Tag Archives: blogs

Some Thoughts on Blogging: Original Content, Linking, Engaging

[fr]Quelques réflexions sur l’enseignement de l’art du blog.[en]I like teaching people about blogging. Right now I have nearly 100 students who are learning to blog, with varying enthusiasm and success. Teaching blogging makes me realize that this mode of expression … Continue reading

Posted in Blogging, My work | Tagged blogs, content, content creation, debate, engagement, hypertext, linking, Links, Writing | 4 Comments

Anil Dash Writes About The Web We Lost

[fr]Le web qu’on a perdu. Nostalgie.[en]Yes, there are people who have been blogging for longer than me. Quite a few of them, actually. Anil Dash is one. You should read him. His most recent article (found thanks to danah, who … Continue reading

Posted in Thinking | Tagged blogs, facebook, history, lock-in, nostalgia, openness, rss, twitter, web | 2 Comments

De la “blogosphère suisse romande”

[en]Rant about the “French-Swiss blogosphere”. There is a group on Facebook with that name and it is filled with 20-something fashion bloggers for whom “participating” means link-dropping their every post in the group. Needless to say I’m already at odds … Continue reading

Posted in Blogging, My corner of the world | Tagged blogosphère suisse romande, blogs, blogueurs, communauté, fashion, suisse romande | 14 Comments

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

Posted in Blogging | Tagged backtype, blogging, blogosphère, blogs, coComment, comments, disqus, evolution, facebook, permalinks, twitter, Writing | 8 Comments

Atelier IIL sur les médias sociaux: liens et ressources

[en]Here are links for the teachers who attended my workshops on social media this morning at the IIL in Geneva. Many of the links are in English, so click through them even if Frenc[fr]Ce matin, j’étais à l’Institut International de … Continue reading

Posted in Digital Youth, My work | Tagged adolescents, blogs, école, Education, enseignants, Enseignement, facebook, Links, médias sociaux, prezi, privacy, Social Media and the Web, teachers, vie privée | 1 Comment

Conversation in Comments vs. Conversation in Twitter

[fr]Twitter n’est pas en train de tuer les conversations dans les commentaires des blogs. Le bavardage s’est déplacé dans Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook — mais quand certains disent que la conversation y est meilleure, ils ignorent le fait qu’il y a … Continue reading

Posted in Thinking | Tagged blogging, blogs, chatter, commenting, comments, conversation, facebook, friendfeed, twitter | 4 Comments

Live-Blogging vs. Live-Tweeting at Conferences

[fr]Live-tweeter une conférence, c’est l’équivalent d’être actif dans le backchannel IRC de la belle époque des conférences de blogs. Il n’y a rien de mal à ça, mais il ne faut pas confondre ça avec le live-blogging: en effet, passés … Continue reading

Posted in Blogging, Event Musings, Thinking | Tagged backchannel, blogs, coverage, Events, immediacy, IRC, live-blogger, live-blogging, liveblogging, real-time, time, tweeting, twitter | 15 Comments

Survivre à l’heure du trop d’informations

[en]The key to surviving in our age of “too much information out there at our fingertips” is to give up all hope of keeping up. Keep your network and connections healthy. Dip in the river of updates the network provides … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life | Tagged abonnement, blogs, facebook, flux, information, information overload, network, réseau, réseautage, rss, stress, surcharge, surcharge cognitive, surcharge d'informations, twitter | 1 Comment

Bloggy Friday de Lausanne le 6 mars à 20h

[en]We’re having a Bloggy Friday meetup in Lausanne on March 6th. Come and join us![fr] Oyez oyez, bonnes gens de la terre numérique! Le Bloggy Friday de mars 2009 est annoncé. Comme son nom ne l’indique pas, nul besoin d’être … Continue reading

Posted in Bloggy Friday, My corner of the world | Tagged bloggy friday, bloggyfriday0309, blogs, blogueurs, Events, lausanne, meetup, nouveaux médias, rencontre, user/07467067922840649993/state/com.google/read | 1 Comment

Bienvenue aux lecteurs de l’Hebdo

[en]A month without blogging! An article on blogging in this area was published yesterday by l’Hebdo. An excuse to give you a little news.[fr]Je romps le silence radio (un mois sans rien publier, que diable!) à l’occasion de la parution … Continue reading

Posted in My corner of the world, Personal, Wordpress | Tagged blogs, ebook, lhebdo, Life Updates, news, nouvelles, Press, suisse romande, Swiss blogging, traduction, user/07467067922840649993/state/com.google/read, Vie de la blogosphère, vrac, Wordpress | 9 Comments