Last week I wrote my first article for Wikipedia. It’s been a nice experience.
First, because we always talk about the power of web 2.0 as a fantastic new tool to interact and to collaborate, as a way to make the collective intelligence happens, but now I’m a part of it, I’ve had my brick to the wall and I have a strange (nice) feeling… Everyone of us should walk the line and do it! Contribute !!
Then I realized that it’s not so easier to get our content accepted by moderators. I confess, I didn’t quote sources for the information I put online and in less than an hour, a message was sent to me inviting me to quote “reliable sources” about the subject I was talking about (the Web Squared).
Wikipedia robots even detected that the notion of Web Squared was mentioned as “just another vacuous buzzword” on another blog ! So my article will certainly be deleted, even if I modificated it again this morning, redefining the concept… Let’s wait and see!
In a way, it’s reassuring to see that we can’t write anything on this “open encyclopedia”. But who are the moderators ? And what are their criterions to allow or not an article to be published ? If you have any idea, don’t hesitate to react commenting this article, my blog is an open space of discussion…humhm
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: agence h, olivier roubert, samuel goyet, visual strategic planning
Pictures can sometimes significate more than a speech, and here, to underline the complexity of the question of gender and sexuality of human being, this visual patchwork really make sense, composed by various pictures extracted from recent newspapers or advertising.
This assembly of pictures can be considered as “visual strategic planning“, as its author, Olivier Roubert, planner at the Agence H (Paris) describes it.
Sam, this post is dedicated to you, bro’ (check this new magazine : Genre, sexualité et société)
The RollTop by the german designer Evgeny Orkin.
See there a video demonstration of this strange new device :
1.The Golden Rule : treat others as you would like to be treated. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t make that they are not human. Don’t say or do something to someone online that you wouldn’t do in person.
2. No attacks : don’t attack or disrespect somebody for whatever reason. Maybe you didn’t agree with something they said, but there’s a nice way to share a different point of view without name calling or attacking someone.
3. Respect copyrights : copying the works of someone else without permission or in our case as students – plagiarism, can get you into real trouble. Bouh it’s not nice!!
4. DON’T TYPE IN ALL CAPS : It hurts our eyes. It makes people think you are shouting at them.
5. Don’t spam : Respect people’s privacy and time.
6. Use good grammar : If u rite liek this lol ppl might start 2 get mad lol. :) It’s annoying to constantly read online text in “geek vocable”. Be careful not to use too much web jargon, seeing lol more than twice in a paragraph is a clue it’s too much, i think. lol mdr ptdr xoxo :)
7. Research Your Facts/Cite Sources : it’s not because you’re on the web that you can write anything without reaching the truth.
8. An advice : don’t reveal too much informations about yourself… big brother is watching you!
9. Don’t rely too much on the web : for example, i don’t stock the pictures i take with my camera only “on the cloud”, online, on platforms such as Flickr that could bug and tell you one day that they’ve lost all your content and that you’ll never get it back.
10. And to conclude, don’t spend too much time on your computer and on the web, thinking this is where everything happens… don’t hesitate to go for a walk, watch the sun rising, breath the fresh air and listen to the birds singing :)
I recommend you this clear presentation by ReadWriteWeb about the 5 biggest, most cutting edge Web trends to come out of 2009. Enjoy!
To sum up, we can identify 5 big new trends about the web in 2009 :
1. Structured Data
2. The Real-Time Web
3. Personalization
4. Mobile Web & Augmented Reality
5. Internet of Things
More details here.
- Affordability : yes, the price is quite important : if we want this technology to become mainstream it mustn’t be too expensive.
- Ultra portability : the reading device must be small enough so it can easily fit into an average sized book bag without adding any extra weight.
- Interactivity : i mean the possibility for us to copy and cut some parts of the text which interest us, or to take notes (virtually) on the e-book.
- Speed wifi connection : to be able to download faster a document from anywhere.
- Long battery life : it’d be so annoying to be interrupted in the middle of the reading of a book for a question of battery !
- In a perfect world, my ebook would also be respectable of the environement consuming no energy : LG has already invented it with its solar ebook reader.
I think this ebook reader doesn’t already exist, certainly due to the question of the price : the technology developed is expensive and these devices are, for now, only dedicated to rich people.
