Here are a few new photography competitions from flickr for you to take a look at.

The first is from the flickr group ddn.
Theme: Choose a Room

This competition will run until 30 November and is open to entries from today onwards, giving a full 6 weeks to come up with an entry or two Check the rules in the competitions forum.

Another from ddn

Theme: Autumn

This competition will run until 31 December.

From Foto Competition

Get your photo’s voted on by other members of Flickr. No time frame for these competitions and no prizes but with only four entries per compeition you have a good chance of being awarded some brownie ponts!

Check out Portrait Classics if you have an interest in portrait photography. No current competitions until December 6.

For the British Photographers

Take a look at the British Photographers Group to have a look at their november competition the theme is rough/smooth.

All the best, more competitions coming soon!

Scott

P.S. don’t forget to check out my Twitter feed or my friendfeed for more competitions and my delicious bookmarks for some good inspiration.

سؤال: ماهو حكم اتباع الائمة الاربعة ؟

الجواب

الائمة الاربعة بالاضافة الى غيرهم مثل ابن حزم والائمة المعاصرين الذين يؤمنون بتلك المذاهب ويدرسونها انهم مجرمون قتلة . يقول تعالى :

(فمن أظلم ممن افترى على الله كذبا أو كذب بآياته إنه لا يفلح المجرمون)

فهؤلاء مجرمون لانهم افتروا على الله الكذب وكذبوا باياته. ومن الدلائل :

ادعوا ان الله امر ببتر يد السارق رغم ان الله امر بقطعها وليس بترها. والقطع يعني المنع . وبذلك كذبوا الله وافتروا عليه الكذب واجرموا بحق الانسانية هم ومن يتبعهم.

احلوا الزنى من  خلال تحليل الزنى مع ملك اليمين . متهمين الله تعالى بالتناقض رغم انه حرم الزنى بدون استثناء. فقد كذبوا الله وافتروا عليه الكذب

احلوا استرقاق واغتصاب النساء في الحروب واسترقاق الاطفال

وضعوا كغيرهم ممن سبقهم قوانين تكفر من حسب اعتقاداتهم انه كافر مما ادى الى استمرار صدور الاحكام الرسمية من المراكز الاسلامية الرسمية في الدول العربية والاسلامية مثل الازهر ومراكز الفتوى الرسمية التي تكفر كل من خالف تلك المذاهب  من  الاشخاص والجماعات وتسببوا بقتل مئات الالاف من الناس ونشر البغضاء والعنصرية والظلم . انظر مثلا كيف تعامل الحكومات الاسلامية في جميع الدول العربية باستثناء لبنان كيف يحتقرون ويظلمون ويضطهدون ويقتلون مثلا الدروز والبهائية  والاقباط واهل القرآن وغيرهم  وكل ذلك من خلال احكام رسمية .

والاخطر من ذلك، هو ان الدول الاسلامية تعترف بهم وبمؤلفاتهم رسميا ! فلا عجب ان لايكون بالامكان القضاء على الارهاب واستحالة القضاء على الجريمة مثل جرائم الشرف وقتل من يتهمون بالارتداد بناء على التعاليم والمنهج التعليمي الرسمي في تلك الدول وانتشار الظلم واعتباره رسميا في المحاكم والشرطة والمساجد وغيرها.

ولمزيد من المعلومات سنقوم لاحقا بنشر مقالا خاصا عن الشافعي الذي يعتبر من اهم ائمة الارهاب المعترف بهم رسميا حتى من قبل حكام الدول الاسلامية .

وعلى اية حال، فانه لايحوز اتباعهم او اتباع غيرهم من الائمة ولايجوز السماح بتدريس تعاليمهم ومنع استخدام مؤلفاتهم كمراجع قضائية لمافيها من ظلم واجرام . ولك من اتبعهم واعترف بهم وبالاحكام التي اصدروها هم وغيرهم من الائمة فهو مشرك بالله .

Soo…9 days without Facebook. What have I been doing with myself? Mowing the lawn, taking long walks outside, working on projects for work and school; I’ve also been revisiting the various social networks and micro-networks I’ve joined over the last several years…and I’ve joined a coupla more. Presented here, for my benefit and yours, are the places I’m connected to online – and why I’m on a particular network. This doesn’t count email discussion groups I’m part of; I suppose that’d be a whole ‘nother post!

General/Meta

Twitter – @zoecarnate

FriendFeed – FriendFeed is awesome; let’s hope Facebook buying them doesn’t screw it up.

LinkedIn – my business, my biz-nass.

Myspace – because sometimes I’m nostalgic for 2003.

Plaxo – does anyone remember what Plaxo is for?

YouTube – my vids, vids, vids.

Futurist

ShapingTomorrow – a large global community; primarily devoted to environmental scanning and trend analysis

The New Futurists – a younger crop of futurists, centered primarily in the northeast United States.

Faith

TransFORM – there’s more than meets the eye here.

Christiarchy! – Christian anarchists and Anabaptists (is there a difference?)

Christian Mysticism & Contemplative Spirituality – what it says. Contemplate that.

Missional Tribe – this one had a strong start but I think WordPress infrastructure, while great for blogs, isn’t great for supporting social networks.

Recovering Evangelical – hee-hee.

Metro Atlanta Emergent Cohort – my once and future cohort.

The Hyphenateds:

Anglimergent – I’m not Episcopalian, but I’m inspired by ‘em…especially St Gregory of Nyssa in San Francisco.

Baptimergent – I’m not Baptist, but I used to be! And I’m inspired by New Community Church in Raleigh.

Emerging Leaders Network – aka Luthermergent. I’m not Lutheran, but…you see where this is going? Mad props to House For All in Denver.

The Common Root – formerly Submergent; an awesome group of Anabaptist-minded peeps.

QuakerQuaker – aka Convergent Friends.

House Church Homies

Simple Church

Organic Church Today

Healing Communities

Bleeding-Edge Creatives

Love Is Concrete – you can actually draw stuff in this network.

Wisefire – a great group of people.

iEvolve: Global Practice Community – Integral peeps.

