DISQUS

Tu peux dans des cas pareils essayer un soft d'aspiration de sites comme HT Tracks... ça suit tous les liens et ça fait une copie de la page html sur le disque.

You're right, you did not say it was non-profit :) and interesting enough, I get this kind of feeling from the overall discussion in the post. I think I translated your "work for love" into "non-profit" :)

I also agree with Nicole on this "what is in it for me", it is better than "fame" because "fame" is just a part of it. Some people would look for example for an experience, and a proof that they can do something, some people would look for the opportunity to reach some others, some people might be interested on starting a partnership.
For example on one of my projects, which is fundraising, I bartered working for nothing at the beginning, till they get the funds, for a higher price at the end, that pays for my risk they never get the funding...

The plugin is Obfuscate email http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/ it's rather old, but works pretty well

And if not, I use http://xhtml.css.free.fr/js-mail.htm with a separate js file that I can re-use on any site. Quite effort-less

I think what you say about soloist is quite true, and to be able to clarify this blur line is essential.
Maybe a topic you should put on your agenda ? ;)
OK, you said you would :)

Right.

The only point here is that the customer, when totally new, may not understand the implications or meaning of what his money is worth.

I have come to the conclusions that under a certain limit, I'm not able to deliver anything worth it. Because the risks are too high, because the odds the experience fails are so high that at the end, I think it's not even worth spending this little amount of money, and it's better for the customer to postpone his experience.

And especially if he is really tight on budget, that's a serious sign that there are many risks for his activity.

Maybe the threshold is 1.5K, and that's why you speak of 2k, depends of the service, but there is also a level you have to say "no"

Actually for the email, I found a good plug-in in for WordPress, that obfuscate any email in a page or a post... and I like it very much. You could also put a little bit javascript to hide it from the spammers like I do on most of the websites I author. That's the best solution, because you can also use it in the header or the footer.

One of my rules for commercial sites is "customers won't search you, you have to give them everything on a tray".

Maybe that comes from my past as a financial controller, but I have a strong tendancy to separate non-profit and profit, and I would say, even more at the stage of going solo ... which does not mean that immediate profit should be the goal, but that there is a field for real work of love, and a field for professionnal profitable activities. May be not separating them so clearly generates the kind of feelings that Tara - and you describe.

Now the profit can be something else than cash. It can be visibility, it can be experience... but it's still a profit.
And it that sense, being the ones who scales the things, because it's the event you are trying to set up does not mean not being collaborative, nor enforcing, it means more bringing a picture people can react to and take their input, which is often easier than ask them something from scratch.

E.g. "I would appreciate if you could do such and such, I estimate it such amount of work, and I think you could get such or such kind of return, do you think it's fair ?" which might be what you do actually.

As a manager, it is up to you to make up your mind about the deal YOU are proposing, whether work for fame, or work for cash.

It seems strange to me to see the word "non-profit" attached to an event, because it calls another world. Non-profit is something which is aimed at something else than being profitable, by nature.
Your "Going Solo" is definitively not "non-profit", even if the first one will not generate profit, it has to be viewed and considered as an investment.

OK, I wanted to go on by mail, and I found a real flaw in your design, it's been over one minute, and I still can't find the "contact" anywhere.

Strange, I remember I found it on the previous version

Well as a photogrpaher, here is the point :

when I'm making photos at an event, I'm doing a paid job, for the organizer of the vent, who is the one who is owning therefore the pictures.

I have no right (unless he stated it clearly before) to distribute these images to anybody else.

"All rights reserved" just means that I'm not ginving, or I cannot give, the use to anybody to use it "like that".

We can discuss how you would use it for your own promotion, but consider that I would not give my work for free. I would ask for a mention "all rights reserved" and my name (so that someone else passing by on your blog does not consider this image to be free of use). I think when I could I would happily do that, but in any case, I would state the limits.

Blogging and organizing events, as well as consulting, is your job.
Photographing is mine, and I don't work for freeu. Neither do you ?

For example, the phot that illustrates your blog is really nice, and maybe it's been made by you, but I would think it's been made by someone else.
Even if this person is not a professionnal photographer, he/she has a right to see his talents recognized, and the name of the photographer should be somewhere.

