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Climb to the Stars is Stephanie Booth's personal site, going strong for 12 years now. Follow her on Twitter (@stephtara), Tumblr (Digital Crumble), Facebook and Google.Learn more about Stephanie and find other nice things to read by checking out the big fat footer at the bottom of each page. Jump down there now!
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Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteurActive Elsewhere
purée, avec mes soucis à moi j'ai raté la méningite de @xavier83... ouf que ça semble s'être réglé... #getwellsoon
Bookmarked a link: Path — Stephanie Booth
Tounsi in a strikingly human and masculine pose (no shame this cat has) (at Steph's Jungle) [pic] — http://t.co/NQnXmloa
bon, connection internet de retour @swisscom_care -- ça vaut bien la peine de fâcher les clients en disant d'attendre 48h
une autre voisine a aussi perdu sa connexion. je veux bien qu'on fasse des travaux mais qu'on envoie pas faire foutre les gens pdt 48h #sc
RT @sarah_marquis: Did you know a vessel make his desalinated water by evaporation more than 10'000 liter a day
RT @sarah_marquis: Did you know: take 2,16 miles to stop a cargo boat in full speed
.@Swisscom_Care internet en dérangement, encore une fois je trouve SCANDALEUX qu'on me dise qu'il faut patienter 48H avant de bouger #furax
Bookmarked a link: Gap Tooth Stickers - My name is Ashwin. I am 6 and I'm an entrepreneur!
wash-off stickers, isn't the idea great? http://t.co/OltDztfN by @GapToothKid et al.
for me, a blog going multi-author has jumped the shark and is on its way to a sure death some years down the line. anybody else?
Bookmarked a link: Path — Stephanie Booth
Blogroll
- Adam Tinworth
- Andy Baio
- Anil Dash
- Brian Kellett
- Corinne Stoppelli
- danah boyd
- Dave Winer
- David Weinberger
- 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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Headlines (Recent Posts)
- Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- More About the M-DEX, and a Cool Blog: Hack and Hear
- More About Hearing Aids (And Geeking Out a Bit)
- Post haineux de 3h du mat’ sponsorisé par Balelec
- Tounsi perdu et puis retrouvé
- Ailleurs
- Books Read in 2011
- A Plugin to Compensate for Flickr Broken Embed Suckage?
- A Week With My Superpower
- My Pallet Garden
- Having Cats
- Getting Your iCloud Photostream to Play Nice With Lightroom
- Trucs en vrac
- Three Weeks With My New Cats, Tounsi and Safran
- Drive, Practical Wisdom, Money and Congress, Alone Together
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- George Kedourie on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- Stephanie Booth on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Marie-Aude on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Martin on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- mlle-cassis on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Stephanie Booth on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- George Kedourie on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- Stephanie Booth on More About the M-DEX, and a Cool Blog: Hack and Hear
- Dring, venez vous faire fouiller ! « aeemtech on Outraged and Furious: First Encounter With a Full-Body Scanner (in the UK)
- When people refer to blog posts as “blogs”, I want to hurt them. | Geik on A Blog is Not a Post, Dammit!
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Tag Archives: post
Non, ce n’est pas un podcast, ça
[en]You already know (I hope) that a blog is not a post, so you don’t say “I’ll write a blog about this” but “I’ll write a post about this” (or “I’ll write a blog post about this”). I realized the … Continue reading
A Blog is Not a Post, Dammit!
[fr]De plus en plus répandue, la confusion entre “blog” et “post/billet/article” est un cancer qui ronge la terminologie blogosphérique. Pour mémoire, un blog est un type de site composé d’une série d’articles (ou posts, ou billets). On ne dirait pas, … Continue reading
Bad Sector in Memory
[fr]Je recherche un billet sur lequel je n’arrive plus à mettre la main, qui disait (ou en tout cas me faisait penser) que le blogueur-consultant qui fait du “consulting gratuit” sur son blog par moment (critiquant tel ou tel service) … Continue reading
Split Identity Crisis
[fr]Quand on a deux blogs, sur lequel est-ce qu’on publie quoi? Pour moi, ce blog est le blog “intello-sérieux”, possiblement intéressant pour ceux ne me connaissant pas personnellement. L’autre blog est un espace où je peux écrire ce qui me … Continue reading
Fixing Newline Abuse in WordPress
Newlines had crept into some of my old posts and corrupted the formatting. Quick and dirty script I used to solve the problem.
Continue readingIndulging in Memes
Another meme test. I don’t usually go for memes, but I love the idea of tests and research. The Google-juice is nice, of course, but I find almost more exciting to be able to visualise the trail of weblogs as the meme spreads.
Continue readingU-Blog, Six Apart, and Their Angry Bloggers
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.
Continue readingEasier TopicExchange Trackbacks for WordPress
A WordPress hack which makes it quicker to add TopicExchange channels to trackback, and makes them visible (like categories) in the weblog. (Sorry for the duplicate postings, trying to fix it.)
Continue readingBatch Categories 0.9
Batch Categories for WordPress has been fixed and enhanced. If you have major category jobs to do, it can probably help you. Feedback and testers welcome.
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Quick Comment Spam Tip for WordPress
Here are the two plugins you need to fight comment spam using WordPress.
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