Trust
'Love it all. The fear, the excitement, the guilt. The power for change, the unworthiness, the hunt, feelings, the euphoric feelings, the anger, the movement, the whole process, it's know as life.'
Unknown.
From 'The true and the Questions' by Sabrina W. Harrison.
Posted on December 18, 2005 01:12 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Quotes & manifesto
Dj Champion does Metropolis
With the Mole (pod #38) as first act - see pictures + a short video of the evening. Crowd en feu.
Dj Champion will be playing on Jan. 17th at la SAT, later Toronto and LA. Infos here. Related: Dj Champion at the Montreal Jazz fest. Happy sunday.
Posted on December 18, 2005 11:38 AM | Comments (0) | in category: Music
MT testing
3.2 up and running! GOODBYE COMMENT AND TRACKBACK SPAM (cu back soon, i'm sure..)
Posted on December 17, 2005 03:38 PM | Comments (3) | in category: News
Montreal disappeared under 41 cm of snow
Posted on December 17, 2005 10:39 AM | Comments (1) | in category: Daily thoughts
movl - Montreal Video bloggers
Montreal Vlogger site is born: http://movl.org. Next meeting taking place at Laika on St-Laurent, jan 17th 19h. Their projector can be used if needed.
La prochaine rencontre vlogging est le janvier 17, 19:00 - Laika 4040 St. Laurent (coin Duluth). Leur projecteur est disponible au besoin.
I shall be there.
Posted on December 16, 2005 10:56 PM | Comments (2) | in category: vlog
Berlin Transmediale 06: How big your heart is
I am looking for sponsoring so i can attend the next transmediale festival which will be taking place from February 3th to 11th in Berlin.
transmediale is the biggest and most significant festival for art and the creative use of digital media in Germany. transmediale.06 is devoted to the theme Reality Addicts.
Any amount over 200$Can will be greatly appreciated to finance my trip and i will for sure let the blogosphere know about how big your heart is.
contact: m-c (at) mcturgeon.com
Posted on December 16, 2005 07:14 PM | Comments (1) | in category: Projects
Linkomania
Marc-André Brouillard qui a rédigé l'article sur le blog et podcasting dans le dernier numéro d'Urbania a maintenant un blogue. Longue vie!
Posted on December 16, 2005 06:29 PM | Comments (0) | in category: - Local weblogs
2nd rec turning five
Hamburg based label 2nd rec is turning 5 and offers 5 Euros cds (mailorder via sonicane). The label releases include Noah23, Giardini di Miro and Nitrada (podcasts #24, 28 and 30). 2nd rec site and blog.
Posted on December 16, 2005 03:43 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Music
As a blogger, always be ready to face all kinds of questions
Am i a celebrity,
and why am i doing a podcast?
2 questions asked by a student in communications from L'Université de Montréal who need these answers for his work. Ici ma chance d'enfin servir la science.
1. i dont think i am a celebrity. Sign of being a celebrity in Quebec would be to have my face on the cover of some Quebecor magazine, something which might never happen. Else would be to have people recognizing me on the streets, something that is not happening (unless you guys are all faking like you dont know me or are too shy to say hi). I am someone who's upfront with technological trends, who plays with web technologies and use them as a medium (see me as an artist using the web as a medium, like a brush would be to a painter). I do something new and different, and i think i'm a good communicator too, at least people seem to like what i am writing over here, as they like to listen to me talking. I could be a dj too. What's a celebrity?
2. I use these tools - blog, video blog, photo blog, and audio blog (podcasting) - as tools to express myself, toys to play and create something with, as an artist and communicator. F**k you if you laugh at me as you read this.
More about why i do a podcast here, and 10 reasons why i am blogging (français).
Posted on December 15, 2005 08:20 PM | Comments (3) | in category: Daily thoughts
See all directions at the same time
I Wish We Could Open Our Eyes
To See In All Directions At The Same Time
Oh, What A Beautiful View
If You Were Never Aware Of What Was Around You
And It Is True What You Said
I Live Like A Hermit In My Own Head
When The Sun Shines Again
I'll Pull The Curtains And Blinds To Let The Light In
*
Sorrow Drips Into Your Heart
Through A Pinhole
Just Like Faucet That Leaks
And There Is Comfort In The Sound
But While You Debate
Half Empty Or Half Full
It Slowly Rises Your Love Is Gonna Drown
Marching Bands Of Manhattan, Death Cab For Cutie
I know, i already blogged it.
