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Re: France Votes DSK’s Wife “Woman Of The Year.” Um, What?

zackatoustra — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:52:36 -0000

This poll have made people talk. A lot. In the end, what we can say is that people surveyed by this poll are really dumb. Because they voted "woman of the year" the woman who (indirectlty) made the news, tabloïd style rather than political or economical or whatever-as-long-as-it's-useful style.

Seriously, what kind of image of the women can that kind of insanity give to french people, or from french people abroad?! That you just need to stand by your unfaithful sex-addict husband to deserve this title?
How could women accept to be represented for the year 2011 by this woman, who, by her personal wealth helped her offending husband get out of a trial any normal convicted person wouldn't have escaped from?

(Disclaimer: I'm french)

Re: Les affiches de films se ressemblent toutes…

zackatoustra — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:16:40 -0000

Flagrant délit de pompage honteux! http://ohnotheydidnt.livejo...

Re: Quand l’UMP organise sa petite campagne par mailing-list

zackatoustra — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:28:51 -0000

Et y'a que les journalistes qu'ont le droit de s'abonner à cette newsletter, ou elle est ouverte au public? On a le droit de rigoler, nous aussi!

Re: Pandora: The money-losing music machine - Fortune Tech

zackatoustra — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:55:04 -0000

They won't find easier markets in Europe! At least, not in France, where majors still manage to dictate medieval licensing schemes.
Maybe that the momentum of such a big "web radio" could influence somehow the way the music industry looks at the future: instead of making a successful music site/application loose money, why wouldn't you try to draw conclusion on what needs to change? (I'm indeed an irredeemable naïve person)

Re: Test your website before you build it! (First look at Zurb’s Verify)

zackatoustra — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:31:41 -0000

Hey guys, nothing new under the sun here!
Heatmap heuristic evaluation of wireframe/lo-fi prototype has been around for a while now. And is INDEED very useful to tweak, on one hand the scannability of the home page/important secondary pages, on another hand the graphic layout of any page.

Cool if Verify add the Social Twist to that set of tools.
But then, I'd rather have insisted on that Social "plus".

Am i wrong?

Re: http://talala.tumblr.com/post/1343975142

zackatoustra — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:33:18 -0000

Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'humour, un peu de créativité, un peu de temps, un peu de zyeux rouges: la recette du blues!...

Re: What do I do now?

zackatoustra — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:32:26 -0000

Really interesting reading... Thanks for all of us, God created sundays, the days where some amongst us think about their live and projects.
I happen to be a few steps behind you, Bruce, and sharing your thoughts about the difference between "being good at something" and "working on something really fulfilling" is a very nice help for (some of) us.

One thing I noticed: you refer to "mentors". Are these people in the organization(s) you've been working on?

Re: Why aren't you using git-flow? - Jeff Kreeftmeijer

zackatoustra — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:34:23 -0000

Just great! Nothing more to add!

Re: Distributed social networking

zackatoustra — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:51:34 -0000

Hi,
I've stumbled on this blog, then post while searching for practices on handling validity checks on ALSB...
Besides that, I also consider pub theorising a must for any person willing to change the world, so mentionning it made me want to comment on the post.

The question is : how to reach a critical mass for a free (for users) and "thus" not-profitable (for companies) service? I have no answer...

Until now, only two solutions have been considered:
1.Advertisement-generated revenue.... For ISP? or for your "average user", hypothetically owning his/her own server...
2.Data mining. Which is what we don't want. Or, maybe, if the results of the data mining themselves were publically available, that could interest people. Or not?

Re: Sharing on Facebook Now More Popular than Sharing by Email

zackatoustra — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:32:51 -0000

The only thing we can conclude from that figures is that what is shared through AddToAny is mainly shared on Facebook. Nothing more.

Re: What a 140-char message looks like in RSS (Scripting News)

zackatoustra — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:37:10 -0000

Masonlee, absolutey.
But I've seen (received) a couple (a lot) of replies that were not
associated to the original tweet. I should have added that to make my
thought clearer.
So, my comment was not correct at all in that sense. Unfortunately, I
didn't find a way of editing my comment afterwards...

Re: What a 140-char message looks like in RSS (Scripting News)

zackatoustra — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:35:09 -0000

At last!
Thanks M.Winer for getting into the rationalisation of the tweeter ecosystem production. The main objective here, I think, is to provide a structure of the metadata used by and useful for reader of such messages.
Human reader as well as non-human reader, of course.
What I see is that the only "metadata" currently used is the @ sign and the RT mention, that have their meaning.
So, there's plenty of room for metadata to fuel the twitter semantics.

Inclusion of external resource:
The context in which a link is included is indeed, a potential issue. It could be solved by inserting placeholders into the message (like %1 to refer to the first link), but I'm afraid that this solution would bring too much complexity in the original message (that should remain/become human readable again)

Threaded conversations:
One metadata that is way underrated is the "reply to" message id. I still don't understand why any twitter client doesn't use this valuable piece of information to visually reflect the threading of twiiter conversations.
So, sometimes, the (meta)data is here, but nobody cares!

Re: mikropikol

zackatoustra — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:45:53 -0000

Ouf. J'ai eu peur de voir un kol avec un morpion. En fait non : c'est un kol sexy, avec un morpion mimi.

Re: EU Wants Tighter Privacy on Social Networks

zackatoustra — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:44:50 -0000

Great to see that European Union decides to take the problem in hands, and tries to establish some sort of "rules/recommendations/guidelines" that restrain the "SNS providers" (read Social Network Service) from playing to much with our private data...

Re: mikropikol

zackatoustra — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:40:46 -0000

Ah bâ, si c'est que ça, je passe, je regarde, et je ne m'arrête pas, alors..

