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Parfois rédacteur, geek, associable, influent ou influenceur, le blogueur est souvent considéré comme un être à part.

Un Korben peut être une star pour certains geeks et un Eric Dupin peut passer à la radio, je ne suis pas certains que beaucoup de personnes de mon entourage savent qui ils sont, ni Ouriel Ohayon et encore moins Pete Cashmore.

En fait, les blogueurs ne sont pas populaires, loin de là, et même si certains classements, certains mails essayent de nous faire croire le contraire, c’est ainsi.

Alors comment des blogueurs français tels que Jean-François Ruiz ou un « Koztoujours » peuvent afficher plus de 100 000 abonnés feedburner alors que l’agrégateur de flux RSS reste un outil destiné aux professionnels?

Peut être parce que ces agrégateurs, que ce soit iGoogle, Netvibes ou encore Yahoo les ont sélectionnés et proposés par défaut à leur utilisateurs mais personne ne peut affirmer que ceux-ci sont déjà passés sur leurs blogs.

On pourrait également se demander qui sont les 87000 abonnés qui continuent de lire le flux RSS de Techcrunch France, un blog abandonné en juillet 2009.

Vous qui êtes des blogueurs, des influenceurs sur lesquelles les marques se reposent pour lancer leurs campagnes publicitaires, vous a-t-on déjà reconnu dans la rue ? Avez-vous déjà signé un autographe ?

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The creator of Chatroulette has revealed that he is working on a way to preserve user’s privacy, following the launch of Chat Roulette Map, a Google Maps mashups that pinpoints the location of users of the service.

Andrey Ternovskiy, speaking in an interview with the New York Times Bits blog, stated, “There is a certain level of anonymity on the Chatroulette that Chatroulette Map takes away, but I plan to add something to my site to allow them to still hide their whereabouts.”

Chatroulette Map highlights a Chatroulette user’s location by looking at his or her IP addresses, which is revealed via the peer-to-peer nature of the webcam connection. As well as placing a marker on a map, users are screengrabbed, offering anyone in the world a brief sneak peak through a stranger’s webcam.

This has drawn criticism from privacy advocates, although those behind Chatroulette Map say they will remove an image and marker on request if emailed a matching photo to ensure the authenticity of the request.

17-year-old Ternovskiy, a Russian student currently visiting the U.S., says of ChatRoulette Map, “I enjoy it”, but obviously realizes his users — some of which appear to have a penchant for public nudity and masturbation — might be less likely to use the service without the anonymity it previously offered.

However, this does not mean Ternoviskiy is green-lighting the use of the service for such NSFW activities. He has introduced a “report” button, which will see someone “reported” three times banned from the service.

Other points of interest from the interview are the fact that Ternovskiy has yet to collect his Google AdWords earnings as he’s is still under 18, that he’s been offered a $1 million buy-out, and that last month 30 million unique visitors hit Chatroulette, which is averaging one million new users a each day.

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Jusqu'à la semaine dernière j'utilisais JungleDisk (et avant Mozy) pour sauvegarde les fichiers de mon ordinateur. Mais je viens de remplacez cet outil par DropBox !

DropBox est à la fois un logiciel à installer sur votre ordinateur (PC, Mac ou Linux : pas de jaloux) et un service sur Internet. Ce service vous permet de mettre les fichiers de votre ordinateur en sécurité sur Internet, mais aussi des les synchroniser entre deux ordinateurs ou encore d'y accès quand vous êtes en déplacement.

Sauvegarder les fichiers de votre ordinateur

DropBox copie automatiquement les fichiers qui sont déposés dans le dossier du même nom sur votre ordinateur. Vos fichiers sont copiés sur Internet de façon sécurisé. Évidemment, vous êtes les seuls à y avoir accès. Les fichiers sont sauvegardés sur le service Amazon S3, si vous garantie une très grande sécurité.

DropBox vous protège donc de tout problème matériel sur votre ordinateur (panne de disque dur, comme cela m'est arrivé en novembre), mais aussi de fausse manipulation que vous pourriez effectuer : par exemple effacer par erreur un fichier.

Encore plus fort: DropBox mémorise toutes les versions de vos fichiers : vous modifiez un document Word en supprimant une partie du texte par erreur, grâce à DropBox vous pourrez retrouver une des versions précédentes !