Questions:  Hello brother , thank you for the timely answer.This is the text I wanted you to translate into English if you can please: 

وَاللَّاتِي يَأْتِينَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مِن نِّسَائِكُمْ فَاسْتَشْهِدُوا عَلَيْهِنَّ أَرْبَعَةً مِّنكُمْ ۖ فَإِن شَهِدُوا فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ فِي الْبُيُوتِ حَتَّىٰ يَتَوَفَّاهُنَّ الْمَوْتُ أَوْ يَجْعَلَ اللَّهُ لَهُنَّ سَبِيلًا 

And     ۖ وَلَا تَقْرَبُوا الزِّنَا إِنَّهُ كَانَ فَاحِشَةً وَسَاءَ سَبِيلًا

 I was also wondering if you might know the text comes from hadith or Quran, and if you might be able to explain definition of taqqia to me a littl.

Thank you again , God Bless you and your family.

The answer:

Thank you for  your important question.

First: you have to know  that the existing interpretations of the Qoran includes two types . The first type is some non-Muslim interpretations of the Koran. Those interpretations are wrong Because they relied on the  Arabic language and Islam which  distorted and  by clerics ( imams ). The second type, it is interpretations of imams and all incorrect . The imams have been manipulating the meanings of the Qoran for several reasons such as :

• To prove that there was a Saudi Prophet named Mohammed .Of course, the real Prophet Muhammad, was from the Holy Land and was united with the Christians  and the Jews   against the majority of Arabs being infidels and hypocrites and against civilization, and they can not live without wars. This subject will be detailed in a special article
• To be the removal of women from society and public life , possible
• To fight each other
• To prove , for example, that who does not believe in the doctrine of imams, which they invented the name of God, is a ” Kafi ” Infidel
• To encourage their  blind followers to fight Christians and Jews and the confiscation of their property, rape and enslavement of their women

 Therefore, the world must prevent all their interpretations and writings of the threat posed to people and global security.

Second: concerning the verses:

The vers which says

وَاللَّاتِي يَأْتِينَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مِن نِّسَائِكُمْ فَاسْتَشْهِدُوا عَلَيْهِنَّ أَرْبَعَةً مِّنكُمْ ۖ فَإِن شَهِدُوا فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ فِي الْبُيُوتِ حَتَّىٰ يَتَوَفَّاهُنَّ الْمَوْتُ أَوْ يَجْعَلَ اللَّهُ لَهُنَّ سَبِيلًا15-16

According to all imams translations, its :

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YUSUFALI: If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, Take the evidence of four (Reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or Allah ordain for them some (other) way.
PICKTHAL: As for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify (to the truth of the allegation) then confine them to the houses until death take them or (until) Allah appoint for them a way (through new legislation).
SHAKIR: And as for those who are guilty of an indecency from among your women, call to witnesses against them four (witnesses) from among you; then if they bear witness confine them to the houses until death takes them away or Allah opens some way for them.
KHALIFA: Those who commit adultery among your women, you must have four witnesses against them, from among you. If they do bear witness, then you shall keep such women in their homes until they die, or until GOD creates an exit for them.

The The Noble Quran
Published by Dar-us-Salam Publications

15. And those of your women who commit illegal sexual intercourse, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them (i.e. women) to houses until death comes to them or All�h ordains for them some (other) way.    

                                            
         Clarification

 Of course, the foregoing interpretations are wrong and barbaric and God  can not be barbaric. However, The imams distorted the meanings of the vers by forgering the meaning of the following s words in verse:

(nisaikum – نِّسَآئِكُمْ) which they translated to  ” Women ” . Its not true because women in the Quran named  (Untha -   انثى – Famale ) . Also the word (nisaikum - نِّسَآئِكُمْ) is plural and has no singular. While (Untha -   انثى – Famale ) has plural ( Inath - اناث – females(

So, the real meaning of  (nisaikum - نِّسَآئِكُمْ) is the females and males .

( فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ فِي الْبُيُوتِ حَتَّىٰ يَتَوَفَّاهُنَّ الْمَوْتُ -  faamsikoohunna fee albuyooti hatta yatawaffahunna almawtu) which they translated to (confine them to the houses until death take them ) ! Of course, that interpretation and manipulation in verse reflects the obsession with sexuality, and unfairness to women’s. The original Quran asserts that (albuyooti) does not means houses. But it means the systems. For example the economic system and judicial system .

Unreasonable and illogical:

First, If  we have several millions of women who do lewdness , can we prison each one in her house and put a guard on it throughout the life? Though those who do not have houses and sleep in the streets, Where she or they  would be imprisoned? What if  her parents! dies ! Will she remain a prisoner in the house alone? How could any sane person believe in such ideology or in the imams  stupid explanations !

Secondly, that God is just and can not be unjust and racist. God is equated in the penalty between women and men. For example , murderer killer, whether a woman or a man the penalty is the same. Therefore, it is not reasonable to order the imprisonment of women to die, and to forgive the man that the act of lewdness. Because according to the imams interpretations, the second verse  says:

(4:16 The two who commit it from amongst you, then you shall reprimand them. If they repent and amend, then leave them alone. God is Redeemer, Compassionate )

As well as women into place to stop doing bad things. shall  we reject her repentance?

The real meaning

The real translation of the verse is:

4:15 If any man or wopmen  or a group of women and men spread sexual immorality or lewdness in the society, it is required that the appropriate court takes four honorable and reliable witnesses. if they testify ( their testimony must corroborates with other evidence (12:26)) , confine them according to the judicial systems . This confinement would be for an indefinite period, unless such person seek the Way of Allah, such as repentance and amendment, or the singles among them get honorably married. )

Then , another verse, which came immediately after the verse above, explained what to do with the person who repents. It asserts :

(16) If a couple spreads such immorality or lewdness in the society, both of them shall be punished by the appropriate court of law. If they repent and amend, leave them alone. Allah is the Acceptor of repentance, Merciful.)

