Entries from June 2009

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Cansei ser sexy?

I am very interested in this rock-band name. I think it grasp a strange state of mind that appears in the whole society and especially in the web 2.0 world. Sometimes I wonder if, with comming summer, people do not feel tired of being participative, tired of this collective spirit…
Two facts :

a decrease of the [...]

Friday, June 19th, 2009

How to lead to collective hysteria?

I love this video because it exactly shows how collective histeria comes. First, the guy is alone, it is a bit ridiculous to see him dancing like this all alone. When the second guy arrives there is a kind of risk : will they fight? Will they stop togther laughing of themselves… When the third [...]

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Twitts from Iran!

I have often written about the hints, the signs that reaveals that something has change somewhere. Especially about when a social media can be considered as a success. Today, once again, I am amazed by the ability of twitter’s team to understand how they are a media and how they demonstrate their will to be [...]

Friday, June 12th, 2009

I feel sad!

This morning I received an email from a web service that was saying :
“Today is a sad day for us. We have decided to terminate the X service as of the end of the month (June 30th, 2009).  The service received excellent reviews and had an enthusiastic core user base. However, we were not able [...]

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Old TV still fascinates the web

Since several days I enjoy looking at the “trending topics” column in twitter. And very often those trending topics are about old TV stars : David Carradine, Zak Morris, …
I guess we cannot really abandon our tender childhood, and TV was at the heart of our childhood. Who will be the has been people in [...]