How to decide?

Decisions can be tricky, they can come to a crawl or frustrate the people who have to live with them. They can be decided by the leader, the team or a combinaison of both. Where is your organization on the …

Gaga et Bieber, des machines sociales

Currently, Lady Gaga has more than 19 million fans on her Facebook page. On Twitter, she boasts 6.6 million followers. Even on Ping, Apple’s slow-to-grow social network for music, the pop sensation has close to a half-million followers. Justin Bieber …

The good way to talk about you

From Seth Godin’s blog post on about pages.

1. Don’t use meaningless jargon.
2. Don’t use a stock photo of someone who isn’t you (if there is a stock photo of you, congratulations). The more photos of you and your team, the

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Le futile orgueil des «vrais» journalistes

Source: Journal Métro…

Slogans are warcries

The word “slogan” originally derives from sluagh-gairm or sluagh-ghairm (sluagh = “people”, “army” and gairm = “call”, “proclamation”), the Scottish Gaelic word for “gathering-cry” and in times of war for “battle-cry”. The Gaelic word was borrowed into English as slughorn, …

Draw Mohammed, Ban Facebook

How do you make a popular social networking site utterly useless for a whole country and its 45 millions users? Let a religous court find a lame excuse to do it!

A Pakistani court has issued a ban on the

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Blog blogué

Contrepied de Travail sur le blogue, présenté sur mon blog dans le cadre du cours COM-6032

Introduction

Dans cet essai, nous réagirons à un essai portant sur l’apparition des plateformes de publications électroniques. Nous les appelons habituellement « blogs », diminutif de …

The real threat is not the one reported

The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.

McConnell’s not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows

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Too soon is dead

1. Nodar Kumaritashvili crash at the Vancouver’s Olympics.

A horrific crash during training for the Olympic luge competition, which is scheduled to begin Saturday, killed Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili.

The 21-year-old was thrown from the track and smashed his head

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Technologie et société, l’un ne va pas sans l’autre

Qu’est-ce que le déterminisme technologique?

Le déterminisme technologique (DT) est une théorie sociale réductionniste. Le réductionnisme étudie les systèmes complexes en les réduisant à des éléments simples et à leurs interactions, dans le cas présent la technologie et son influence. …