Interpretation of another verse

ۖ وَلَا تَقْرَبُوا الزِّنَا إِنَّهُ كَانَ فَاحِشَةً وَسَاءَ سَبِيلًا

17:32 Do not come near to adultery, for, it is an abomination and an evil way

This verse shows that adultery is very serious and so, keep  away from adultery and adulterers. That everything in it. For example, you advice your son and says ,  this person is a bad and very dangerous and criminal.  Do not deal with him because it will lead to your loss

The meaning of “taqqia”

To “ Tataqqi “  someone or something, means to protect yourself . For example :

( “faittaqoo alnnara ” Then guard yourselves against the Fire… ) . Thus, you eat so as not to die of hunger or sick, and maintenance car so as not to hamper. Another example, fear of the plane crash, it must be checked and maintained constantly and even before to take-off. And they used to say “  Prevention is better than cure “ . More ,  let us ask the following question:

How is the prevention of terrorism?

The Koran confirms that the real terrorist is a human being an infidel. His or her ideology  is the refusal of peace and enslaved and cuts the hands of thieves, and wants to apply the imams sharia which they created in the name of Allah. So, according to Allah, the only way to prevention of the imams and mousques terrorism is to eliminate the imams official ideology , Prevention and destruction of their books, shut down Islamic centers, to prevent them from supervising the teaching of children….

Thank you for your question and God bless you

È da un po’ di tempo che frequento FriendFeed e devo dire che offre spunti molto interessanti. Meno giargiattole di Facebook, meno utenti, più confronto.

Però ci sono i lati negativi che ogni tanto mi fanno venire voglia di cancellare il mio account come è già capitato su altre piattaforme.

In primis, chi è lì da più tempo si può permettere di sentenziare su cosa la community pensa, può fare, non può fare, su come ci si deve schierare, su come siano composti gli schieramenti, sul modo migliore di [azione a vostra scelta]. Dio (dea, dei, tutti i santi) grazie per averci dato hide e block, amen.

Poi, ogni occasione è buona per far scattare il flame. A quanto pare alcuni soggetti sono convinti che sia impossibile spiegare le cose con calma. E non è consentito avere idee diverse dalle proprie, perché se non la pensi come loro “sei un coglione, una capra, ecc.”, Oppure partono con la lagna dell’argomentazione. “Non hai argomentato/non sei coerente/non sei corretto/non hai letto”. Poco importa che loro abbiano spalato insulti su tutti, che siano odiati da tutti perché sono spocchiosi e non rendono conto che sbagliano nemmeno se metti cartelloni intermittenti e luminosi, perché loro passano il loro tempo sulle rete e quindi sanno di cosa parlano. E tu stai zitto, ignorante.

La cosa più divertente è vedere il loro feed/profili e scoprire che sono un cumulo di macerie in cui nessuno scrive mai o in cui intervengono sempre le solite quattro persone. Che lo scambio (perché internet serve a questo) per loro non esiste. Si vede dal loro atteggiamento, perché nel corso del tempo questo non cambia.

Si avvalgono dell’infinita risorsa che è l’anonimato, fanno i personaggi. Peccato che come nella realtà, gli altarini si scoprono subito.

Tristissimo vedere gente che non perde occasione di farsi pubblicità, anche se non c’entra nulla. Preferire che se fanno qualcosa che vogliono far sapere agli altri, la condividessero e non la imponessero.

Al che decidi di ignorare/cancellare/bloccare. E se (quando) lo scoprono, ti contattano per capire perché mai hai fatto una roba del genere, senza chiedersi se magari, ma solo magari hanno rotto con il loro spam, con le loro infinite lamentele sul tuo comportamento scorretto. La cosa più divertente sono i loro interventi, subito dopo i tuoi, che attaccano qualsiasi cosa tu dica. Peccato, peccatissimo che hai messo hide e quindi si suoi interventi non li vedrai mai.

Come nella vita, nei SN ci vuole selezione. Persone con cui pensi di poter parlare: follow. Persone che non t’interessa seguire: unfollow. Persone che ogni tanto di irritano: hide. Persone che troppo spesso ti irritano: block.

In particolare su twitter, identi.ca e friendfeed, ossia quelli che sto usando maggiormente. Parto dai primi due, praticamente gemelli, ma frequentati da persone diverse. Ambedue sono piattaforme di microblogging limitate agli ormai canonici centoquaranta caratteri; il primo è ormai arrivato, in Italia,  all’attenzione del grande pubblico dopo essere stato per molto tempo una cosa da geek e adetti ai lavori; il secondo è una copia quasi perfetta del primo, ma basato su software libero e per questo attira principalemente nerd come il sottoscritto. Li tengo sincronizzati perché utilizzo lo stesso client, gwibber, per scrivere su entrambi.  Gente diversa ne fa due posti diversi. Su ambedue periodicamente aggiungo contatti a caso, nella speranza di trovare persone interessanti, sempre periodicamente casso tutti quelli che interessanti non mi sembrano. twitter è frequentato da un’umanità varia e spesso interessante. Da quasi un paio d’anni lo uso con piacere, ho conosciuto persone interessanti, la maggior parte solo virtualmente, altre volte anche realmente: sono nate piacevoli amicizie e anche una storia d’amore. Ho aggiunto anche persone che conosco nella vita reale, ma sono in netta minoranza. Il grosso dell’utenza storica è ormai passato su friendfeed (per fortuna).

Identi.ca, come dicevo prima è un posto da nerd e lo uso per avere notizie sul software libero, anche in questo caso ho conosciuto una persona nella vita di tutti i giorni, dottorblaster, che si è presentato all’install fest che abbiamo fatto in ciclofficina centrale.

friendfeed, che sto frequentando da poco, mi sembra invece il facebook dei geek, difficilmente ho trovato qualcosa di interessante su questo social network. Il lato peggiore è che la maggior parte delle blogstar si sono ormai trasferite qui e per lo stesso meccanismo di funzionamento di friendfeed le loro notizie sono quelle che compaiono più spesso. Parecchie le ho bloccate, ma non mi trovo un granché bene su questa piattaforma, rimando ulteriori giudizi a quando avrò maggior confidenza con questo strumento.

Altri social network sui quali ho anche un account invece li trascuro completamente, mi annoio a caricare libri su Anobii o le mie foto su flickr.

P.S. Confermo che c’è una cosa che mi manca di facebook: gli eventi, si beccavano cose veramente interessanti!