Synchroniser plusieurs ordinateurs.

Les opérations de sauvegarde sont "transparentes" et au final pas très utiles tant que l'on n'a pas de problème. Par contre, cette fonction de synchronisation est très pratique quand on travaille à plusieurs personnes ou sur plusieurs ordinateurs. Par exemple, une petite équipe peut partager avec DropBox leurs fichiers de travail, ou vous pouvez avoir les mêmes documents sur votre ordinateur de bureau et sur votre portable.

Ces fonctions de partage peuvent vous permettre de transférer des gros fichiers à vos contacts alors que la plus part des systèmes de messagerie son limité à 10Mo.

Accès en déplacement

Et enfin, DropBox sert à accéder à vos fichiers... quand vous ne l'aviez pas prévu. Vous êtes chez un client, et vous souhaitez lui donner un document sur vous avez dans votre DropBox : connectez vous sur votre DropBox avec un navigateur web et transférer le fichier en question. Cette interface web est extrêmement bien faite et est facile à utiliser. Un très bon point.

Encore plus fort, avec votre iPhone vous allez pouvoir retrouver tous vos documents ! L'application iPhone DropBox est elle aussi extraordinaire. Elle vous permet d'accéder à tous les fichiers de votre DropBox, de visualiser les fichiers images, pdf, vidéo, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, iWorks... Et si vous voulez envoyer un fichier par email, vous pouvez le faire directement à partir de l'application.

Par rapport à JungleDisk ?

JungleDisk permet aussi de gérer des fichiers S3. La différence principale tient au mode de fonctionne : avec JungleDisk les fichiers sont stockés directement sur S3, alors qu'avez DropBox, ils sont synchronisés. Avec DropBox l'accès aux fichiers est immédiat. 

Deuxième différence : l'interface est beaucoup plus simple sur DropBox. Je dirais même transparente, il y a juste des petits points verts ou bleus sur les fichiers suivant leur état de sauvegarde.

Troisième point fort : l'application iPhone, évidemment.

Convaincu ?

Il ne reste plus qu'à tester : DropBox est gratuit pour 2Go. On met déjà beaucoup de chose sur 2Go !

C’était le bon vieux temps. On pouvait parler bougnoules, nègres et autres youpins sans que cette plaie droitdelhommiste gauchiste fan du politiquement correct lie les langues, achète les juges, tous franc-maçons.
Il fallut donc inventer une novlangue, refuge des esprits droits, des vrais français et des libres penseurs.
Je vous propose donc une initiation sur plusieurs niveaux afin d’acquérir les quelques fondamentaux indispensables à une bonne compréhension des propos des rares résistants français.

Niveau 1 : les fondamentaux :

CPF : Chance pour la France. Personne au taux de mélanine plus foncé que la normale (étalon maître ; le blanc).
Exemple ; “ah les Mohamed c’est vraiment des CPF“.
Notre libre penseur maitrise à la perfection l’antiphrase ; il exprime ainsi son désaccord face à la pensée gaucho franc-maçonnique, qui voit forcément, en tout basané, un homme bon.
NB ; l’expression est une reprise ironique du livre de Bernard Stasi (1985) “L’immigration, une chance pour la France”

BBR : Bleu blanc rouge. Personne pouvant prouver sur 50 générations qu’il a toujours été français, soit blanc et catholique.
Exemple : “Mohamed n’est pas un BBR“.

FDS : Français de souche. Nous appliquerons la même définition que pour le BBR.

Suédois : arabes et noirs. La censure stalinienne pratiquée par les journalistes de gauche – pléonasme – obligent à des circonvolutions verbales. Un peu d’humour n’a jamais nui dans une saine discussion politique ; c’est ainsi qu’est né le terme suédois.
Exemple “ah des voitures ont brulé ? Encore un coup des suédois“.

Niveau 2 : les dialectes locaux

HH : Heil Hitler. Salut entre résistants défenseurs de la race blanche.
Exemple : “Salut les gars ca va, j’ai mangé un cassoulet ; au fait HH.”

88 : le H est la 8eme lettre de l’alphabet. La même explication qu’au dessus prévaut.
Exemple : “Je ne comprends pas pourquoi mon pseudo Adolf88 a été censuré“.