Posted on December 15, 2005 12:50 PM | Comments (1) | in category: Music
Wolf Parade Shine a light video
Posted on December 15, 2005 10:12 AM | Comments (3) | in category: Music
How about German behaviors
From Heiko:
--- Germans like to complain. Even during the best of times, Germans will nag about... pretty much everything. That's why, for example, German tourists have such a bad reputation
--- Germans like to read about failures. It helps us ignore that others are more successful
--- We think German is such an important language that we can expect all foreign language aired on TV or radio to be dubbed. Technically, a lot of Germans do speak rather decent English (and French, Russian or even Spanish). Often enough though we don't speak it perfectly well so instead of being prone to make mistakes we rather pretend German is the only language we know.
Because i lived in Germany i do agree with this last point about the language, it scared me the whole time i was there. Germans of my generation, not speaking a word english or french? me not getting it. Scared, she flew back to Canada.
and i thought Germans where cool.
Posted on December 14, 2005 10:46 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Daily thoughts
New Postal Service track
It's been a while, we're all waiting for something from them.
Here's a cover of "Grow Old With Me" -
"Yoko Ono donated the entire John Lennon solo catalog to Amnesty International, now big-name artists (The Postal Service, Cure, Snow Patrol, Duran Duran, Black Eyed Peas) are covering the songs and every couple months they will release a batch of four songs to buy via the website."
(via brooklyn vegan)
Posted on December 14, 2005 09:20 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Music
Spécial fin d'année de P45
un spécial de fin d'année avec entre autre une entrevue avec Bell Orchestre... par ici.
Posted on December 14, 2005 09:10 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Medias
Dj Kicks Mu video
The excellent Dj Kicks serie, this time featuring Annie - watch the video of Track 16 Paris Hilton by Mu. (via Chris).
Posted on December 14, 2005 06:22 PM | Comments (2) | in category: Music
Mal du pays
Mon retour au Québec m'a fait beaucoup réfléchir. En fait, c'est plus le fait de partir pour ensuite revenir ici qui me fait réfléchir. Sortir de mon petit monde m'a fait découvrir des choses que je ne pouvais concevoir tant que je ne les avait pas vues et vécues.
Difficile de verbaliser tout ça sans blesser personne, amants du québec changer de page ou prendre un calmant.
Partir pour Paris et assister à la conférence sur les blogues a été une révélation pour moi. Je me suis rendue compte que je ne suis pas la seule des miennes : j'y ai rencontré des experts dans le domaine, des gens passionnés et allumés par le sujet des blogues et des nouvelles technologies web, et ce, autant sur le plan technique que social (même plus social je dirais). Et pis ben rendu là, j'ai juste plus le gout de revenir m'enfermer dans mon taudis une fois que je réalise le bien que ca fait que de se libérer d'un isolement qu'on croyait absent. Je suis loin de tout ces gens, et je sens que l'expertise manque ici -- et mon but n'est pas de former des gens ici mais bien d'exploiter ces nouvelles technologies à fond la caisse, et ce, pour le bien être de mon humanité (grosse mission, bah).
Cet isolement fait partie de mon malaise, mais ce n'est pas ce que je cherche à exprimer ici : je reviens au Québec et m'y sent à l'étroit. Je ne m'y sens pas à l'aise de voir grand et d'espérer de la magie et la réalisation de grandes choses -- comme s'il existait ici une limite à ne pas franchir, limite qui serait collectivement établie et respectée dans l'ignorance et le silence. Les Québecois qui voient grand et qui réalisent leur vision se font vite apposer une panoplie d'étiquettes les plus colorées les unes que les autres, on se fait un plaisir de les critiquer et les abaisser -- à moins qu'ils aient déjà quitté le Québec. Avoir de l'ambition ici est mal vu, avoir la capacité de réaliser ses ambitions fait jaser plus qu'inspirer.
Revenir ici me fait réaliser à quel point je me sent limité au Québec, et ce malgré tout mes efforts pour accepter mon pays et sa culture tel qu'elle est.
