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Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteurActive Elsewhere
Bookmarked a link: RT @helgarhelgar: Any Vandals? http://t.co/qmiOfrmJ
RT @helgarhelgar: Any Vandals? http://t.co/qmiOfrmJ
Bookmarked a link: Criticism can be difficult to handle, especially at 8 in the morning. at Bill’s Blog
Criticism can be difficult to handle, especially at 8 in the morning. at Bill’s Blog http://t.co/eVu7hsYe > oooh old (good) memories :-)
living on a boat excitement: just saved a fish from the toilet bowl (got drawn in with the flush water!)
seagull has been calling by the boat for the last hour. wonder who/why he/she is calling like that.
ok, I select MDEX as the audio device in Skype, and it thinks a call is ongoing
Bookmarked a link: www.news.admin.ch - Travail de care non rémunéré: Des bases pour une meilleure protection sociale
"@gouvsuisse Travail de care non rémunéré: Des bases pour une meilleure protection sociale http://t.co/5W8gsleT" > translation fail
So true! Airport security comic strip http://t.co/R8DzzvDI
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- Dave Winer
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- Derek Powazek
- Doc Searls
- Elisabeth Stoudmann
- Fortuitous (Matt Haughey)
- Heather Powazek Champ
- Jason Kottke
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Jeremy Keith
- Joi Ito
- JP Rangaswami
- Karl Dubost
- Kevin Marks
- Laurent Gloaguen
- Laurent Haug
- Leisa Reichelt
- Matt Haughey
- Meg Hourihan
- Plantgasm (Derek Powazek)
- Stéphane Deschamps
- Suw Charman
- Tara Hunt
- Wil Wheaton
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- More About Hearing Aids (And Geeking Out a Bit)
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- Books Read in 2011
- A Plugin to Compensate for Flickr Broken Embed Suckage?
- A Week With My Superpower
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- Getting Your iCloud Photostream to Play Nice With Lightroom
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Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
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- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
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Tag Archives: lift09
Lift09 — Vint Cerf
Story of the talking dog. Excitement, but nobody is paying attention to what the dog is saying. Vint feels like the talking dinosaur. (haha) The Internet works because there are standards, and people cooperate to work together around those standards. … Continue reading
Lift09 — Melanie Rieback — RFID and Security
Whitehat hacker. RFID uses radio waves to identify things. Shows much of a promise for breaking (?) into things. Next low-end of computing. You have to bring virtual attacks into the physical domain, when it comes to RFID. Some security … Continue reading
Lift09 — Frank Beau — Métromantiques
Notes prises à l’occasion de la conférence Lift09. Bla-bla habituel de prise de notes: je fais de mon mieux, mais ce ne sont que des notes, qui peuvent contenir des erreurs et inexactitudes. Coup de foudre dans le métro. Comment … Continue reading
Lift09 — Baba Wamé — L’appropriation de l’Internet par les femmes camerounaises
Remerciements. Cameroun: petit pays d’Afrique Centrale (11 fois plus gros que la Suisse). 18mio d’habitants. Langues officielles: anglais et français. Villes: Yaoundé, Douala, Bafoussam, Garoua, Maroua, Bamenda. Internet dès 1997, 400000 utilisateurs internet, dont 50000 en connexion directe. 2500 cybercafés … Continue reading
Lift09 — James Gillies — How the Web awas Born: Stories from a scribe
Was in the right place at the right time to write the story, says he. 1995: “we must write the story before everyone forgets…” James expected it to be a dull boring story. Big surprise! You can’t just tell the … Continue reading
Lift09 — Jörg Jelden — Fakesumption
Unauthorized products. Office in Beijing, was shocked by the importance of fakes over there. Talked to his manager “let’s do something about it”. So started talking to fakesters, those who track them down, lawyers. Disclaimer: not making fun of a … Continue reading
Lift09 — Matt Webb — Scientific Fiction and Design
Book: Cusp, Robert A. Metzger. SF (steph-note: sounds like a crazy story, need to read it!) This is not the SF we’re talking about here. No flying cars, silver skullcaps… Here: Scientific Fiction (World War Z — zombie story; the … Continue reading
Lift09 — Sarah Marquis
Laurent: extraordinary stand-in speaker Sarah Marquis, an adventurer who goes off for months on end, walking across Australia for example. Est-il possible aujourd’hui d’imaginer se retrouver dans la nature sans aide technologique? On est des mammifères après tout. Pas d’électricité, … Continue reading
Lift09 — Envisioning the Future City — Anne Galloway
Expectations, promises and hopes are things that we do. Anne looks at what people do, make, say. Tries to figure out why we don’t do, make, say other things. To make certain futures happen: broken relationships between certain groups of … Continue reading
Lift09 — Dan Hill — Soft Infrastructure Superpowers
Has been travelling since Monday, arrived from Australia 3 hours ago. Poor Dan! How to re-route 400 passengers? Soft infrastructure, bits of paper with numbers on. In Hong Kong, malfunctioning aircrafts (steph-note: not sure I’m understanding all this.) Hotel Smart … Continue reading