Niveau 3 : Les concepts

dhimmitude : attitude consistant à tout accepter de la part des barbares musulmans du quick hallal à la burqa sans sortir son arme secrète, le rôti de porc.
Exemple : “lui il tend le cul face aux CPF ; c’est vraiment un dhimmi”
NB : un dhimmi est une personne non musulmane vivant dans un pays musulman où il a certains droits et devoirs. Le partisan de la novlangue estime que nous vivons dans un pays islamisé où les non musulmans n’ont plus aucun droit.

Islamogauchisme. Personne suspectée de sympathies avec les islamistes soit par intrinsèque naiveté, soit par bêtise.
Exemple : “Valerie est une islamogauchiste elle sera tondue“.
NB : les novlanguiens supposent que la gauche angélique, a toutes les excuses à offrir aux musulmans ( = CPF), se couche devant eux et finit par leur vendre la France.

Sioniste : sens ambigu.
1. Désigne normalement une personne soutenant le projet sioniste
2. Désigne parfois les gens dominant le monde, ayant l’argent, les femmes, le beurre et plein d’autres trucs, donc les juifs. Il conviet de répéter le plus souvent le mot afin de lui donner davantage de force. Bonus ; il peut s’écrire SioniSSte .
Exemple : “Le massacre rwandais c’est les sionistes et si t’y crois pas tu es lobotomisé par les média sionistes. Non j’ai pas de sources vu que la censure sioniste s’exerce.”

Parler vrai : évidences qu’il faut tenter de formuler malgré la pensée boboïsante ambiante.
Exemple : ” Les gitans sont une plaie pour la France“.

Démagogue : celui ou celle  qui nie le parler vrai.
Exemple : “Valérie est une démagogue“.

Niveau 4 : application des niveau 1, 2 et 3

Politiquement correct : islamogauchiste affirmant que le BBR est égal au CPF tant il est devenu un dhimmi.
NB : le politiquement incorrect est devenu aujourd’hui le vrai droit à l’intolérance et à la haine.
Exemple : “les CPF sont tous des exciseurs batteurs de femmes vivant d’allocs mais ca c’est pas politiquement correct de le dire“.

Juge, avocat : femme franc-maçonne mal baisée passant son temps à libérer des CPF

UMPS : émanation politique stalinienne tendant à distribuer l’argent du contribuable, à libérer des CPF, à ne pas respecter les droits des FDS, tout en appliquant des mesures sociales politiquement correctes.
Exemple : “Sarkozy c’est vraiment un communiste“.

When I was younger I thought busy people were more important than everyone else. Otherwise why would they be so busy? I had busy bosses, busy parents, and always I just thought they must have really important things to do. It seemed an easy way to see who mattered and who didn’t. The busy must matter more, and the lazy mattered less.

This is the cult of busy. That simply by always seeming to have something to do, we all assume you must be important or successful.

It explains the behavior of many people at work. By appearing busy, people bother them less, and  simultaneously believe they’re doing well at their job. It’s quite a trick.

I now believe the opposite to be true. Or the near opposite. Here’s why:

• Time is the singular measure of life. It’s one of the few things you can not get more of. Knowing how to spend it well is possibly the most important skill you can have.
• The person who gets a job done in one hour will seem less busy than the guy who can only do it in five.  How busy a person seems is not necessarily indicative of the quality of their results. Someone who is better at something might very well seem less busy, because they are more effective. Results matter more than the time spent to achieve them.
• Being in demand can have good and bad causes.  Someone with a line of people waiting to talk to them outside their office door at work seems busy, and therefore seems important. But somehow the clerk running the slowest supermarket checkout line in the universe isn’t praised in the same way, it means they’re ineffective. People who are at the center of everything aren’t necessarily good at what they do (although they might be). The bar of being busy falls far well below the bar of being good.
• The compulsion to save time may lead nowhere. If you’re always cutting corners to save time, when exactly are you using the time you’ve saved? There is this illusion some day in the future you get back all the time you’ve squirreled away in one big chunk. I don’t think time works this way. For most Americans it seems most of our time savings goes straight into watching television. That’s where all the time savings we think we get actually goes.
• The phrase “I don’t have time for” should never be said. We all get the same amount of time every day. If you can’t do something it’s not about the quantity of time. It’s really about how important the task is to you. I’m sure if you were having a heart attack, you’d magically find time to go to the hospital. That time would come from something else you’d planned to do, but now seems less important. This is how time works all the time. What people really mean when they say “I don’t have time” is this thing is not important enough to earn my time. It’s a polite way to tell people they’re not worth your time.

