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From LIFT06 to LIFT08

Posted on 11.02.2008 by Stephanie Booth

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Un petit coup d'oeil sur les différences majeures entre mon expérience de LIFT06 et de LIFT08, à deux ans d'écart.

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As I said in my open stage speech, two years (and a few days) ago I was sitting in the CICG conference hall, but things were very different from today. LIFT06 was, if I remember correctly, my second conference. I’d been to BlogTalk2 in 2004 and met a few people there (live-blogging already!). So, in 2006, there were very few people at the conference which I had actually met. I knew Lee Bryant. I knew Martin Röll. I knew Laurent Haug. I knew Björn Ognibeni (I think he was at LIFT06, but couldn’t swear it). I knew a few local bloggers, and some people from online. (My memory is a bit fuzzy.) But most of the people who make up my network (both online and offline, personal and professional) were not part of my world yet.

LIFT06 is where I met Robert Scoble, Bruno Giussani, David Galipeau, Euan Semple, Hugh McLeod, and a bunch of others. It’s where I got to know Anne Dominique Mayor (we both sat down smack in front of Robert Scoble by pure chance, because we were going for power sockets — that’s how I met him), and she has since then become part of my close circle of friends. LIFT06 felt a bit like San Francisco felt a year later: my online world had suddenly materialized offline.

Retrospectively, I’d say that in 2006, I was introduced to people, but that today, in 2008, it is people who introduce themselves to me. It’s not as clear-cut, of course, but it’s the general trend.

At LIFT08, I’ve lost count of the people present whom I’ve already met. There are almost too many for me to say hello to each one. I’m holding a workshop, and giving an open stage speech, so I’m much more public — more people know me than I know them.

It’s a bit scary. I don’t know who I want to spend my time with anymore, for one (old friends? new, unknown people?) — and my brain just can’t keep up. I forget who I’ve met. I try giving Going Solo moo cards to old friends more than once. I feel like I’ve become a networking automaton, and I don’t like it. I’m not good at faking it, I’d rather tell people that I’m over-socialized and that I have trouble processing all this.

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Posted in Conferences | Tagged blogtalk2004, conférences, Events, going solo, lift06, lift08, meeting, network, networking, people, Pieces of Me | 1 Comment

Journée au Forum des 100 de l’Hebdo

Posted on 18.05.2006 by Stephanie Booth

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I'm spending my day at the Forum des 100 (a selection of 100 local personalities by l'Hebdo, a regional weekly magazine). My computer is still being repaired, and to top it all I've (temporarily) lost my internet connection at home.

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J’ai piqué à  Anne Dominique (assise à  côté de moi) le joli Powerbook qu’elle a amené au Forum des 100. Comment?

  1. Mon ordinateur est toujours en réparation, et je n’ai depuis quelques jours même plus de connexion à  la maison (dans quelques semaines/mois, cependant, je devrais être l’heureuse propriétaire d’un nouveau Macbook.

  2. Il y a quelques semaines, j’ai reçu une lettre m’annonçant que je faisais partie des fameux “100″ de l’Hebdo et que j’étais donc invitée à  passer mon jeudi 18 mai (aujourd’hui!) dans l’Amphimax de l’UNIL.

Quelques premières impressions:

  • que de mecs en costard! (bienvenue en Suisse Romande, me dit ma voisine.)
  • les verres dans lesquels on sert le jus d’orange sont vraiment petits, probablement pour nous forcer à  faire des allers-retours…
  • un webcast de la conférence (le lien est en haut à  droite) est disponible, vous pouvez donc la suivre depuis votre ordinateur
  • le modérateur (et néanmoins blogueur!) Bruno Giussani a annoncé lors des informations pratiques le tag à  utiliser pour les personnes couvrant la conférence sur leurs blogs: forumdes100
  • pas d’accent sur mon prénom, ni sur le badge, ni sur la liste des participants (malgré les nombreuses autres coquilles que j’ai pu voir!) — et ils ont même épelé “blogueuse” correctement (contrairement à  la lettre d’invitation qui m’a propulsée “blogeuse”…)

Ah oui! Bruno a aussi attiré notre attention (je suis assise à  côté de l’équipe de lift06) sur le fait qu’il y avait des fontaines à  eau dans la salle et des points d’alimentation pour laptops dans la salle. (Il se souvient des mes premières impressions de lift06…)

Voilà ! Je vais rendre l’ordinateur à  sa propriétaire. Passez une bonne journée!

