Finally a blog post about pornography. This should bring a huge load of visitors to Vu d’ici!

Fuck for Forest is a very idealistic project aiming in saving the rain forest and nature… in a… *aehm* very unconventional way. They publish “home-made” pornographic movies for paying members on their web site. They claim that the money for the membership goes to various environmental organizations, such as the WWF.

FFF is more than a sex site. Fuckforforest shows how sexuality can be nice, funny and political. Our goal is to save nature, but it is also important for us to show the beauty of natural sexuality. We believe that through a better relationship to our spiritual and sexual body, we can change the reality around us. So open-minded sexual behavior is a great way for us to achieve our goals, and at the same time have a great life. Not everything that is political or meaningful has to be boring.

And there is more…

[...] Our goal is to connect as many open-minded people as possible to create a network of erotic eco lovers. [...]

Well, in that sense, enjoy yourself and save the nature!

Link to Fuck for forest.

I’m sharing here parts of this announce, which i found myself inspired by for two reasons: first because it shows the power of a simple idea put in place by friends together, and second, for the way corporate information is shared here – with heart, authenticity and passion – something the old’corporate world will probably never learn how to do.

In early April of 2005, I sat in an orange chair facing an open window. It was nighttime and the lights were off. I was back in Brooklyn after a brief residence in Paris, and I was about to sketch the initial ideas that would become Etsy. Working with three friends – Chris, Haim and Jared – Etsy went from these ideas to a site live on the Web in about two months.

Then the story of Swimmy is used to explain the big idea behind Etsy…

So our vision is to be the eye — to be a kind of organizing principle. We do not want Etsy itself to be a big tuna fish. Those tuna are the big companies that all us small businesses are teaming up against.

Those big companies are holdovers from the days before the Web existed. And any company that is being run the same way now as it was before the Web came about is due for some massive restructuring or deflation.

Etsy is a company born on the Web, literally. I see the company itself as a handmade project, and we’ll continue to build it this way. There’s much more to do, and we’re up for the challenge. But we need more than people to get there.

And at last but not the least, in the many points explaining why Etsy needed these all brand new 27 Million dollars:

We believe that the current economy, favoring megacorporations and supersizes, is unstable. People who make a living making things, especially those we have on Etsy, will play a key role in revitalizing and stabilizing the world.

Here is a project called the 1000 Journals Project, an ongoing collaborative experiment started in 2000, attempting to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels. The goal of the project was to provide a method for interaction and shared creativity among friends and strangers.

If i would ask among you dear readers, Who is an artist?, would you raise your hand?

8 years later, the project is now a book, and a movie which will be presented on February 10th at the Berlin International Film Festival.

More infos on their blog, found on Sparkletopia.

found on my facebook profile page :
‘Marie-Chantale added friends on flixster Movies’

I was not even online at 10h38! and i never added this app to my profile!

I think i forgot that facebook is “free”, or an exchange where the price i pay is to have my account and my information used for evil purposes. Damn, how naive is that.

Voilà, c’est officiellement officiel, la nouvelle est sortie! L’ouvrage Pourquoi bloguer, dans un contexte d’affaires? auquel j’ai collaboré par mon chapitre “Bloguer pour réseauter” est disponible en pré-commande.

Mon chapitre a été rédigé avec pour objectif d’inspirer les gens intrigués par le potentiel de réseautage des outils de blogues – je pensais à vous artistes, travailleurs autonomes, gestionnaires d’entreprise, curieux et patenteux de tout genres! J’ai d’ailleurs bien hâte de recevoir vos feedback!

Lors de l’écriture de mon chapitre, j’ai sollicité la participation de plusieurs blogueurs créateurs pour mieux illustrer mes idées. Ces derniers sont Martine, Guylaine, Evan, Martine Gingras, Luce, Keri Smith, Nadia et Reisa Levine. Vous pourrez lire quelques un de leurs témoignages.

Vous pouvez lire quelques extraits de mon chapitre ici :
- Sortir du placard (le coming-out du blogueur)
- Portrait du blogueur.

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Cet ouvrage collectif réunis 10 auteurs et blogueurs d’ici : Martin Lessard, Claude Malaison, Marc Snyder, Marie-Chantale Turgeon, Mario Asselin, Michel Leblanc, Philippe Martin, Sylvain Carle, Tristan Péloquin, Martin Ouellette.

Vous pouvez commander votre copie dédicacée ici;
le site officiel du livre est ici.

“Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you’ve sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.”

Notice: this is a loan, you are lending money, not donating.

For those of you who are interested, here are 3 minutes of an interview with the founder of flickr, explaining how flickr happened accidently, meaning it was not planned.

Listen to the whole interview here.

Created on Stars-of-the-Web

Oubliez pas de me faire savoir si ca fonctionne.

Online globalisation – MySpace wanna be everyone’s online space, from Japan to Germany to US – can this be? Is there still a real mass market only divided by language, or millions of small niches?

Let them be the first ones, then we can learn.

This picture was taken last week after we’ve been attending the first Casecamp event in Montreal. A bunch of marketing people around me, i could have felt at the wrong place – but no, listening to case studies from people working in a different field then mine was quite inspiring and it got us to think a little more ‘out of a box we so well know‘ since most of the information exchanged there was about a field we do not directly work in.

Best of all was Andy Nulman’s presentation. A little research on wikipedia and google once back home and we learned about Airbone entertainment and Andy’s intense background (from where we also understood why his presentation was also oh-so intense!).

We’re a happy couple, now wearing our flickr socks.

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via Kottke, thanks to Christopher.

Flickr turned Gamma today, after years spent in Beta.