Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Every man to his own trade

Something really interesting is happening in France right now! I see a lot of bloggers that complains about those new social services that they feel forced to use every week… Here are a few example those complaints: Sarkofrance about friendfeed, Monsieur Poireau about permanent novelty and last night Gaby telling me that he likes writing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Some are good, less are great !

Thank you sir !
Thank you for having pushed forward the definition of style.
Thank you for having been provocative all your life without a wrong a chord.
Thank you for having given eyes such excitement.
Thank you for having promoted the idea of “elegance” through the world.
Thank you for having dedicated your life to enlighten some others.
Thank [...]

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Bad news from the stars : they are dead !

Do you remember superman? Do you remember how untouchable he was, whereas everybody knew about his miracles? That is the superman paradox : hypervisible but untouchable… Indeed, I would say that it is the very rule of star system. A movie star, a rock star, even a TV star, a fashion star… why are they [...]