Attendre que cette mentalité change, que cette limite disparaisse n'est pas une option pour moi. J'ai le vent dans les voiles, un vent qui vient d'ailleurs.
Je crois sincèrement que ma province a besoin de modèles et d'exemples pour lui prouver qu'on peut bien vivre en fesant ce que l'on aime, que réaliser ses rêves et vivre d'une passion est non seulement possible mais nécessaire à la survie de notre culture.
Il est à la portée de chacuns de prendre une action chaque jours, aussi petite soit elle, pour réaliser ce rêve. Mais encore là, il faut savoir rêver et voir grand, imaginer de quoi aura l'air cet idéal dans ses moindres détails pour pouvoir le voir se réaliser.
Peux être que j'ai comme espoir de changer le monde Québec, peut-être ai-je tors, mais il est tout en mon droit de m'exprimer et partager ici avec les quelques âmes que ca pourrait inspirer, ou qui pourrait me faire changer d'idée.
Posted on December 14, 2005 06:01 PM | Comments (12) | in category: Daily thoughts
Home
This place doesnt feel intimate anymore.
Posted on December 14, 2005 03:12 PM | Comments (3) | in category: Daily thoughts
Linkomania
Julien, Tim says that you speak too fast.
Posted on December 13, 2005 11:47 AM | Comments (1) | in category: Daily thoughts
Champion au Metropolis
Samedi/Saturday!
Infos here, listen to Champion on pod #51 and on the CBC interview i gave last month. Tickets here, also check out bonsound's website and their blog & podcast.
Posted on December 12, 2005 11:55 PM | Comments (1) | in category: Music
Brian Eno: Thursday Afternoon
Posted on December 12, 2005 07:57 PM | Comments (1) | in category: Music
Leave a comment
iTunes now allows customers to leave a comment on podcasts. You need to have an iTune account though. Here's my show, subscribe or leave a comment :)
Posted on December 12, 2005 08:07 AM | Comments (2) | in category: All about podcasting
Courrier du coeur: Guide de survie du bloggueur à Bléd'indeville
Received yesterday by Matt:
First of all I'll mention that I found your blog via Urbania. I started reading some stuff but here's a little question: what about people out of urban centers ? the "450" (I fucking hate that debate but anyways...). Est-ce peine perdu d'avoir un blog tout en étant complétement "déplogué" de la culture/musique/shows/etc... de MTL ou de n'importe quel centre urbain? Si j'habite Bléd'indeville est-ce que mon opinion/critique/fond de cerveau peut compter?
Chers Matt,
Je sens ici un petit brin de frustration, me trompe tui-je? La magie des blogues, c'est que tout le monde peut participer, et oui, même à Bléd'indeville on peut retrouver des bloggeurs.
Guide de survie du bloggeur à Bléd'indeville :
1. créer un blogue (je sais que c'est évident mais des fois vous autres les gens en région... vous pourriez penser que ca se fait tuseul!)
2. écrire sur ton blogue! (cuisine, religion, sports, hm, tu peux toujours parler de sexe, c'est sur que tu vas avoir plus de visiteurs que si tu y parle de blé d'inde... la chronique du village de Bléd'indeville en intéressera sûrement plus d'un aussi...)
3. COMMENTER SUR LES BLOGUES QUE TU LIS -- c'est en sortant de chez vous que tu vas rencontrer d'autres bléd'inde de ton espèce, pas enfermé entre quatres murs. Donc sort, lis des blogues qui t'intéressent et laisse tes doigts tapotter ton clavier dès qu'un sujet bloggué te fais réfléchir plus de 10 secondes (pour certaines personnes ca peut prendre jusqu'à 15 secondes, écoute ton corps).
