft making some effort, you see Apple with a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20080723/apples-mobileme-is-far-too-flawed-to-be-reliable/"Mobile Me/a making some efforts - that so far hasn't been successful. Nobody has really been wildly successful. Even a href="http://www.rim.com/"RIM/a - much of the RIM effort has been focused - and when I talk about the consumer space most of the RIM, distributed computing through the cloud, is still out of the enterprise - although that is changing with their customer profile./p pSo those are the two big exciting areas that I see. I'm not talking about business models for those things. I understand that there has been some debate in some of the sessions about the viability of the advertising model versus other kinds of models, and I share some skepticism about relying solely on advertising. /p pBut without regard to business model for a minute, I think those are two huge pools of excitement./p pAnd then, complementing that and this is what makes me think of the mid to late eighties as opposed to mid to late nineties. What was happening in the mid to late eighties?/p pRemember the personal computer; the mass market personal computer appeared in 1977. /p pYou had three of them; one of the most important of the three was the Apple II, but you also had a Radio Shack and Commodore. And those were the first machines where somebody without an engineering degree could actually take it out of the box and do something with it. And on the Apple II in particular, that's where business began to adopt personal computers because a href="http://www.bricklin.com/default.htm"Dan Bricklin/a and a href="http://www.frankston.com/"Bob Frankston/a wrote a program called a href="http://www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm"VisiCalc/a. It was a spreadsheet, it ran on the Apple II and you were off to the races in terms of businesses using personal computers./p pBut it was in the eighties that you began to see this tremendous competition and intellectual activity and design activity and engineering activity around "what is a personal computer?"/p pSo you had Apple doing its stuff, you had Commodore, you had Radio Shack, you had, you know, a million companies. /p pWhen I started writing my Personal Technology column in 1991, a href="http://www.pcmag.com/"PC Magazine/a, and first of all, PC Magazine was the size of Vogue, and when they did their ratings of computers, there were 75 or 80 PC makers, and they were not all making the same sort of thing./p pWell I think we're kind of back there because I think there are new form factors and models of computers. Some of them are these a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20081105/netbooks-come-into-their-own/"netbooks/a, everybody's heard that term, it's actually a misnomer. The original idea was it would be a very thin client, with very little memory and processing power and would mostly be used to access things on the Net, these widgety kinds of things. And there is still some of that, but within eight months, they've all gotten hard disks, they've all gotten Windows XP so they've all kind of become very small laptops, but nevertheless, it's an interesting category./p pThe much bigger category of new kinds of computers is what I call hand held computers or another term might be super smart phones. I mean this smart phone term has been out there and has meant very little. At one point a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a6c4f799-ec5c-427c-807c-4c0f96765a81displaylang=en"Microsoft actually was using it as a brand/a for something that by today's standards would look very primitive./p pYou know, a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20060105/a-new-palm-treo-doesnt-beat-the-650/"Treos/a were smart phones, Blackberry is a kind of smart phone, obviously these Windows mobile phones that have been out there but there is something new, another whole level of game changing power, and application development that was kicked off with the iPhone and there are now two devices in my opinion that are in that category; one is the iPhone, and one is the a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20081015/google-answers-the-iphone/"G1, the first Android phone/a, and there will be many other Android phones. /p pAnd this week we're about to see a third, which is this, the BlackBerry Storm, which is their effort to compete with the iPhone head on. It's a touch screen phone which will have an app store, and I'm not referring to the - there have obviously been third party apps for the Blackberry, but this is going to have, it has a new SDK, and it will have a major app store like Apple has like Google has for the G1./p pThese things are computers that happen to make phone calls./p pSome of you who have tried some of these 7K apps on the iPhone know that here is pretty much a staggering variety of what you can do on there. And I at least can say in my travels and daily life, I'm as glued as the rest of you probably are to this stuff. I'm pulling out my laptop less and less often during stopovers at airports, and it's not just like when you use to have your Blackberry or Treo and you could look at your e-mail. /p pI'm doing Web surfing in the browser - which is a good browser in the iPhone - and all of these, the marks of these is they have a much more real browsers than the old phones used to have, but I'm also using a lot of these apps. These are kind of big broad areas where I think it is quite fun and exciting to see competition, ideas ferment; and innovation./p pNow are these things immune to the economy? Of course they're not - of course RIM would rather be launching and Verizon would rather be launching Blackberry Storm in last years economy than in this years economy, and it may be that what it would have done in last years economy is not going to happen in this years economy. But luckily for me, I don't have to cover the business side of RIM or Verizon, I don't have to predict sales, I just have try to review and try to understand these products and where they are heading./p pJust as a lot of the design and engineering energy left things like CD-ROMs and rushed into the Web when it was clear that it was a big deal, I observed, and I don't know about all of you, but I'm observing a tremendous migration of design and engineering activity into these super smart phones or hand held computers, iPhone class devices. And into these both cloud services and these kind of widgety outside the browser Web apps./p pSo that's what I think are the big kind of trends that going on right now, at least in consumer technology - of course mixed with other things. People are still making laptops, we have a new version of Windows coming, which I actually think has a chance of being quite good, and quite good is not a phrase you would have seen in any of my columns next to the word Vista, but I think the track they're on with Windows 7 is quite promising. 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In a November 19 blog post on ABCNews.com, reporter Matt Jaffe uncritically reported that in a November 13 speech at Catholic University of America, Cardinal J. Francis Stafford "railed against a speech [President-elect Barack] Obama gave July 17, 2007, to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America when the Illinois lawmaker reiterated his support of Roe v. Wade, saying he didn't want his two daughters, Malia and Sasha, to be 'punished by a pregnancy.' " But Stafford's assertion contains several falsehoods, none of which Jaffe corrected or otherwise noted. Obama did not say the word "punished" - or refer to being "punished" with "a pregnancy" or otherwise -- at any point during his July 17, 2007, Planned Parenthood speech. Obama did use the phrase "punished with a baby" during a March 29, 2008, campaign event in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, but as Media Matters for America has previously documented, Obama was referring to sex education -- not Roe v. Wade or abortion generally -- when he said during that event: "I've got two daughters -- 9 years old and 6 years old. I'm going to teach them first of all about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

