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Anne Fontaine's seductive film "Nathalie" is mostly about French star power and sex, so it's somewhat surprising that it is also subtle and intriguing. But then Fanny Ardant, Gerard Depardieu and Emmanuelle Beart make up the romantic triangle.

Nathalie - Review - Movie - New York Times

IT would probably require a stopwatch to clock the lag time between sin and redemption lately, as media disgrace is transformed into a bargaining chip in a celebrity's career often before a bad boy or girl has stumbled home from the crime scene and showered off the taint of shame.

What seems evident is that public humiliation has lost its barb.

Being Bad: The Career Move

So, what makes a good recommendation?

1. First-person experience.
2. Enthusiasm.
3. Specificity.
4. Sincerity.
5. Clarity.

The difference between good (action-inducing) and bad (zzzzzz) recommendation is the difference between one person saying:

“I'’ve read a lot of history books, but this is the best I’ve ever found on the Roman Empire, and if you read it you will have a firm grasp on Roman history and architecture and I guarantee you’ll be booking the next flight to Italy.”

and the other saying,

“I guess I liked this novel, but you probably won’t.”

Which book would you buy?

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This is a series of articles excerpted from Dr. Saul Berman's white paper on "The End of TV as we know it."

The End of TV as We Know It

At the 2006 O'Reilly Media Emerging Telephony Conference, David Isenberg recited a hilarious Dr. Seuss-style poem, a call to arms against a proposed U.S. telecom bill. The new law would create a tiered, prioritized telecommunications industry, where ISPs would have the right to provide preferential access to their own VOIP and IPTV services for customers on their networks. Isenberg has organized the Freedom to Connect conference to educate and advocate for "net neutrality," an open internet that doesn't favor one kind of information or source of information over others.

[Due to language, this program is not family/work safe.]

David Isenberg - Freedom To Connect

The AJAX approach to dynamic web programming has caught on all over the internet, heightening our expectations for a new generation of rich, interactive web applications. In this conversation, Phil Windley sits down with Ben Galbraith, Bruce Grant and Scott Lemon, three experienced AJAX developers and evangelists, to talk about progress and challenges in the AJAX world.

Given the energy of the AJAX community, we can expect very interesting times ahead as AJAX competes with rich client approaches to provide users with instantaneous feedback, powerful interfaces, and cool visual effects.

AJAX Progress and Challenges - Technometria

National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence Mike Fay is currently tracking the migration of elephants on a conservation mission in Chad. He recently spoke, very quietly, with Alex Chadwick as he watched three lions eating a young elephant they recently killed.

Tracking Elephants in Chad

In keeping with its subject, "The Notorious Bettie Page" is principally a work of gorgeous surfaces, shot mostly in silvery black-and-white film by the cinematographer Mott Hupfel, with an occasional splash of saturated color.

She likes, she likes it!

The Notorious Bettie Page - Review - Movies - New York Times

For Thomas Malone, organization is something that sits on top of what we normally think of as the technology stack. Organizations are changing and this change mimics how human social groups have changed from bands through kingdoms and into democracies. These organizational changes will see a great deal of innovation in the future.

In this presentation Malone shows how new organizational structures can be invented. He provides examples in current companies, both large and small. Malone explains how new materials have always provided opportunities for new inventions. He illustrates how the availability of cheap communication as a material can give rise to new organizational approaches that will transform how we work in the future.

By relating the change in organizational structure to the change in human society, Malone makes a compelling case for the availability of lower cost communications as the catalyst for this change in both our societies and our organizations. He demonstrates how this single factor can allow groups to work together in ways that could not have happened before the rise of the Internet, e-mail, and other communication technologies.

Malone finishes by challenging listeners to think about using our values to create the types of organizations we want to see in the future, and the future world we will live in.

Thomas W. Malone - The Future of Work