How new web technologies will change your business

I am just about to leave for the Les Blogs 2.0 conference which will be taking place on december 5 and 6 in Paris and i thought it would be interesting to list here the main points about why todays conferences are different from the ones you might know.

New web technologies are changing the usual conference mostly because people can communicate between each other before, during and after the conference:

Before: Who’s who
Once the conference has been announced, each people subscribing to the event are listed on the participant page, thus letting everyone know who’s gonna be there. Subscriber mostly use their blog address so its fairly easy to get to know what each participant is about. Really interesting point here is to see the country where are participant from: France, USA, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Netherland, England, Spain, Canada (!), Denmark and so on.

Same goes with the speakers list growing every week, aside from the conference schedule.

So basically, anyone interested in the conference can see the organisation and the schedule around the event growing every week. I am watching whats happening around Les Blogs 2.0 conference since it was first announced in august.

During the conference: Bloggers attack
This is a conference about blogs, so guess what, loads of people in there will be blogging the event live (i will) and list on their blogs info that they want to keep as an archive or stuff they want to share with their readers.

In this case, soon before the conference someone created a list of all participant and speakers RSS feeds (RSS feed are a way to subscribe to blogs so you can keep up with the blogs you are interested into. Read more about RSS feed here). This list will be used mostly by people who can’t attend the conference but want to be kept in the loop of what’s happening over the conference.

The conference in text, pictures, audio and video
Participants will blog text, pictures, audio (podcast) and video (vlog) from the conference and what’s happening around, so you’ll basically feel like if you were there.

Pictures of the conference will all be tagged under a definite code, which in this case could be ‘lesblogs2′ – so by visiting the flickr page associated with the tag ‘lesblogs2‘ you’ll be able to see all pictures posted.

Here are all pictures tagged with ‘lesblogs’ from the previous conference: lesblogs on flickr;

here are all blog post tagged with ‘lesblogs’: lesblogs on technorati;

here is a page listing all participant posts now and during the conference;

here is a Linkedin group that was created for all participants to network before and after the conference.

That’s about it for a round up, i’m sure i am missing some things but i think you’ll get the idea. My point here was to show how new web technologies changed many things, one being the way communities are created and are growing, how the information is now spread all over and not kept into walls anymore. Our planet is getting smaller every day, we’re now all neighbors.

I’ll be off to Paris soon, and will be blogging here, posting pictures on my flickr account, and what else, take some time off!

FLIP FLOP FLYIN

Craig Robinson’s blog and new book : Fun Fun Fun.

Ah, and lilo wants me to add that his dog Billy also has a blog.

The Arcade Fire performed with U2

“Second night in Montreal and Arcade Fire are back on stage at the end of U2’s set for an amazing joint performance of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart.”

anyone can find a live recording of that?
via Brooklyn Vegan.

Tranche de vie

Trop drôle pour ne pas blogger :

‘C’est effectivement moi, celui qui t’as contacté din petites annonces et qui, ensuite, s’est défilé. Je n’ai d’excuse que ma couardise. C’est effectivement plutôt intimidant de googler une fréquentation potentielle et de trouver 340 heures de lecture / musique / dessins / coupures de journaux sur quelqu’un.

Mais le ultimate brainfuck est toutefois survenu quand j’ai ouvert mon nouveau numéro de Urbania tout frais de la poste et que je t’ai appercue dans ton bain moussant. “Neuhh!?”, me suis-je dis avec tant d’éloquence.’

Bienvenue aux lecteurs d’Urbania.

Pitchfork likes Acid House Kings

So do I.

The review is from today, read it here.

Listen to AHK on pod #52, 50, 48 and 45.

Thom est en maudit

Thom Yorke est en maudit. Trouvé via le blogue de Ben.

Montreal
so the UN are meeting in Montreal to decide what to do after the Kyoto protocol.
and already the US administration has buried its witless head in the fucking sand.
refusing to take part.

this is a true evil.

Il y a des gens en feu partout

et vous ne pouvez plus les ignorer. Ils sont partout.

Live audio recording

Is the iRiver still a good buy for recording interviews and live shows? I am in need of such cheap device before leaving.

Malajube en france

uh oh les français, Malajube (pod #51, 50 et 46) débarque chez vous, à suivre! Infos sur le site de Dare to Care records.

Uh oh québec, leur second album sera lancé au Canada le 7 février prochain.

Seuls ou ensemble?

Nicolas amène une question très intéressante aux gens / artisants / créateurs qui tissent la toile culturelle du Québec. Travaillant pour la plupart chacun de notre côté, perdus dans nos têtes et prisonniers de nos propres murs, il y a ici de quoi réfléchir :

‘Pendant que les grands médias s’affairent à devenir plus gros et plus forts, les indépendants continuent de travailler à leurs projets, dans leur chambre à coucher, avec un minimum de mise en commun avec tous ces gens qui, à quelques rues de là, ont pourtant des objectifs, des idéaux et des désirs semblables. Dommage. C’est un énorme cliché, mais l’union fait bel et bien la force, et c’est seulement en mettant nos énergies ensemble que des choses vraiment puissantes vont pouvoir être créées.’

À lire et à commenter par ici.

Nites out in Paris

Need advices about where to go out in Paris – nice coffees and bars so we can see what are french people at. I’ll be staying around Le Marais.

Tape des mains et dit oui

All started Thursday nite at the oh so trendy Nightlife party with my partners in crime.

Friday was Stryrofoam’s (second?) performance in Montreal. Soon to be closing their north american tour, in all a great show – was much better than i expected it to be. Pictures are here.

Resfest opening party, brazilian tunes for hours, not so my kind. Endless people watching and drinking.

Saturday. Resfest screenings of Cut and Paste + By Desgin at excentris, some short movies to blow your mind (this one), some less good ones that left me napping on the cinema’s bench, recovering from the previous nite lack of sleep.

Resfest was for the first time in Montreal, after showing up in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto and Vancouver – let’s hope next editions will still include Mtl. 60$ a pass for all events is quite a fair deal.

Saturday nite, soirée au Jupiter Room. Endroit peuplé de jeunes hipsters en feu, amateurs de musique et dégourdis, quelque chose d’assez difficile à trouver chez les gens passé 25 ans. You’ll hear the best music in town, en passant de Clap your hands say yeah à Talking Heads, Joy division New Order Mylo et Annie, Lcd soundsystem et Bloc party – i could definitely be best friend with the DJ.

Breakfast at Dusty’s, this sunday nite is spelled be cool, stay home.

(This post also appears on the Pop Montreal zine. Cette entrée apparait aussi sur le site de Pop Montréal).

life is art

We found 2 of these grafiti – if you find one and can take a picture of it, post it to the Montreal Street Art pool on flickr.