This means people who are always busy are time poor. They have a time shortage. They have time debt. They are either trying to do too much, or they aren’t doing what they’re doing very well. They are failing to either a) be effective with their time b) don’t know what they’re trying to effect, so they scramble away at trying to optimize for  everything, which leads to optimizing nothing.

On the other hand, people who truly have control over time have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. They have a sense of priorities that drives their use of time and can shift away from the specific ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy. These people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or to relax, more often then the rest, but that may be a sign of their mastery not their incompetence.

I deliberately try not to fill my calendar. I choose not to say Yes to everything. For to do so would make me too busy, and I think, less effective at what my goals are.  I always want to have some margin of my time in reserve, time I’m free to spend in any way I choose, including doing almost nothing at all. I’m free to take detours. I’m open to serendipity. Some of the best thinkers throughout history had some of their best thoughts while  going for walks, playing cards with friends, little things things that generally would not be considered the hallmarks of busy people. It’s the ability to pause, to reflect, and relax, to let the mind wander, that’s perhaps the true sign of time mastery, for when the mind returns it’s often sharper and more efficient, but most important perhaps, happier than it was before.

This post was inspired by Marrissa Bracke’s essay Why I stopped working with busy people.

Also see:

• In praise of being idle, Bertrand Russel
• How to be idle: a loafers manifesto, Tom Hodgkinson
• Work vs Progress

Today at SXSWi, keynote speaker Danah Boyd took the stage to talk about privacy and publicity, and how they intertwine online. Boyd is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and has studied this space extensively for years. It was a compelling talk that challenged the notion that personal information is on a binary spectrum of public or private. To help underscore her points, she recalled and discussed a number of major privacy blunders from Facebook and Google. You can find my notes from the presentation below.

Boyd says that privacy is not dead, but that a big part of our notion of privacy relates to maintaining control over our content, and that when we don’t have control, we feel that our privacy has been violated. This has happened a few times recently.

How The Buzz Launch Failed

As a first example Boyd brought up Google Buzz. She says that nothing with the launch was technologically wrong — you could opt out of Buzz, elect to hide your friend list, and so on. But the service resulted in a PR disaster because Google made non-technical mistakes, doing things that didn’t meet user expectations:

• Google integrated a public facing system in one of the most private systems you can imagine. Lots of people thought Google was exposing their email to the world.
• Google assumed people would opt out if users didn’t want to participate. “I can’t help but notice that more technology companies think it’s ok to expose people tremendously and then back pedal when people flip out”, she says.
• You want to help users understand the proposition. You need to ease them in, invite them to contribute their content.

Boyd says that years ago, researchers noticed people in a chat room would often ask “A/S/L” (age, sex, location). So some services, looking to streamlines things a bit, started building user profiles that had this information. What they failed to understand is that this “A/S/L” was a sort of chatroom icebreaker. Users lost that, and putting that information in a profile — even if they would have shared it to answer that chat message — could creep them out.

With Buzz, Google found the social equivalent to the famous “uncanny valley” (where things seem almost natural, but aren’t quite close enough, so they’re creepy). They collapsed articulated networks (email) and assumed it was a personal network.

Boyd then transitioned to talk a bit about the fuzzy lines between what is public and private. She says that just because people put material in public places doesn’t mean it was meant to be aggregated. And just because something is publically accessible doesn’t mean people want it to be publicized.

The Facebook Privacy Fail
Boyd’s second case study was Facebook’s privacy changes in December, when Facebook changed ‘everyone’ to the default. We’ve written extensively on this fiasco, which may take years to really reveal the extent of the damage it has done.

