an amazing way to learn

Internet offers us an infinity of ways to learn and especially languages : forums, communities, and also websites which gives directly lessons online.
But i do use an other way to learn : i go on msn and i look for people living in englisk-speaking countries.
By this way, i can speak with people all over the world with webcam and microphone.
I like this because i have fun, and learn by the same time very fast, and in the same time i meet new people.
For me internet is made for that : gather people all around the world that should have never met without technology...

commandment 6 : comprehension will be your weapon

Comprehension is the cognitive process involving the intentional interaction between reader and text to convey meaning.
On the internet, ang generally in the e-technologies, we use our sense of comprehension at every moment.
More precisely, i can think at the tutorials. They help us in the use of all the technicals things.
For instance : this tutorial for specific programation language. : c+

comandment 5 : insight yourself

Insight is a very complex term, wich has religious and psychics dimensions.
It is both the ability to have a deep analysis of the situations, but also a comprehension of the inner nature of things.
Insight is one of the most important things in bouddhism, it is associated with meditation and consists, in application, to a deep reflexion.
We should all be able to use insight at anytime of our lives, but it something very difficult that brings us to the deepest part of us.
But in our modern society, and moreover on the internet, things go so fast that we do not take time to think.
For me, insight is not something we can find on the internet. We can not share it. But we are given an access to many websites above religion, where we can find a start to our insight.

links : bouddhism quotations

comandment 4 : abuse of perseverance

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't"
Internet gives us access to an huge knowledge. But like everything in life, it takes time to be able to understand everything.
For instance, some websites gives us the keys to practice cartomancy. This art takes a very long time because we have at first to memorize all the significations of the cards, then the combinaisons, ad at last the interpretations.
If we stop in front of dificulties, we will not manage in anything.

commandement 3 : patient you will be

"patience will achieve more than force " Edmund Burke

Patience is not, at first, a quality i would have thought of with internet.
Indeed, Internet is a media of instantaneity, where we can find any information in few seconds.
Nevertheless, i can find an occasion where patience is important : when we have a virus, or a technical problem, that can take a lot of time...
In these occasions, reality comes on fiction and suddenly we come back to a real perception of time, that internet can makes us lose.
In our society, nowadays, patience becomes very rare...

commendement 2 : keep disciplined!

Internet is an infinite place of exchange, learning, sharing...
It seems like there are no rules, no necessities, no imperatives.
But actually, we have to be structured and to be organized : to autodiscipline ourselves.
As an example, i would take the auctions websites such as ebay. In fact, it is exactly like a real sell : we pay for an object, or we are paid for the object, but as everything is done on the internet, it is virtual, and can easily become as a game. We have to be honnest and disciplined to respect our engagements.

commandement 1 : be generous

Generosity is obviously very important in life in general, and moreover in social life.
On the internet, we can find a lot of examples of it : on the forums, where people help one another to find solutions to their problems, in any domain : cooking, games, studies, informatics...

Peer to peer is also a fine demonstration of generosity, because on it, we can choose whether we want do share our files with the whole community or not, and we can constat that a large majority of people decides to share!

At last, the best example of generosity on internet is, for me, the website "youtube". On it, we can see peolple who peer online sitcoms, hardly few hours after their diffusion on tv, and moreover, they do themselves the subtittles in an aim of helping people. Their only willing is to give pleasure to people without waiting for anything in return...that is generosity....

the six commandements

When we walk on the internet, we have to apply some commandements that we will help us in an important way!

nodes and links : secret of social network

A social network is a social structure made of nodes which can be individuals or organizations. The average size is about 120 persons. It is better for individual success to have connections to a variety of networks rather than many connections within a single network
On the internet, social networks exists around msn, blogs or for instance the forums. But also with websites such as “copains d’avant” or others school’s websites where we can find old classmates.
In these communities, an initial set of founders sends out messages inviting members of their own personal networks to join the site. New members repeat the process, growing the total number of members and links in the network
I have different social networks from the schools I went to, and the activities I have done : dance for instance.
Social networks are very important. They are contacts that we will use for anything : a job, a contact abroad, an important adress. The bigger is the network, the more different people we will find in it, and the most interesting it will be for us.
There are some countries, such as japan, where creating a social network is one of the most important things in the life of a person. It depends of the society, but also of the mentalities. In France, the importance of social networks is highlighted mainly in marketing schools such as essec or hec.
The use an the composition of social networks are such important that they are especially studied by a branch of social science.

drm

Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is any of several technologies used by publishers (or copyright owners) to control access to and usage of digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware, handling usage restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work. The term often is confused with copy protection and technical protection measures (TPM). These two terms refer to technologies that control or restrict the use and access of digital media content on electronic devices with such technologies installed, acting as components of a DRM design.
Digital Rights Management is a controversial topic. Advocates argue DRM is necessary for copyright holders to prevent unauthorized duplication of their work to ensure continued revenue streams.Some critics of the technology, including the Free Software Foundation, suggest that the use of the word "Rights" is misleading and suggest that people instead use the term Digital Restrictions Management.The position put forth is that copyright holders are attempting to restrict use of copyrighted material in ways already granted by statutory or common law applying to copyright. Others, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation consider some DRM schemes to be anti-competitive, citing theitunes store as an example.
So drm affects more those who pirate media, than the legal users, that’s why it is used as a way to fight pirates, even it they always find others way to turn beyond legacy.

does neutrality exists?

