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Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteurActive Elsewhere
for me, a blog going multi-author has jumped the shark and is on its way to a sure death some years down the line. anybody else?
Bookmarked a link: Path — Stephanie Booth
CTTS Weekly is out! http://t.co/XUsPjdNb
Smile (at Steph's Jungle) [pic] — http://t.co/12rv9KJc
Bookmarked a link: IKEA Hackers: A long one for cat lovers
argh cat-lover ikea hacks via @cvedovini, sorry http://t.co/a2zWwNjX
IKEA Hackers: A long one for cat lovers http://t.co/a2zWwNjX /v @vedovini
Bookmarked a link: Path — Stephanie Booth
Not too worried for Tounsi... (at Steph's Jungle) [pic] — http://t.co/e3qjNpvS
Bookmarked a link: 10 Myths That Scare SEOs But Shouldn't - Whiteboard Friday | SEOmoz
en fait j'ai peur d'être habillée trop "mariage-fête"
Blogroll
- Adam Tinworth
- Andy Baio
- Anil Dash
- Brian Kellett
- Corinne Stoppelli
- danah boyd
- Dave Winer
- David Weinberger
- Derek Powazek
- Doc Searls
- Elisabeth Stoudmann
- Fortuitous (Matt Haughey)
- Heather Powazek Champ
- Jason Kottke
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Jeremy Keith
- Joi Ito
- JP Rangaswami
- Karl Dubost
- Kevin Marks
- Laurent Gloaguen
- Laurent Haug
- Leisa Reichelt
- Matt Haughey
- Meg Hourihan
- Plantgasm (Derek Powazek)
- Stéphane Deschamps
- Suw Charman
- Tara Hunt
- Wil Wheaton
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Headlines (Recent Posts)
- Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- More About the M-DEX, and a Cool Blog: Hack and Hear
- More About Hearing Aids (And Geeking Out a Bit)
- Post haineux de 3h du mat’ sponsorisé par Balelec
- Tounsi perdu et puis retrouvé
- Ailleurs
- Books Read in 2011
- A Plugin to Compensate for Flickr Broken Embed Suckage?
- A Week With My Superpower
- My Pallet Garden
- Having Cats
- Getting Your iCloud Photostream to Play Nice With Lightroom
- Trucs en vrac
- Three Weeks With My New Cats, Tounsi and Safran
- Drive, Practical Wisdom, Money and Congress, Alone Together
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- George Kedourie on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- Stephanie Booth on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Marie-Aude on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Martin on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- mlle-cassis on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Stephanie Booth on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- George Kedourie on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- Stephanie Booth on More About the M-DEX, and a Cool Blog: Hack and Hear
- Dring, venez vous faire fouiller ! « aeemtech on Outraged and Furious: First Encounter With a Full-Body Scanner (in the UK)
- When people refer to blog posts as “blogs”, I want to hurt them. | Geik on A Blog is Not a Post, Dammit!
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Tag Archives: blogging
Formation à l’écriture blog le 03.12.2011
[en]Giving a day-long course on blogging (the writing part of it) — how to write a blog that reads like a blog and not like press release rehash or marketing copy
[fr]Depuis des années qu’on en parle, ça se concrétise … Continue reading
One a Week?
[fr]Tant d’articles à écrire. Un par semaine, peut-être? Histoire d’avancer dans le tas? Suivez les liens si vous êtes impatient…[en]Hello there! Another of Steph’s “grappling with blogging” posts. I’m starting to have a pile-up of “posts I need to write … Continue reading
Bloggers: an Opportunity to Contribute to the paper.li Community Blog
[fr]Paper.li développe son blog communautaire et cherche des contributeurs![en]Bloggers and freelance writers, this is for you! I’m working with paper.li (you know them, right?) and we’re plotting an expansion/development of their community blog. In short, this means: more interviews of … Continue reading
Blogging Inertia
[fr]Peu d’envie d’écrire (et donc de bloguer). Pas courant pour moi![en]This hasn’t happened to me often before, but I’m going through a phase where I don’t feel like blogging at all. Actually, I don’t even feel like writing, which is … Continue reading
Long Time No Blog
[fr]De retour d’une bonne semaine de vacances, et très peu d’envie de trainer en ligne, même autour de Google+. Période de transition, pas tout à fait à l’équilibre. A tout hasard, je vais écrire un poil ici — ça a … Continue reading
Blogging Feast and Famine
[fr]Je n’ai jamais pu me résoudre à planifier la publication de mes articles, ici. Sitôt écrit, sitôt publié — tu parles de gratification immédiate. Ces temps, je me demande si je devrais peut-être changer ça.[en]One thing I’ve never managed to … Continue reading
Twitter Killed My Blog and Comments Killed Our Links
[fr]Un titre un peu provocateur pour une réflexion que je pourrais résumer ainsi: l’apparition des commentaires sur les blogs a réduit le nombre de liens que les blogueurs faisaient entre eux (et leurs articles), et a distendu la blogosphère. Celle-ci … Continue reading
Don’t You Tire of Real-Time?
[fr]Tout ce temps réel sur le web me fatigue. On néglige les expressions plus profondes que permet le web, sur nos blogs par exemple.[en]I find that I’m increasingly tired with real-time. Keeping up with the stream. Living on the cutting-edge. … Continue reading
A Story About Tags, and Technorati, and Tags
[fr]Une conversation sur Twitter au sujet des tags, de la grande époque de Technorati, et de où on en est maintenant. Ce qu’on a perdu: un “tagspace” commun pour la blogosphère (c’était ce qu’offrait Technorati…).[en]Yesterday I innocently answered a tweet … Continue reading




Measuring a Blog’s Success: Visitors and Comments Don’t Cut It
[fr]Un blog, c’est un investissement à long terme. Six mois, un an au moins sans se poser de questions, avant d’essayer de voir si “ça marche” ou pas. Et ne mesurez pas son succès aux visiteurs et aux commentaires. Plutôt, … Continue reading →