Ev kirası, okul masrafları, günlük harcamalar; işsizlik tavan yapmış, kredi kartları dolmuş taşmış… Ayrıca önümüz kış; doğalgaz faturası da artacak yakında. Kriz teğet geçecek sandık ama öyle olmadı. Devir tutumlu olma devri.

ZihniTutumluyuz.Biz’e yazdığımız ilk yazının ardından friendfeed’te konuyla ilgili olarak bazı yorumlar geldi. Herkes düşüncesini söyledi. Yazının giriş bölümü şöyle diyordu:

“Üniversitede bize ekonominin dünya üzerinde bulunan sınırlı kaynakları insaoğlunun sınırsız istemlerine paylaştırmak olduğunu öğrettiler. İşe kendi açımızdan bakarsak, bizim de kaynaklarımız sınırlı. Aldığımız maaş belli. Ama isteklerimizin ucu bucağı yok. Lakin şartlar ortada. Peki ne yapmalı?”

Bu cümlenin altına sevgili Onur Atahan “Kredi ile çözmeye çalışıyorum ben” dedi.  Dediği sey çok doğru. Bitmek tükenmek bitmeyen ihtiyaçlarımız için hepimiz kredilerle mücadele ediyoruz. Krediler artık hayatımızın vazgeçilmez bir parçası oldu. Aklımızın bir köşesinde hep onlar var. Peki kendimize uygun krediyi nasıl seçiyoruz. Kıyaslıyor muyuz? Kıyasladığımızda ve doğru planladığımızda neler kazanacağımızın farkında mıyız?
Krediler hepimizin korkulu rüyası olabilir ama kendimize uygun krediyi seçmediğimizde…

Bazı noktalarda dikkatsiz mi davranıyoruz?

Örneğin, alacağımız bir spor ayakkabı için bir ayakkabı satıcısına gidiyoruz ve hoşumuza giden 100 TL’lik ayakkabıyı almak için satıcıyla sıkı bir pazarlığa başlıyoruz ve bu pazarlık sonucunda ayakkabıcıya indirim yaptırtmayı kabul ettirip ayakkabıyı 90 TL’ye almayı başarıyoruz. Yani 10 TL kazandık. Ancak öbür tarafta ihtiyaçlarımızı gidermek üzere aldığınız banka kredisinde doğru bankayı ve krediyi seçmediğiniz için 1000’lerce TL zarar edebiliyoruz. Eeee nefesimize yazık değil mi?

Bu arada Tutumluluk Hareketi tüm hızıyla devam ediyor…Eğer bu hareketin bir parçası olmak ve ilginç örnekler görmek isterseniz blogumuzu takip etmeye devam edin. Ayrıca twitter hesabımızı da takip edebilir ve yazılarımıza ulaşabilirsiniz…

“Nata a Firenze, a 15 anni è folgorata sulla via di Damasco dall’Introduzione alla metafisica di Heidegger. Per mesi ne legge i sacri testi in lingua originale e gli resta devota anche giunta a Pisa, prima classificata alle selezioni per la Scuola Normale Superiore. Da lì esce con 110 e lode per la sua tesi in Filosofia Teoretica e un libretto d’esami con tutti 30 e lode. A Roma si diploma alla LUISS, Master in Direzione del personale e organizzazione. Convinta però che la filosofia debba uscire dall’accademia e passare dalla comunicazione, si avvicina al giornalismo e ai mass media. Dopo qualche anno e centinaia di articoli scritti approda a Mediaset, collaboratrice ai testi per Il senso della vita e Buona domenica.”

(mantellini su ff)

Author: Sky Croeser
Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009 6:36:55 PM WST
Subject: Official Thread: Friendfeed

Sign up for a Friendfeed account and aggregate the RSS feeds from the Twitter and delicious accounts you’ve signed up for during the unit; also add in the RSS feeds from any other services you have accounts with.  Now that a look at the resulting ‘feed’ that results. If you can, post your Friendfeed details on the discussion board and take a look at each others’.

* How does that feed represent you or your interests?  (And how would that work if you have more posts using the individual services?)
* What sense of other people do you get from their feeds?

http://friendfeed.com/sabres21

This is rather interesting to see what comes together when you add all sites into one. I would say that friendfeed is what Web2.0 is all about. Its a one stop shop for social networking.

• content seperate from form
• RSS
• user participation
• ability to have connections with friends.

I do not think I would use this site, however, I can see the appeal of having all info in one spot.

Author: Sean Pryor

Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:51:15 PM WST
Subject: RE: Official Thread: Readings

I agree that it is sometimes difficult to see the importance of twitter. I have found it to be incredibly useful as a study tool as I follow many social media and web 2.0 people. But I also have made some personal connections with people that have similar interests.

Author: Sky Croeser
Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009 6:38:57 PM WST
Subject: Official Thread: Readings

Tama Leaver (2007) ‘It’s a Small World After All: From Wired’s Minifesto to the Twitterati’
* Is small still ‘the new black’? If so, why? If not, what’s the newest fashion online?
* What are the implications of the shift to packaging online information in smaller sizes, both for us as consumers of that media and as producers? How does it change the kind of information we put online?
* Do you agree with Lawley’s answer to claims that tweets can be important?

Is small still ‘the new black’? If so, why? If not, what’s the newest fashion online?

I cannot help but think that Twitter is popular currently because you are able to use phones; it’s a mobile service which makes it easy and trendy.

What are the implications of the shift to packaging online information in smaller sizes, both for us as consumers of that media and as producers? How does it change the kind of information we put online?

The messages are much straighter to the point; however, I still feel that these micro messages are nothing more than spam if from a business or self serving exhibitionism if from a person. Like the Twitter In Real Life video I cannot help but think ‘who cares’.

Do you agree with Lawley’s answer to claims that tweets can be important?

I am sure as Lawleys says tweets are important to some people, a simple way to keep in touch with daily activities. For me I prefer a more traditional way of finding out what family and friends are up to by using the phone or email.

Did you know that you can send a Twitter Update when updating your LinkedIn status and vice versa? Fortunately, they are both short updates, so it works out ok.