PS: ah oui, pas de photos, je suis encore en train d’essayer de récuperer les dernières photos effacées de ma carte mémoire, qui ont péri avec le disque dur de mon iBook…

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Posted in My corner of the world, Personal | Tagged apple, blogs, event, forumdes100, hebdo, ibook, lausanne, lhebdo, Life Updates, lift06, ordinateur, organisation, panne, Press, suisseromande, switzerland, tags, unil | 5 Comments

DailyMotion Problems Solved: View Robert’s Video Now

Posted on 19.02.2006 by Stephanie Booth

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La vidéo de Robert Scoble que j'ai faite à LIFT'06 est maintenant réparée et visible dans le billet initial.

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Finally! With help from Olivier of DailyMotion, I’ve solved the DailyMotion problems which prevented the wild videocast of Robert Scoble from playing correctly in the post I’d written.

I had copied the code from another video I’d embedded in a post on my Cheese Sandwich Blog, and changed the video ID. The only problem is that DailyMotion code includes a key which is blog-specific, so people were getting an error message when they tried to play the video on the blog. I tried republishing the video here using their “blog this” feature, but that didn’t embed it properly. Finally, Olivier pointed me to the “manual” option — which I hadn’t seen, although it was what I was looking for! — which simply spits out code for you to copy-paste into your blog.

So, if you gave up earlier, or didn’t have a chance to see it, go and watch Robert being podcasted by two swiss guys at LIFT’06.

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Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged blogging, Blogosphere Interest, dailymotion, embedding, feedback, lift06, manual, problem, video, videoblogging, Videos, Weblog Technology | Leave a comment

Video Complaints

Posted on 14.02.2006 by Stephanie Booth

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Souvent pas facile de voir les jolies choses vidéo qu'on nous met à  disposition sur le web. Je me plains un peu.

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Stupid user or balkanisation?

I’m listening to a video from LIFT’06. First of all I got a pop-up window which looked like a “go no further, you don’t have what it takes to view this” message. Actually, there’s a RealPlayer link in there. OK, cool. They have a partial podcast of the event, but I can’t open it in iTunes. What a shame!

At LIFT’06, I learnt that part of Robert Scoble‘s job is barging into people’s offices with a camcorder and saying “hi there, what do you do at Microsoft?” So I headed off to Channel9 to try and listen to some. My first impression upon landing on the site, I have to say, was “ew, what a mess! Where do I find Robert’s stuff in there?” OK, I found one: Jenny Lam – Designing Experiences at Microsoft. Click, click. Launches VLC. Doesn’t work :-( Quicktime usually works. Ah, damn, Quicktime is an Apple thing, isn’t it?

Yep, I’m running OSX, Firefox, and I’m not exactly a Microsoft fan. I’ve been very positively impressed, though, from what I learnt that Microsoft was doing in the transparency department. Aren’t I precisely the kind of audience Channel9 could be interested in catering to? Make it easy for me, please :-)

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Posted in Technology | Tagged channel9, compatibility, feedback, freestudios, internet, lift06, microsoft, osx, quicktime, realplayer, Software and Tools, usability, Venting, video, Videos, vlc | 2 Comments

DailyMotion Problems

Posted on 09.02.2006 by Stephanie Booth

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Un problème avec DailyMotion, heureusement réglé. Si vous n'avez pas pu voir la vidéo où je fais la bobette derrière Robert Scoble, c'est le moment d'y aller!

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You probably know I like DailyMotion. I posted some feedback about DailyMotion yesterday, and bumped into some naughty problems today.

The problem with DailyMotion is that it doesn’t have a nice forum or a real devblog like coComment where we can leave feedback. So I’m posting it to my blog and tagging it in hope it will be found. By the way, I’ve been wondering what the best place is for this kind of feedback: here or on the Cheese Sandwich Blog? What’s your take?

After LIFT’06, I put this video of Robert being interviewed online and wrote a post about it here. Unfortunately, it seems at least one of my readers is not able to view it . (I guess there are at least 20 of you out there who just didn’t tell me about it.) The message says something about a key not being valid for this blog.