Je crois que blédindeville.blogspot.com est libre. Bonne continuation, longue vie de bloggeur et j'ai bien hâte de lire tes compte rendus d'épluchettes!
au plaisir,
votre toutte dévouée, m-c
Posted on December 11, 2005 09:30 PM | Comments (4) | in category: Daily thoughts
Apophis
Dans la rubrique des tragédies et catastrophes à venir, et pour bien faire suite au dernier épisode ou Ben fabulait sur comment Bush pourrait envahir notre petit pays en 2007, vous apprécierez sûrement ce qui suit... un bel excercice que de penser à qui vous metteriez aux commandes de la 'tite fusée... :
Apophis, un astéroïde mesurant 390 mètres de diamètre, serait apparemment sur une trajectoire qui pourrait le mener en plein sur notre belle planète poquée, quelque part aux alentours de 2036. La Nasa estime qu’une telle collision produirait une énergie équivalente à 100 000 fois l’explosion nucléaire d’Hiroshima. Boum. Et selon des spécialistes, il est grand temps de mettre au point notre stratégie afin de percuter la chose avant qu’elle n’écrapoutisse Rosemère.
Grosse semaine pour les catastrophes appréhendées, à lire sur le blog de Nicolas (et dans La Presse).
Posted on December 11, 2005 05:52 PM | Comments (1) | in category: - Local weblogs
iriver on OS X
we are sorry, the T30 is not supported on OS X!
I've got about 8 hours of recording from Paris - there's no way i'm gonna send it back to the store.
Posted on December 10, 2005 01:45 PM | Comments (5) | in category: Apple & OS X
10 mai 2007 - Fiction
found on Ben’s blog:
‘Jeudi 10 mai 2007 à 10H07 PM, des avions de chasse de l’armée Américaine (USA) survolent le ciel d’Ottawa, de Toronto, de Montréal et de Vancouver. 10H24 PM des missiles balistiques provenant des côtes de l’Atlantique explosent dans la capitale, Ottawa ainsi qu’à Toronto. Au même moment, des chars d’assaut blindés ainsi que des Jeeps remplis de soldats franchissent et s’emparent des frontières canado américaine. 11H04 PM, le président Bush s’adresse à la nation et déclare que le gouvernement canadien dois se rendre et céder le pays aux États-Unis d’Amérique.’ Continuez la lecture et commentez ici.
google translation:
‘Thursday May 10, 2007 with 10H07 PM, of the fighters of the American army (the USA) fly over the sky of Ottawa, of Toronto, of Montreal and Vancouver. 10H24 PM of the ballistic missiles coming from the coasts of the Atlantic explodes in the capital, Ottawa like in Toronto. At the same time, tanks armoured as of the Jeeps filled soldiers cross and seize the borders canado American. 11H04 PM, president Bush is addressed to the nation and declares that the Canadian government must go and yield the country to the United States of America. American soldiers arrive and control the large Canadian cities. The Canadian army does not retort to in no case. The international community, under the shock, tries to calm the Bush administration; in vain. Canada launches a call to the assistance in the United Kingdom, France and Germany, but none them wants to be opposed or to be caught some in the United States, of fear of having reprisals in their turns. The international community is completely taken by surprised and is unable to establish a plan of reaction.’
Posted on December 10, 2005 11:27 AM | Comments (4) | in category: Daily thoughts
Pulling up the people with blogs
New web technologies are keeping media on its toes, an article from The Link, Concordia's Independent Newspaper for which i was interviewed.
Posted on December 10, 2005 01:04 AM | Comments (3) | in category: Medias
Paris video
Different videos taken in paris. Watch out, heavy heavy. Here.
Posted on December 10, 2005 12:46 AM | Comments (3) | in category: Traveling , vlog
Next. Et maintenant.
In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream, a cultural equivalent of a political opposition. In casual practice, the term came to prominence in the general press as it was used to refer to the youth rebellion that swept North America and Western Europe in the 1960s and early 1970s. Earlier countercultural milieus in 19th century Europe included the traditions of Bohemianism and of the Dandy.
Posted on December 9, 2005 09:10 PM | Comments (2) | in category: Quotes & manifesto
Post conference
Following my post about Mena's speech at Les Blogs, here you can access the full text version of her speech followed by more thoughts on the topic:
'The majority of people in the world aren't blogging yet, and a lot of them could truly benefit from this form of communication. We want them to be a part of our world, not only because we make blogging tools, but because every day we're reminded of people whose lives blogging has enriched or just made more enjoyable.'
Continue reading here.
Posted on December 9, 2005 02:06 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Weblogs
MySpace generation
They live online. They buy online. They play online. Their power is growing.
Read the whole article here (via patrick).
Posted on December 9, 2005 11:06 AM | Comments (0) | in category: Social softwares
go
Remix everything.
