Category Archives: Connected Life

Online culture and the life of the connected.

Fausse alerte enlèvement qui tourne (Granges-Marnand)

Posted on 22.05.2013 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Fake SMS doing the rounds here.[fr]Reçu par SMS tout à l’heure: une petite fille de 2 ans a ete enlevee a Grange Marnand Village par un homme de 30 ans barbu. Il etait vetu tout en noir cet homme est … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, My corner of the world | Tagged alerte, alerte enlèvement, canular, fake, granges marnand, racisme, sms | Leave a comment

Here Comes Everybody: Journalism and Ease of Publication

Posted on 03.04.2013 by Stephanie Booth

I’m reading “Here Comes Everybody“. I’m taking notes. In the chapter “Everyone is a media outlet”, Clay explains very well what is the matter with the journalism industry. (He has since then co-authored a report on the future of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Connected Life, Media | Tagged auchalet, broadcast, clayshirky, communications, conversation, here comes everybody, journalism, scarcity, scribes | Leave a comment

Downtown Project Las Vegas

Posted on 31.03.2013 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Quelques infos sur Downtown Project Las Vegas, un projet très inspirant.[en]Yesterday, before diving back into #joiito, I was rummaging around a little to see what Zappos and Tony Hsieh had been upto since the Amazon acquisition, where Tony’s book Delivering … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Does This Need a New Category? | Tagged cathy brooks, downtown project, las vegas, thomas knoll, tony hsieh | Leave a comment

Social Tools Allow Ridiculously Easy Group-Forming

Posted on 31.03.2013 by Stephanie Booth

More notes and related thoughts to my reading of Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody (chapter 2). Both markets and organisations imply costs (transaction costs in large groups, labour required to maintain organisation). There are activities which simply don’t happen, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Connected Life, Understanding life and the world | Tagged auchalet, collaboration, collaborative production, collective action, cooperation, group action, group activities, groups, here comes everybody, online communities, sharing, transaction costs | 1 Comment

IRC: #joiito Channel Revival (Or At Least Reunion)

Posted on 31.03.2013 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Le retour du canal IRC #joiito, et quelques pensées sur ce qui différencie Twitter et Facebook (même les groupes) d’un canal IRC comme celui-ci.[en]So, let me tell you what happened last night. You know I’ve been reading Here Comes Everybody, … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Thinking, Tools | Tagged #joiito, bots, community, facebook, freenode, groups, IRC, twitter | 21 Comments

My Interest in Organisations and how Social Media Fits in

Posted on 30.03.2013 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Ce qui m’intéresse dans ces histoires d’organisations, et le lien avec les médias sociaux (du coup, aussi des infos sur mon intérêt pour ceux-ci).[en]I found these thoughts about organisations at the beginning of Here Comes Everybody fascinating: organisations and how … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Does This Need a New Category?, My work, Personal | Tagged auchalet, cluetrain, communities, company culture, corporate culture, groups, happiness, human, My work, orange, organisations, people, Social Media and the Web | Leave a comment

Here Comes Everybody: Organisations and Transaction Costs

Posted on 30.03.2013 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Je lis “Here Comes Everybody” et je blogue mes notes. Un deuxième chapitre fascinant (en tous cas pour moi) sur les coûts organisationnels.[en]In an effort to be a better reader, here are some notes and related thoughts to my reading … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Connected Life | Tagged auchalet, coordination, firm, group action, group dynamics, here comes everybody, hierarchical, org chart, organisation | 2 Comments

Blogging Tribe: A Social and Blogging Experiment Looking for Volunteers

Posted on 29.03.2013 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Recherche de volontaires motivés pour une expérience socio-blogueuse.[en]Here’s the idea: form a group of bloggers, who agree to blog regularly for a certain amount of time, and read each other. Scale? A dozen bloggers or so. From a dozen posts … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Connected Life | Tagged auchalet, back2blog, bloggers, blogging, experiment, group dynamics, networks, power law | 23 Comments

Fear the Culture of Fear (danah boyd SXSW 2012)

Posted on 21.03.2013 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]A écouter absolument, cette conférence donnée par danah boyd l’an dernier sur le lien entre la peur, l’économie de l’attention, les réseaux, la surcharge d’information, la transparence, et bien d’autre chose encore. Version écrite. [en]Danah‘s talk is titled The Power … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth | Tagged danah boyd, fear, information overload, network, sxsw | Leave a comment

Gmail: essentiel d’activer la double identification (avec téléphone)

Posted on 27.12.2012 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Haven’t turned on Google two-factor authorization? Do it now, or you risk being the next Mat Honan.[fr]Pour mes lecteurs plus francophones, dans la série “sécurité internet de base”, il est essentiel d’avoir pour votre e-mail non seulement un bon mot … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Technology | Tagged authentification, e-mail, gmail, mots de passe, passwords, securité, security | Leave a comment