DailyMotion allows you to blog your videos directly from the site. That’s neat, but as I’m a control freak, I like dealing with the code myself. Back in November I had posted a video to my other blog, so I grabbed the code from over there, adapted it (video id), and it seemed to work. Actually, that was because I was still logged in to my DailyMotion account.

I first tried adding CTTS to my DailyMotion account, as a second blog. That failed (error message, just doesn’t work). As I was writing this post, I tried logging out of DailyMotion, and actually saw the message all my poor readers have been seeing these last days! In a click of my trackpad I was able to fix everything.

So, if you haven’t seen me goofing off behind Robert Scoble as David and Marc-O try to podcast him (red wine and Apple hardware involved), now’s the time to do it! Sorry for the buggy post, and thanks a lot to Raphael for pointing out the problem to me.

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Posted in Social Media and the Web | Tagged blogging, dailymotion, embedding, feedback, lift06, problem, Site News, Software and Tools, video, videoblogging, Videos, vlog | 9 Comments

Lift: Thanks for the Videos, but…

Posted on 05.02.2006 by Stephanie Booth

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Problème pour visionner les vidéos de LIFT avec OSX et Firefox. Et vous?

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I tried to get to the LIFT videos but I can’t read them. I have the latest versions of Tiger and Firefox. I spent a minute in a pop-up configuration window (that was nasty to start with), and then it just didn’t work. Can’t we have DailyMotion-style videos that “simply work”?

Audio works, though. Would be nice to be able to download it instead of stream.

As for the podcast feed, it asks me if I want to open NNWL. A little button to subscribe in iTunes would be really neat.

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Tagged Audio, download, failure, feedback, firefox, freestudios, freestudios.tv, Geek / Technical, lift06, mac, Offsite, osx, Podcast, problem, streaming, subscribe, Venting, video | 14 Comments

Wild Videocast of Robert Scoble Interview

Posted on 04.02.2006 by Stephanie Booth

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Une interview (partielle) de Robert Scoble par Marc-Olivier et David de IC Agency, filmée de façon un peu sauvage. Quand on dit que les blogs sont la télé-réalité du web...

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I was having a post-LIFT chat with Marc-Olivier in the lounge yesterday when David came up, stole him from me and started talking about getting Robert to do a podcast with them for a blog they were going to open. I offered to introduce them to him.

I was going to take a couple of photographs but as they started, I decided for video instead. Think of it as a “making of” videocast of their podcast. (I say “wild” not because Robert went wild on the video but because it wasn’t planned, staged, or whatever. Vidéocasting sauvage would be how I’d put it in French.

5-minute videocast with Robert (partial)

Dailymotion blogged video of Robert Scoble being podcasted at LIFT’06

Marc-Olivier Peyer and David Sadigh of IC Agency record a podcast with Robert Scoble at the end of LIFT’06 conference in Geneva. Stephanie Booth whips out her camera, sits it on the tripod, turns it to video and films the first five minutes, grabbing a few chances to do silly things in the background.

My initial intention was to upload it straight away. I like the immediateness you can get with the web. (If moblogging wasn’t so bloody expensive I’d be moblogging away…) David actually asked me to hold off publishing the video and cut out some bits of it or put their audio on it, because they wanted to edit some of the audio (English mistakes in the questions, but IMHO, who cares?) I said I preferred to publish what I had recorded “as is”, mistakes, goofs, and all — it was OK with Robert.

I’m a bit embarrassed by the situation, to be honest. My video is on DailyMotion under a CC-by-sa-nc license, so they can put their audio on top if they like, whatever. I don’t really like having to refrain from publishing something, but on the other hand I am very much aware that if you appear on a video or a photograph, you have a right to control publication of it. I think what bothered me was the argument of “exclusivity”. My videocast is only about a third of the interview, anyway.

What would you have done? Should I have refrained from posting this until they had their version up?

I will of course be posting the link to their version(s) here as soon as I get it.

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Back to Being a Low-Tech Audience

Posted on 03.02.2006 by Stephanie Booth

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Dans une conférence où beaucoup de blogueurs sont présents, on a besoin de pauses-blogging ;-) -- et peut-être aussi de présentations qui tiennent bien dans un billet? Suivent quelques suggestions pour les personnes qui font des conférences -- sachant que je ne fais certainement pas tout ce que je dis.

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Running a bit late for Emmanuelle‘s talk on anonymity online, I decided to go in without my laptop, which was in the other room. Decision also fueled by my earlier cogitations about my decreasing attention span.

