Illustrations of E-culture qualities
Impermanence:
One illustration of impermanence can be the rapid growth of open source Mozilla's browser Firefox, which established itself as an alternative standard to Internet Explorer. The US Magazine Forbes itself described it a few months ago as the best browser so far. The success of Firefox certainly reflects the general development of freewares on the Net, but it also shows how a market leader on Internet can be easily challenged by a new one !
Open mind, drop old habits:
One exemple could be my recent use of peer-to-peer applications notably kazaa or emule to download videos and music despite some hesitation to use those file sharing services. Of course there can be a justified reluctance concerning illegal downloading (softwares), but there shoudn't be for legal downloading. Probably it is just matter of "not being used" to do it, like fearing that it will be time-consuming to understand how it works, whereas it is quite obvious that it is accessible to most people considering the great number of users.
One other exemple of changing habits is also to send e-candidatures for jor application instead of traditional mail, which implies to change the presentation to take into account the codes of e-candidatures. The French National Employment Agency ANPE recommends the e-mail as "the ideal tool" to apply for a job.
Transparency:
Apple computer filed a lawsuit against an American student, Nick Ciarelli, for publishing company's trade secrets, notably the existence of Mac Mini just two weeks before its launch on the market last december. The information was released by the student on his Internet "Mac enthusiastic site" Thinksecret, and spread immediately through the web as well as in the print medias. The student's attorney now filed a special motion to dismiss Apple's complaint.
Precious moments:
We can think of anti-spam efforts made both by Internet providers and anti-spam technologists on the Net. Google recently adopted Yahoo's anti-spam system domainkeys, and there are also many companies selling various anti-spam systems on the Net. Of course providers fight against spams because the traffic generated on their servers costs them a lot of money as studies recently highlighted. At the same time they might also be willing to protect and retain the users, who don’t want to waste time checking dozens of spams in their e-mailbox everyday. Among the multitude of information circulating on the Net everday, they want to get the right, useful, desired contacts and news in their e-mailbox !
One illustration of impermanence can be the rapid growth of open source Mozilla's browser Firefox, which established itself as an alternative standard to Internet Explorer. The US Magazine Forbes itself described it a few months ago as the best browser so far. The success of Firefox certainly reflects the general development of freewares on the Net, but it also shows how a market leader on Internet can be easily challenged by a new one !
Open mind, drop old habits:
One exemple could be my recent use of peer-to-peer applications notably kazaa or emule to download videos and music despite some hesitation to use those file sharing services. Of course there can be a justified reluctance concerning illegal downloading (softwares), but there shoudn't be for legal downloading. Probably it is just matter of "not being used" to do it, like fearing that it will be time-consuming to understand how it works, whereas it is quite obvious that it is accessible to most people considering the great number of users.
One other exemple of changing habits is also to send e-candidatures for jor application instead of traditional mail, which implies to change the presentation to take into account the codes of e-candidatures. The French National Employment Agency ANPE recommends the e-mail as "the ideal tool" to apply for a job.
Transparency:
Apple computer filed a lawsuit against an American student, Nick Ciarelli, for publishing company's trade secrets, notably the existence of Mac Mini just two weeks before its launch on the market last december. The information was released by the student on his Internet "Mac enthusiastic site" Thinksecret, and spread immediately through the web as well as in the print medias. The student's attorney now filed a special motion to dismiss Apple's complaint.
Precious moments:
We can think of anti-spam efforts made both by Internet providers and anti-spam technologists on the Net. Google recently adopted Yahoo's anti-spam system domainkeys, and there are also many companies selling various anti-spam systems on the Net. Of course providers fight against spams because the traffic generated on their servers costs them a lot of money as studies recently highlighted. At the same time they might also be willing to protect and retain the users, who don’t want to waste time checking dozens of spams in their e-mailbox everyday. Among the multitude of information circulating on the Net everday, they want to get the right, useful, desired contacts and news in their e-mailbox !
posted by cecilion @ 9:31 PM
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