Tag Archives: Essay-Like

Musique: bénéfices d’une bonne stratégie internet

[en]This is a description of the benefits a musician or singer can find in implementing a sound internet (“web2.0-ish”) strategy (blogs, social software, online presence…). It’s lifted from a project proposal I sent a client recently, but it’s in my … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Corporate, Music, Social Media and the Web | Tagged apprendre, artist, artiste, autonomie, blogging, Blogs et entreprises, chansons, copyright, Culture, Essay-Like, formation, internet, moteursderecherche, mp3, Music, musique, networking, online, Online Culture, référencement, seo, Social Software, socialmedia, socialsoftware, songs, visibility, web, web2.0 | 11 Comments

Multilingual Proposals (Reboot, BlogCamp)

The famous conference reboot will take place in Copenhagen on 31.05-01.06. I’ll be attending. I’m also going to make a proposal for a talk (as the (un)conference format encourages this). I’m being a bit shy about putting it up on … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Language Geekiness, Travels | Tagged Announcements, blogcampswitzerland, Blogger musings, blogging, conference, english, Essay-Like, Events, internet, languages, Languages / Linguistics, localisation, multilingual, online, Online Culture, proposal, reboot9, switzerland, talk, Travels, unconference, web | 21 Comments

Twitter, c’est quoi? Explications…

[en]This post is an explanation (“for dummies”) of what Twitter is and what the point of such a service is. I explain that one important and often overlooked aspect of building relationships is all these little mundane snippets of life … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Tools | Tagged amitié, and Linkage, chat, comments, communication, contact, Essay-Like, internet, intimité, Kit du blogueur, mobile, msn, Online Culture, portable, Psychology / Sociology, quotidien, relations, Reviews, sms, Social Software, Software and Tools, Technology, téléphone, twitter, vie, Website Reviews | 48 Comments

On the Road to Being a Healthier Geek

[fr]Il y a un mois environ, une petite conversation avec mon médecin a eu des conséquences remarquables sur mon mode de vie: je mange plus équilibré (pas dur de faire mieux que le régime pizzas) je me déplace plus souvent … Continue reading

Posted in Food, Health, My corner of the world | Tagged commute, commuting, cycling, diet, doctor, eating, Essay-Like, exercise, fish, food, foodpyramid, fruit, geek, Health, healthy, lausanne, lifehacks, lifestyle, meat, omega-3, Pieces of Me, Practical, snacks, Thinking, unhealthy, vegetables, walking | 16 Comments

English Only: Barrier to Adoption

[fr]Dans ce billet à l’attention des anglophones, j’insiste sur le fait que l’inexistance d’une version en français d’un produit va entraver son adoption ici. Même si les gens parlent anglais (un peu, beaucoup) cela rajoute une difficulté supplémentaire. Si Skype, … Continue reading

Posted in Language Geekiness, My corner of the world, Thinking, Wordpress | Tagged adoption, application, Citations, dotclear, english, Essay-Like, facebook, flickr, francophone, french, icq, internet, language, languagebarrier, Languages / Linguistics, livemessenger, msn, myspace, online, openweb, pompagenet, skyblog, skype, Social Software, Software and Tools, suisse romande, Theories, translation, usability, web2.0, webstandards, Wordpress | 14 Comments

Addicted to Technology!

[fr]Une longue tirade, malheureusement pas vraiment traduisible vu l’heure et la longueur, sur la dépendance à internet, qui est à mon avis un faux problème. J’y parle de notre définition de la technologie (une voiture, c’est aussi de la technologie, … Continue reading

Posted in Social Media and the Web | Tagged addicted, addiction, cars, computer, Cyberspace, definition, escape, Essay-Like, internet, Internet / Computers, lift07, offline, online, Psychological, Psychology / Sociology, reginalynn, relationships, solution, stefanabroadbent, Technology, Theories on Life and the World, web | 17 Comments

Adolescents, MySpace, internet: citations de danah boyd et Henry Jenkins

[en]Citations and some French comments/paraphrasing of danah boyd and Henry Jenkins’s interview “MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)”. Must-read if your life has anything to do with teenagers.[fr]Je viens de finir de lire ce fascinant interview de danah boyd … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web | Tagged adolescents, ados, Citations, Cyberspace, danahboyd, danger, Digital Youth, digitalyouth, dopa, écoles, Education, Essay-Like, henryjenkins, internet, interview, Media, myspace, online, Online Culture, pédophilie, prevention, Readworthy, safety, schools, securité, security, Social Software, teenagers, teens, usa | 16 Comments

Donnant-donnant

J’avais l’intention de faire court lorsque j’ai commencé ce billet. Du coup, étalant la rédaction sur plus de 24 heures… il s’est allongé. Mes excuses. Jeudi, invitée de dernière minute un peu muette à la table ronde qui a suivi … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate, Wordpress | Tagged albanmartin, Blogs et entreprises, changement, coComment, conference, Cyberspace, économie, economy, Essay-Like, first, genève, lâgedepeer, Livre, marketing, p2p, paradigme, paradigmshift, rézonance, tableronde, web2.0, Wordpress | 6 Comments

About the Swiss Blog Awards (SBAW)

[fr]Un compte-rendu des problématiques que je vois liées à cette histoire de Swiss Blog Awards (pour mémoire: pas de nominations romande, tessinoise, ou romanche). Je suis fâchée que les organisateurs rejettent la faute sur les blogueurs romands et n’admettent pas … Continue reading

Posted in Bloggy Friday, Language Geekiness, My corner of the world | Tagged awards, barriers, blogospherahelvetica, blogosphère, Blogosphere Interest, Essay-Like, frontiers, languages, Languages / Linguistics, linguisticminority, organisation, politics, roestigraben, romandie, sbaw, suisseromande, Swiss blogging, swissblogawards, swissblogging, switzerland, Venting, Vie de la blogosphère | 24 Comments

De l’inutilité des blogs

[en]A local editor/journalist wrote an article in which he basically says blogs are useless noise. My reactions to some of the (IMHO) unfair attacks he makes towards blogs.[fr]Dans son article Bloghorrée saisonnière, Philippe Barraud lance un certain nombre d’attaques à  … Continue reading

Posted in My corner of the world | Tagged aggrégateur, Blogger musings, blogging, bloglines, Blogosphere Interest, blogs, Citations, commentaires.com, critique, écriture, Essay-Like, gregarius, ifeedyou, inutilité, journalisme, lectorat, lecture, médias, nakedconversations, philippebarraud, Press, presse, robertscoble, romandie, switzerland, technorati | 48 Comments