And you can add a new posting on your blog, web site, FaceBook page and Friendfeed all at the same time; it is easy to do through the likes of ping.fm

The benefits are, of course, that you can write it once and distribute it everywhere quick and easy. However, having the same post multiple places can actually negatively impact your organic search rankings if you are linking back to your web site, because search engines try to weed out duplicate content, thus reducing your back links. See the google blog article on this.

So for these purposes, you can use article spinners, or spinning software, to change various words so as to avoid exact duplication of content. Jetspinner is a free one that you might want to check out. Happy writing!

I forum - con +80 milioni di messaggi quest’anno - sono lo strumento preferito dagli italiani per confrontarsi sugli orientamenti di consumo ed altri argomenti che riguardano la sfera professionale e privata.

È quanto emerge dal Rapporto sulle comunità Web di Digital PR, ”Dove vanno gli italiani in rete – abitudini e nuovi fenomeni” giunto alla sesta edizione.

La blogosfera è sempre più il regno di chi ha qualcosa di interessante da dire. Sono quasi 3 milioni i blogger della penisola, ma “solo” il 35% di questi aggiorna il proprio diario con una certa frequenza (2 o più volte settimanalmente).

Facebook ha superato i 12 milioni di utenti (il 57% dei connessi) ed è la nuova piazza virtuale degli italiani. Una piazza sempre più rosa: secondo i dati dell’Osservatorio Facebook, infatti, nella fascia di utenti al di sotto dei 18 annile donne superano gli uomini nel social network più popolare del mondo.

I fenomeni emergenti di questo 2009 sono Twitter e Friendfeed. Il servizio di microblogging ha raggiunto 1 milione di utenti unici/mese nel nostro Paese (fonte: Google Trends Websites), mentre Friendfeed è ancora per early adopters, ma può rappresentare la naturale evoluzione dei forum.

Per approfondimenti rinvio alla presentazione di Vincenzo Cosenza (Digital PR) al seminario “Il nuovo potere dei consumatori sul web 2009

The very interesting publication Article-Level Metrics and the Evolution of Scientific Impact Export by Cameron Neylon and Shirley Wu (PLoS Biol 2009(Nov); 7(11): e1000242 [Epub 2009(Nov 17)][PubMed Citation]) is receiving attention on FriendFeed [here] and Topsy [here] and has been bookmarked on Connotea [here].

There’s also a related blog post, A brief analysis of commenting at BMC, PLoS, and BMJ by Shirley Wu on her blog, I was lost but now I live here, November 18, 2009. Excerpt:

One of the many issues Cameron and I touched on was the problem of commenting. Most people probably aren’t aware of the problem; after all, commenting is alive and well on the internet in most places you look! But click over to PLoS or BioMed Central (BMC) and the comment sections are the digital equivalent of rolling tumbleweed.

Comment: A major long-term benefit of OA seems likely to be the development of a much more efficient and equitable system that will make full use of the potential of the Internet to facilitate the quality-filtration of new knowledge. The available set of relevant online resources continues to evolve rapidly.

TTnet sosyal medyada yer almaya karar verdi… TTnet hakkında yorum yapmak bize düşmez(!)
http://friendfeed.com/ttnetas adresinden takip edebilirsiniz.. İlk feed yazıldıktan sonra sosyal medyanın straı olmayı başrdı TTnet; 593 yorum aldı.. Yorumlara cevap ; 0

A nice list of useful (obviously done by a Librarian!) sources to start a review on Science 2.0:

• WorldCat: List: Science 2.0 / Open Science: http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/PFAnderson/lists/651073
• FriendFeed: Science 2.0: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/science-2-0
• Delicious: Science 2.0: http://delicious.com/tag/science2.0
• CiteULike: Groups: Science 2.0 / Open Science: http://www.citeulike.org/group/9932/library

Source: Emerging Technologies Librarian: http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/science-20-getting-started/

Somebody want to tell me what this is? What is this blog? What is Twitter? What is Facebook, Ning, Friendfeed, etc.?

Are all these things fake? Non-existent?

No, they’re real. Real things. Real people. Real ideas. Real interaction. Real friends. Real relationships.

It’s real life.

Allow me to break a golden rule of blogging as I write an obituary…

R.I.P. “IRL”

You were there for us when we needed you. You were a crutch that we leaned on you when we weren’t sure what the hell was going on. The whole “social Internet” thing was new, and we didn’t know how to tell other people we had these all great friends and met all these smart people… online.

Alas, it was your time. You see, IRL, this, -this blog, Twitter, Facebook, Ning- is real life. We can no longer pretend like what we’re doing online is some sort of “second life” or “surreality”.

I’ve made real friends, learned real things, got real ideas- all from real interaction and real people on the Internet.

I’m glad you passed away when you did. This needn’t draw on any longer. I will not have to say “Oh, I know this marketing genius in Timbuktu, but I’ve never met him IRL”, anymore.

I hope you understand, IRL, that it has to be this way in order for the social Internet to continue to thrive. How are people I talk with, who don’t know the social web, supposed to believe what I’m doing is legitimate, or real, if I continue to infer that it isn’t real life?

It’s going to be tough to bury you. I know that there are going to be moments when I want you by my side. But I know that I just need to let you go. I need to move on with everything in my life being real.

We’ve had a good run buddy, but it’s time to let you go.

For real.

[Post pubblicato anche sul Blog di Zoopa Italia]

Questa sembra essere la parola d’ordine dei brands all’interno dei tanto chiaccherati Social Media.

E si, perchè tu sui social network ci vai per condividere, discutere, divertirti, informarti. Ma dall’altra parte vuoi i tuoi amici, followers, subscribers, friends (o che dir si voglia).

Ed allora le aziende perchè dovrebbero “interferire” questo rapporto? Ma sopratutto, le aziende ed i loro brands, perchè vogliono diventare nostri friends su Facebook, nostri followers su Twitter, nostri subscribers su Friendfeed? Tante aziende ci stanno provando, alcune ottenendo risultati eccellenti.

