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 [...]

Phones are so last decade, expressing your griefs in public gets more attention and that’s not a good thing for a company’s image. The ease of communication of social networks combined with something bad to say about a product/service is a really powerful weapon to wield in today’s world. For now those events are rare [...]

“I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization,” she says. For Lunsford, technology isn’t killing our ability to write. It’s reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any [...]

How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent by Jesse Walker on Reason.com

On June 10, 2009, an elderly man entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, raised a rifle, and opened fire, killing a security guard named Stephen Tyrone Johns. Two other guards shot back, wounding the gunman before he [...]

Au Québec, on ne devrait pas avoir de Crashed Ice. Imaginez un peu! C’est faire la promotion de l’anglais que de donner un nom international à un événement international. Malheureusement pour nous, ça adonne que c’est aussi la langue contre laquelle nos extrémistes locaux en ont. Si nos ancêtres avaient été envahis par des Italiens, [...]

Cultural events (shows, expositions, etc.) need four forces at play. It will be a total failure if one of these components is missing, period. It’s frequent to have someone or some organization doing more than one task, but you will always have those fours at any of these event. A great way to summarize a [...]

« Université du Crime » a été un mot clé de la dernière élection au Québec. Duceppes le répétant à tous les 3 phrases en parlant des projets de lois sur les jeunes contrevenants. C’est un brillant coup de communication, quand on contrôle les termes on contrôle le débat.
« Université du crime » colporte beaucoup [...]

p style=”text-align: justify;”>I’ve just completed a 4-men-army (well, for the election part) job of presenting a candidate in a conservative riding for the NPD in the last canadian election (kinda like going democrat in texas). I’m a libertarian so it was not because i’m a believer, i’ve done this for friends, it was quite a [...]