According to audio posted by Catholic University of America's The Tower, during the November 13 speech, Stafford claimed of Obama:

His clenched jaw was seen at his talk before the Planned Parenthood supporters July 17, 2007. There he asserted, quote, and I'm quoting, somewhat out of context but not out of his meaning, "We are not only going to win this election, but also we are going to transform this nation. The first thing I will do as president is to sign the Freedom of Choice Act -- FOCA. I put Roe at the center of my lesson plan on reproductive freedom when I taught constitutional law. I don't want my daughters punished -- punished by a pregnancy." "On this issue," he continued, "I will not yield on the issues that we're going to [inaudible]." End of quote. Note the way the president-elect wished to describe the killing of his unborn grandchild. His daughters must not be quote, "punished - punished," by pregnancy.

But contrary to Stafford's claim, Obama did not use the phrase "punished by a pregnancy" or even the word "punished" at any point during the July 17, 2007, Planned Parenthood speech.

During the March 29, 2008, campaign event in Pennsylvania, while discussing sex education - not abortion -- Obama said:

So, when it comes to -- when it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include -- which should include abstinence only -- should include abstinence education and teaching that children -- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters -- 9 years old and 6 years old. I'm going to teach them first of all about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at the age of 16. You know, so, it doesn't make sense to not give them information. You still want to teach them the morals and the values to make good decisions.

From the March 29 edition of CNN's Ballot Bowl 2008:

MARY SNOW (CNN correspondent): Welcome back to CNN's edition of Ballot Bowl. This is a chance for you to hear directly from the candidates. I'm Mary Snow in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where Senator Barack Obama is holding a town hall meeting right now, taking questions from the audience. Let's go straight to Senator Barack Obama; he just was asked a question about how his administration, if he's elected, would deal with the issue of HIV and AIDS and also sexually transmitted diseases with young girls. Here's Senator Barack Obama.

OBAMA: -- or we give them really expensive surgery and we don't spend money on the front end keeping people healthy in the first place. So, when it comes to -- when it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include -- which should include abstinence only -- should include abstinence education and teaching that children -- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters -- 9 years old and 6 years old. I'm going to teach them first of all about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at the age of 16.

You know, so, it doesn't make sense to not give them information. You still want to teach them the morals and the values to make good decisions. That will be important, number one. Then we're still going to have to provide better treatment for those who do have -- who do contract HIV/AIDS, because it's no longer a death sentence, if, in fact, you get the proper cocktails. It's expensive. That's why we want to prevent as much as possible.