You're right you have a right to your image. But this is not a co-ownership of a photo

(PS : and you sjould enlarge the comment fild to the width of the page ;)

Very good idea :) please include me in your "spam" ;) list for information about it.

Le bandeau c'est une super idée :)
Je veux des photos !!!

Aç ça le WWPAD ça m'intéresse :)

Je me souviens parfaitement avoir vu passer ton premier post sur cette affaire, où tu étais extrêmement discrète.

En l'occurrence je pense qu'il n'y aurait pas eu ce lavage de linge sale si Ginisty n'avait pas fait son "explication" de la fermeture de Point Blog, ou l'avait fait de façon plus honnête.

Après, quand des choses pareilles sont écrites, il ne faut pas s'étonner du retour de bâton.

Je pense effectivement que ça venait de spam karma, mais non je n'ai pas de copie d'écran...

En fait, ce n'est pas indiqué dans la doc, mais sur le blog où je l'ai installé, le corps des billets se surligne en 'jaune éditable" comme les commentaires.

One important thing is that the US and the European law regarding "copyrght" on one hand and "author right" on the other hand are no totally similar. Copyright inclides everything ie. the "moral right" (not to have one's piece transformed or used in a way the author dislike), when in Europe this moral right and the financial part are two different things. In that sense, it can be important that Keith Richards copyrights are prolongated...

and it can be important alos for another reason, for anybody : there are several cases of songs / pieces and so on that really made the boom after the death of the author. Would that be fair that the big companies could make money on that easily, without paying a dime ?

It's true that some actions are more targeted to "Mr Anyone" than to the techy professionals. That's like drug fighting : scare the ones who use it, and fight the producers with other ways. But you need to scare the users also...

At the end, it's true the majors did not find the appropriate way to deal with this new technologies, and a re just starting to experiment new solutions. But the ones who suffered most were not the majors, they were the artists.

Je pense que tu fais fausse route effectivement en partant du côté des éditeurs.

Quelle est le but premier de ton projet ? Pas de faire un livre rentable, (et c'est dur de faire un livre rentable), pas de faire un roman qui passionne les foules, pas non plus de faire un buzz professionnel (même si ça en sera un aussi), mais de contribuer à aider dans le domaine de la communication, de l'éducation, des enfants, des relations avec les parents.

Aide, support, analyse : tout ça pour moi c'est pain béni pour une fondation, pour un organisme soit privé, soit étatique, qui travaille dans ce domaine.

Je ne connais pas en Suisse, mais peut-être pourrais tu intéresser la fondation Bertelsmann : grand groupe médio et communication, et autrefois internet, (enfin toujours, mais pas aussi directement qu'à l'époque d'AOL), une Stiftung qui travaille particulièrement sur tout ce qui est éducation, et qui a de l'argent...

Et si ce n'est pas eux, il y en a sûrement d'autres.

Maintenant, pour les intéresser, il faut sans doute élargir le cadre de ton projet : faire - ou faire faire - une étude, des chiffres, des faits, bref rentrer dans quelque chose de plus universitaire, comme "annexe" à ton livre.

En termes de liens, on peut faire tous les liens qu'on veut vers mes sites.
En revanche en termes d'images, il faut être clair : hotlink ou pas hotlink, si ce n'est pas autorisé, c'est une ateinte aux droits d'auteurs, point barre (la "citation" n'existe pas pour les oeuvres graphiques).

Donc lient non autorisé : je râle
Lien autorisé : je demande systématiquemnt un hotlink avec mention de la source et du copyright. Le fait que ce soit un hotlink me facilite la gestion des images, et me permet d'en retirer une d'un coup, si nécessaire

Well of course, it depends of the reference you take :)

And what you call multilingual.

For me, being multilingual is being able to understand and be understood in current situations, without too much help of the hands or drawing (because here we refer to internet...), being able to read a reasonnably simple "fucking manual" and understand it.

For the reference you took, as you were speaking of adapting the internet and software to a multilingual environment, I considered the languages used there. That excludes a lot of them, and for example, for the lagnuages spoken in Malawi, I'm quite sure that there are very few sites in Chitumbuka or Chisena.

Actually, for a language to be used on the internet and/or in a software, it has to be a written language (and if possible with an iso charset, that helos...) and multilingual means also being litterate in both languages.

