Tag Archives: Anecdotes

A lire: recherche académique sur les risques courus par les adolescents sur internet

Posted on 29.11.2009 by Stephanie Booth

[en]I’m currently reading the literature review contained in the report Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies by the Internet Safety Technical Task Force. I can’t believe this was published a year ago and I’m only looking at it now — … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital Youth | Tagged adolescents, Anecdotes, articles, dangers, digitalyouth, documentation, internet, prevention, recherche, risques, statistiques, teenagers | 4 Comments

Anecdotes et statistiques

Posted on 05.04.2009 by Stephanie Booth

[en]NNT explains very well (in The Black Swan) that anecdotes trump statistics. Giving numbers does not convince people deep down, sadly. Stories do. (Just think how scared many are of flying, or of sexual predators online, and you’ll see the … Continue reading →

Posted in Understanding life and the world | Tagged ald09, Anecdotes, exemple, femmes, histoire, modèle, narrative fallacy, narrativité, nnt, Psychology / Sociology, statistics, taleb, the black swan, women | 2 Comments

A Trip to Walgreens

Posted on 10.03.2008 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Une petite visite à la pharmacie aux Etats-Unis.[en]This is just too good a story to not write about it while I wait for somebody around here in Austin to come up with dinner plans. Around noon, I noticed my left … Continue reading →

Posted in Travels | Tagged anecdote, Anecdotes, Culture, culture shock, pharmacy, Travels, usa, visine, walgreens | 4 Comments

Berlin, Belgrade: Two Contrasting Airport Experiences

Posted on 14.11.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Je déteste vraiment la sécurité dans les aéroports. C’est d’une hypocrisie primaire et le résultat principal en est une péjoration du comfort des voyageurs. Je raconte dans ce billet deux expériences contrastées (mes deux derniers vols). L’aéroport Tegel a Berlin, … Continue reading →

Posted in Travels | Tagged airport, Anecdotes, belgrade, belgradeairport, berlin, experience, feedback, flying, jat, passenger, security, tegelairport, travelhell, Travels, TXL, Venting | 12 Comments

Comment j’en suis arrivée à m’intéresser aux blogs d’adolescents

Posted on 08.10.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[en]The story of how I took an interest in teenage blogging, and from there, teenagers and the internet. It involves a difficult first year of teaching and a naked bottom on one of my students’ skyblogs.[fr]// Entrée en matière possible … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Livre | Tagged adolescents, anecdote, Anecdotes, blogs, Digital Youth, digitalyouth, école, Education, Enseignement, General, histoire, introduction, Livre, Online Culture, skyblog, story, teenagers | 5 Comments

Chat perdu? Pas si sûr…

Posted on 30.07.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Poor little lost cat? Not necessarily. Cats can travel upto 2-3km to hunt, and way more for a tom running after females. This cat, who wouldn’t quit following me around, is probably just on a (very) long walk, and runs … Continue reading →

Posted in My corner of the world | Tagged Anecdotes, animal, Animals, animaux, cat, chat, errant, found, information, lausanne, lost, perdu, prilly, stray, trouvé, useful, utile, vallombreuse | 17 Comments

What Do You Care About?

Posted on 22.06.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Hier soir, au lieu de me demander “alors, qu’est-ce que tu fais?”, David Isenberg m’a demandé “de quoi te préoccupes-tu” (ou, peut-être, “quels sont les thèmes chers à ton coeur” — traduction pas évidente de “what do you care about”). … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life | Tagged adolescents, Anecdotes, caring, Culture, davidisenberg, Events, identity, internet, languages, localisation, multilingualism, My work, Online Culture, onlineculture, Pieces of Me, predators, Psychology / Sociology, supernova2007, teenagers | 10 Comments

Death Threats in the Blogosphere

Posted on 26.03.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Kathy Sierra, blogueuse réputée, fait l’objet de menaces de mort (et d’autres menaces à caractères sexuel) laissées sur son blog et sur un ou deux autres blogs gérés par d’autres personnalités connues de la blogosphère anglo-saxonne. A bout, elle a … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged Anecdotes, Announcements, bloggers, blogosophere, Blogosphere Interest, blogs, Citations, deaththreats, etech, etech07, kathysierra, meankids, Offsite, threats, unclebob, unclebobism, Vie de la blogosphère | 27 Comments

Printemps

Posted on 24.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Some random comment about the extremely spring-like temperatures we’re having around here these days.[fr] En avril, n’ôte pas un fil. En mai, fais ce qu’il te plaît. Et en février, on fait quoi? Hier soir, 11 heures, avenue de Beaulieu, … Continue reading →

Posted in My corner of the world | Tagged Anecdotes, avril, beaulieu, février, lausanne, mai, printemps, proverbe | 2 Comments

Vidéo: le blog de Josef Zisyadis et moi

Posted on 03.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[en]In this video, I give the story of how I was contacted by a local politician who hired me to help get him and his team blogging. A few words too about blogging and politics, here in Switzerland.[fr]J’ai parlé du … Continue reading →

Posted in My corner of the world | Tagged Anecdotes, blog, Comment bloguer?, explications, interview, josefzisyadis, lausanne, Media, Photos/Videos/Audio Online, Podcast, Politics / World News, politique, stephaniebooth, suisse romande, suisseromande, Swiss blogging, switzerland, vaud, video, Videos, z-blogue | 16 Comments