After the rise of the consumption of music on these new devices that are mp3 players, we use less and less CD’s and the question of their disappearance of the market is a reality. Are paper books gonna disappear with the threat that new technologies such as the Kindle (by Amazon) represents ? I don’t think so. Not because this device is not gonna be adopted by users, but because e-paper don’t significate real paper’s death.
Of course, e-paper got a lot of advantages :
- you can take notes on it, and tag it, highlighting passages that interest you and transfer these quotes on your computer where you can find them when you need it.
- for a big reader, weight is a real advantage. This is essential when you travel : you must always have several books because you never know what will be your mood.
And moreover, i would say to the ones who will argue me that it’s not charming at all to read on an electronical device that when we are caught by a text, we completely forget we’re reading on an electronic medium. It’s the story that matters, not the support.
To conclude, my point of view is all that stuff don’t figure the death of paper, but a reorganization of litterature production. On one hand, e-papers will be bought for their usefullness, to be read and erased, to be consumed for the knowledge they contain. And on the other hand real books will be kept at home, and we will adore to remind their fabulous stories when, exhausted by the fast rythm of our busy lifes, we will decide to take the time to lost ourselves in our big and dusty book-case !
I know a guy who looks like a guy who was sitting on the beach with a showbiz gay guy.
Amazing.
Quite interesting example for us who might work in the advertising industry.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: desire, dreams, exitation!!, like a pinguin
We got a lot of accounts online, on different platforms or social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, WordPress or Netvibes…
I know some tools exist which allow us to centralize the all information on one platform, like SEESMIC, a website created by Loîc Lemeur, the most famous french entrepreneur in the USA (in the field of start-ups, i mean).
I’m going to open an account so i can see if this tool really helps us not wasting time and if it really facilitates us on our basics actions online.
wow! they look totally addicted to new technologies!!
(for english speakers i can traduce : find me on twitter @marronniern )
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: come on do it, do it, gimme a kiss come on do it
nice
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Isn’t it funny ?
This ad for a german website (to chat and meet some people who are, like you, looking for love) clearly denounces the fact that breast enlargement is in most of time due to the boyfriend’s needs and not a free choice made by girls. So revolting.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: ahnonnonnon, cybercrime, mechant, pasbien, pascool, pasgentil
Cybercrime is a term used to describe criminal activities that involve the use of the Internet.
From the illegal download of movies, of music to the illegal use of datas such as the personnal ones that people put on the Internet, for instance the date of birth with can be use for social security, cybercrime is widespread and hardly punished, since it is very difficult to identify the cybercriminals . Spamming can also belong to the cybercriminal activities. Those activities need a very good knowledge of the internet. This means that there are a lot of types of cybercrimes and of cybercriminals.
There are also other kind of cybercrimes, such as the diffusion of pornographic pictures, of terrorists adverts. These psychologic cybercriminals are also very hard to identify.
The main difficulty in cybercriminality is that a cybercriminal can be very different from another. And, in a worldwide context of technologies that change very fast, and where a lot of people have difficulties to identify what is cybercrime and what is not, this question remains a very important one, that will need more and more efforts to be resolved.
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Changing habits
Internet offers us the possibility to personnalize information and became a fantastic tool which can automatically pick up for us particular news depending of the fields of informations we’re interested in.
So it really changed the way i consume information. Look for example at Netvibes homepage which allows you to agregate different contents from a multiple number of sources of information :
Transparency
Another new way to access information is to use Twitter. Following people, you let them search for information for you and send you a message when they think they found some interesting article, video or any type of content.
But Twitter is not only about sharing what you found on the web. A lot of geeks spend a lot of time on it sharing every boring element of their own lives, like if they were obliged to communicate about everything ! So i daily receive twits like “just came back from the boulangerie” or “going into the subway” … !
Precious opportunities
To continue talking about Twitter, i can’t deny that it is a real aesy way to interact and to engage a conversation with people i couldn’t have met before, like professionals (in the field of communication and marketing a lot of people use Twitter). Thanks to this new network i have opportunities for very interesting internships in their firms and they can easily look at what i’m interested in, watching my twitter account with my twits, and visiting my blog which is also a very precious tool for my online visibility.
Impermanence
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French photographer Romain Laurent (http://www.romain-laurent.com) is known for his superb work, and is often contracted by ad agencies. His latest concept features everyday New Yorkers standing at nauseating 20 degree angles. Really great…
