Tag Archives: french

De la dégradation de la langue

Posted on 12.11.2009 by Stephanie Booth

[en]About my French spelling being worse than it was 15 years ago (is it the keyboard? is it something else?) and the terrifying experience of “losing my French” while I was in India 10 years ago.[fr]La mienne, en l’occurence. Plus … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged anglais, bilingual, bilingue, clavier, english, français, french, inde, india, language, langue, orthographe, spelling, typing | 6 Comments

A Day at the Frankfurter Buchmesse

Posted on 13.10.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Etat des lieux sur mes recherches de fonds et exploration du monde de l’édition pour mon livre sur les ados et internet. Envies de publier (via internet) des livres avec mes photos, aussi.[en]A month or two ago, I was chatting … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Digital Youth, Livre, My corner of the world | Tagged adolescents, book fair, Books, buchmesse, Digital Youth, édition, financement, frankfurt, frankfurter buchmesse, french, funding, Livre, My Photos, Photography, project, projet, publication, publishing, suisse romande, switzerland | 7 Comments

Not All Switzerland Speaks German, Dammit!

Posted on 04.03.2007 by Stephanie Booth

Here we go, yet another misguided attempt at localisation: my MySpace page is now in German. MySpace now joins PayPal, eBay, Amazon, Google in defaulting to German for Swiss people. Switzerland is a multilingual country. The linguistic majority speaks Swiss-German … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged allemand, amazon, ebay, english, french, german, google, italian, italien, l10n, language, Languages / Linguistics, langue, linguisticminority, localisation, localization, minoritélinguistique, myspace, paypal, romanche, romansh, Software and Tools, suisse, suisse-allemand, suisseromande, swissgerman, switzerland, Venting, Website Reviews, Comments, and Linkage | 45 Comments

English Only: Barrier to Adoption

Posted on 24.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[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

Vidéo: utilité des blogs en entreprise

Posted on 14.09.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Subtitled interview (in French) of Joanne Colan talking about her role at Rocketboom and the relevance of blogging in a business context.[fr]J’ambitionnais de me coucher avant minuit, mais Kevin m’a attrapée pour me dire de regarder l’émission Rocketboom d’aujourd’hui. Eh … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate | Tagged blogs, Blogs et entreprises, entreprises, français, french, interview, joannecolan, rocketboom, Videos | 1 Comment

Archives en ligne de trois quotidiens romands: quel désastre

Posted on 01.01.2006 by Stephanie Booth

Etude du désastre que sont les archives en ligne sur les sites de 24 Heures, Le Temps, et Le Matin. Moteurs de recherche cassés, archives payantes, mauvaise indexation par Google en l’absence de liens externes… Il est temps que nos quotidiens se réveillent et découvrent comment utiliser le web de façon plus profitable, et compatible avec leur mission d’information!

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Posted in My corner of the world, Social Media and the Web | Tagged 24heures, accès, archives, articles, bcu, blog, blogs, Essay-Like, french, google, gratuit, internet, journal, journaux, lecteurs, lematin, letemps, moteurderecherche, payant, payer, Press, presse, quotidien, romande, romandie, searchengine, Software and Tools, suisse, swissdox, switzerland, URI, URL, web | 24 Comments

Reconnaissance vocale pour OSX

Posted on 08.08.2005 by Stephanie Booth

A la recherche d’une solution pour avoir de la reconnaissance vocale en français sur mon Mac.

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Posted in Health, Speech Recognition | Tagged business, dragon, dragonnaturallyspeaking, français, france, french, ibook, ilisten, logiciel, mac, osx, reconnaissancevocale, rsi, scansoft, software, Software and Tools, Speech Recognition, speechrecognition, tms, viavoice | 143 Comments

Hosted Blog Platform Test Write-Up

Posted on 11.12.2004 by Stephanie Booth

I’ve tested 13 free platforms, and this is a write-up on the experiment. The ones I preferred were Blogsome, running Wordpress, and Mon-Blog (in French), running DotClear.

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Posted in Blogging | Tagged 20six, blog, blogger, blogging, Blogroll, blogsome, canalblog, claim, code, critique, Essay-Like, experiment, fort, french, haut, hautetfort, hosted, image, joueb, layout, linkroll, list, livejournal, log, mon-blog, monblog, niutopia, nrj, nrjblog, ping, platform, profile, review, server, skyblog, system, technorati, test, u-blug, ublog, viabloga, weblog, Weblog Technology, weblogging, Wordpress | 142 Comments

A Brief Update

Posted on 18.09.2004 by Stephanie Booth

A very brief summary of my first four weeks of teaching. Tired, difficult, but I’m OK.

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Posted in Personal | Tagged difficult, discipline, Education, english, french, hard, Life Updates, parents, pupil, rough, skyblog, teaching, teenager, tough, weblog | 25 Comments

U-Blog, Six Apart, and Their Angry Bloggers

Posted on 21.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

This very long post is, for the first time in English, a pretty complete account of what has been going on with U-blog and Loïc Le Meur in the French blogosphere for some time now. With the acquisition of Ublog by Six Apart, these problems are bound to take another dimension for the English-speaking blogosphere.

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Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged angloblogosphere, angry, aurora, blog, blogosphère, Blogosphere Interest, community, complain, divide, english, Essay-Like, features, francoblogosphere, french, gloaguen, history, language, Languages / Linguistics, laurent, le meur, loic, movable type, post, problem, promise, six apart, trouble, typepad, u-blog, ublog, unhappy, weblog | 79 Comments