Posted on December 9, 2005 08:29 AM | Comments (2) | in category: Daily thoughts
Montreal Vlog meetup
sorry i'm late on that, here is the info: Montreal Vlog meetups will be taking place once a month along the usual blogger gathering at La Cabane on st-laurent, the first wednesday of the month.
this even was initiated by Michael Lenczner and Brett Gaylor.
Posted on December 8, 2005 05:57 PM | Comments (2) | in category: - Local weblogs
Podcast #54 is on, featuring Beirut, Ninja High School, SLGTM and Hura Yup
Recorded in Paris on december 6th, no chapters but a plain mp3 for this one. Tracklisting coming later.
Tracklisting:
Beirut, Postcard from Italy -
discovered on Myspace, i am in love with this band. The singer's voice is absolutely fantastic, will remind you of David Byrne and Morrissey
Ninja High School, jam band death cult -
from the german based label Tomlab
Saturday Looks Good to Me, Meet Me By The Water
From Polyvinyl Records and i love it. Remembers me of St-Etienne
Hura Yup, Micronauta.
Posted on December 8, 2005 03:54 PM | Comments (3) | in category: - Podcasts
untitled
too many things are slowing me down. i should get rid of them. there's too much order in my flat, there should be a mess.
Posted on December 7, 2005 09:06 PM | Comments (3) | in category: Daily thoughts
V
Posted on December 7, 2005 09:48 AM | Comments (1) | in category: Daily thoughts
Well
4h00 am in paris. last day of the conference, last full day in paris tomorrow. all is well, beside that once again, i felt for someone who's living far away. There's something wrong with my karma, could anyone fix it? What's the thing with me and German boys, please anyone fix this karma NOW.
Posted on December 6, 2005 10:38 PM | Comments (4) | in category: Daily thoughts
Les blogs notes
- blogging gives freedom (for artists)
- blogging breaks hierarchy
- bloggers can be or are brands
- blogs are online personnas, id's (that's what i think since 2 years, i thought everyone knew about that)
- see the web as people, readers respect bloggers they read,
- shift in economy to a 'participan economy'
- information technology builds upon itself, and facilitates every other type of progress (BH)
Posted on December 6, 2005 10:58 AM | Comments (0) | in category: Weblogs
Les blogs 2.0 - podcasting and vlogging panel
notes:
- woah, someone's teaching vbloging in college
- notion of speach enabling blogs
- 3G = multimedia devices
- vlog and podcasts creators want to create content, get attention, share content, express themselves
- emotional and spontaneous content
- publisher vs amateur publisher
- text recognitions into podcast and vlog
- capture content
- tagging into vlogs and podcast
- podcasting format (mp3) vs vlogging format (different ones) that makes is difficult for the 'average' people to get into vlogging - need for a standard
tags: lesblogs.
Posted on December 6, 2005 06:02 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | in category: Weblogs
Les Blogs day 2 - thoughts
Mena's speech finally made this place rock a bit. She is bringing on an interesting topic about the quality of the conversations that are taking place on weblogs and the quality of our speaches -- bloggers are people with opinions but with the rise of blogging and blogging getting mainstream bloggers need to be more civilized and assume a certain level of quality into their writing. Same goes for commenting on people's blogs, how about not writing comments you wouldn't be able to chat about about face2face with the person concerned?
Hell nice to see Mena Trott in real, she is one of a kind. Inspiring.
will be updated.
Panel on RSS
- the future of RSS: the core of RSS being about subscription, RSS will kinda be melting into new tools (i personnaly cant wait for the day we wont need the term RSS anymore, only geek and early adopters get what RSS is -- 'Live bookmark' was already a little more mainstream to use)
- Sites like Digg could be a really interesting solution to bring on the best posts from the blogosphere: Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
tags: lesblogs, mena trott
Posted on December 6, 2005 04:18 AM | Comments (0) | in category: Weblogs
Bloggers, mostly
actually we are bloggers, web specialists, loads of journalists and web agency people.
See where all these people are coming from here.
Posted on December 5, 2005 09:26 AM | Comments (3) | in category: Weblogs
me!
with lack of sleep, and its waaay too early!