But we should also provide better treatment. And we should focus on those sectors where it's prevalent and we've got to get over the stigma because understand that the fastest growth in HIV/AIDS is in heterosexuals, not gays. And so, we've got to get out of that stigma that we still have around it. It's connected also to drug use. So, one of the things we have to do is to start thinking about better substance abuse treatment programs around drugs and not just treat it as a criminal justice issue. Treat it as a public health issue as well.

From Jaffe's November 19 ABCNews.com post:

Stafford, who has worked at the Vatican for 12 years and heads the Apostolic Penitentiary, said that, on Nov. 4, "a cultural earthquake hit America" when Obama was elected, after campaigning on an "extremist anti-life platform.

"He appears to be a relaxed, smiling man. His rhetorical skills, as I mentioned, are very highly developed," Stafford noted.

"But under all of that grace and charm, there is a tautness of will, a clenched jaw, a state of constant alertness, to attack and resist any external influence that might affect his will."

Specifically, Stafford railed against a speech Obama gave July 17, 2007, to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America when the Illinois lawmaker reiterated his support of Roe v. Wade, saying he didn't want his two daughters, Malia and Sasha, to be "punished by a pregnancy."

Also last week, as reported here, a South Carolina priest was repudiated for saying Catholic Obama supporters need penance before taking communion, "lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."

Well, here’s a barnburner of an essay and Powerpoint!

To quote Steve Sumner’s essay again, “Unless played very carefully, Dungeons & Dragons could easily become a proxy race war, with your group filling the shoes of the noble white power crusaders seeking to extinguish any orc war bands or goblin villages they happened across.” I would argue with/ Sumner’s use of the phrase “could become,” and say that unless played very carefully, D&D usually becomes a proxy race war. Any adventurer knows that if you see an orc, you kill it. You don’t talk to it, you don’t ask what it’s doing there - you kill it, since it’s life is worth less than the treasure it carries and the experience points you’ll get from the kill. If filmed, your average D&D campaign would look something like Birth of a Nation set in Greyhawk.

–Race in D&D.

It’s “just a game” you say? Check out this quote:

While doing research for this talk, I came across the Stormfront web-site. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this vile-corner of the internet, it is the world’s largest discussion forum for white-supremacists. One of the most popular topics is “Culture and Customs,” with one of the most active forums being “High Fantasy and Lord of the Rings.” …Others yield such laughably offensive as the thread: “Drizzt Do’Urden fans, do you find the books blatantly pro-Negro?”

…I came across “Learn All You Need to Know About Race from Dungeons & Dragons,” posted by Holy Roman Empire. I quote here liberally…

“I completely understood how there could be smart blacks and yet blacks be less intelligent than whites as a whole when I was a child. When was the first time I thought about an idea like that? When I got into Dungeons and Dragons at the age of nine or ten. I knew that elves were more agile than humans. I knew that because they had a +1 bonus (back when I started playing, now its +2) to Dexterity…

“And this point may seem a bit silly, but it introduces an important idea that most white people are conditioned not to believe in - racial essentialism…

“D&D also has a lot about racial loyalty. Elves band together in protection of their forests…

“…I think that some of those ideas I was exposed to as a child were good lessons that maybe helped me come to terms with ideas that are part of being a White Nationalist.”

This echoes for me some of the stuff that I said a few years ago about the cultural tropes that MMORPGs are caught in.

Hey all,

Sorry I wasn't more specific with the thread title, I just couldn't really shorten this to one phrase.

I am using a 2G iPhone that my friend gave me, seeing if I like it better than my beloved blackberry, and I am having some issues. This may be covered elsewhere, but I could not find anything with a search.

I was using an iPod touch, and had all sorts of apps and music on there. However, I cannot load my apps or music onto my new iPhone. It just won't let me, I don't get an error or anything. I assume this is because the iPod touch and the iPhone are registered to two different people (I did not do a restore to the iPhone, I manually deleted his music and apps). This makes sense for the apps, but I don't know why my music wouldn't be able to go onto any iPod/mp3 player I try to load it onto.

I apologize if I am explaining this weird, I am at work and overloaded with other things. I just wanted to get this question out there and see what you all think.

