Entries Tagged as 'Analysis'

Monday, September 8th, 2008

GenY : individualists or decentralized people?

I often hear definitive judgment about millenials:  they do not want to work anymore, they do not care about hierarchy,… Just have a look on today Daniel’s post. They would be individualist. As to me, they just balance their life another way.
First genY do not accept the same social codes. They do not want to [...]

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Will social media lead us to tribes ?

Coud you say you have never googled the name of one of your client, boss, job-candidate, friend ? I am afraid, we are all big-brothering the people we are interested in.
I can see, many reactions to that situation. Many of us hide their heads in sand and some others are trying to see this situation [...]

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Wikipedia’s illusion

Wikipedia, like every encylclopedia is based on an illusion. What does encyclopedia promise? A place where the whole mankind knolwledge is gathered. The idea is beautiful, very modern and linked to the idea of a better access to knowledge. But how is this knowledge built? What is the intention behind?
For the french encylopedists in the [...]

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Listen to the wise man

Yesterday, I have been to the “action christine“, a movie theater near Odeon’s place in Paris, to watch a rarity : the 3D version of “Dial M for murder” (the 1954 Hitchcock masterpiece). It is a great movie, I spent a great time there but my intention here is measure the added value of 3D [...]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

What is a blog ?

Yesterday I read a catchy post on DailyBlogTips titled  : “What is a blog?”. The idea is to invite the bloggers-readers to give their definition of a blog and to share the different interpretation made of a blog.
As to me, a blog is an Exhibition-stand.
An exhibition-stand, is an open place designed to communicate messages and [...]

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Why visiting blogs?

I had an intense debate this week with some bloggers about the reason that lead someone to blog.
Here are the two positions :

First bloggers, like Steve McGrath, aiming at rankings, visits picks, in one word competition more about writing “how to” posts, publishing “rankings” of anykind, broadcasting “rare or new video” about a celebrity (here [...]

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Competition is not welcome on the web!

Today I read a quite interesting article of Chris Miller. He is not easy with the bookmarking activities because it does not do what it is promising : an easy found of the right piece of information on the web.
Somehow we all know bookmarking, is not the ideal solution, we know the drawbacks and use [...]

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Act just like your enemy !

The Internet is very often introduced as the murderer of traditional medias. Internet will kill the music industry, the movie industry, the press and television. We could be provocative questioning : how could they still be alive since the incredible potentiality of the Internet?
That is not the purpose here. I would like to highlight the [...]

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Is the Internet opening a new era ?

Historians still argue on the date that should be taken for the renaissance starting point. Some defend the 1300’s due to the writings of Dante claiming for the autonomy of reason, others 1439 for the movable type printing of Gutenberg that unsettle the monopoly of monks on the books publishing, and others 1492 for [...]

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Is gen Y marketing savvy ?

One of the current feature about gen Y is that it is the first generation that have grown up in a highly marketed world. Thanks to Naomi Klein and Bret Easton Ellis, this generation is supposed to know about the pain and frustrations marketing generate. Moreover, this generation spent a lot of time on TV [...]