Which reduces drastically the number of multilingual people because of immigration, for example. Often the first generation has difficulties in writing / reading the new language, even when speaking it correctly, and the third one has forgotten it.

San Francisco and NY are not the US. And even if that's true there are some places where a lot of people speak and read another language than english (and that's the reason why there is a hispanic google), they might be not that fluent in english.

True multilingual countries (which means with litteracy in several languages) are really seldom, India is one of them, Luxembourg another one. For most of the African countries, the multilingualism is actually a split of fields, some fields resort to a language, like private life and family life, usually african language, and another field, business or science, resorts to french, english or portuguese.

In South America, that"s more or less the same, children are mutlilingual, but taught to read and write only in one language.

If you consider the other large countries in the world, Brazil is not multilingual with litteracy, China is a special case, of coexistence of several languages written the same way, but most of the multilingualism is reserved to the different versions of Chinese.... In Europe, there was a study estimating the number of people able to speak in two or more languages up to 20% of the population maximum.

But as you say, the main question is "where do you put the bar" ?

Interesting...It would be a good opportunity to go to Berlin :)

THe only thing is that I find you a litle bit optimistic in your opinion that "most people are multilingual".
Even when taking away the US, which a huge community of monolingual people (but in different languages), "most" of the people are I think basically monolingual.

Because of our lives and interests, our friends and acquantainces are mostly multilingual, but how many times did I see a blank face when I asked someone if he spoke english ?

Ah la puce électronique... c'est en emmenant une de mes chattes se faire "pucer" qu'elle s'est sauvée pendant plus d'une semaine. Avant l'implantation bien sûr !

@Peter
Thanks :) I'll try it.

Peter, could you give the adress of this restaurant in Berlin ? :)

Ah au fait... bon anniversaire :)

To be honest, I thionk this is not Europe vs. US.
In France for example we have the habit to share evenly, and if someone really feels cheated with that, in small groups I always heard it said, and accepted without any problem.
There is a very famous sketch of a French humorist, Muriel Robin, called "the note" (l'addition) that deals with that.

Now when I arrived in Germany, I was surprised and even shocked to see people always making their own counts, even when it was obvious we had eaten more or less the same, and we were both on good budget, which means one or two euros difference would not be a problem. I was looked at strangely at the beginning with my french habit of 50-50 or 25-25-25-25 :) even - and specially - when I was paying less with the actual split than I would have had with the evenly split. People told me "you would have paid 3 euor more" and I answered "well who cares"

So for me, as long as I know we are on equal financial level, I still think it's quicker, and nicer, to make the evenly split. We had a nice moment together, we shared everything equally, laughing, nice talks and so on, and I felt hurt with the detailed split (not anymore, that's acculturation). TO make a comparison, would you imagine when you make a party at home and ask your friends to bring some stuff, that theones who brought bigger cakes or bigger salads or more bottles ask to take some back ?

In small groups, I still thinks there are some ways to deal with it when you have real budget differences, like "I offer the aperitives", or "I offer the wine" (the first bottle in a large group) but we share evenly the food.

For large groups, what I would consider for myself a good solution would be something like "evenly share the food (and specially if you have arranged a menu before ;) ) and separate the drinks"

But definitively, in my culture, even sharing is a part of conviviality.

Thanks for the long post. You seem to have a gret time !

"Like many natives all over the world, I’ve developed a selective blindness to what is “wrong” in the land I come from, considering much of it “normal” as I have been brought up with it."
Interesting enough, that's when I went abroad that I started to question all that and lost that attitude... even if I regularly still have homesickness, but that's a different story

Good question :) indeed.

I care about...
1. photgraphy, art, and litterature
2.international development, third world, poverty, women in underdevelopped countries, religious and cultural clash, and the incresing gap between the WWVRW (white western very rich world) and the rest. (could have a lot of rant also)
3. solving my finance problems
And my husband ... and my cats. Well that's a different field, but I really DO care about him, about them.

D'accord avec toi, Stephanie.

En fait les seules retombées vraiment négatives des commentaires sont celles où la repsonsabilité de l'éditeur du blog peut être mise en cause. Or juridiquement parlant, il me semble qu'elle n'est pas en cause "a priori" mais si il en a eu connaissance, et en même temps que le caractère délictueux du commentaire a été prouvé.

Ce qui n'est pas si simple...