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Google Print

Am i late on this or it is so fresh that no one knows?

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, but much of that information isn’t yet online. Google Print aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily – right in your Google search results.

Google Print is now online, and its nice nice nice! As long as the book you are searching for is there, you’ll be able to read some of the book pages (i typed in ‘The cluetrain manifesto’ - they didnt had it in there but pointed me to ‘We, the media‘ with about 45 pages preview).

By m-c, May 31 2005 | Category: Weblinks and tech stuff | Comments Off 

CBC to Announce Major Podcasting Initiatives

Hu hu oh?

CBC Radio, Canada’s public broadcaster, is set to announce a series of podcasting projects that I believe will all be massively ground-breaking. So stay tuned to this blog for the very first word.
For now, though, I can say this: If you are a Canadian independent musician and you are looking for a way to get your music heard to a much wider audience, I strongly, strongly recommend you sign your band up at NewMusicCanada.com . (Gee, is that a “Podsafe-Friendly?” button I see there? ;-) )

this way –> Exclusive: CBC to Announce Major Podcasting Initiatives

By m-c, May 31 2005 | Category: About podcasting | 1 Comment 

Mutek kick off

mutek festival is starting tomorrow - since i get a pass for the whole thing, i will try to moblog the event from my cellphone, check out on flickr for a mutek photo album.

If you do take pictures of the event, please tag them with mutek05.

The conference about creative commons is taking place at 14h30 tomorrow.

By m-c, May 31 2005 | Category: Projects | 1 Comment 

meïdia’s about to launch!

We, meïdia, the start up i am into building with Antoine, have just launched a new website for Montreal based musician Under Electric Light.

meïdia’s website is gonna be up in the next days, so stay tuned to get to know what we’re up to. Meanwhile, go check out Uel’s website! (beta version, bugmail-me)

By m-c, May 31 2005 | Category: meïdia | Comments Off 

À vos marques, prêts -

braillez!
merci à Éric pour cette capsule podcasté de fête!! LOL!

By m-c, May 31 2005 | Category: Podcasts | 2 Comments 

Thank you’s

I could not post a new entry without thanking you all - for your emails, gifts, cards, smiles.

I still havnt managed to answer all mails i got during last weekend, but be sure that i will personally thank you as soon as i can - meanwhile, now that i am 30, i just have one thing in mind: go!

By m-c, May 31 2005 | Category: Daily thoughts | Comments Off 

30 is the new 20

Belle journée/soirée et fin de semaine en général. Il a faillit faire beau 5 heures en ligne. Maman est sortie de sa région victoriavilloise pour venir me gâter avant que je change de dizaine. Roses roses à la main, et panier remplis jusqu’au rebord chez Ikea.

Ikea, le gout de la suède. J’ai remarqué que les supports en bois du ikea sont tous marqué au célèbre logo de la Deutsche Bahn - ça a laissé paraître une touche d’exotisme dans ma journée. Autre observation unpeu moins exotique : en général les gars qui font les allées du ikea peuvent paraître bien intéressants, et même intéressés - mais soyez toujours vigilantes car leur blonde est sûrement pas loin en train de choisir la couleur de la nape de cuisine.

J’en reviens à ma fin de vingtaine. 27, 28, 29. Je me suis pas préparé, j’ai pas pensé que le 2 devrait se transformer un jours. Je suis naïve, j’ai toujours cru que je serais éternelle.

J’ai réalisé ce soir vers 19h30 que je ne le serai pas. Deep down in the drain.

Pep talk de mel au téléphone : ‘à 30 ans marie, tu vas être à ton meilleur, voit ça comme un nouveau départ - tu vas être une femme forte, une femme d’affaire extraordinaire, en pleine possession de tes moyens. R’garde moi!’

Je me suis sentie bien pendant un gros 3 minutes.

Le transfert de 2.9 à 3.0 se fera quelque part cette nuit.

By m-c, May 30 2005 | Category: Daily thoughts | 11 Comments 

Da nite

Thanks to everyone who showed up at yesterday’s party. I feel sad from not being able to have a chat with everyone, but many half conversations - and today i’ve got some weird buzz in my ears et je sais pas combien de caisses de bière vides à ramasser.

Anyways, i also wanted to thank the person who have left a can of pepsi in the fridge - i swear i usually never drink that shit, but today it kinda saved my life.

By m-c, May 28 2005 | Category: Daily thoughts | 3 Comments 

indie-type francophone bands

Got an interesting mail from a reader. Gotta run but if you guys can share about the topic it’s gonna be fun:

i love your blog. i just got linked to it from the tofu hut’s massive links. i have really been trying to find some bands with french lyrics with a similar style to bands that i like, but i am not having any luck. it seems that all of the french bands i come across are too
poppy. are there any french speaking equivalents of Interpol, Bloc Party, Built to Spill, or even that new-new wave like the Bravery?

I figure you might be my best bet to find out the top 4-5 indie-type francophone bands.

