Being a french quebecer today’s the first time that i read about Black Friday, the “SHOPPING SPREE TIME” call so popular in America. Coverage of the event in incredible, just look at sites like blackfriday.info, it has a 3-days lifetime each year! That’s specialization at its best. This “holiday” presence in Canada so far seems [...]

by Isaac Asimov
Jehan Shuman was used to dealing with the men in authority on long-embattled earth. He was only a civilian but he originated programming patterns that resulted in self-directing war computers of the highest sort. Generals, consequently listened to him. Heads of congressional committees too.
There was one of each in the special lounge of [...]

It’s a Free Country, so why can’t I pick the technology I use in the office?

At the office, you’ve got a sluggish computer running aging software, and the email system routinely badgers you to delete messages after you blow through the storage limits set by your IT department. Searching your company’s internal Web site feels [...]

You don’t know why people tweet? This guy doesn’t know either. And i’m still not sure what’s the point.
The Case Against Twitter
In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.
Despite this, I can’t begin to add up how many times, as a member of the media, [...]

Sa vie et ceux qui l’ont influencé
Edward Bernays nait à Vienne en 1891. Sa famille déménage aux États-Unis l’année suivante et c’est là qu’il vit le reste de ses jours. Il gradue en 1912 de l’Université de Cornell en agriculture, mais décide plutôt de devenir journaliste. Il consacre sa carrière à la définition de cette [...]

Le journalisme est un domaine reposant en très grande partie sur le partage et la diffusion de l’information, il est donc facile de s’imaginer que le web 2.0 l’influençera. L’étape des prévisions théoriques est déjà terminée et les effets sont bien réels. Ce nouveau paradigme n’a pas fini de fortement remodeler l’environnement journalistique tel que [...]

Le « Web 2.0 » désigne la vision du web qui inclut le concept de réseau d’usagers à tout les niveaux;

la collaboration communautaire entre utilisateurs et concepteurs
le design axé sur l’utilisateur et ce qu’il apporte
l’importance des données et de leur circulation

Une révolution?
Bien que le terme pourrait laisser croire à une révolution technologique, il s’agit plutôt [...]

The defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don’t we talk about it more?

The consensus Year of Revolution for most of our lifetimes has been 1968, with its political assassinations, its Parisian protests, and a youth-culture rebellion that the baby boomers [...]