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- For other uses of this term, see (disambiguation).
A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word people is a collective noun used to define a specific group of humans. However, when used to refer to a group of humans possessing a common ethnic, cultural or national unitary characteristic or identity, "people" is a singular noun, and as such takes an "s" in the plural; (example: "the English-speaking peoples of the world").
The concept of personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in philosophy and law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example, John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding II 27 and Immanuel Kant's Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals).
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Joey Chestnut Beats Kobayashi Again in Hot-Dog Eating Contest
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:20:09 -0000
It’s not the 4th of July without the Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Contest (that’s how we celebrate in Brooklyn, by stuffing our faces with as many hot dogs we can fit). This year’s winner is defending champion Joey “Jaws” Chestunt, who won in overtime from six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi. Both ate 59 hot [...]
The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:57:51 -0000
The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter’s all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical proportions, with the familiar Twitter Fail Whale now appearing on T-shirts and kitschy art). Identi.ca’s answer to Twitter’s scaling issues is by [...]
Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:50:56 -0000
Google Earth is turning out to be a great resource for scientists to visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. You can see the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. (The image above shows the range of both the Northern spotted [...]
Independence Day
Steve Gillmor Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:44:53 -0000
Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th, and a week later our long National Nightmare is over. On the 11th we deposit our 2G iPhones in the FriendFeed donation bins and officially hook ourselves up to the Enterprise iPhone. The ePhone will change how we work and play, and in the process free us from the tyranny [...]
Regator Wants To Be A Blog Reader For The Masses
Jason Kincaid Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:40:00 -0000
Regator, a new blog aggregator that hopes to reduce the blogosphere down to consumable chunks for the average user, has launched today in private beta. The site acts like a combination between Digg and a standard RSS reader, allowing users to vote on the most popular stories drawn from 3,000 blogs that have been [...]
Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime
Jason Kincaid Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:45:41 -0000
Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage. The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy, which until now has been buried in the “About Google” section of [...]
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Apple: Tim Bray - Profile by Joe Cellini of the web pioneer who computerized the Oxford English Dictionary, created an early search engine, co-wrote XML and founded Antarctica Systems.
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Case, Steve - The founder of AOL describes his work and gives the text of his speeches.
Meta Description: [ Launched by Steve Case in April 2005, Revolution drives transformative change by shifting power to consumers and builds significant, category-defining companies in the process. ]
Dunster Net - Suresh Chanmugam provides pictures of the team which set up this computer network at Harvard, with a note of its history.
Ellis, Jim - USA Today's tribute to the creator of Usenet, who died from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Meta Description: [ Usenet creator Jim Ellis dies HARMONY, Pa. (AP) — Jim Ellis, who helped create the information-sharing electronic bulletin boards that predated the World Wide Web, has died. He was 45. Ellis, who had been battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma for two... ]
History of the Internet - In this article Internet pioneer, Philip Emeagwali, reflects on his contributions and those of others.
Internet Pioneers - Profiles by Scott Griffin of ten individuals who helped make the Internet a reality.
Meta Description: [ Ten individuals who made significant contributions to the development of the Internet and world wide web. ]
Leonard Kleinrock - Personal site of the man who thought up the principles of packet switching. Includes a bio and a list of publications.
Roberts, Lawrence - The chairman and chief technology officer of Caspian Networks is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on packet switching and network. Includes biography and publications.
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