Thanks for the peek.

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    Oserais-je l’avouer ? J’aurais tant aimé être étudiante à Cambridge en 1928, ou à l’école privée de Heyes Court dans le Kent en 1926. Dans le premier cas, j’aurais écouté Virginia Woolf prononcer sa fameuse conférence qui allait devenir Une Chambre à soi. Dans le second, j’aurais eu le privilège de l’entendre expliquer comment on lit un livre. Le premier texte est devenu un classique. Le second, moins connu, mériterait à tout le moins d’être le bréviaire des lecteurs, et plus précisément des lecteurs professionnels que sont les critiques, en principe. Il est recueilli dans Comment lire un livre(traduit de l’anglais par Céline Candiard, 315 pages, 25 euros, L’Arche), second tome du Commun des lecteurs, que Virginia Woolf publia en 1925. Curieusement, le livre ne s’intitule pas tout à fait de la même manière en couverture sur la page de garde : sur l’une, le titre n’est pas ponctué, sur l’autre il se termine par un point d’interrogation. Ce qui n’a pas le même sens. Le titre original ne peut pas nous départager : The common reader. Au moins est-on sûr d’une chose : dans les deux cas, il s’agit d’un hommage au lecteur. On y trouve des essais de toutes sortes, longs d’une vingtaine de page en moyenne, sur les Elisabéthains, John Donne, Swift, Robinson Cruoe, l’autobiographie de Thomas de Quincey lequel “sait régler la sonorité et moduler la cadence d’une phrase comme personne”,, ces livres qui font sentir que le présent n’est pas tout, la capacité des plus grands écrivains créer un ordre à partir du chaos, les romans de George Meredith et Thomas Hardy, un beau portrait de la poétesse Christina Rossetti et un autre non moins réussi de Beau Brummell, l’arbitre des élégances… Ce ne sont pas des articles d’un critique littéraire, “autorités vêtues de toge et d’hermine qui peuplent les bibliothèques”,mais mieux, d’un écrivain. Rien l’illustre mieux l’idée qu’il vaut mieux être du bâtiment, connaître la machine de l’intérieur, pour la démonter. Même si elle avoue qu’en tout lecteur non professionnel, un démon est tapi qui lui chuchote “J’aime, je déteste”. Ses analyses sont pénétrantes. Elles ont le don de faire découvrir ce que l’on croyait connaître. Il lui a suffi d’être elle-même et de faire un pas de côté. Mais le morceau de choix, qui n’est pas le plus épais mais clôt le volume, est aussi celui donne son titre à l’ensemble. Alors, comment lit-on un livre ? En fait, elle n’en sait rien. Mais comme elle le dit avec son génie propre, on en apprend beaucoup sur ce vice impuni, la lecture. Non à la manière de Larbaud mais bien à celle de Woolf.

    Ce que requiert un bon lecteur de roman selon elle et le noeud de la complixité de la lecture : une grande audace imaginative eu égard à tout ce que l’auteur lui donne en pâture ; la faculté de comparer chaque livre avec le plus grand de sa catégorie comme s’il s’agissait de bâtiments ; la force de dénoncer comme “criminels” les mauvais livres et les faux-livres qui nous ont volé quelques heures de notre vie ; et la volonté de laisser reposer, décanter. “Attendons que la poussière de la lecture retombe” suggère-t-elle afin de laisser se dissiper les conflits et interrogations pour mieux les reprendre ensuite, quand le livre sera revenu vers le lecteur mais sous une forme qui lui apparaîtra différente. Oublions la nouveauté des nouveaux livres car c’est leur qualité la plus superficielle, ajoute-t-elle. Le plus touchant dans ce texte d’une grande densité (incroyable tout ce qu’elle peut faire tenir en treize pages !) est ceci : Virginia Woolf est convaincue que le peuple des simples lecteurs, dont elle est puisqu’elle n’est pas critique, exerce une énorme influence sur l’écrivain. Le phénomène est diffus, impalpable, impossible à cerner. Quelque chose comme des ondes propulsées des uns vers l’autre. Elle imagine que parallèlement à “la fusillade fantasque de la presse“, l’opinion de ceux qui ne lisent que par plaisir et par amour peut améliorer le travail solitaire de l’écrivain. Ainsi soit-il. C’est en fait une apologie de la lecture gratuite désintéressée. Une activité bonne en elle-même que nous ne pratiquerions que parce qu’elle trouve en elle-même sa propre fin. Idéaliste ? Mieux que ça. Virginia Woolf a fait un rêve. Le jour du Jugement dernier, alors que les importants du monde vienne chercher leur récompense, le Tout-puissant se tourne vers Pierre et, lui désignant une foule de lecteurs, lui dit :” Regarde, ceux-là n’ont pas besoin de récompense. Nous n’avons rien à leur donner ici. Ils ont aimé lire”.

