How many of you out there go to schools that use the program Turnitin.com for tackling the problem with plagiarism in the classroom? Well, in doing some research it seems as if Turnitin is a violation of students’ intellectual property rights on a large scale. Yet this hasn’t been proven in a court of law […]
Effects of Outsourcing IT Positions to Low Cost Countries
BACKGROUND: Off shoring – the transfer of high wage U.S. jobs to lower cost overseas locations especially in Banking Industry is enabled by improved communications technologies and driven by the desire of corporations to establish a business presence in potentially lucrative foreign markets as well as to take advantage of the lower costs of production […]
[Bangladesh] Salary of a UP Chairman should be set One Lac Taka per month
We always talk about how the local government system is not benefiting the country, how broken is it, but nobody talks about how to solve this problem. Here are some thoughts. The number of people that Singapore has is 4,483,900 in a tiny land of 704 square km. The population density of the country is […]
The Bias of Mainstream Media
<h3>Conglomerate Media: No Room for in a Democracy </h3> <h3>Specific purpose: To persuade my audience to use other sources for their news and information besides mainstream media.</h3> <hr /> <p>Our new conglomerate media is limiting our news and sanitizing our wars and disasters</p> <p>A video called Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCL6WdnuNp4">Learn what is really […]
New Orleans Drums into US Social Forum
ATLANTA, GA–After a quick lunch, the New Orleans delegation of activists to the first-ever US Social Forum grouped at Atlanta’s John Calhoun Park, on Piedmont and Auburn, where they got some energy flowing in the rising heat with African drumming and chants dating back to the Civil Rights Movement. The full march started at the […]
Web2.0 is grassroots
This article just serves as an introduction to web2.0 for the grassroots people. So this article is by no means academic. I will try to avoid tech terms. Web2.0 is grassroots in the sense that if you look at web2.0 websites (meetup, craigslist, youtube, flickr, del.icio.us …), they are all built by the user. It […]