The Day Citizen Media Went Mainstream

Antoine just posted about it – it does summarize pretty well what i was thinking about:

It is not about ‘cyberculture’ anymore – i.e. a minority of people using the web as a medium – it is about using the net as one of the most powerful tool we now have to talk to each other, from every part of the world.

- here is the wikipedia page ‘London Bombing’ where people around the world collected information about the bombing in real time;

- here is a video showing the evolution of this same page trough the day;

- and the post where this entry title was taken from.

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Many people still dont know what wikipedia is. In short, wikipedia is a web based free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit – yes, anyone. With editions in 200 different languages, this makes wikipedia the biggest encyclopedia the world has known.

Wikipedia c’est une encyclopédie gratuite en ligne que tous peuvent éditer – oui, tous. Disponible en plus de 200 langues, wikipedia est la plus grande encyclopédie jamais crée.

Montreal’s ISF hotspots map

Congrats to √éle Sans Fil who keeps on spreading free public wireless internet access across the city – tout pour rendre les gens de québec jaloux.

Latest achievement is a map that will allow users and ISF members to get an overview of current isf hotspots. This map is now available on their website.
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Cette carte, disponible sur le site de ISF, permettra aux utilisateurs et aux bénévoles du groupe de connaître, d’un simple coup d’oeil, l’emplacement exact d’un site, de même que son état actuel.

Diary of a geek princess

Had a biz meeting for lunch, it got moved to next week.
was supposed to meet a friend for dinner, got moved too.

it was, i have to say, another slack’n day.

Podcast for German radio + what shall you pay for

As many of you asked, yeah, we did record our 90 minutes podcast for german radio Zundfunk. We are now mixing it and will be sending it out by next week. The show will be aired on german radio somewhere in august.

Listening to it tonight while mixing the tracks, i was thinking that it is from far the best podcast i have done to date – and as many of you already wrote, me and julien‘s voices are getting along very well and podcasting together has been great fun – we shall do it again.

Bad news is, as good as this podcast is, i wont be able to put in in here for listeners to download it, reason being i dont own a license that would allow me to put an mp3 online with tracks that are not ‘podsafe’ (all podcasts i put here are podsafe in a way that i play only tracks that you can easily find on the web). This said, until the day i get a full license, you will have to wait to get this special german edition of our podcast.

Which brings me to ask if some of the 10 000 people who downloaded my show in the last 4 weeks would be ready to pay for my show so i could afford the ASCAP license.

THAT is the question.

Or, maybe i should be checking out for a sponsor.

All i can give you now are pictures and a short video of me and julien recording. This should do for now.

a cat watching a cat

Light blogging – its f***g damn hot in here, can’t concentrate or think clearly. So yeah, i should probably be partying..

The Infinite Cat Project

You know that your ideas are good and maketable

when you see people copying them.

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Totally apart from that, ipodlounge featured my ipod serie. neat.

Lululemon manifesto

‘Caus i like manifestos…

Write down your short and long term GOALS four times a year. 2 personal, 2 business and one health goal. A class study at Yale found only 3 percent of the students had written goals. 20 years later, the same 3 percent were wealthier than the other 97% combined.

4 reasons why it’s a great time to be an entrepreneur

There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it’s never been cheaper to be one. Here’s one example. Excite.com took $3,000,000 to get from idea to launch. JotSpot took $100,000. Why on earth is there a 30X difference? There’s probably a lot of reasons, but here are my top four.

Why? Read the entire post to go in depth. (via i.never.nu)

Podcast #29 speacial feature on Morrmusic

Get this podcast right here and send luv and money to your favorite bands, that’s all i have to say. Loads of artists from the great Morr music label.

In this show i talk about music (ehr, really??), myspace: like a badtrip on friendster, loads of infos about sigur ros tour and new album, and the usual bkg noise.

Tracklisting and show notes:

- Styrofoam, Couches in Alleys from the album Nothing’s Lost (available on bleep.com, 9.99);
- Sigur ros, Staralfur – they’ll play around in mtl on september 16, check their on the road diary here;
.- Ben Gibbard & Andrew Kenny, You remind me of home, Home (available on bleep.com, 9.99) or get it for free somewhere here;
- Lali puna, It’s not the worst I’ve looked from I thought i was over that (rare remix and bsides – available on bleep.com, 9.99) or get it for free somewhere here;
- The Unicorns, Tuff ghost from the album Who will cut our hair when we’re gone. Check the I was born a Unicorn video here.

Amen. My Odeo channel is here. Tags. Tags. Tags.

BlogHer Conference 05

I hoped six apart would sponsor me for assisting to the Blogher conference, but they wont,

so,
as Martine asked, if anyone feel like sponsoring me, or us, for going to the Blogher conference, i’ll be more than happy – suitcases are ready.

taged Blogher.

Gossip.

First reading heiko’s post. He talks about ruby on rails, and a guy named flo from hamburg who’s been working on Odeo. A quick search to find out that this same guy is my ex and he’s been working on Odeo for quite a while in SF.

Some things just happen. Some peole just happen to be at the right place at the right time. Small world.

Odeo live

You can now all get into the Odeo site since it has been officially launched. Noah’s welcome message.
My chanel is right here.

tagged odeo.

I dont want of your commercial, slick and boring podcasts

and oh, i forgot to write about another thing that pisses me off since some weeks. We met Boris on the way, talked about how podcasting got so big (julien and i are both 2 podcasters and both 2 listed on itune) and how the average listener using itune, getting in touch with podcasting for the first time, might get the whole podcasting thing wrong.

Podcast featured on itune’s first page are so slick and perfectly done, you’ll soon wonder where the hell is the difference with a traditional radio show otherwise that it is available as an mp3.

From what i saw, they even removed the ‘indie podcast’ feature on the podcast homepage.

Podcasting is getting mainstream bigtime, and i find quite sad that the average people wont get podcasting as what it was, what it should be: a manifestation of spontaneity, a raw expression from someone’s view on life or whatever topic he chooses to cover (and i dont mean here that podcasts have to snd like shit and be boring – people who catched the podcast thing soon enough know that it is possible to create great podcast quality with a minimal gear).

I hate the snd of their not-suppose-to-be-commercial podcasts. I hate their slick reverberated voices and pre-edited recordings. I need to feel that they are doing it raw, that anything could happen around – from their cell ringing to someone entering the room. I dont want any of your well structured, boring show that snds like any audio book or car commercial demo out there. Everything i dont want i just had to turn the radio on to get it – now that you are infesting my favorite music player it scares the hell out of me.

amen. This day is almost over.

tagged podcasting, music, itunes, odeo.