    Que n’aurais-je donné pour l’écouter raconter son rêve le 30 janvier 1926 à l’école privée de jeunes filles de Heyes Court, Kent…

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Ce matin sur Europe 1, le journaliste Jean Pierre Elkabbach, dont il se dit ici et là qu'il n'aime pas beaucoup la présidente de la région Poitou-Charentes, a lancé une phrase plutôt insolite à la fin de son entretien :"Vous promettez un parti créatif, métissé, joyeux. Grâce au parti socialiste on va rire et on va se marrer. On en a tellement besoin."Mme Royal : "On va surtout travailler."JPE: "Ouai, bonne journée".http://www.lepost.fr/article/2008/11/20/1331906_jean-pierre-elkabbach-tacle-segolene-royal_1_0_1.html

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blockquoteI do not want to spend too much time beating a dead war-horse, but your average Damp;D game consists of a group of white players acting out how their white characters encounter and destroy orcs and goblins, who are, as a race evil, uncivilized, and dark-skinned. To quote a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/president-maverick-racist.php?page=1"Steve Sumner’s essay/a again, “Unless played very carefully, Dungeons amp; Dragons could easily become a proxy race war, with your group filling the shoes of the noble white power crusaders seeking to extinguish any orc war bands or goblin villages they happened across.” I would argue with Sumner’s use of the phrase “could become,” and say that unless played very carefully, Damp;D usually becomes a proxy race war. Any adventurer knows that if you see an orc, you kill it. You don’t talk to it, you don’t ask what it’s doing there - you kill it, since it’s life is worth less than the treasure it carries and the experience points you’ll get from the kill. If filmed, your average Damp;D campaign would look something like Birth of a Nation set in Greyhawk. /blockquote- a href="http://raceindnd.wordpress.com/"Race in Dungeons amp; Dragons/a by Chris van Dyke, a a href="http://raceindnd.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/power-point-for-race-in-dd/"powerpoint/a talk given at a href="http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/nerds-just-wanna-have-fun/"Nerd Nite/a. Via Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog where there's a a href="http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/race_and_dd.php"smart discussion going on about the essay/a. br /