Posted on December 5, 2005 05:23 AM | Comments (0) | in category: Weblogs
Les Blogs - thoughts
- Blogs build bridges between communities (and different cultures)
- Understand the blogosphere, trust the transparence
- blogs are driven by passion and authority
- we need more people to bring blogs to 'normal' people
- behind all products are people; consumers now want to talk with these people (commercial aspect of blogging, conversation with the audience)
- who need to be afraid of blogs? Bad journalist, not the good ones
- mass media < -- > medias for the masses
- someone looking for blogs is looking for opinions
Posted on December 5, 2005 04:46 AM | Comments (1) | in category: Weblogs
En feu dans la ville lumère, 2ème partie
Les gens sont en feu. La conférence n'est même pas commencé que flickr est remplis de photo.
Pensée : quelqun me parlait hier d'un mouvement de 'contre-culture' ou les gens après avoir documenté leurs vies à l'extrème vont décider de cesser toute forme d'archivage d'information sur leurs vies ou événements.
Posted on December 5, 2005 03:25 AM | Comments (1) | in category: Weblogs
Les Blogs
The conference is starting tomorrow. Tonite some of the conference participants are heading to the Lizard Lounge (infos here).
It will be possible to reach me live from the conference for the time i'll be online on IM (m_chantale@hotmail.com).
All pictures from the participants are tagged 'lesblogs' and can be seen here.
Weeee!
Posted on December 4, 2005 12:34 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Weblogs
Paris pict
All my picts of Paris can be seen here.
Posted on December 4, 2005 05:18 AM | Comments (1) | in category: Traveling
Sparekey
A concept i had in mind on which we exchanged me and patrick yesterday evening is about giving a good friend your blog access to delete malicious comments in the case you wouldn't be available to do so.
For exemple, i know that Antoine has my blog pw and username, and i know he is reading most of the stuff that is written here (blog entry and comments) so i always had in mind that if i wasnt able to access my blog for any reason (like right now while on holidays) he would be able to fix anything that could go wrong, like a blog babysitter.
Oh well. geek stuff.
Posted on December 4, 2005 05:02 AM | Comments (0) | in category: Weblogs
En feu dans la ville lumière, 1ère partie
Il est 11h22 heure de Montréal. Je suis debout depuis hier matin, 9h. Fatiguée, et de la misère à mettre mes idées en ordre. Il es 17h30 à Paris.
Je suis bombardé d'informations de toutes sortes, c'est beaucoup trop pour ce que je suis capable de prendre, fatigue oblige. Tout est différent, les sons surtout, mais étrangement les visages me sont tous familiers.
Paris est over peuplé. Paris est une des plus vieille ville que j'ai vu et elle dissimule mal toutes ces années accumulées. Fred, tu aurais déjà pris 300 photos si tu serais ici. Tu serais surement déjà sur la brosse aussi.
Paris n'est pas rendu en 2005. Impossible de trouver du wifi, les gens ne comprenent pas de quoi on parle. Moi et peetee arpentons la ville depuis des heures à la recherche d'un café wifi ---- rien, nada, niet. Les gens qui ont des portables dans les cafés se comptent sur les doigts de la main.
Muji m'a unpeu déçu, je n'ai pas résussi à y dépenser plus de 6 Euros. Ah oui, putain que ca coute cher ici (nottez l'utilisation du mot putain).
Bon alors, nous cherchons des amis, et des cafés, resto, wathever où on pourrait avoir un accès wifi dans le Marais.
Paris pu aussi, Les souterrains sont étranges, entrecoupés de corridor étroits et humides.
ps. les français sont bôôôôô...
Posted on December 2, 2005 11:38 AM | Comments (16) | in category: Traveling
Dominic Goyet, installation photographique
Dominic Goyet, photographe pour Urbania avec qui j'ai travaillé pour ma désormais célèbre photo dans le bain, expose une pièce qui se trouvera au niveau des départs de l'aéroport Pierre-Éliott-Trudeau les mardi et mercredi 6 et 7 décembre.
Posted on December 1, 2005 01:10 PM | Comments (1) | in category: Arts & design
meïdia T-Shirts on Le Monde.fr
Xavier sent me a mail to let me know that today's newsletter by the newspaper Le Monde talks about meïdia T-Shirts.