• Facebook said 35% of users had read the new privacy documentation and changed something in the privacy settings. Facebook thinks this is a good thing, but it means 65% of population made their content public. Boyd has asked non-techie users to tell her what they thought their settings were. She has yet to find a single person whose actual privacy settings matched what they thought they were.
• Boyd recounted a story of a young woman who had moved far away from an abusive father. The young woman talked with her mother (who had moved with her) about possibly joining Facebook. They sat down to make the content as private as possible, which worked well. But in December, the young woman clicked through Facebook’s privacy dialog (as most people did) and had no idea her content was public. She only found out when someone who should not have seen the content told her.

Boyd then discussed how different groups of people think about privacy. She says that teenagers are much more conscious about what they have to gain by being in public, whereas adults are more concerned about what they have to lose.

As an example, Boyd talked about a teenage girl who often put risqué, sometimes illegal content online. When Boyd asked why she’d want to do something, the girl replied, “I want to get a modeling contract just like Tila Tequilla”. Her calculation wasn’t about what she could potentially lose, but rather what she stood to gain.

Boyd says that most techies think about Personally Identifiable Information, but that the vast majority of people are thinking about personally embarrassing information. People often share private information with their friends in part because it allows them to bond, it makes them somewhat vulnerable and establishes trust. But when it’s through technology (e.g. Facebook’s public by default setting) it’s a huge technology fail.

Boyd also called out the presence of racism in social media. On the night of the BET awards last year, all of the trending topics were dominated by terms relating to the event and the black community. In response, some Twitter users made very racist comments — clearly even these open communication platforms are still prone to hate.

To conclude the talk, Boyd pointed out some of the challenges we will continue to face with regard to privacy online. She asks whether or not teachers can be expected to maintain a professional, pristine presence online — something that is very difficult to do while leading a normal life.

Ultimately, she says, “neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.” We’ve been looking at privacy and publicity as a black-or-white attribute for content, when really it’s defined by context and the implications of what we’ve chosen to share.

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How many e-book readers do you think are out there right now for you to choose from? If you did a little digging, I bet you’d find 50 or so. Maybe 10 really worth checking out. But right now is a bit of a weird period in e-reader history. The Kindle cemented e-readers in the consumer headspace, catapulting them from weirdo alternative technology to mainstream gadget. That’s what the iPad threatens to do with tablets — we’ll see about that. But the Kindle and the iPad are two important data points in the current e-reader wars; the question, upon the answer of which depends the success of many a device, is whether “bonus” features like second screens and weird form factors in e-readers will be enough to differentiate them from the high-profile devices pressing them on both flanks?

See, the vast majority of e-readers were designed as a response to the Kindle, not to tablet computers, which may or may not obsolete e-readers altogether. It’s a bad situation: the whole time you’re improving your competitor’s product, someone else is skipping your entire device class on the grounds that it will be made ridiculous by their awesome gadget. Some of the special features developed to combat the Kindle will stay, and some won’t live to see their own first birthday.

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Pearltrees poursuit son développement à grande vitesse en Europe et aux Etats-Unis.

- Les inrocks : “Pearltrees a ceci d’excitant qu’il symbolise l’aboutissement d’un principe originel du web” (ici)
- CNN.com: “the Web’s next big thing?” (ici)
- Robert Scoble: “It’s not often anymore that I’m blown away by new UI but @pearltrees delivers the goods” (ici et là)
- Mashable: “Pearltrees is nothing less than a reinvention of how we organize the web” (ici)
- ReadWriteWeb : “I almost fell out of my chair thinking about the possibilities” (ici)
- Techcrunch: “this is quite powerful” (ici)

Son équipe cherche un stagiaire “community manager“ pour aider tous les internautes à organiser le Web à leur manière et ainsi de contribuer à la première organisation humaine du Web.

Vous intégrerez une équipe de 10 professionnels très expérimentés (stratégie, finance, marketing, design, R&D) animés par une forte volonté d’innovation, d’excellence et d’intégration des compétences.

Mission : Vous participerez à l’élaboration du plan marketing et à la conception et la mise en œuvre de la stratégie de croissance de la communauté.

Profil :
-    Passionné(e) du web avec blog et/ou Twitter
-    Grandes écoles de commerce, IEP, Ecole de communication ou journalisme
-    Bilingue anglais

Lieu : Paris
Indemnité : compétitive
Durée : 6 mois ou plus

Si vous êtes intéressé, envoyez nous votre CV à julien [point] wallen [at] pearltrees [point] com

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