Le aziende diventano “umane” nei social media. Parlano come il tuo vecchio compagno delle scuole medie che non vedevi da 15 anni (e che hai ritrovato grazie a Facebook) o come il tuo nuovo utente su twitter che ha appena condiviso una notizia che hai lanciato.

I brands su Facebook ti dicono “se diventi mio amico, la prossima volta che compri un mio prodotto, dì alla cassa che ti mando io, vedrai che ti fanno uno sconto del 10%”.

Perchè le aziende non sono solo pubblicità tabellari sui quotidiani nazionali, claim televisi da urlo. Devono aprirsi al confronto: discussioni che, sui social media, hanno spesso toni accesi; discussioni che aiutano a conoscere quello che davvero (e senza filtri) il pensiero di una buona fetta di consumatori. Ci si può nascondere certo. Si può solo comunicare dall’alto verso il basso, senza alcun dubbio. Ma domani?

Domani siamo certi che i consumatori non privilegino le aziende che si aprono al confronto “aperto”? Siamo sicuri che, il nuovo consumat(t)ore, non sia “stufo” di subire passivamente i messaggi promozionali dei prodotti che utilizza ed acquista?

Io sono sicuro del contrario. Ah, non solo io ovviamente.

Chiedetelo a Google, più nello specifico a Google Social Search. Cambierà anche il modo di fare ricerche. E sopratutto cambieranno i risultati delle ricerche, o chiamatele SERP se siete esperti.

Saranno privilegiati le attività social della nostra cerchia di amici online. Ognuno di noi avrà una SERP differente, a quanto pare. Signori, brands, aziende, questo Signor web non scherza.

Anche perchè lo scenario si evolve, in continuazione.

Oggi il “consumo” di Web settimanale è pressochè identico a quello televisivo: i giovani, nella loro camera, spesso non hanno la TV, ma certamente hanno un PC. Oggi chi guarda un video pubblicitario online, pare abbia un ricordo 4 volte maggiore di uno televisivo.

Alcune ricerche dicono che solo il 14% delle persone si fida della pubblicità, mentre il 78% delle persone si fida del consiglio degli altri (qui la fonte).

Ed allora? La mia conclusione, da addetto ai lavori è scontata. Perciò facciamo finta che io sia un brand: ditemi cosa ne pensate del mio prodotto. Sì, sì, il mio prodotto è questo post, avete capito bene

Update November 19: Facebook has still not reinstated my account, and they’ve had zero contact with me. I have a couple of friends looking into contacting some of the higher-ups. In the meantime, some very kind friends started a Facebook – Reactivate Mike Morrell’s Profile! group (on Facebook, of course!). I’m never sure how effective these kinds of groups are, but it’s a great gesture. By all means, join it if you’re so inclined. That’s probably how I’ll keep everyone updated. You can also keep up with me on Twitter @zoecarnate.

Update November 23: Still not back on Facebook, but we can connect via social spaces here.

Social networks: We depend on them for so much these days. When they work, we barely notice we’re using them, but when they fail us, they fail spectacularly. One of the weaknesses of the most popular social networks has been their high levels of automation, and dearth of ‘human touch.’ An impersonal robot running automatic protocols can make life quite difficult; an overworked human overseeing hundreds of appeals can do the same. I’ve learned both over the weekend as my Facebook account has been disabled, seemingly never to return.

Here’s the background: For over a year now, I’ve hovered at around 5,000 Facebook friends – 5,000 is Facebook’s cap. I’ve blogged about this difficulty before. Nearly a year ago, a strange thing happened: I was unable to request new friends (or add new Fan pages even), even though I hadn’t reached the 5,000-friend cap. However, I noticed that when someone added me, I could still accept their friend request. Whenever I had a new friend or family member join Facebook this past year, I had to write a rather awkward message to them telling them I’d really love to connect, and if they’d add me I could accept them. I even had to write my own grandmother this way!

So Saturday, I’d been tired of staring at about eight Suggested Friends suggestions – all for people I know in real-life. So one right after another, I sent them FB messages with this variation:

Hi Jim!

Our mutual friend XXXX recommended that we connect on Facebook, and I couldn’t agree more…unfortunately, Facebook has blocked me from adding any more friends – because I’m so close to their 5,000-friend cap, I suppose. But! I can accept friend requests that come my way, so if you’re so inclined add me & I’ll approve.

Talk to you soon,

Mike
@zoecarnate
zoecarnate.wordpress.com

I sent seven of these, and on the eighth I got a warning message from Facebook telling me to slow down – that I might be sending some kind of spammy repeat message. Okay, I thought. Well this is the last one anyway. So I hit ’send’ on the eighth, and got a Captcha code. I filled it out to verify that yes, I was indeed a human, and sent it, thinking nothing more of it. ‘Till ten minutes later when I tried to find a friend’s wedding photos online, and Facebook prompted me to login. That’s strange, I thought. I was already logged in. Then I received the words:

Facebook Login  Account Disabled Your account has been disabled. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here.

You’re dang straight I had concerns! (Ego, Dom Anthony DeMello would tell me, ego. Why do you care so much about this Facebook account anyway? “You’ve obviously never had a Facebook account!” I tell Father Anthony, ideationally.) So I wrote the nice people at Facebook, figuring I’d set the record straight. I wasn’t one of their horrible spammers, or sales pimps. I wasn’t misusing anything – just trying to get in touch with people whom I should’ve been able to Friend request to begin with, were their system not already broken. So here’s what I said:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Michael Morrell <z——-@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Subject: My Account Was Disabled By Mistake – facebook.com/zoecarnate
To: disabled@facebook.com

Hi there,

I’m writing you pursuant to http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=45 because my account was disabled by mistake. I did not violate Facebook’s terms of use, nor was I using FB to promote a business or service.

Here’s exactly what happened: I am close to your 5,000 friends cap. I have 4,494 friends, to be exact. I had about eight friends who were suggested to me to connect with on Facebook, but for some reason your system hasn’t allowed me to add any new friends (or even become a Fan of any new pages) for nearly a year. So I messaged this eight people, suggesting that if they wanted to connect with me on FB, that they’d have to add me – for some reason, I can approve requests, even though I can’t initiate them.

