Tag Archives: Essay-Like

Pirater n’est pas voler, en sept mythes

[en]Debunking the myths used to fight file-sharing. There are many good articles about this in English (many which I quote or link to here, just look for them in the French text). Here are the myths: piracy is theft a … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life | Tagged artistes, cds, Citations, contrefaçon, criminel, droit d'auteur, économie, Essay-Like, film, illégal, industrie, loi, manipulation, musique, Online Culture, p2p, partage de fichiers, peer-to-peer, piratage, piraterie, propriété intellectuelle, téléchargement, vente, vocabulaire | 153 Comments

Marketing expérientiel vs. publireportage

[en]A post by a French blogger made me realise the fundamental difference between being “paid to blog” (à la PayPerPost, to take the worst cases) and experiential marketing. In EM, publication of the post is a means, not an end. … Continue reading

Posted in Being the boss, Connected Life, Corporate | Tagged advertising, blog business, bloggers, blogging, Blogs et entreprises, blogvertising, business blogging, Citations, cluetrain, Consulting, Essay-Like, experiential marketing, freelancing, izea, marketing, marketing expérientiel, Online Culture, paid to blog, payperpost, publireportage, stowe boyd, thierry bézier | 3 Comments

Le placement dans les moteurs de recherche

[en]A document on how search engins function and how to improve indexing for your site, which I wrote for a client over June/July. If this interests you, you should definitely check out my notes on Matt Cutts’ Whitehad SEO tips … Continue reading

Posted in Social Media and the Web | Tagged conseils, Essay-Like, Geek / Technical, google, informations, instructions, Kit du blogueur, moteur, moteurderecherche, optimisation, recherche, search, searchengine, seo, siteweb, web, webmaster, whitepaper | 11 Comments

MySpace supprime les profils de 29’000 “délinquants sexuels”

Il y a quelques jours, on a attiré mon attention sur cet article de la BBC, qui rapporte que le site MySpace (une sorte de super-Skyblog d’origine américaine) a supprimé de son site les profils de 29’000 “délinquants sexuels” (“sex … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Media, My corner of the world | Tagged adolescents, Citations, Digital Youth, enfants, Essay-Like, fear, internet, Media, médias, myspace, Online Culture, paranoia, pédophiles, prédateurs, predators, prevention, réaction, risque, securité, security, suisse romande, Wanted | 4 Comments

Parents, Teenagers, Internet, Predators, Fear…

[fr]Conseils aux parents (après mon interview à la BBC ce soir au sujet des “sex offenders” bannis de MySpace): pas de panique, les prédateurs sexuels tels que nous les présentent les médias ne sont pas légion, votre enfant ne court … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web | Tagged advice, anastasiagoodstein, bbc, children, ciao.ch, Cyberspace, Digital Youth, Education, Essay-Like, fear, internet, Media, myspace, offline, online, Online Culture, panic, paranoia, parents, predators, Press, Psychology / Sociology, schools, security, Social Software, socialnetworks, talks, teenagers, teens | 14 Comments

MySpace Banning Sex Offenders: Online Predator Paranoia

Update: If you’re a parent looking for advice, you’ll probably find my next post more interesting. MySpace has removed profiles of 29’000 registered sex offenders from their site. In a statement, MySpace said: “We’re pleased that we’ve successfully identified and … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Technology | Tagged children, Citations, Cyberspace, Digital Youth, Education, Essay-Like, fear, Media, meganslaw, myspace, offenders, online, Online Culture, paranoia, Politics / World News, predators, Psychology / Sociology, registry, Research, safety, sex, sexoffenders, sexualpredators, Technology, teenagers, teens | 43 Comments

Groups, Groupings, and Taming My Buddy List. And Twitter.

[fr]Long, long billet sur la notion de “groupe” en social software et les différentes formes que peut prendre cette notion. Trop raide pour traduire ou résumer, navrée.[en]Warning: very long post. Not proof-read. Hope it makes sense. Mostly dictated, so if … Continue reading

Posted in Social Media and the Web, Thinking | Tagged buddylist, coComment, contacts, Essay-Like, flickr, friends, group, grouping, groupings, groups, lastfm, social, Social Software, socialapplications, socialnetwork, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, socialtools, stoweboyd, theory, twitter, twittergroups, xing | 34 Comments

“Pouvez-vous nous faire un site?” — rôle du consultant

[en]I’m regularly asked by potential clients to “make a website for them”. This is not something I do — if it is the only thing expected from me — because I think that it is often a recipe for unsatisfaction. … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Corporate | Tagged accompagnement, argumentaire, Blogosphere Interest, Blogs et entreprises, consultant, Consulting, culturenumérique, démarche, designweb, Essay-Like, formation, internet, Media, Online Culture, onlineculture, prestataire, site, siteweb, web, website | 2 Comments

Disturbed About Reactions to Kathy Sierra’s Post

[fr]Comme cela avait été le cas lors de l’affaire SarkoWeb3, la blosophère s’est maintenant emparée de la triste histoire des menaces reçues par Kathy Sierra, telle une meute affamée et sans cervelle. Hypothèses présentées pour faits, coupable car non prouvé … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life | Tagged alanherrell, Blogger musings, blogging, blogmob, Blogosphere Interest, bullying, chinesewhispers, chrislocke, deaththreats, disinformation, Essay-Like, frankpaynter, group, history, jeneanesessum, kathysierra, kaycee, kayceenicoleswenson, leweb3, lies, lift07, llm, loïclemeur, meankids, mentality, metafilter, mob, Online Culture, Psychology / Sociology, sarkoweb3, sarkozy, subjectivity, Theories on Life and the World, twitter, unclebobism, Venting, video, Vie de la blogosphère, wikipedia | 24 Comments

BlogCamp: Multilingual Blogging Session

[fr]Mise par écrit des notes de préparation pour ma présentation hier au sujet des blogs multilingues, lors du BlogCamp à Zürich. En deux mots: il faut des gens pour faire le pont entre les îles linguistiques sur internet, et la … Continue reading

Posted in Language Geekiness, Wordpress | Tagged atom, bilingual, blog, blogcamp, blogcampswitzerland, Blogger musings, blogging, bridgeblogging, communities, Culture, Essay-Like, Events, internet, languages, Languages / Linguistics, linguistic, multilingual, notes, présentation, rss, session, stephaniebooth, talk, Weblog Technology, Wordpress, zürich | 39 Comments