Well, there we are: I was more attentive and took notes on paper.

I was telling Robert that conferences like this lacked blogging breaks. The audience is in the real-time information business if you have lots of bloggers in the room, so if you don’t want them to spend half the talk time uploading photos, chatting, and writing up blog posts. So, how about give us blogging breaks, and plan post-sized talks? Wouldn’t that be neat?

For many people, the most interesting moments of a gathering like this is around and outside the talks. Try to change the balance a bit? I know there are organisational imperatives, but I’m sure a solution could be found.

Other than that, some ideas for speakers (and I’m aware I don’t do what I preach when I’m giving a talk):

  • Give me an outline of the talk, paper would be best (I’ll get lost somewhere else by trying to find it online). If I tune out of your talk for a minute (and I’m bound to) I need a chance to tune back in. An outline will help with that.
  • Be theatrical, keep me listening, or make me participate. Effective use of slides is good, but I don’t know how to do it so I won’t give you any advice on the topic.
  • Don’t talk to fast, particularly when the audio in the venue isn’t too good. Articulate. (Yeah. Sorry.)

Update: I took hand-written notes of Robert’s talk too. Lesson learnt.

My Notes of Robert Scoble's Talk

Now let’s see if you can decypher my handwriting!

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Posted in Event Musings, Live Blogging | Tagged advice, attention, Audio, blogging, Blogosphere Interest, blogs, concentration, conférences, distraction, laptop, lift06, notes, paper, public, speakers, speaking, switzerland, talks, venue | 6 Comments

LIFT’06 Photographs

Posted on 03.02.2006 by Stephanie Booth

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Les photos de LIFT'06 aujourd'hui sont en train d'être mises en ligne à  vitesse tout petit v. Merci de votre patience.

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You probably noticed I’ve been uploading LIFT’06 photographs to Flickr since yesterday. I took a whole bunch of really fun photos last night, but upload is slow as slug, so I don’t know when they’ll be up. Thanks for your patience!

Cosy Geeking Robert and Anina geeking away

Almost all of my photos are CC-licensed. Feel free to use them on your blogs if you’re speaking about the conference — a mugshot or two does tend to liven-up text-only conference notes.

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Posted in Live Blogging | Tagged Blogosphere Interest, conference, creativecommons, feedback, flickr, lift06, My Photos, notes, photographs, photography, switzerland, upload, Vie de la blogosphère | 4 Comments

Bloggy Friday ce soir avec la LIFT’06-fête

Posted on 03.02.2006 by Stephanie Booth

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Bloggy Friday: join us at the LIFT'06 Closing Party!

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Pour être dernière minute, c’est dernière minute, mais vous le saviez déjà : le Bloggy Friday a lieu ce soir à  Genève, et l’idée serait qu’on se retrouve lors de “l’after” de LIFT’06. Lieu communiqué dès que je serai au courant plus tard dans la matinée. Dans le pire des cas, il suffit de venir trainer devant le CICG dès la fin de la conférence.

Mise à  jour: 9h30 à  l’Ethno Bar, 1 rue Bovy-Lysberg.

Tonight!

Mise à  jour 04.02.06

Un gros pardon pour le lapin posé aux blogueurs romands qui se seraient pointés hier soir. Les Romands de LIFT sont gentiment rentrés chez eux les uns après les autres (c’était deux journées super crevantes). J’ai quant à  moi tenu bon jusqu’au moment où j’ai réalisé que j’avais de nouveau oublié d’échanger mon ticket de parking, et que j’allais me retrouver avec une facture salée.

Devant ma fatigue, la perspective du week-end qui m’attendait, et le trou qui s’annonçait dans mon compte en banque, j’ai préféré rentrer. (J’ai eu de la chance, un ange muni d’un ticket de parking a croisé ma route, ça s’est donc pas si mal fini que ça.)

Donc, si vous vous êtes pointés à  l’Ethno Bar et que vous n’y avez pas vu de têtes familières, désolée. J’espère que vous aurez quand même saisi l’occasion de faire connaissance des geeks internationaux présents!

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Posted in Bloggy Friday, Conferences, My corner of the world | Tagged bloggyfriday, Blogosphere Interest, blogueurs, conference, geneva, genève, lift06, rencontre, romandie, switzerland, Vie de la blogosphère | 1 Comment