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).

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

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.

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)

À vos marques, prêts -

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

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!

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.

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.

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?

Thanks,
a reader

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.

’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.

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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.

song of the day

Apparat, Komponent.
Video here.

See Apparat live friday june 3th at Mutek.

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?