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  1. “Honte à vous, Jean Charest Lise Payette”

    www.ledevoir.com
    jeancorivo

  2. “Last and probably the best. VLC (Video Lan Client) is known very well for playing all types of media files.  However, very few know what exactly VLC was created for. It’s actually a server that can be used to broadcast music or videos over the web. Like you already know, when you broadcast audio/video using VLC, you can literally run all types of files.”

    www.lostintechnology.com
    dajallo

  3. “Both the "I", who is sentient of the "me", and the "me", which is a story of who you are, I think are stories. They're constructs and narratives. I mean that in a sense that a story is a reduction or at least it's a coherent framework that has some causal kind of coherence.”

    edge.org
    protoslacker

  4. “I think it’s wrong to speak of pop music as “changing” society; it’s something more like the soundtrack to a series of social and cultural changes that will occur regardless. But this is also too deterministic: pop music is neither solely a follower nor a leader. Really, it is something much more, to use Dyer’s term, anarchic. Pop music as an industry creates a series of possibilities, and individual musical acts, along with their producers, songwriters, and managers, explore these possibilities. These possibilities are shaped and created by social and cultural change. An example of this is the way economic and political strife in the UK in the late 1970s created the framework in which punk could materialize, but the individual artists who created and shape punk were not limited by this framework to only produce a series of pre-determined records. They operated with some amount of autonomy, and I think this is true even of the more “capitalistic” pop music, as Dyer notes.”

    occupiedterritories.tumblr.com
    meljohnso

  5. “This doesn’t make any sense: it sounds exactly like the sort of approach that has already been taken and has failed miserably for it. He might as well claim he’s definitely going to win the lottery next year without having to buy a ticket. How much of South Korean pop music’s relative success has been due to “luck” and being in the “right place at the right time”? None of it. South Korean entertainment companies have used smart, consistent advertising techniques, employed expert use of social networks, and have probably had hundreds of meetings where strategies and goals have been calculated and re-calculated. This is not an endeavor that takes luck. It does not take the defeated strategy that you “can’t plan for something outside of your country.” His example is Yuki Saori, a young woman whose song was stumbled upon in a record store and led to her being invited to sing in London. That’s definitely a great way to get noticed outside Japan: hope your record is found in a 50 cent used bin somewhere and hope for the best!”

    appears.wordpress.com
    meljohnso

  6. “Asian societies that have been largely influenced by Confucianism have a stronger sense of adherence to the community, while the Western world is generally based on individualism. With even language patterns showing an egocentric thinking system (capital letter for the pronoun “I”), these cultures value more their citizens’ integration within its structures. (If anyone is familiar with Suicide Club, the movie deals with the problem of identity in a collectivist society.) They place a higher importance on family and their fixation on image — also to be found in the entertainment industry — is additional evidence to support the argument. Having an appearance or customs that stray away from the norm will be instinctively perceived as a fault.”

    seoulbeats.com
    meljohnso

  7. “The political instability and the authoritarian rulings discouraged migrations towards South Korea. This is one of the contributing factors to its unvarying society. The lack of cultural diversity is an argument quickly tossed aside when talking about discrimination, which is unfair. The reason why people come to accept all sorts of ethnicities is because they are constantly exposed to them. The immigrants’ proportion in Korea is estimated at about 2%, most of them not registered as Korean citizens. The hosts’ offensive behavior can be associated with their awkwardness in approaching them. Taeyeon’s remark — stating that Alicia Keys is beautiful for a black woman — hints at a separation that she made of the black people from the rest of the world, and as if she believed black persons have distinct attributes and can not be described by the same terms used in portraying the others. Furthermore, the insufficiency of contact with people of a different descent is probably a cause for their unawareness of how harmful their actions can get. They seem to be clueless in perceiving their feelings and some of their insolence is based on curiosity and fear of what they are not accustomed with.”

    seoulbeats.com
    meljohnso

  8. “Restrictive regimes limiting outside influences and encouraging infringement of rights and freedoms are a block in the evolution of mentality. It is one of the factors that lead ex-communist countries to develop slower than the rest and keep traces of a conservative way of thinking. Censorship (MOGEF or the Internet regulations) remains as a proof that the country is still affected by its past. In this case, it is understandable for the Korean populace to have a harder time adapting to a new setting. Homophobia, racism, xenophobia or misogyny find a better playground on historically tormented states.”

    seoulbeats.com
    meljohnso

  9. “We all know or should know that the United States is extremely backward globally in high-speed transportation, and it’s very serious. It not only affects people’s lives, but the economy.  In that regard, here’s a personal story. I happened to be giving talks in France a couple of months ago and had to take a train from Avignon in southern France to Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, the same distance as from Washington, D.C., to Boston. It took two hours.  I don’t know if you’ve ever taken the train from Washington to Boston, but it’s operating at about the same speed it was 60 years ago when my wife and I first took it. It’s a scandal.”

    www.salon.com
    meljohnso

  10. “I’m just old enough to remember the Great Depression. After the first few years, by the mid-1930s — although the situation was objectively much harsher than it is today — nevertheless, the spirit was quite different. There was a sense that “we’re gonna get out of it,” even among unemployed people, including a lot of my relatives, a sense that “it will get better.” There was militant labor union organizing going on, especially from the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations). It was getting to the point of sit-down strikes, which are frightening to the business world — you could see it in the business press at the time — because a sit-down strike is just a step before taking over the factory and running it yourself. The idea of worker takeovers is something which is, incidentally, very much on the agenda today, and we should keep it in mind. Also New Deal legislation was beginning to come in as a result of popular pressure. Despite the hard times, there was a sense that, somehow, “we’re gonna get out of it.” It’s quite different now. For many people in the United States, there’s a pervasive sense of hopelessness, sometimes despair. I think it’s quite new in American history. And it has an objective basis.”

    www.salon.com
    meljohnso