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/maco.m.png alt= pLet's talk about bug reporting./p pThere's something which occurs very often in bug reports by people who mean well. They find a bug, and to avoid making extra work for triagers, they check for a duplicate first. While that's very thoughtful of them, it often ends up getting in the way. So, let's talk about when you should file a duplicate, and when you should not. This is mostly in regard to hardware bugs, since that's where I see this happening the most. Hardware varies so widely, that this becomes a bit of a problem./p pLet's say you install Intrepid and discover that no sound is coming out of your sound card. So, you look on Launchpad and find a bug conveniently titled No sound in Intrepid. Perfect! you think and join in. Seeing a workaround suggested with no response from the reporter, you think you'll be helpful and answer the question for the triagerhellip;/p pStop right there./p pNow, consider the following:/p ol liDo you have the emexact/em same hardware?/li liAre you sure you have the emexact/em same bug?/li /ol pIf, after reading all of the information provided on the bug, you can answer YES! to both of those questions, look for what we're calling the Me Too feature. At the moment, it's the phrase This bug doesn't affect me followed by a Change link just under where the bug's Importance is listed. Click Change and mark that you are affected. It is not necessary (or recommended) to post a comment saying that you are affected. This just clutters the bug reports./p pIf your answer is maybe or no, file your own bug. If your answer is I don't know how to answer those questions, read on./p pHow do you see if you have the exact same hardware? In the case of sound, video, and networking hardware, check the codelspci -nv/code output. The first line of each section tells you what basic model of that hardware you have. The next line lists the subsystem information, or SSID. The SSID has to do with how the hardware was integrated into the motherboard. It is far from unusual for bugs to be introduced at this level. If yours match and are the same revision, you probably have the same hardware. If there is any discrepancy, file your own bug. For webcams, fingerprint readers, and other things that use the USB interface, check the ID listed by codelsusb/code If it seems you have the same hardware, use the Me Too feature and read on./p pDouble check exactly what the original reporter is experiencing. Read the full version and any responses they've already given. The title is not enough. If you're not seeing the same behavior, assume it's a different bug./p pIf it turns out to be one bug that affects multiple pieces of hardware we can always mark them as a duplicate later. That's not a problem. That's part of triaging./p pBut if it turns out that there are 15 different issues being reported in one bug, that emis/em a problem. If we have 2 people saying something fixes it, and one saying it makes it worse, and a few others say they don't have that exact symptom but rather something somewhat different and the fix didn't work for themhellip;that makes the bug very convoluted. We then try to read through the bug and see what's going on, and it's full of conflicting information. How are we supposed to debug then? We have no solid answers./p pSomething I see in sound bugs a lot is that one person will file a No Sound bug or a Crackly sounds bug. Everyone with that symptom jumps on that bug, but they don't belong there. There are multiple possible root causes, and many of them are hitting different ones. But they present themselves the same to the user. What we, as triagers, want to see is that these bugs are filed independently. If, after some debugging, we find that a few have the same root cause, we can mark them as duplicates easily. Finding the 1 root cause to 5 separate issues masquerading as one, though? That's not possible, because really there are 5 root causes and thus 5 bugs. Continuing to pretend they are all one bug just clutters the bug report, making it hard to read and hard to understand./p pAnd that is why I say, strong'Tis Better to Dup Than to Convolute/strong./pdiv class=blogger-post-footerFrom http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com p--br / #288660 (update-manager), #246104 (emerald), #282433 (emerald), #252269 (emerald), #290266 (ubuntu) br / Do 5 a day - every day! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day/p/div

With the swift pace of change in the media landscape, it's easy to overlook how far college news media has come in a short time. There has been some great innovation in college media, even as some lag behind.

I was prompted to reflect on this last month, after reading Going Digital, an Inside Higher Ed article by Brian Farkas, editor of the Vassar Miscellany News.

Farkas writes:

With our new Web site, http://miscellanynews.com/, we have now entered into the next generation of online journalism. And, for better or worse, we have become one of the few colleges in the country to do so. On our new site, reporters can contribute live blogs, attach videos and other multimedia to their articles, and display high-resolution photography in a way that our print publication never could. Best of all, The Miscellany's site is flexible, no longer burdened with the stagnant design so common among news sites in the 1990s. We have become one of only a handful of college newspapers in the country, along with The Yale Daily News and The Swarthmore Phoenix, to adopt a Web 2.0 approach and craft our site using up-to-date CSS and XML standards.

Farkas' description is overly pessimistic. Despite his negative outlook, college newspapers across the country are still moving forward with online content. Their innovations have been especially visible over the past few years -- especially when you consider how difficult it is for them to change.

Resistance to Change

When I first began blogging about online college media three years ago, most websites were little more than shovelware, with print editors and some advisers reluctant to invest time and energy in developing a robust web presence.

Some of that resistance was based in tradition: It's hard to steer a 100-year-old institution in a new direction. Production workflows had developed and been set like clockwork. Each new generation of editors and reporters walked in the footsteps of the previous generation, and learned their ways. The website was appended to the end of the workflow, after pages were sent to the press. Blowing up that workflow is not easy.

Still more resistance was cultural. Print journalists saw themselves as newspaper journalists first. The battles over whether blogging could be journalism were still being fought. Copy editor Greg Finley of the Orion at California State-Chico argued in 2006 that newspapers should keep their content offline, saying "No other medium can match newspapers' depth."

And another hurdle was technological: Inexpensive, easy-to-use tools for online storytelling were just coming into widespread use, and broadband Internet access was not nearly as widespread as it is today.

That resistance has faded over time, especially as the news industry has struggled to reinvent itself.

But that doesn't mean it's been easy. Even now, I find community college newspapers that still have no web presence. Bob Bergland, a professor at Missouri Western State University, found that 36% of a random sample of college newspapers had no web presence at all. (Bergland's findings are not yet available online, but I'll update this post as soon as they are available.)

