Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
A very interesting article about Google bombing. Needless to say, I don’t encourage abuse of a (reasonably) good system.
On the other hand, were is the line between use and abuse? What is ethical, what is not? The gray zone is always the most interesting.
[link via Emmanuelle]
Karl change de look! Surprise, j’ai cru que mon navigateur s’était trompé de site.
J’aime beaucoup! C’est chaud et accueillant. Et en plus, les pages archivées gardent l’ancien look. Ça fait longtemps que je pense que les weblogs devraient faire ça. Le look ça fait partie de l’époque, non?
Un grand bonjour à tous les visiteurs qui arrivent ici via l’article de Télérama. J’espère que l’endroit vous plaira!
Prenez le temps de faire le tour du site, en particulier la section Ecriture, qui comporte beaucoup de textes en français, et (surtout si l’anglais ne vous rebute pas trop) la section Inde.
Ce site comporte également une page d’accueil en français.
Et finalement, n’oubliez pas de m’envoyer un petit mot pour vous présenter!
Comme d’autres l’ont fait remarquer, voici enfin un tout bon article sur les weblogs en français.
L’interview lors de la soirée Froglog à Paris avait été tout à fait sympathique. Je remplacerais juste s’enorgueillit
dans l’article par quelque chose de plus neutre, comme dit
, par exemple… Mais bon, ça c’est parce que je pinaille. Allez, lisez cet article et faites de la pub!
If you’re still wondering why you should use CSS instead of tables for layout out your pages, you need to read Eric Costello’s excellent Introduction to CSS Layout.
For more information on how to do it (once you’re convinced), you can always check out my stuff – at the risk of repeating myself. Of course, Eric’s article does a pretty good job of explaining that part too, complete with practical examples.
CSS rocks!
If you find the prospect of wading through the w3c specs daunting, and you are a lucky user of Mozilla or Opera, you’ll find these sidebar tabs invaluable. Yes, follow that link even if you don’t know what a sidebar tab is. I didn’t either before I went there.
These tabs conveniently list all the HTML and CSS elements in your sidebar. Click on the tag, attribute or element you need information on, and you’ll be transported to the relevant place in the w3c specifications. Without the trouble of finding the right spec, and then the right place in the spec. Still there?
I can’t imagine I discovered about them only now.
Yes, Shirley tells us they work in Opera, don’t worry.
Just in case you were wondering what my final philosophy exam was about: Ricœur and Changeux: What Makes Us Think?
At many points in my procrastinator’s life, I’ve had an inkling this was the way to go.
All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. […] The procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
John Perry, Structured Procrastination.
Look at what I’m doing now: I have exams to prepare, laundry to do, piles of books to read, a website to update. And I’m writing for my weblog. Writing for my weblog is definitely not a high-priority task. But on the other hand, over the past year or so, I’ve started to gain a reputation for being an active weblogger, worth reading by some.
Now, this doesn’t mean that I’m going to stop fighting my procrastination. Actually, one of the reasons I’ve been “going the wrong way” lately (ie. refusing commitments) is very precisely because I’m trying to get to the root of my procrastination. I’m inching nearer each day, actually. But on the other hand, when I’m deep in it, I might as well do something useful, mightn’t I?
[link from Glenn, again!]
Abstract: People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities.
Unskilled and Unaware of It [PDF]
The article is pretty long: read the beginning, hop over the study reports and go directly to the analysis at the end.
A very interesting article which studies the fact that unskilled individuals tend to overestimate their skills. There seems to be a correlation between lack of expertise and lack of metacognitive ability.
[via Glenn]
Encore un site francophone “sans les tableaux”: celui de Sébastien. Allez lire ses textes, aussi, il y a du bon!