March 2008
ARGENT - Un congressiste = autant de CO2 qu'une... →
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En participant à un congrès de trois jours, chaque personne produit 30 kg de déchets, soit 5 fois plus que le reste du temps. Un défi de taille pour l’industrie…
LEXPRESS.fr - reportage photo - Photo: A... →
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116 photos inédites, prises entre mai et décembre 1944, au camp d’Auschwitz-Birkenau: c’est le drôle d’album qu’a rendu public en début de semaine le mémorial de…
FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data... →
It’s definitely FriendFeed month in Silicon Valley.
Black is the New Green: Google's Earth Hour →
Robert Scoble, apparently bored tonight in his quiet hotel in Los Angelos prior to the CommunityNext conference, has been Twittering like a madman all evening long.
Dow Theory Buy Signal? →
Back in October 2007 the Dow made a new swing high but the Transportation index did not. According to Dow theory, this is a sell signal and as we all know that was the top in the stock market. Two…
UK Government signs up to Twitter « Online... →
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I’m not the only one to have noticed an unusual surge of people signing up to Twitter recently. But today, Downing Street started using it. And when the UK…
Decline Of US Newspapers Accelerating →
internet ad revenue growing 18.8% to $3.2 billion compared to 2006, but a rate significantly lower than the 31.4% growth the year before, and not even close to replacing the loses from print.
Comprendre et bien utiliser les trackbacks →
Quâest-ce quâun trackback ? Le plus simple pour comprendre le rôle dâun trackback dans un blog est de comparer ce dernier aux commentaires. Après avoir écrit un article sur votre blog, une…
Oldest record voices sing again →
An “ethereal” 10 second clip of a woman singing a French folk song has been played for the first time in 150 years.
DIY Education: Teach Yourself →
An in depth guide on teaching yourself.
Windows Tip: Mount USB Drives in Assigned Folders... →
Click on the Add button, select Mount into the following empty NTFS folder and click on browse. Now navigate to the subfolder that you want to assign the usb drive to and confirm the assignment.
La guerre des flux RSS : le grand débat est ouvert... →
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sur de “gros blogs”, ceux qui sont lus par une quantité importante de geeks, une tendance à la rétraction vis-à-vis de l’usage des services de FeedBurner ou autres…
Smart brake light system would provide more... →
Students in Virginia Tech mechanical engineering Professor Mehdi Ahmadian’s senior design class developed a horizontal light bar to communicate slowing and stopping actions to a driver in a following…
Tibet Will Be Free » Blog Archive » Brave monks... →
As China tried to rush a hand-selected group of foreign journalists on a carefully-scripted 3-day tour of Tibet, Beijing’s propaganda came crashing down thanks to the bravery of 30 Tibetan monks.
Google paid click growth sluggish in February;... →
ComScore has delivered its paid click report for February–also known as the most anticipated metric in the Web world these days–and the news isn’t so hot for Google.
AlacraBlog: You Can't Boil the Ocean - What To Do... →
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One question I have for customers is what
they plan to do about integrating blog content and RSS feeds into their
information delivery systems. Surprisingly, only…
Conversation avec Jacques Attali: Projet de vie,... →
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cette même évolution de l’espérance de vie fait surgir la crainte inverse : et si la société, pour ne pas dépenser trop pour la survie des plus âgés et des…
Twitter Dominates the Lifestream →
By using FriendFeedStats , which creates service-level usage statistics from lifestream aggregator FriendFeed based on its public timeline, we can see which services are the most popular….
FriendFeed and 8 Other Lifestreaming Services →
There are just too many social sites out there for everyone to be able to keep up, and that’s where lifestreaming services step in. FriendFeed is the one everyone talks about lately, but it’s…
Microsoft, Apple, and the death of the desktop |... →
A demonstration, not totally convincing that Desktop are passé now that we have Browsers and fast connections.
ContreInfo ::Franklin Delano Roosevelt (VO)... →
[…]to save the democracy we thought we had, we must now take democracy to where it’s never been.
Micro Persuasion: Three Internet Careers That Soon... →
Earlier this year the New York Times detailed how careers in medicine and law - formerly bankable lifetime gigs - have lost their luster. College grads instead are pouring their resources into trying…
Is IT becoming extinct? | IT Project Failures |... →
Since the days of punch cards, IT has believed itself to be guardian of precious computing resources against attacks from non-technical barbarians known as “users.” This arrogant attitude, born of…
DailyTech - Student Wins Victory Over School in... →
[…]Advocates say there is no difference between online groups and school-sponsored tutoring programs, which often have old copies of tests, and will assist students in solving homework problems.