I think this action tripped up your system because a.) I sent the eight or so messages one right after the other, and b.) I have links in my signature line? That’s my best guess. Anyway, I have been on here since 2007, am not a spammer, and would appreciate being reinstated. : )

Thanks,

Mike

Pretty straightforward, eh? You’d think if such a message actually got read by a real-live human being, it’d get handled nicely, right? Alas, things are rarely so simple are they? Here’s the response I received earlier this evening:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: The Facebook Team <info+dm2mi0p@facebook.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: My Account Was Disabled By Mistake – facebook.com/zoecarnate
To: z——@gmail.com

Hi Mike,

Facebook aspires to be an environment where people can interact safely with their friends and people they know. Accordingly, we expect accounts to reflect mainly your “real-world contacts.” We do not endorse contacting strangers through unsolicited friend requests as they may be considered annoying or abusive.

To prevent this type of behavior, Facebook has limits in place that restrict the rate at which you can use certain features on the site. Your account was disabled because Facebook determined that you were going too fast when sending friend requests, despite being warned to slow down, or because your friend requests were being rejected at a high rate.

After further review of your account, we have determined that you violated our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities by misusing our site features to harass other users. We will not be able to reactivate your account for any reason. This decision is final.

Thanks for your understanding,

Marissa
User Operations
Facebook

Nope…sorry. No understanding granted. I wrote Marissa back:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Michael Morrell <z—–@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: My Account Was Disabled By Mistake – facebook.com/zoecarnate
To: The Facebook Team <info+dm2mi0p@facebook.com>, disabled@facebook.com

I’m sorry, Marissa – I must not have made myself clear. I know all of the people who were recommended by our mutual friends – I know them in real life. David T. is a family friend from church. James Rutz is a fellow author friend. And so on. All of these people are those whom I know. The disabling was triggered by my sending the emails to these folks too quickly.

I have been a FB member in good standing since 2007; I’ve already had dozens of people ask what happened to me. This is how I keep up with many friends, relatives, and colleagues; please reconsider.

Thank you,

Mike

Marissa replied, within the hour, with a combination of the verbatim text from before and a repeated denial of appeal. Now I feel like I am talking to a robot:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: The Facebook Team <info+dm2mi0p@facebook.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: My Account Was Disabled By Mistake – facebook.com/zoecarnate
To: z——@gmail.com

Hi Mike,

Your account was disabled because you exceeded Facebook’s limits on multiple occasions, despite having been warned to slow down. Upon further review of your site activity, we have determined that you were in violation of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

One of Facebook’s main priorities is the comfort and safety of our users. Accordingly, Facebook does not endorse unsolicited contact with strangers as it may be considered annoying or abusive. It is especially prohibited when large groups of users who share similar physical characteristics are targeted for this type of behavior.

Unfortunately, your account has been permanently disabled. We will not be able to reactivate it for any reason, nor will we provide further explanation of your violation or the systems we have in place. This decision is absolutely final.

Thanks for your understanding,

Marissa
User Operations
Facebook

Ah, the ‘multiple occasions.’ That’s right. In early 2008 – just a few months into having my account – I had uploaded a .csv file of my email address book into their FriendFinder feature to see who I already knew on Facebook. At the time, I had 10,000 people in my email address book – friends, family members, clients, and others whom I’d emailed with over the years. I’d only uploaded a fourth of my address book, which yielded 300 of my peeps who were on Facebook. I added them, and was booted. Once again, because The System had determined that I was adding people ‘too fast’ – even though I was using their own service to do so. After lengthy correspondence with them, they reinstated my account.

And now here we are, seemingly in the same spot all over again. I’m left with several options:

1. I could rebuild my Facebook profile from scratch.
2. I could forget about Facebook – screw it.
3. I could try, once more, to get my Facebook profile back.

Here’s what I’m thinking about these options:

1. It took me over a year to get in touch with all you lovely people to begin with; I don’t have the time or energy to do that again. Besides, my main strategy for rebooting would be to upload my .csv file again, which is now at 15,000 contacts! The Facebook robots surely wouldn’t like that; I’d be back at Square One with the constant spectre of account deactivation.
2. This would certainly be satisfying in the short term. After all, I’m on Twitter, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Missional Tribe, and more Ning networks than you can shake a stick at (including Steve Knight’s super-nice new one, the TransFORM network!); do I really need Facebook? In 2009? ‘Need’ is of course a relative term. And at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is I keep in touch with more people I’m connected with in more ways on Facebook than the above means. I share photos with people here in Raleigh, with family members all over; heck, I talk to my wife via Facebook, posting interesting links to her wall. And I get to talk to all of you on Facebook, more often than on this blog. I’ll post a link, and 20 to 100 of you will start weighing in on it. Sometimes that gets contentious, but most of the time we have some great conversations, don’t we? That’s why I heard from a couple dozen of you within hours of my profile getting disabled; some of you thought you’d pissed me off for good! But no. ‘Tis the robots. So yeah…I want to stay on FB. Which brings me to…
3. I have a hunch that if you emailed Marissa and the Facebook team on my behalf – and they heard from enough of you – they’d realize that I’m not someone jumping on Facebook to hawk, well, male anatomy enhancers. Something simple. Here are the email addresses to send a brief email to, something like this:

Send to all of these email addresses: info@facebook.com, disabled@facebook.com, appeals@facebook.com, info+dm2mi0p@facebook.com

Subject line: Please Reactive Mike Morrell’s Facebook Profile

Hi Marissa,

My friend[/Facebook friend] Mike Morrell had his account (facebook.com/zoecarnate) disabled Saturday, and I think that’s a mistake. I am a [friend/fellow comic book reader/spiritual co-dreamer/client/activist/chia pet] with Mike and have always enjoyed hearing from him on Facebook because ____.  If you could reinstate his account, I would appreciate it. He didn’t mean to trip up your system, honest.

Thank you.

Sincerely.

