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Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteurActive Elsewhere
I have eaten. I shall now do laundry and clean the flat. Should take about 2 hours. Then go shop for plants.
RT @gaurika65: Anyone know a really good and large PR agency in Delhi? There’s a chance for them to be possibly hired on retainer by DLF Ltd. Please RT.
midday. I should probably start doing stuff. like laundry, clean the flat, eat, shop for plants, rejiggle pallet balcony plants...
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
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: suisseromande
Recherche de Fonds
[en]Basically, some version of A Day at the Frankfurter Buchmesse.[fr]Je reviens de Francfort avec les idées un peu plus claires. Même si cette dans l’ensemble peu encourageant, j’ai trouvé à la foire du livre des informations qui me permettent d’avancer. … Continue reading
BarCamp Lausanne: former des « webmasters 2.0 »?
[en]Discussing the differences between skills of the old-school webmaster and the “webmaster 2.0″ (eeek!) — basically, a profile for the one to take care of site maintenance once we’ve done shiny 2.0 things with WordPress and plugins. It’s a different … Continue reading
Vilain cafard ou jolie blatte forestière ambrée ?
[en]I thought we had cockroaches in the house, but it turns out to be a harmless, outdoor variety which sometimes gets lost inside (ectobius vittiventris). Here is the explanation leaflet we got from the company we contacted — in hope … Continue reading
Bloggy Friday de septembre vendredi!
[en]Friday, meeting of local bloggers in Lausanne, Café de l’Evêché.[fr]Pour une fois, je suis en Suisse, et libre, le premier vendredi du mois — date du traditionnel Bloggy Friday quelque peu négligé ces derniers mois. Et en plus, Sylvie a … Continue reading
Bloggy Friday, ce sera jeudi!
[fr]This month (Easter’s fault), the traditional Bloggy Friday will take place on Thursday, in Lausanne.[en]Primo, il y a Pâques, et comme vendredi-saint c’est méchamment férié, notre petite rencontre de blogueurs helvètes aura donc lieu (exceptionellement) un jeudi. Jeudi comme… après-demain, … Continue reading
Que d’anglais
[fr]Just an explanation to my French readers about the amount of English here recently. Has to do with a post-LIFT’07 effect and the hard time I have coming back to “where we are with blogs and stuff in Switzerland”. (Answer: … Continue reading
Three-Bedroom Flat to Sublet (Lausanne)
[fr]Un ami cherche à sous-louer son appartement meublé à Lausanne, dès mars 2007, jusqu’à une année (flexible). C’est un trois-pièces avec vue, à environ 10 minutes du centre en bus. Si vous voulez des informations supplémentaires, contactez-moi et je vous … Continue reading
Vidéo: le blog de Josef Zisyadis et moi
[en]In this video, I give the story of how I was contacted by a local politician who hired me to help get him and his team blogging. A few words too about blogging and politics, here in Switzerland.[fr]J’ai parlé du … Continue reading




Not All Switzerland Speaks German, Dammit!
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 →