The recent Spin article about montreal music covers the english speaking bands, but ignores the french. (the stills, arcade fire, dears, etc). And in the comments section people mention the ommission but don’t offer up any band names of whom exactly they are missing. I have recently become obsessed with all things Montreal, and am actually trying to learn french and find out anything i can about the city.

Thanks,
a reader

By m-c, May 27 2005 | Category: Music | 12 Comments 

Statissetiques

- 32% des lecteurs de Vu d’ici son des utilisateurs de mac;
- bon, vous êtes encore en majorité des utilisateurs de Explorer;
- 29% des visiteurs ont comme fournisseur videotron (ixmedia gagnent une place sur le palmarès des stats avec un bô 1% - ils font quoi tes employés mon cfd?);
- pis ben, le samedi dimanche, vous êtes partout sauf en train de me lire.

By m-c, May 26 2005 | Category: Weblinks and tech stuff | 5 Comments 

’se-p(&-)”rAt

to set or keep apart : DISCONNECT, SEVER
to make a distinction between : DISCRIMINATE, DISTINGUISH (separate religion from magic)
SORT (separate mail)
to disperse in space or time : SCATTER (widely separated homesteads)
to set aside for a special purpose : CHOOSE, DEDICATE
to part by a legal separation
to block off : SEGREGATE
to isolate from a mixture : EXTRACT (separate cream from milk)
to divide into constituent parts.

*

Humans like to classify things, draw lines and put people into boxes with a specific id tags: white-black, men-woman, rich-poor, good-bad, strong-weak, english-french.

Dudes, one thing is sure, we’re all different - but linked. Stop drawing lines.

By m-c, May 26 2005 | Category: Daily thoughts | 4 Comments 

song of the day

Apparat, Komponent.
Video here.

See Apparat live friday june 3th at Mutek.

By m-c, May 26 2005 | Category: Music | 2 Comments 

Le boomerang en feu

Il y a des moments dans la vie ou on doit prendre des décision extra pointues (et souvent ce qui est pointu, ben ca fait mal - c’est connu).

Des moments ou une suite d’évènements vous fait complètement perdre l’équilibre et vous demander ‘what the f***‘ (et quand on perd l’équilibre des fois on tombe - ca aussi, ca peu faire mal).

C’est comme si la vie vous envoyais un boomerang, en feu. Est-ce qu’on l’attrape, ou on le laisse passer?

By m-c, May 26 2005 | Category: Daily thoughts | Comments Off 

Le orange RSS

conversation des plus intéressante entre 2 designers sur msn :

m-c : tsé la couleur orange rss? (tsé quand té rendu à parler du ‘orange rss’.. oh boy)
m-c : le bleu bloglines
m-c : le jaune cnet
toine : haha
toine : blog ca
toine : le rose M-C
m-c : le vert google
toine : le bleu toine
m-c : cé top ca, le rose m-c!
m-c : le blond nathalie simard..
m-c : (oops)
toine : pas sure celui la !
m-c : hahaha!

By m-c, May 25 2005 | Category: Daily thoughts | 4 Comments 

The longest list of audioblogs in the world!

Yes!
According to myself and the 3286742332458735345(…) web pages i’ve seen since opening a computer at age 12, i can officially tell you that i have finally found the more extensive listing of audioblogs (podcasts dear) in the whole universe.

A musicblogger/audioblogger/MP3blogger is a person who offers interesting, out of print, rare or otherwise engaging music to people at no charge, out of love for the sound and to promote artists that they would like to see get more popular. (…)

What you WON’T find in here are file directories without commentary or sites offering a full album that is currently in print. Audioblogging is NOT about piracy; it’s about selectively sharing sounds. There are more musicbloggers out there than most people would believe; I’ve been keeping a close eye on the phenomena for about two years and have compiled what I think is the most comprehensive list of musicbloggers yet available.

As of May 9th, 2005, all of the following sites are live and have tunes available to listen to. Almost all of them allow you to download music to listen to at your leisure.

God bless the internet, i tell ‘ya.

By m-c, May 25 2005 | Category: About podcasting | Comments Off 

Bday soon

It is soon.. what the hell should i do to celebrate the last days of my 20’s?

People started to send me wishes, some of the most funny ones..

Dont forget to send me yours! mcturgeon (at) gmail.com!

By m-c, May 24 2005 | Category: Daily thoughts | Comments Off 

Podcast #24 from hip hop to electronica, everyone’s having loads of fun

Featuring 2ndrec artist’s Noah23, Giardini di Miro and Nitrada - 2ndrec is a Hamburg based label in Germany.

If your ipod could talk, he’ll probably ask you to play this one loud:
get this podcast right here!

Tracklisting:
- Noah23, Saw Palmetto from the album Quicksand;
- The Helio Sequence, Everyone knows everyone, from the Love and Distance album on Subpop;
- Giardini Di Miro, Little victories (Dntel Remix) from The academic rise of falling drifters;
- Nitrada, Just Close your Eyes, from the 0+ album.

… and loads of ‘eeeeee’ and ‘eeeeeh’ - sorry about that, did this one at last minute and late as usual.

By m-c, May 24 2005 | Category: Podcasts | Comments Off 

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