Large daily university papers struggle to make money from their websites, and campus readership of the printed product remains high compared to industry standards, which leads to a conundrum: whether to devote resources to a website when the print product is still so popular.

And online efforts ebb and flow with staff changes as student journalists graduate and new ones take their place. One year, a paper hires a whiz-bang web designer who beefs up their online offerings. The next year, that designer is gone, and a less-savvy replacement can't keep up the pace. One year's multimedia journalist gives way to the next year's more traditional print journalist.

Blazing New Trails

Despite all these obstacles, many college newspapers have moved forward with innovative online offerings. Here are a few examples of sites that have paved the way in blogging, video, audio slideshows, and other forms of interactivity:

San Francisco State University Xpress -- Former SFCU journalism professor Andrew DeVigal, now multimedia editor for the New York Times, helped lead the Xpress staff in producing a multimedia-rich web site using Movable Type blogging software. Flash-based maps and audio slideshows (like this package that illustrates favorite student hangouts at SFSU) began on the Xpress site in 2006.

Vanderbilt University InsideVandy -- Chris Carroll, Vanderbilt student media adviser and co-founder of the Center for Innovation in College Media, led InsideVandy student journalists in an effort to create a "mothership" approach to student media, akin to Steve Yelvington's BlufftonToday in 2006. The idea was to bring all student media -- TV, radio, newspaper, and magazines -- into one online presence that would allow anyone in the community to contribute content.

Virginia Tech Collegiate Times -- The Collegiate Times became an example of both breaking news and multimedia usage in the aftermath of the April 16, 2007, massacre on campus. Student journalists posted breaking news updates, a blog, audio slideshows and video (see the CT archives here). More than that, other school newspapers also used online media to report on the shootings, posting video reports from their campuses and posting blog updates from Virginia (see continuing ICM coverage here).

University of Washington Daily -- Just days before the VT shootings, UW's student journalists covered the death of a student on campus, using video and live updates to tell the story (archived story here). The Daily began shooting video news on campus in the 2006-07 school year.

San Jose State University Spartan Daily -- With Ryan Sholin as web editor, the Spartan Daily plunged into multimedia early. See this example, a 2006 story about SJSU boxing club members traveling to Berkeley to compete in a regional boxing tournament. In addition to text, the article features video and audio slideshows. The paper has continued to push the envelope, in March 2008 experimenting with live streaming TV and live blogging.

Boise State University Arbiter -- The Arbiter dove headfirst into web-first publishing when the Broncos went to the Fiesta Bowl in 2006. Since the Arbiter wasn't publishing during the Christmas break, they made the most of their online presence. Staffers from the student newspaper published web-only content from Arizona, including podcasts, video and audio slideshows (see their coverage here). They have continued to produce podcasts and other multimedia coverage since then.

Eastern Illinois University Daily Eastern News -- Long before I was hired at Eastern, the DEN was producing audio slideshows using Soundslides that rivaled the best in the business. Check out this audio slideshow from the 2006 Greek Week Tugs competition. They were also early to experiment with podcasts and, in 2006, revamped their sports coverage by introducing a widget that could automatically update football scores and schedule information automatically for readers.

This is just a small sampling of the ways that students have taken advantage of online tools since late 2005. There are numerous other schools that have also moved into multimedia and online publishing with gusto, including the Daily Tar Heel at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Daily Collegian at Penn State, the Daily Pennsylvanian at Penn, the GW Hatchet at George Washington U., the Miami Hurricane, the Independent Florida Alligator at the University of Florida, the Corsair at Pensacola Junior College, the Gargoyle at Flagler College, the Daily Mississippian at Ole Miss, and numerous others. For more examples of student journalists' multimedia, see this database.

Recently, we saw clear evidence of this movement into online journalism on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, when student journalists across the country used tools like Mogulus, Twitter and CoverItLive to cover the historic election night. (For a sampling of coverage, see here).

To borrow a phrase, "You've come a long way, baby."

Bryan Murley is assistant professor of new and emerging media at Eastern Illinois University, where he advises DENnews.com, the online site for the student newspaper. He is also the director for innovation at the Center for Innovation in College Media, where he leads the weblog Innovation in College Media. He is the college media correspondent for MediaShift.

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