Kind bloggers

a crowd of people blogging in honesty, with the goal to inspire, share thoughts, wisdom and help empower others – add the badge if this sounds exactly like you!

See behind the blog

Dreamed to see the work base of popular bloggers? See behind the blogs of famous bloggers such as SwissMiss, Dooce, and Mocoloco.

Lucky Jack

“… Most of us spend our lives practicing how to hide those feelings, because we think we’re the only ones who have them.” From Fridaville.

Inspire

An evocative piece, simply done using creativity and the tools available on the web… and a strong message to share!

Loobylu’s return

It is still not monday yet, but i’m happy to be blogging about the comeback of Loobylu in the blogging world! For those of you who have no clue about her, Loobylu was one of the first links in my blogroll (circa 2002) when i started blogging from Germany, where i lived at that time.… Continue reading Loobylu’s return

Caterina Fake on Cnet

(…) I think that a lot of what you see out on the Web and on the Internet and what made me love the Web in the first place is that people are building, creating, sharing things all the time. Whether that is essays they wrote, discographies of their favorite bands or a little place… Continue reading Caterina Fake on Cnet

Planet MySpace

“…turning MySpace into a global power could be far more complicated than marketing a movie overseas. While the company has 100 million registered users, most are in the United States. People outside the United States already have different habits about socializing online.” Online globalisation – MySpace wanna be everyone’s online space, from Japan to Germany… Continue reading Planet MySpace

What is a blog, what is a blogger?

Blogger: a human being using the internet as a medium to express & report about what moved him. Using words, pictures, photos and videos, the blogger often reahmicks content from different sources like traditionnal media, community sites, other blogs and content providers. fr : Personnage utilisant internet comme un médium pour s’exprimer et diffuser de… Continue reading What is a blog, what is a blogger?

Wanna be journalist?

BBC now offers free online course for aspiring journalist. Television, radio, preproduction, interview techniques and so on: ‘These online modules and guides are free for you to use. They were originally designed for BBC staff and in publishing them here we have not made many editorial changes to them.‘ Link to BBC crash course here.… Continue reading Wanna be journalist?

Prendre l’avion n’est plus chose simple

… et comme le suggère Stéphane Laporte, le nudisme aura peut-être raison sur le terrorisme aérien : ‚ÄúPrendre l’avion nu, c’est la seule solution. Les autorités aéroportuaires devraient exiger que tous passagers embarquant dans un avion soient nus. Complètement nus.‚Äù La suite, ici. Et pendant que j’y suis, mention spéciale à Stéphane Laporte, un des… Continue reading Prendre l’avion n’est plus chose simple

Portraits de blogueurs

J’ai eu le plaisir de m’entretenir avec Philipe pour la sixième édition de la série ‘Portraits de blogueurs’. Vous pouvez visionner l’entrevue ici.

Bloggers Anonymous

“You are not alone. Milions of people struggle with blogging. For some it’s cost them their health – for others, their families. Bloggers Anonymous is here for people like you – who want to stop but can’t.” In need of help? follow this link.

Web 2.0 welcoming Marketing 2.0

Taken from MarketingProfs: “(…) Web 2.0 is certainly not an ideal term, but it has tremendous value as an umbrella term that communicates the general nature of the more connected, more social, more expressive Web. Having an overarching term that encompasses lots of hard to understand concepts is a challenge that marketers are having now… Continue reading Web 2.0 welcoming Marketing 2.0

L’état de la blogosphère Québécoise

Il y a un peu plus d’un an, je parlais de blogue, de podcast, de révolution médiatique et personne ne semblait comprendre de quoi je parlais, ou de quelle planète je venais. Bâtir un plan d’affaire, avoir un projet d’entreprise autour des nouvelles technos fut un défi de taille – à combien de personnes j’ai… Continue reading L’état de la blogosphère Québécoise

Echo boomers documentary

Tellabs documentary about Echo boomers – or Myspace generation – is online featuring interviews with Montreal’s Mission District and myself. View full video (8 minutes). Also, in Podcast #62 i talk about my views on how new web technologies are changing the music industry.

Franco blogue

Franco a son blogue, c’est le carnet techno qui me l’apprenait la semaine dernière. Vous pouvez écouter une entrevue à laquelle Stéphane Laporte et Patrick Lagacé ont participé dans le cadre de l’émission C’est bien meilleur le matin. On y parle du blogue, d’instantanéité, d’interactivité avec les lecteurs et des conversations qui sont crée grâce… Continue reading Franco blogue

6h30 AM

Je n’aime pas me lever tôt, mais ça, je vous en ai déjà parlé. Je me lèverai tôt pour aller rejoindre Natalie dans les studios de Bandeapart.fm satellite pour faire une revue de mon actualité locale, régionale et internationale. J’ai choisis de parler des sujets suivants : – l’avenir des médias traditionnels à l’ère de… Continue reading 6h30 AM

Everyone is a journalist

“Journalism is a recent trend in history. Before there were newspaper, everyone was a reporter. People passed the news to each other. the arrival of the newspaper brought about a sudden division between journalist and reader. You could only read about what the journalist considered newsworthy. That led to a narrowing of vision. The internet… Continue reading Everyone is a journalist

BlogBurst

Recall from this entry i wrote the first day in Austin: I’ve met these folks who started a web based service where bloggers will be put in contact with publishers from traditional media (ie print medias) so that content from bloggers could be printed in your favorite newspaper next saturday. (the name of this service… Continue reading BlogBurst

Le côté obscur du blogue

Le blogue une drogue? ben là… fondamentalement adolescent? woh là… bouche trou de solitude, les blogueurs sont des gens qui s’ennuient calvaire là… pathétique? maladif? grattage de nombril, des gens incapables de s’assumer qui passent leurs journées enfermé ciboire, informez-vous, 3 blogues ne font pas la règle, lisez-nous! 10 raisons de bloguer; le web 2.0;… Continue reading Le côté obscur du blogue

Pkp Speech & Itunes Canada deal

End of day speech by PK Peladeau who announced that Quebecor has signed a deal with the Canadian iTunes store this week. When i asked about his views on citizen journalism and how Quebecor would get into new web technologies, his answer was mostly about finding new ways to reach the 15-35: blogs, blogs blogs.

Québecor et les blogues, suite

Votre contenu blogué dans le journal de Montréal? (…) Le grand patron de Quebecor confirme également l’arrivée d’ici un mois et demi du journalisme citoyen dans les pages du Journal de Montréal. Sous forme d’expérimentation, Pierre Karl Péladeau veut essayer de publier des extraits de blogues au moment même ou ses journalistes débarquent dans la… Continue reading Québecor et les blogues, suite

My blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago

How big does this mean? Quite big as Dave Sifry report today: – Technorati currently tracks 35.3 Million weblogs, and the blogosphere we track continues to double about every 6 months; – Technorati currently tracks over 75,000 new weblogs created every day, which means that on average, a new weblog is created every second of… Continue reading My blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago

Papermag’s beautiful people

April issue of NY based Papermag features 50 beautiful people, from the inside out: Amanda Congdon from Rocketboom, bloggers Perez Hilton and Engadget’s Peter Rojas *AND* Ryan Block. Bloggers are, beautiful people.

bloguer des événements? ben voyons!

tiens tiens… La première Agence française de blogs-reporters professionnels vient de naître. Son objectif est simple, encore fallait-il le mettre en place : proposer la création de blogs évènementiels réalisés sur les lieux par des blogueurs aguerris. via le podcasteur.