Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos form the culture jamming duo The Yes Men. Through their actions, they try to raise awareness about problematic social issues, in their sense. In order to do this, The Yes Men impersonate people of high economical or political influence to expose lies and injustices.
On July 3 1884 Charles Henry Dow together with his colleague Edward Jones composed and published an stock average - called the Dow Jones Railroad Average -, which contained nine railroads and two industrial companies. He developed the stock index as part of his market research and it was meant to serve as a reference value to determine fluctuations of the stock market.
Yesterday 11 years ago, famous writer Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy) passed away. Read the Blogpost and watch the videos about him on #yovisto
Yovisto Blogpost about Diana E. E. Kleiner, who in her lectures explores the civic, commercial, and religious buildings of Pompeii as part of her lecture on 'Roman Architecture'. She is an art historian known worldwide for her expertise on the art and architecture of the ancient Romans. Watch her impressive Yale lecture series on "Roman Architecture" http://www.yovisto.com/lecture/4288
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H. Sack, and J. Waitelonis. in Proc. of 5. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik, DeLFI 2007, volume P-111 of Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Bonn, Köllen, (2007)
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A. Okada, and Y. Kambayashi. Advances in Web-Based Learning : First International Conference, ICWL 2002, Hong Kong, China, August 17-19, 2002. Proceedings, (2002)
A. Smeaton, P. Over, and W. Kraaij. MULTIMEDIA '04: Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, page 652--655. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2004)