This is sooo unexpected, but welcome. A screenshot of the newsletter can be seen here.
Link to meïdia.
Link to the T-Shirt store.
Posted on December 1, 2005 11:05 AM | Comments (3) | in category: Projects
How new web technologies will change your business
I am just about to leave for the Les Blogs 2.0 conference which will be taking place on december 5 and 6 in Paris and i thought it would be interesting to list here the main points about why todays conferences are different from the ones you might know.
New web technologies are changing the usual conference mostly because people can communicate between each other before, during and after the conference:
Before: Who's who
Once the conference has been announced, each people subscribing to the event are listed on the participant page, thus letting everyone know who's gonna be there. Subscriber mostly use their blog address so its fairly easy to get to know what each participant is about. Really interesting point here is to see the country where are participant from: France, USA, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Netherland, England, Spain, Canada (!), Denmark and so on.
Same goes with the speakers list growing every week, aside from the conference schedule.
So basically, anyone interested in the conference can see the organisation and the schedule around the event growing every week. I am watching whats happening around Les Blogs 2.0 conference since it was first announced in august.
During the conference: Bloggers attack
This is a conference about blogs, so guess what, loads of people in there will be blogging the event live (i will) and list on their blogs info that they want to keep as an archive or stuff they want to share with their readers.
In this case, soon before the conference someone created a list of all participant and speakers RSS feeds (RSS feed are a way to subscribe to blogs so you can keep up with the blogs you are interested into. Read more about RSS feed here). This list will be used mostly by people who can't attend the conference but want to be kept in the loop of what's happening over the conference.
The conference in text, pictures, audio and video
Participants will blog text, pictures, audio (podcast) and video (vlog) from the conference and what's happening around, so you'll basically feel like if you were there.
Pictures of the conference will all be tagged under a definite code, which in this case could be 'lesblogs2' - so by visiting the flickr page associated with the tag 'lesblogs2' you'll be able to see all pictures posted.
Here are all pictures tagged with 'lesblogs' from the previous conference: lesblogs on flickr;
here are all blog post tagged with 'lesblogs': lesblogs on technorati;
here is a page listing all participant posts now and during the conference;
here is a Linkedin group that was created for all participants to network before and after the conference.
That's about it for a round up, i'm sure i am missing some things but i think you'll get the idea. My point here was to show how new web technologies changed many things, one being the way communities are created and are growing, how the information is now spread all over and not kept into walls anymore. Our planet is getting smaller every day, we're now all neighbors.
I'll be off to Paris soon, and will be blogging here, posting pictures on my flickr account, and what else, take some time off!
Posted on November 30, 2005 01:47 PM | Comments (1) | in category: Weblogs
FLIP FLOP FLYIN
Craig Robinson's blog and new book : Fun Fun Fun.
Ah, and lilo wants me to add that his dog Billy also has a blog.
Posted on November 30, 2005 11:41 AM | Comments (0) | in category: Arts & design
The Arcade Fire performed with U2
"Second night in Montreal and Arcade Fire are back on stage at the end of U2's set for an amazing joint performance of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart."
anyone can find a live recording of that?
via Brooklyn Vegan.
Posted on November 30, 2005 11:36 AM | Comments (4) | in category: Music
Tranche de vie
Trop drôle pour ne pas blogger :
'C'est effectivement moi, celui qui t'as contacté din petites annonces et qui, ensuite, s'est défilé. Je n'ai d'excuse que ma couardise. C'est effectivement plutôt intimidant de googler une fréquentation potentielle et de trouver 340 heures de lecture / musique / dessins / coupures de journaux sur quelqu'un.
Mais le ultimate brainfuck est toutefois survenu quand j'ai ouvert mon nouveau numéro de Urbania tout frais de la poste et que je t'ai appercue dans ton bain moussant. "Neuhh!?", me suis-je dis avec tant d'éloquence.'
Bienvenue aux lecteurs d'Urbania.
Posted on November 29, 2005 03:54 PM | Comments (1) | in category: Daily thoughts
Pitchfork likes Acid House Kings
So do I.
The review is from today, read it here.
Listen to AHK on pod #52, 50, 48 and 45.