Re: Twitter. Needs. Competition. (Scripting News)

zackatoustra — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:55:49 -0000

Back to serious matters :
Facebook can add a "feature" that would provide real microblogging/"chat" to their users. But, it won't compete with Twitter, because Twitter is, by essence, into that : "microblogging/chat".
The question for me remains to understand why, oh why, identi.ca doesn't manage to bring more people to "their" community.

Then, we can talk about some "meta-tool" that would aggreate anyone microblogging's activities, whatever the service he had chosed.
But, I guess we already have FriendFeed (amongst others) for that.

Re: Twitter. Needs. Competition. (Scripting News)

zackatoustra — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:52:33 -0000

"Most'd rather sit on a stone next to a celebrity than on a leather sofa with a neighbor."
Wait, I was about to leave a comment, but I'll need to think a little longer on that one..

Re: J’ai évidemment été tentée, durant une décennie,... ❤ Digital Crumble

zackatoustra — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:25:43 -0000

La conclusion est donc "Aux hommes le bricolage, aux femmes les tâches ménagères" ?
C'est un peu tristounet comme conclusion, je trouve.

Sinon, peut-être y'a-t-il un cas à traiter : le cas où ni l'un ni l'autre des partenaires ne "sait bien faire" la tâche. Dans ce cas-là, j'espère bien qu'on prévoit de se soutenir, et de se "serrer les coudes", non?

Re: Tout d’abord, je me suis rendue compte que je... ❤ Digital Crumble

zackatoustra — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:23:25 -0000

Food for thoughts. La prochaine fois que mes questionnements se mettront à gargouiller sans fin, j'irai briquer le lavabo, pour voir. Et non, ce commentaire n'est pas ironique. Hier, je regardais "The constant gardner", et dans une scène, on voit le "héros", bouleversé d'impuissance face à la mort de sa femme, se lancer dans un débroussaillage compulsif du jardin de la défunte. Cela ne dure pas. Mais, peut-être s'est-il alors rendu compte que beaucoup de problèmes peuvent être réglés en y réfléchissant dans un environnement "sain".

Re: Google Badge OPML on Friendfeed? YES

zackatoustra — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:59:08 -0000

Great great job you've done here!
BUT : IMHO, You should your "post-scriptum" in big large bold visible font before everything.
Cause, as the geek I am, I went through "debugging" the pipe, and finding that it worked only if http link was used before seeing the solution.
"If you use Google Reader in Https your badge link is in https, just use the same link in http :)"

Anyhow, that's huge, thanks again.

Re: Twitter is Not Your Average Social Network

zackatoustra — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:38:32 -0000

Excuse-me...Who said that Twitter was a social network again?

Re: Twitter as coral reef, cont'd (Scripting News)

zackatoustra — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:50:40 -0000

"My next sub-project is to create a bookmarklet that makes it super-easy for anyone to start a comment thread on any Twitter post they like."

Isn't that what the Feedly Minibar (small sharing toolbar located at the bottom of web pages) makes possible?
It indicates any FriendFeed conversation going on about the current page. Pretty useful to catch other friendfeeder's thoughts on a subject.

Re: Adding Google Friend Connect is an example of how hard it is to join the 2010 web

zackatoustra — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:33:58 -0000

I think, IamChrisLang, that you didn't get the point Scoble was making.
And, please allow me , Mr. Mussie Shore to say that your comment is not really the kind of reaction i had expected from the Manager of Product that should the Google Social Network.

Anyway, back to my reaction to IamChrisLang's comment :
We (probably more than ) average internet users, we don't want to watch a 5 minutes, or 10 minutes long tutorial on how you can add Google Friend Connect to our site.
*We just want to add Google Friend Connect to our site.*

Why cant'I have a big googly button somewhere on a page I read everyday (like, I don't know, let's be crazy : you email page)? That button would ask you if you'd like to add Google Friend Connect to your site.
Oh, yeah, by the way, Google has your email adress. So, you won't need to provide it.
Oh, sorry, maybe, you'll have to. Because they didn't yet finished building the biggest social network (some sort of Internet Planet) on this side of the internet galaxy. Anyhow.

I don't want to download a ftp client, or a Firefox plugin, to help me accomplish this should-be-easy task.
I don't want to think.

Hey, guys, from the Internet!
Yeah, you. I'm talking to you.
When the heck are you going to stop making me thinking when I'm on the Web?
Didn't you RTFB (B, like book) : http://www.sensible.com/buy... ?

Scoble is talking about the 2010 Web.
And we're actually still stuck in basic usabillity issues we should have finished adressing 5 years ago, at least.

Internet :
"This is a geeks's world, this is a geeks's world
But it will be nothing, nothing without a usability expert or a customer"

Thanks for the attention.

Re: When will Twitter start for real? (Scripting News)

zackatoustra — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:41:20 -0000

Quite insightful thoughts in here.

I guess we've all realized by now that microblogging (and Twitter for that matter) is nothing less than blogging. It showed the mainstream techies (and Oprah, as well) that creating a personal stream was easy. Thus, enabling anyone to "say it loud", creating a "really real-time" stream of information.
Indeed, Twitter was not meant not solve the problem of Information Overload. Actually, Twitter was just meant to empower real-time conversation. It happened to become a stream of news and opinions. Not only a stream, but, well yes, a river.

I really feel that FriendFeed is trying to solve this problem. It's a nice implementation of the "Source" paradigm : we're all sources of information, some useless, some useful, and worth sharing. Even filtering (or "liking") information is a way of creating information : pertinency in this filtering helps "mowing" the lawn of information.

Re: How to: Use Zemanta to recommend articles from your own blog(s)

zackatoustra — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:39:09 -0000

Awesome!
I've been eagerly waiting for the imlpemntation of this feature.

Zemanta is, have I told you, amongst the tools of the 21st century blogging?