Flybar Model 1200

This is exactly the kind of thing i would like to receive for xmas – right on.

(i already have the helmet)

Podcasting with Skype

Now called Skypecast (ok.. this is getting a little too hype for me..) but quite useful if you wish to record a phone interview (computer to phone or computer to computer call) for podcasting.

Well explained in a pdf – using Skype to record the conversation in a mp3 format.

Learn how to here: Skypecasters
(via Heiko)

How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content

I wrote about that a year ago, but can’t find the post right now.

By then, i was using Netnewswire for the first time. ‘Woah, that dude brings me fresh content directly in, i get notified of new stuff and have a preview of what this new content is. Isn’t that cool for lazy ass like me!?’
This lasted for several minutes, ’till the designer in me started to wonder… ‘What the hell is gonna happen then? If this is now working with content posted on blogs (this was in march 04 – news aggregator now push much more types of content and many websites use aggregated content) how is it gonna be in 12 months from now?’ Right on, corporate websites will want to benefit from aggregated content ‘caus users will ask for it – and what about the homepage and the navigation structure? How are we gonna guide users to the content they are (we want them to be) looking for?

I do not have a clue if you really wanna know. But we’ll have to change the way we work, the way we build websites – again.

Read: Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content

Google partenaire des plus grandes bibliothèques universitaires

“Le rêve de tout bibliophile d’accéder au contenu des plus grandes bibliothèques va bientôt devenir réalité. En effet, Google, le moteur de recherche bien connu, a décidé de collaborer avec cinq d’entre elles afin de créer la plus grande salle de lecture du monde”, annonce The Christian Science Monitor. L’idée de scanner et de numériser les livres n’est certes pas nouvelle – cela fait des années que des bibliothèques scannent une partie de leur fonds -, mais le projet de Google est différent par sa taille. Pour les experts, le moteur de recherche possède deux choses que les institutions académiques n’ont pas : l’argent et la technologie. Or ce projet va coûter énormément d’argent et mettre en œuvre énormément de technologie.

Selon l’accord conclu le lundi 13 décembre 2004, outre le contenu de la bibliothèque publique de New York, Google envisage d’indexer les fonds des bibliothèques de Harvard, Stanford, Oxford et de l’université du Michigan. (…) Les responsables de l’entreprise ne veulent pas révéler les méthodes qu’ils comptent adopter, mais, une chose est certaine, cela prendra beaucoup de temps. A titre d’exemple, les rayonnages de la bibliothèque de l’université du Michigan s’étirent sur plus de 210 kilomètres : il faudra au moins six ans pour mener l’indexation de l’ensemble à bien.

Source: Courrier International
via gigger.net

Linkers

All people linking to my blog, could you be so kind and update your links to my new url?

I guaranty you another party early 05…

geek – by wikipedia

A geek is a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by technology and imagination. Geek may not always have the same meaning as the term nerd (see nerd for a discussion of the disputed relation between the terms).

- A person who is interested in technology, especially computing and new media. Comparable with the classic definition of hacker. Late 20th century and early 21st century

Source: Wikipedia

End of year krush

I am up just to say that i am happy holidays are coming soon so i can take a break from the geek-o-mania i am into.

I spent the last days walking around with 2 cellphones (the new and the old one), taking pictures at every street corner (this shall pass), tweaking details on my blog (this is just never ending) as well as trying to do as much as i can ’till the end of the year so my list can hopefully get shorter (ok, numbers 11, 21 and 24 and 25 can’t be happening in a week, i know).

Number 4 is on the way though!

MovableType 3.14 released

* MT 3.14

(via heiko)

The Notwist

Podcasting: watch out ‘caus i’m gonna abuse it.

* The Notwist, one with the freaks.

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BBC Radio mp3 takes off

BBC Radio’s downloading trial (using mp3) has been a success with more than 70,000 downloads of Radio 4′s In Our Time in November and the latest ‘podcasting’ service proving popular with technology-savvy listeners.

I am still √î so frustrated that i can’t properly podcast via typepad. MT version’s gonna be online real soon.

* BBC – Press Office – BBC Radio downloads, podcasting and online

We’ve got the rock

Jean-guy, party dec.18th,
originally uploaded by m-c.

Picts from yesterday’s party – all went well, super nice people, nice talks, lots of fun – simple and plain fun, i like it like that. Thx for stopping by!!

Dear diary

I have an horrible hangover again. Dont know why i do like partying so much. I dont know why, when there are free drinks, i tend to get drunk heavily. Now my head just feels like it wanna implode and my body – soon to be 30 – is giving me signals that i might be abusing a little.