Hi, i’m the inventor of the World Wide Web

‘In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute. The first browser was actually a browser/editor, which allowed one to edit any page, and save it back to the web if one had access rights.

Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space. (i could put that in EXTRA BOLD!!)’

Tim Berners-Lee has the most incredible title someone can get – he is the inventor of the World Wide Web.

December 2005, he now has a blog.

Encore une fois, Émue. Interesting to go trough the 455 comments from people thanking him for creating the web. I for sure have to thank him too.

Top 2005

C’est partis – its a go. Les top 2005 vont ils tous se ressembler? Commentez cette entrée pour vous y ajouter.

Bloggers best of this last year, add yours or your fav blogger top 2005 by commenting this entry.

- ben
- d’éric

Shake ton Québec

Pour bien faire suite aux commentaires reçus sur mon entrée Mal du pays, commentaires des plus intéressants et inspirants, je vous ai rédigé un vieux proverbe Québecois digne d’être lu par quiconque ayant besoin d’un coup de pied pour avancer :

N’attend pas d’avoir un diplôme en communications pour écrire ou faire de la radio;
n’attend pas d’avoir un bacc en arts pour gribouiller, gosser du bois ou peindre;
n’attend surtout pas qu’on te dise quoi faire et comment le faire.

S’il y a en effet beaucoup d’espace, de créativité et que tout est à faire dans notre Québec, ben vas-y comme dirait l’autre – Shake’lé ton Québec!‘

Rédigé par un soir de Décembre enneigé.

Émue

Mon seul post de la journée se résumera à ceci, trouvé sur le blogue de Marc-André :

Lu dans l’édition de juin 1971 du magazine contre-culturel québécois Mainmise : ” Tous les computers du globe, toute la science, toute la sagesse, toute l’expérience humaine deviendront accessibles à chaque individu. Chacun de nous pourra puiser à volonté dans l’intelligence collective de milliards d’autres humains, de la même façon que chaque cellule du cerveau humain puise dans l’intelligence collective de milliards d’autres cellules sœurs. ”

Émouvant pour mon âme de geek. Et mouvant.

Podcast #55: Bobby Baby, Plastic Operator, Obadia, Hura Yup, Cut Copy, NHS and Pictureplane

Music to dance and clap your hands on.

Get this podcast right here – à écouter dans vos écouteurs :
- m4a (avec chapitres, photos cliquables/chapters suported)
ou/or
- mp3 (pas de chapitres/chapters not supported).

Tracklisting:
00:00:00: Long awaited and well deserved, why it took me so long
00:00:18: Bobby Baby, Lads are fun (Drei Farben House “Boy In The Cardigan Remix”)
00:05:33: Plastic Operator, Folder Styrofoam Mix
00:08:38: about how i discovered Plastic Operator
00:12:27: OBADIA, Don’t Forget To Be Late (also check out this link)
00:15:33: Hura Yup, Tokyo blues
00:17:43: about Hura Yup and Obadia
00:24:17: Cut Copy, Saturdays
00:27:46: Ninja High School, Shake it Off
00:30:58: Pictureplane *m-c’s pick of the week* Double sets of lungs (sorry i had to cut it at the end).

Credits to CC for making me discover Bobby Baby and Obadia. Subscribe to this podcast and live happier/s’abonner à ce podcast pour le meilleur et pour le pire via or itunes. Myspace page is here.

BBC coverage about Montreal’s music scene

Found on Bonsound, i am quite late on this.. BBC did a coverage about Montreal’s music scene this last november:

Hosted by Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 1 has cooked up a hot radio-documentary on Montreal’s sizzling music scene. Check it out to listen to interviews of our local artists like Champion, Gourmet Délice and more!

Read and listen here.

sticker printing

I am looking for a place where i could print out stickers. I actually need 50 different design of them to be printed, flyer sticker style. If anyone can recommend something…

M. and Mme Edgar in da dèche

Reading a post from Melanie followed by Francisco:

This morning at the office : surprise! We had a little visit from Dark Santa’s Evil Elves. All our machines are gone, some disks, some toys, scanners, printers, all the shit. They even took all the power bars! Oh and backups, too. Vive les laptops, mine’s all that’s left of poor poor Mister Edgar.

M. et Mme Edgar are 2 big players on our local art scene, *ATTENTION CECI EST ENCORE DE LA SOLICITATION!*, if you can think of anything to help them out please go on.

Dj Champion at Metropolis, watch it!

I know this will make lots of people happy… Bandeapart has the whole show in audio and video – watch or listen here!

Adds on Vu d’ici

As you may have noticed, i have introduced several new things on this blog so i can earn money from it. You wont find Google Adsens adds here because i dont want you to get to read about knifes advertising on this blog just because i’ll have posted something about Brian Adams’s great song ‘Cuts like a knife’ (oh but it feels so right).

I dont want to do advertising for corporations or companies which i do not feel like i relate to (even if this can be a little beyond my control at some point); i much prefer to promote young entrepreneurs and organizations who are shaping our future as a collectivity, on a small or worlwide scale. This said, it is open to any young entrepreneur or startup to let me know about their services or product and i’ll see if this is the kind of promotion i want to do. There is already exchanges of services between me and several young labels which i strongly feel like supporting.

Contact me if you would like to advertise on this site. m-c (@) mcturgeon.com

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So, this said:
I choosed to add micropayment and t-shirt selling as a way for me to earn a revenue from my work as a blogger and podcaster;

I have introduced the monthly payment of 3$ as a way for you to support this blog and my podcasts. It is free to you to judge if my work is worth your 3$ monthly contribution – this transaction is made trough paypal for now and can be stopped by you at any time;

also, donation is still up;

beside, you can also buy t-shirts on which i’ll earn 2$ per sale. The t-shirt shop is maintained by Spreadshirt, a young german startup.

This place is mine since more than 3 years, but it’s also a little bit yours now. Its a free space, you are free to drop in here at anytime and get what you want. I have fun contributing here, and i still do it freely, without obligation or pressure, and i do it because i need to do it, because i love to do it.

Trust

‘Love it all. The fear, the excitement, the guilt. The power for change, the unworthiness, the hunt, feelings, the euphoric feelings, the anger, the movement, the whole process, it’s know as life.’

Unknown.

From ‘The true and the Questions’ by Sabrina W. Harrison.

Dj Champion does Metropolis

With the Mole (pod #38) as first act – see pictures + a short video of the evening. Crowd en feu.

Dj Champion will be playing on Jan. 17th at la SAT, later Toronto and LA. Infos here. Related: Dj Champion at the Montreal Jazz fest. Happy sunday.

MT testing

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