MY SCORE : 20 out of 20 (100%).
TRY IT YOURSELF 😉test
I’m not sure Nicolas and Segolene got a good score :
MY SCORE : 20 out of 20 (100%).
TRY IT YOURSELF 😉test
I’m not sure Nicolas and Segolene got a good score :
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I’m sorry to contradict you Mister Wikipedia, but things are a little bit more complicated… Indeed, despite our motivation and willingness to contribute to the universal knowledge, there are thousands of obstacles to curb, slow down or even to prevent the publication of our text.
Wikipedia expects its user to write an article about something which diserves a certain fame without promoting it, by furnishing precise pieces of information and giving its sources. I tried to answer to these rules in order to write an article about Krystle Warren, an American young musician who is very talented. But because I didn’t post the different links of the websites thanks to which I wrote this text and because Krystle Warren is not very known yet, my article was rejected.
If I was quite hurt by this suppression, I think the complexity of the process is clearly representative of the unlimited ambition of Wikipedia. Actually, if a website pretends to become our on-line encyclopedy, there are many traps it should avoid such as : desinformation, desguised publicity and so on. In fact, with such a good referencement, Wikipedia cannot take the risk to publish “anyone” as it pretends to.
However, it should work on its communication with its users by acting with more transparency, by explaining to its users why their article hasn’t been published and why it didn’t answer to their request. Because after all, knowing and learning implies sharing and communicating with others.
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1. Do not make fun of your friends thanks to the web. Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook, Twitter…there are thousands way for them to take revenge publicly. (x o x o…)
2. Choose the same password for the millions of networks and accounts you have on the internet . And if possible, not your birthday date (it is known by the 300 “friends” you have on Facebook).
3. Do not follow more than 2 soap operas each week or you’ll soon become a geek.
4. Do not think becoming a “geek” is cool or even funny. It is just a funny world to describe a no-life who spends his entire life in front of his screen.
5. Be synthetic : mails are not sent by pigeons but it’s not a reason to write a book.
6. Be patient : you could be the one to bug.
7. Try not to buy too many things on-line. When it comes to money, abstraction can have disastrous effects.
8. Do not believe you’ll find your charming prince on Meetic. You could be disappointed.
9. Do not steal virtual fournitures, clothes, or other stuff on the web because one day real policemen will come to arrest you.
10. Do not use the media, BE the media !
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Since the creation of my blog, there are many things that I thought very complex which I consider obvious today. A few weeks ago, posting a link, a video or a photo were unknown activities to me. Now, thanks to this blog I’ve realised how the CMS (Content Manager System) such as WordPress or Blogger really ease these kind of tasks.
I just discovered how tu use Moviemaker because I did a video presentation of myself. It’s a very handy tool which doesn’t demand you to be a geek and which enables to gather videos and drawings quite well as you can see.
I know the quality of the images could be better. I’ll try to fix this.
See you later 😉
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The 1st of september, my sister Melina became a slogger. One year sooner, such a sentence would have been totally absurd since Melina was more synonymous of sitting down a chair and watching movies on streaming, going out with friends, succeeding at school without opening a book and so on…Today, thing’s are different : Melina studies medicine. And as the thousands of students who prepare medicine each year, Melina has closed herself into her room hoping her brain will be able to remember the numerous names of bones that unfortunately (for those who have to know them by heart) constitute our skeleton. Metatarsals, ilium, scapula, ….
Nevertheless, Metatarsals, Ilium, Scapula and Femur are not the students’s worst ennemies. Because of the very tough selection which prevents many students from achieving their dream of becoming the new Dr McDreamy or Dr Grey‘s successor, each student is an ennemy to the other. Hazing has become a well-known strategy in medschools. It is actuallty very used by the students who’ve failed to pass the first exam and who’re forced to double. As a consequence, many universities have created a system of e-learning in order to counter hazing so that it cannot be an obstacle for student’s success.
Hazing is such an important issue for medschools that when you wright : “bizutage” on Youtube, the first thing that comes up is “bizutage medecine”.
On the video below you can see how a class of anatomy can become a total mess !
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If Internet has brought to our society many ways of gathering people thanks to the numerous social networks which have appeared these last years. Nevertheless, it also gave birth to new forms of illegality called “cybercriminality”.
In november 2007, a Dutch teenager was arrested for having stolen 4000 euros of virtual furnitures on Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website which has been created and organised as a virtual world where netsurfers can tchat, play together, create their avatar, decorate their room and even buy products. If the world in which netsurfers roam is virtual, their crime are, on the contrary, totally real.
As the spokesman for Sulake – the company that operates Habbo Hotel – told it to BBC News at that time : “It is a theft because the furniture was paid with real money”. (to view the article on Bbc News, it’s here !)
Here is the complexity of the Internet : a virtual world which has concrete influence over our world and society.
Hopefully, instead of trying to swindle, many people have understood that social networks are, first of all, places to have and give fun as the netsurfer who produced the video bellow thanks to Second Life, a social network which has been conceptualized as a virtual world :
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How could we imagine that window-shopping would eventually become old-fashioned? Since the arrival of the internet, more and more consumers have morphed into on-line buyers.
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Last week, every one could eventually have access to the brand new web site of Segolene Royal and her association “Désirs d’avenir” created in the aim of proposing and building a socialist plan able to convince French citizens and to counter Mr Sarkozy’s policy. Despite its ridiculously old-fashioned background, Segolene Royal’s website is in keeping with the current trend that every single politic is respectively following : transparency.
Creating websites, having blogs, being on Facebook, Twitter and so on, are various ways to communicate and to make citizens believe that all pieces of information can be shared with them, that they can be aware of every single movement or actions of their political representatives. Before being elected as the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy helped by his communication advisers also tried to be in vogue by creating a website dedicated to promote the candidate’s political plan and to enable French net surfers to question him about it.
If transparency, one of the major impacts of the internet on our society, has been used by some politics as an effective strategy of communication, it is also a trap in which many of them have been caught. Facebook.com, Youtube.com, Twitter.com…Since the arrival of social networks, thousands of videos and images are broadcasted and shared between millions of net surfers each day. Taken from cameras or mobilephones, these images are very threatening for politics who are forced to control and curb all their acts and speeches. No off ! That’s what transparency means.
Recently, Mr.Hortefeux experimented the drawbacks of this famous internet transparency while making a quite unwarranted joke about Arabic immigrants in France. The Minister was speaking with some supporters of the UMP and taking pictures with a young man (who seems to have Arabic origins) before saying, obviously speaking about Arabic people : “It’s always important to have one. When there’s one, it’s fine. It’s when they are numerous that it is a problem”.
Politics like to pretend acting with transparency.
Unfortunately for them, it’s a boomerang whose jar is quick and painful. Unfortunately for us, many of these same politics have developed a liking for making their private life transparent.
Thanks Internet transparency ! Thanks to you, we can also watch Mrs Bruni Sarkozy and her husband kissing each other and talking about jogging, or about their dogs Clara, Toomy and Dumbledor – who, of course, are not as cute as Bo.
You don’t know Bo !! Does this ring a bell ?
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