Google Gadgets - Google Code →
Google Gadgets are simple HTML and JavaScript mini-applications served in iFrames that can be embedded in webpages and other apps.
Google Visualization API Gadget Gallery - Google... →
This is really an exciting feature for us, as it gives spreadsheet collaborators more than a dozen new ways to look at their data
Interview: Socialthing! Founder Matt Galligan →
Recently people have been comparing lifestreaming services FriendFeed and Socialthing!, trying to determine which one will win or whether they even compete. For example, see ReadWriteWeb’s…
U.S. death toll in Iraq war reaches 4,000... →
BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000. The grim milestone was…
Ecoutez vos blogs favoris avec Blogbard →
OutilsRss Blogbard est un service gratuit qui vous permet de transformer en podcast les flux rss que vous lui soumettez après les avoir automatiquement “traduit” en text-to-speech. Mais il ne…
The euro could surpass the dollar within ten years... →
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Although the US surpassed the UK in economic size in 1872, in exports in 1915, and as a net creditor in 1917, the dollar did not surpass the pound as number one…
Official Google Docs Blog: Collaboration goes one... →
Developers now have an easy way to both add features to Google Docs (in spreadsheets to start) and to pull collaborative data from Google Docs into gadgets on iGoogle and other platforms.
Overstock.com CEO: Wikipedia an Instrument Of Mind... →
Fed up, Wikipedia banned all Overstock. IP addresses from editing Wikipedia pages. Since then, Byrne has used his “Take 5 with Patrick” postings to disseminate articles such as “Social Media -…
Sarkozy's 'cyber spin doctor' sparks wrath on the... →
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“Sarkozy’s little cop,” “Sarkozy’s eye on the net,” and “KGB Web” are some of the comments and videos posted since Nicolas Princen on Monday joined the president’s…
Overstock.com CEO: Wikipedia Has Become An... →
After announcing deals on watches and exercise equipment, the email invites readers “Take 5 with Patrick, ” which involves the CEO likening Wikipedia to mind-control and Wall Street corruption….
Hillary's Balkan Adventures, Part II - Fact... →
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our…
A Guide to the French. Handle With Care. - New... →
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Last month, the president lost his temper when a bystander refused to shake his hand at the annual agricultural fair. (A polite translation of what he said would…
Une semaine avec Wordpress #7 →
sortie de la nouvelle mouture Wordpress 2.5. Article détaillant et commentant d’autres articles détaillant et commentant les améliorations. Un bon point de rassemblement en somme.
12:26 trying to figure out a way for ALC attendees to aggregate their posts be they via twitter or any other blog facility… #
14:48 Of course do i realize only now how sunny the is… I need to go out more… often #
15:58 Alko is freaking closed and i people for lunch tomorrow. Bleh! #
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Partying Like It’s 1929 - New York Times Annotated
tags: 1929, bank, credit, crunch, portofolio, stockmarket
Banks exist because they help reconcile the conflicting desires of savers and borrowers. Savers want freedom — access to their money on short notice. Borrowers want commitment: they don’t want to risk facing sudden demands for repayment.
Normally, banks satisfy both desires:...
Just 100 days in, Livejournal’s new management jumps the shark Annotated
tags: no_tag
Here’s SUP - very quietly - announcing that from 12th March no-one who signs up for a new Livejournal will be able to create an ad-free Basic Account. Here’s VP of Product Development Jason Shellen “explaining” how the changes were intended to make registration for the site easier. And right...
CNews: LJ to be mute tomorrow Annotated
tags: no_tag
Livejournal users’ discontent with SUP’s activity has reached it peak: on March 21st the Day of Silence is planned to be held, i.e. no posts and commentaries will be written. SUP’s decision to stop registering new accounts with no advertising provides further impetus for discontent.
06:40 Elisa wrote: Morning Pascal. I don’t have Alain’s number so can you inform him that I’m sick? Stomach flu hit me last night. Thanks, Elisa #
06:44 No problem. He should give me a ride to work this morning. I’ll him know then. #
14:56 Esa what about the condition report you asked me to do something with? #
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06:25 Waiting for the train to arrive to board it. I think i’ve seen someone i know but i’m not sure… #
07:01 I was sitting in someone else’s seat and was let know so without please, sorry, excuse me or sir… Manners, good ones are things of the … #
07:42 Not that many people boarded the train at Dijon. I won’t have to sit next to the bitch who claimed her seat #
09:12 Approaching RCDG...
