Archive for the ‘ Medias ’ Category

C’mon, admit it. Twitter is useless.

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

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L’impact du Web 2.0 sur le monde journalistique

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 …

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You want consumer service? Tweet!

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 …

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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy

“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

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The Paranoid Center

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

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Having fun with fake guns

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 …

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The 4 sides of events

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 …

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Choisir les armes c’est gagner le duel

« 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, …

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Canada’s federal election 2008

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 …

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George Carlin 1937-2008

L’auteur du sketch “Seven dirty words” parlant des sept mots que l’on ne peut pas dire à la télévision – Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits – est mort récemment d’une crise de coeur à l’âge de 71 …

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