English is my language !

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Lear English with www.englishclub.com

This web site invites you to join for free and improve your English. That's actually just a big joke! In fact, what happens once you've joined (what I tried to do for about one hour) is that the window you're in closes, you're sent an email with a link to click on. Once you've clicked a new window opens with a new link. Once you've clicked once more, the window closes again and you receive one more mail. When you open it, guess what ?! you have to click on a link! That website is so much sport for fingers! So, you are desperate but you give yourself another chance to learn English before throwing your computer through the window. You click on the link. You're crying but you do. And a new window opens. But not one of those 'EnglishClub.com's thank you for clicking windows'. No! it is a window for a marketing service. You finally find out that you cannot learn English unless create an account and make your email address become a real trash, receiving marketing adds everyday.
Finally, what seems to result from all this is that first what seems to be free is not really so free, and then, when you try to learn English this way, you should have good basis to understand what you have to do before you may have a real lesson!

Generosity in images

if you need to see more, here is a litlle funny explaination of the thing!

CROWDSOURCING

Crowdsourcing is one of the best examples of generosity on the web. Wikipedia is one of the best examples today of crowsourcing : the website exists just because people accept to share their knowledge with others in order to build a huge encyclopedia. But there are so many examples of crowdsourcing in everyday life, just like when I was at the university we shared our notes with other law students by putting them on the Internet. We had no interest in doing that except the fact that we knew it helped.

The idea that every one is part of the web creation is really revelant of the web 2.0 process.

Generosity

Second class. I find it hard to find words to describe what generosity looks like over here. What's good basically is that every one helps the person seated next to him but at the end, I feel that writing on a blog is quite hard.

What is generosity then? I've spent some time thinking about it since last week. I looked for definitions on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generosity and tried to make my mind on it. I guess Wikipedia is not that bad. There is an idea of giving things to others in the word "generosity" but that's not all I suppose. So many things cannot be simply given. Generosity it's also and so often sharing. Sharing knowledge, sharing time,... The real and true generosity is when you give or share something without thinking about what you could get back. That's what I believe in and what I try to do at least.