There's a debate raging over the future of the Internet that could have a profound effect on the services Web surfers enjoy.

"Network neutrality" is the term commonly used to describe the battle between the telecom industry and a varied coalition of groups arguing over whether content providers should be able to pay in order for surfers to get faster access to their sites.

Part of the fear is that those who can afford to pay will thrive, while those who cannot won't survive.
The Evolving Internet

"The history of the Internet has been one of open access, one that has allowed many different voices to be heard," said Ross Rubin, an analyst with the NPD Group. "The concern is that offering ISPs [Internet service providers] this capability will lead to the squelching of many voices or a playing field that isn't level."

Because of that, the groups -- including strange bedfellows like Microsoft, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Christian Coalition of America -- are pushing for legislation to keep the Internet from becoming tiered, where service providers would have discretion over which sites came up faster than others and which sites didn't come up at all.

The telecom companies argue, however, that regulating the Internet would stifle creativity and competition, and lead to more legislation and a more restricted Internet.

"Regulatory or legislative solutions wholly without justification in marketplace activities would stifle, not enhance the Internet," Walter McCormick, head of the U.S. Telecom Association, said to the the Senate Commerce Committee in May.

Companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast say that by keeping the government out of it, consumers would have the power to leave a provider who they felt was limiting access to certain sites. Competition would keep everyone honest.

On the other hand, the coalition argues that the telecom industry would be motivated to slow or even prevent access to sites critical of the provider or of companies affiliated with them.

"The assumption has been that they [telecom companies] would move very aggressively to reduce choice," said Rubin of the NPD Group.

Rubin's not convinced of that and doesn't see why there can't be options that are beneficial to both the consumer and the corporation.

He suggests that maybe consumers will be offered options like a "net neutrality" subscription where the company promises not to favor any sites, but perhaps forces the surfer to endure some advertising to offset the cost.

Or maybe an option that admits to favoring some sites over others, but costs significantly less or significantly more?

"I think a lot of the concern is reactionary, saying, 'This is not how the Internet grew up,'" he said. "But who knows how the Internet will evolve?"

For me, like in journalism, it very difficult to respect neutrality, because there is too much money on the table. There are always influences in such important economic markets.

web 2.0

We are living a real revolution of internet. Not really in technology way, but in the uses.

In Web 1.0, a small number of writers created Web pages for a large number of readers. As a result, people could get information by going directly to the source: Adobe.com for graphic design issues, Microsoft.com for Windows issues, and CNN.com for news. Over time, however, more and more people started writing content in addition to reading it. This had an interesting effect—suddenly there was too much information to keep up with! We did not have enough time for everyone who wanted our attention and visiting all sites with relevant content simply wasn’t possible. As personal publishing caught on and went mainstream, it became apparent that the Web 1.0 paradigm had to change.

Enter Web 2.0, a vision of the Web in which information is broken up into “microcontent” units that can be distributed over dozens of domains. The Web of documents has morphed into a Web of data. We are no longer just looking to the same old sources for information. Now we’re looking to a new set of tools to aggregate and remix microcontent in new and useful ways.
Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of internet, based on services, such as social networking sites.
People collaborate and share information online. It is a social phenomenon in the approach of the web, wich is now tending to be free and decentralized.

We can find many examples of websites reflecting these new attitudes towards internet.

in communication : skype. fr wich is a free way to communicate through the computer.
in auctions websites : ebay.fr a real community of seller and buyers
in information : wikipedia, which is the perfect illustration of what is web 2.0 : a collaboration of people in a same aim.
But there are many others : blogs, podcasts, etc...

podcasts

Podcast is a multimedia distributed over the internet. The term appeared in 2004 in an article in the Guardian. It is a mix of "broadcasting" and "ipod".
The term podcast means both the content and the method of delivery. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster. Though podcasters' web sites may also offer direct download or streaming of their content, a podcast is diferent from other digital audio formats by its ability to be downloaded automatically using software.

The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005 word of the year, defining the term as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player".
However, the word is not registered, and has been defined by the use. It does not belong to one company. Apple is trying to register all the words containing “pod” including “podcast” but it will be a long juridic fight because there is much money involved.
But, for many people, podcast is associated to ipod, we can see it when putting "podcast" on google image. Most of the results shows ipods.
To conclude, podcasts are the visible part of a deep change in people’s comportment towards media. Internet is now used as a place of exchange.

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