[You]

Tell ‘em something personal about why you like connecting with me on Facebook, if something particular comes to mind. (By all means, don’t waste more than fifteen seconds of your life trying to think about whether something does) Let ‘em know that, while I’m a hyperconnected rapscallion, I don’t spam people, I don’t sell widgets, and most of the time I just use Facebook like any other user does – except for those times when we have wild, animated conversations around links that I post. Hopefully if enough of you say a little something, Marissa and the other fine, overworked foks at Facebook will see the light and reactivate

Thanks so much…I’ll keep you updated on this very post.

Oggi ho scoperto che la donna delle pulizie, ieri, ha deciso che il mio concetto di ordine, anche NEI cassetti e NEGLI armadi, è diverso dal suo. Panico. Per esempio non trovare la biancheria, che ha un suo preciso posto che mi consente di recuperarla anche senza aprire gli occhi, nel dormiveglia che dura da quando mi alzo, alle 6.30, fino alle 10.30, quando la pressione torna a livelli accettabili.

No, lei ha deciso di spostare, senza dirlo. La casa non la riconosco più. Ha fatto 3h30, dice. Bene, io ce ne metterò il doppio a capire cosa ha spostato ed a rimetterlo dove deve essere.

E dovrò farle capire che l’ho presa per le pulizie, non per aprirmi cassetti ed armadi (cosa che, peraltro, m’infastidisce pure, perché un discorso è che hai le chiavi di casa per lavarmi il pavimento ed i vetri, un altro è che apri e frughi negli armadi e nei cassetti, questa per me è un’inaccettabile invasione della privacy).

Né per spostarmi le valigie, metterci dentro cose che poi non ritroverò mai più perché che ne so io quale lei ha deputato contenitore delle cose che non sa dove mettere. Le valigie sembrano creare disordine? Pace, non è così.

Sì, mi sono sentita invasa. E, soprattutto, so che passerò il sabato mattina, invece che a riposare, a cercare di riprendermi l’ordine mio, che può anche sembrare disordine, ma chi se ne frega, la casa è mia.

Poi WordPress. Oggi ce l’ha con me. Ha deciso di togliermi il gravatar, l’iconcina che mi “rappresenta” nei commenti.

E pure Friendfeed, che di colpo si era messo a postare su facebook (di cui non posso più modificare le impostazioni) il mio feed. Senza poterci far nulla.

Insomma, che palle, tanto per usare un termine tecnico.

Ci sono aziende che fanno sforzi per interpretare la contemporaneità, per provare a riempire di esperienze concrete quei contenitori digitali da cui ci si aspetta tanto “futuro” ma ai quali si dedica ancora troppo poco “presente”.
Che siano piattaforme di condivisione e collaborazione o tentativi di conversazione e interazione con il mercato, queste esperienze meritano secondo me di essere analizzate.

E’ così che ho incontrato

WikiSAP (www.wikisap.it), il progetto di SAP Italia nato poco più di un anno fa, pensato per essere un business social network a disposizione di manager e imprenditori che vogliano condividere informazioni ed esperienze, creando una piattaforma comune di intelligenza collettiva con l’obiettivo di favorire un percorso di apertura e collaborazione verso l’innovazione.

Una dichiarazione di intenti così importante ha solleticato la mia curiosità e, grazie a Cristina Di Grado (che ha creato una nuova linea nel mio network), ho avuto il piacere di incontrare la gentilissima Anita Greco, Marketing Communications Manager di SAP, e fare quattro chiacchiere sul progetto.

Anita ha definito WikiSAP

un’iniziativa nata dal bisogno di confrontarsi su temi ampi quali managerialità, imprenditorialità, che vanno oltre il core business di SAP. L’idea è mettere a fattor comune tutte le esperienze in quel senso con una piattaforma che consenta di condividere opinioni, idee e best practice d’impresa. L’obiettivo è ben delineato: lavorare insieme per l’innovazione.

Questo progetto è espressione della cultura dell’apertura verso l’esterno, coinvolgendo in una logica peer-to-peer non solo i clienti ma anche partner e fornitori (non dimentichiamo che le aziende non hanno solo clienti da soddisfare ma anche fornitori da coinvolgere in questo desiderio di innovazione e crescita).

I numeri sono promettenti: 3.000 utenti iscritti, 50.000 visite nel semestre delle quali più del 60% sono visite di nuovi utenti.
Quello che è ancora contenuto è il dato sull’interazione: solo poche decine di utenti sono molto attivi nel segnalare o commentare.
E’ sull’incremento di questo dato che si orienteranno gli sforzi nei prossimi mesi.

Chiedo come ci si sta muovendo per “diffondere” WikiSAP. Glielo chiedo perché personalmente sono convinto che ogni presenza online debba andare oltre un presidio specifico e vivere in maniera liquida in tutti i luoghi in cui ci possano essere utenti interessati ai suoi contenuti.

E’ in questo modo che si possono creare diverse forme di interazione: il commento strutturato al post è un alto livello di engagement, un post più “leggero” su friendfeed è più conversazione…ma tutti vanno alimentati e difesi perché creano network (ancor prima della tanto auspicata community, che nasce probabilmente da un livello così “ricco” di relazione che comprende un po’ tutti gli aspetti della personalità, compreso quello informale, che viaggia più facilmente su friendfeed e si compendia magari in un incontro “reale” sul territorio.

In effetti Anita è ben consapevole del fatto che non sia possibile centralizzare tutto in WIKISAP, che questo progetto ha ancora bisogno di seeding digitale e però anche reale. E mi parla di iniziative stimolanti come quella fatta in ottica “mezzogiorno” in collaborazione con Domenico De Masi.

Non è mia intenzione entrare nel merito delle aree tematiche o dei canali di approfondimento secondo i quali WIKISAP è strutturato; credo che a fare fotografie oggi si corra il rischio che vengano mosse.

Mi pare invece che quello che conta per SAP sia coinvolgere davvero gli utenti entrati nel network (in gran parte con ruoli direzionali nelle aziende di appartenenza) in un processo spontaneo di creazione dei contenuti il più possibile condivisi e orientati all’innovazione.

Lo giudico un bel modo per proporre valore al mercato.
E dalle parole di Anita mi pare che SAP abbia ancora tanta voglia ed energia racchiusa nelle sue persone per portare avanti questo ambizioso progetto.

Publicado por Stefany Jovel en Fastrackmedia.com

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