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On February 26th I will be holding my first public blogging class (beginners) at the ISL.
The workshop I am holding tomorrow morning at LIFT covers the same material, but in English.
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Mise à jour, 13.02.2008: ce cours est repoussé car la préparation de Going Solo ne me permet pas d’en faire la promotion correctement. Si vous êtes intéressé par ce genre de séminaire, contactez-moi et je vous ferai signe dès qu’un nouveau séminaire sera mis sur pied. Des cours pour particuliers sont également possibles.
J’organise un cours d’initiation aux blogs mardi 26 février 2008 dans les locaux de l’ISL à Lausanne.
- Quand: mardi 26.02.08, 18h30-21h30 (3h avec une petite pause)
- Où: ISL, Chemin de la Grangette 2 – 1052 Le Mont-sur-Lausanne (Clochatte)
- Accès: en bus, prendre le 16 jusqu’au terminus, et c’est en face; en voiture, sortir à Epalinges ou à la Blécherette si vous venez par l’autoroute — il y a des places de parc à disposition devant l’école.
- Qui: non-blogueurs (si vous avez déjà un blog, vous allez vous ennuyer ferme), pas de prérequis technique autre qu’être capable d’aller vérifier son e-mail via le web.
- Combien: 150 CHF pour les 3 heures de cours, à payer une fois le nombre de préinscriptions suffisantes (5 personnes)
- Comment: préinscription en envoyant un e-mail à Stephanie Booth, précisant nom, adresse, et nombre de personnes s’intéressant au cours.
Ce cours s’adresse à toute personne désireuse de découvrir ce qu’est un blog, pour son usage personnel. Pour plus d’informations, voir directement la page dédiée à ces ateliers pratiques.
Comme les lecteurs de ce blog ne sont a priori pas les personnes qui seront intéressées par ce genre de cours, je vous remercie infiniment de faire passer le mot auprès de votre entourage!
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Digital Crumble
Please Don’t Be Rude, coComment. I Loved You.
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J'étais une inconditionnelle de la première heure de coComment. Je les ai même eus comme clients. Aujourd'hui j'ai le coeur lourd, car après le désastre de la version 2.0 "beta", le redesign du site qui le laisse plus confus qu'avant, les fils RSS qui timent out, le blog sans âme et les pubs qui clignotent, je me retrouve avec de grosses bannières autopromotionnelles dans mon tumblelog, dans lequel j'ai intégré le flux RSS de mes commentaires.
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Just a little earlier this evening, my heart sank. It sank because of this:
That is a screenshot of my Tumblr. And what coComment is doing here — basically, inserting a huge self-promotional banner in their RSS feed — is really rude.
I’m really sad, because I used to love coComment. I was involved (not much, but still) early on and was a first-hour fan. They were even my client for over six months, during which I acted as a community manager, gave feedback on features to the team, and wrote a whole bunch of blog posts. This ended, sadly, when coComment finally incorporated, because we couldn’t reach an agreement as to the terms of my engagement.
Inserting content in the RSS feeds is only the latest in a series of disappointments I’ve had with the service. I used to have a sidebar widget to show the last comments I’d made all over the place on my blog, but I removed it at some point — I can’t remember when — because it had stopped working. I tried adding it again, but for some reason WordPress can’t find the feed. It seemed very slow when I tried to access it directly, so maybe it’s timing out — and I think I recall that is what made me remove it in the first place.
I’m sad also to see blinking ads on the coComment site, confusing navigation, pages with click here links, and a blog which has no soul, filled with post after post of press-release-like “we won this contest”, “we’re sponsoring this event”, “version xyz released”, “we were here too” — all too often on behalf of a mostly faceless “coComment Team”. CoComment used to have something going, but to me it now seems like an exciting promise that lost its way somewhere along the line.
Last August, the version 2.0 beta disaster made me cringe with embarrassment for my former love (who on earth takes all their users back to beta when 1.0 was stable?) and left many blogs paralyzed, including my own. I started writing a blog post, at the time, which I never published, as other things got in the way. Here’s what I’d written:
Update: in case this wasn’t clear first time around, these problems have since then been solved and coComment apologized for the mess. It doesn’t erase the pain, though.
So, coComment — and Matt — are you listening?
You’re in the process of alienating somebody who was one of your most passionate users — if you haven’t lost me already. I cared. I forgave. I waited. I hoped. But right now, I don’t have the impression you care much about me. I’ve seen excuses, I’ve even seen justifications, and now I see large ugly banners in my Tumblr. What happened to you?
You’ll have understood, I hope, that this is not just about me. This is about the people who use your service. The service you provide is for us, right?
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