Posted on November 29, 2005 12:39 PM | Comments (1) | in category: Music
Thom est en maudit
Thom Yorke est en maudit. Trouvé via le blogue de Ben.
Montreal
so the UN are meeting in Montreal to decide what to do after the Kyoto protocol.
and already the US administration has buried its witless head in the fucking sand.
refusing to take part.
you can even see the strings being pulled.
this is a true evil.
Posted on November 29, 2005 11:26 AM | Comments (5) | in category: Daily thoughts
Il y a des gens en feu partout
et vous ne pouvez plus les ignorer. Ils sont partout.
Posted on November 28, 2005 09:35 PM | Comments (3) | in category: - Local weblogs
Live audio recording
Is the iRiver still a good buy for recording interviews and live shows? I am in need of such cheap device before leaving.
Posted on November 28, 2005 09:19 PM | Comments (2) | in category: All about podcasting
Malajube en france
uh oh les français, Malajube (pod #51, 50 et 46) débarque chez vous, à suivre! Infos sur le site de Dare to Care records.
Uh oh québec, leur second album sera lancé au Canada le 7 février prochain.
Posted on November 28, 2005 07:35 PM | Comments (3) | in category: Music
Seuls ou ensemble?
Nicolas amène une question très intéressante aux gens / artisants / créateurs qui tissent la toile culturelle du Québec. Travaillant pour la plupart chacun de notre côté, perdus dans nos têtes et prisonniers de nos propres murs, il y a ici de quoi réfléchir :
'Pendant que les grands médias s'affairent à devenir plus gros et plus forts, les indépendants continuent de travailler à leurs projets, dans leur chambre à coucher, avec un minimum de mise en commun avec tous ces gens qui, à quelques rues de là, ont pourtant des objectifs, des idéaux et des désirs semblables. Dommage. C'est un énorme cliché, mais l'union fait bel et bien la force, et c'est seulement en mettant nos énergies ensemble que des choses vraiment puissantes vont pouvoir être créées.'
À lire et à commenter par ici.
Posted on November 27, 2005 11:22 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Daily thoughts
Nites out in Paris
Need advices about where to go out in Paris - nice coffees and bars so we can see what are french people at. I'll be staying around Le Marais.
Posted on November 27, 2005 07:12 PM | Comments (10) | in category: Traveling
Tape des mains et dit oui
All started Thursday nite at the oh so trendy Nightlife party with my partners in crime.
Friday was Stryrofoam's (second?) performance in Montreal. Soon to be closing their north american tour, in all a great show - was much better than i expected it to be. Pictures are here.
Resfest opening party, brazilian tunes for hours, not so my kind. Endless people watching and drinking.
Saturday. Resfest screenings of Cut and Paste + By Desgin at excentris, some short movies to blow your mind (this one), some less good ones that left me napping on the cinema's bench, recovering from the previous nite lack of sleep.
Resfest was for the first time in Montreal, after showing up in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto and Vancouver - let's hope next editions will still include Mtl. 60$ a pass for all events is quite a fair deal.
Saturday nite, soirée au Jupiter Room. Endroit peuplé de jeunes hipsters en feu, amateurs de musique et dégourdis, quelque chose d'assez difficile à trouver chez les gens passé 25 ans. You'll hear the best music in town, en passant de Clap your hands say yeah à Talking Heads, Joy division New Order Mylo et Annie, Lcd soundsystem et Bloc party - i could definitely be best friend with the DJ.
Breakfast at Dusty's, this sunday nite is spelled be cool, stay home.
(This post also appears on the Pop Montreal zine. Cette entrée apparait aussi sur le site de Pop Montréal).
Posted on November 27, 2005 03:56 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Going out
life is art
We found 2 of these grafiti - if you find one and can take a picture of it, post it to the Montreal Street Art pool on flickr.
Posted on November 26, 2005 05:27 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Arts & design
Les vendredis sont pour tout le monde
LOL - failure on Google
Posted on November 25, 2005 06:53 PM | Comments (3) | in category: Daily thoughts
Natasha
Le désormais célèbre groupe rock Natasha (pod 46 et 44), a maintenant sa désormais célèbre page web. Et ils sont en spectacle ce soir, 20h au Théatre Plaza.
Posted on November 25, 2005 05:39 PM | Comments (0) | in category: Music
