Thanks to Bertrand I'm reading up on this story of failing communication.

It immediately made me think about some expert on the radio giving some explanation on the studied effects and dynamics of Press-Framing. The bullets I remembered from the 10 minutes I overheared:

1. Observation: News coverage is framed. Meaning, that regardless how careful or careless choosen the words are, most of them are simply not neutrally observing but tending towards some sort of conlusion/position. On purpose, or just based on the authors personal (framed) conviction, it's very easy (if not natural) for news coverage to be adding an opinion to the matter.
2. As a consequence topics get gradually polarized: just about everybody ends up adapting to one of the two (rarely more) un-nuanced frames.
3. And the most striking finding: Once the frame is in place, being exposed to more footage on the topic (regardless which frame that is trying to bring) will only enforce the personal conviction: Coverage with the aligning frame yields head-nodding, coverage with the opposite frame is read as more evidence, a recognized media-plot and conspiracy ;-)

The covered topic on the radio was on how media are forming people's position regarding asylum seekers in Belgium (in the light of both local extreme-right uprising and global anti-extremist hunting) with the polarizing frames "those poor fellas" versus "they're shamelessly exploiting our goodness". Sure enough the topics 'digital rights/piracy' and 'open source' allow for at least equally heated discussions in our professional territory.

Blast, I just played the Microsoft tune, establishing the frame where the two topics are falsly associated :-)

In the pursuit of my new Swing coding hobby I keep on stepping over cool new open source projects. Be sure to remove any glaze from your eyes when looking at this cool project to filter, order, transforms java.util.List.

Read up the nice intro, and be pleasantly surprised by their swift reactions

Why? Mostly just because we can, but mainly cos its just oodles of fun

Been hacking away a fair bit at Spring RCP recently, mmmm, the joy of doing stuff...

Well done dudes! We've been counting everyone of those last meters with you. (well, taken the preparations maybe just not only the last meters :-))

The oldest member of the team, Fernand (my father in law) adds a new one to his *growing* list of summits he has reached (Mt. Blanc, Mt. Vinson, Denali (Mt. McKinley) and Elbrus)

Yeah, some of that gets him listed in a quite exquisite club.

Now that his son (Stefaan) joined him on this climb, I'ld better prepare for the missus doing the Kilimanjaro with him next. (She's parting for a 4 days hiking trip in the Ardennes as we speak)

In case one wondered: I'm more of the outdoors guy that enjoys the altitude differences seen at the Belgian coast line :-) (Joking! I'm quite fond of hiking up some mountains myself, but enjoy the surroundings at least as much as actually making the top) So for this league of outdoorsy behaviour I prefer supporting, and watching the footage.

According to this news we can assume there is a bunch of Chinese that will not get fired?