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Hello everybody, a quick post today, here is a very interesting website called CityOneMinutes, which features one minute videos of the main cities in the world. First interest is that these are local artists' that give an insight on their culture. Secondly the interface allows you to browse through space and time in this large video material. As a consequence you can have a glance at what's happening in cairo and budapest at the same time ! Here is the link - good experience ! http://www.cityoneminutes.org

The LIFT conference is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Latest venue is held in Korea. Note that it's supported by french R&D survey company FING (Fondation Internet Nouvelle Generation). Dennis Pamlin, who is Global Policy Advisor for the WWF, introduces the ecological challenges we face and contrast them with most of the technological progresses. His talk delineates a set of filters to understand how to judge innovation, linking with the long-term consequences it might have on the planet.

"Terve" à tous, cet article est en français car je pense que dans cette histoire nous sommes ceux qui avont le plus à apprendre. En effet, notre système éducatif bien que réputé et complet (culture générale d'un élève français au BAC supérieure à celle de la plupart des autres systèmes), a tout de même de grosses lacunes. La principale est celle qui concerne l'autonomie des élèves et leur capacité à s'automotiver ou s'orienter, tout est à faire : on ne leur apprend pas à apprendre par eux-même, et donc à s'intéresser aux choses. Nous sommes dans un système magistral très rigide qui ne donne pas place à l'interprétation personnelle ou au dialogue. Une bonne illustration d'une méthode plus compréhensive est celle des finlandais, qui sont classés premiers en terme de résultats et de réussite scolaire depuis 10 ans, et ce dans tous les domaines ! Un fait révélateur de cette philosophie est qu"ils appèlent l'école primaire "école de la com...

Here is a 40min discours by Barack Obama to the NAACP (most influencial right defender association since 100 years in USA), concerning racial issue regarding american values and today's politics. I found it as usual very just and touching, but unusually putting the light on the president's views on race issues. As a matter of fact Obama didn't talk much about this issue during the elections, as he was probably afraid to take too much side for a community and risk to miss a concensius, which i can understand. But truth is that he could have tried the shot, in my opinion his vision of this is very relevant once more, as it puts in perspective all american values and the very definition of the american dream ! He takes care not to seperate colored communities in fight against present system, but reafirms american values that can help them integrate better, and reassure them that on the other side government is legiferating in the same direction. No more say, see for yourself :...

Men and women have always had hard time to communicate, understand eachother and so on. This article (french source) tells you what you felt and couldnt put words on, and some other things you didnt even consider i'm sure (for exemple women hear 2.3 times as loud as men ! Theregoes they attach much more importance to the tone than us!). It's a excellent reading for everyone for a better understanding of eachother ! Serge Ginger shrine, does so by defining main moods, pyschological characteristics and attitudes considering genes, congenital and educationnal aspects for each genre. There you go have fun reading : Link to article

Hello there, after a while unpublishing i'm back with another article concerning cars & environment, but not energy wise this time... A quite surprising, for one not asking himself, initiative from farmers in one french region : they measured the collect of garbage they gathered around their fields on the small national roads : 1 ton of everything you can imagine in just one of our 90 departements (regional area equivalent to county). The operation of collecting is to be renewed and the communication of this one did a nice deal of sensibilisation ! Here you can find the official ppt with details - dwnld here

Hey you guys, here's an interesting little thing I did with my friend Rodney ! The AltiWishCard, its an interactive wishcard for 2009 ! You participate and it grows, at the end of the month the global piece of art you'll have done will be send to you ;) La carte de voeux interactive de Altima° pour 2009, une oeuvre interactive que j'ai réalisé avec mon ami Rodney, un petit exercice de style bien sympathique, allez-y vous ne serez pas déçu ;) http://www.altiwishcard.com

This is a creation of former Volkswagen advanced design studio. I worked some with this guys on this concept, it was initially the idea of the 1€ car : paid by the medias you could fit in, the mairies that would lend them in a "autolib" system just by the bycicles and environmental state credits. It's electrical firstly, outstandingly light and simple to use. The prototype is now out on the streets :

Hi, this has made a lot of noise in the last few days on the web, fortunatly the one concerned by the buzz is probably not surfing much... I'm talking about Frédéric Lefebvre, a close friend of Sarkozy who is ment to become the State secretary for digital economy. When the BFM tv journalist asked him what he was thinking about web 2.0 (a fairly widespread concept nowadays... even for rookies), the comedy started... See the video below for your own judgement, even non french speakers will ear hesitation in the answer. But not only this man is not understanding at all what he'll be supposed to look for, he also has dangerous ideas. For instance controlling every box in every house, checking up what is down & uploaded, and let the CSA (Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel) look for what is to be published online. That last one prouves again that he doesn't understand the importance and possibilities of the new media in the economy of tomorrow, putting a control over cont...

Muji is known to provide with simple, efficient and rather cheap products. Thus it has been for long taken for a "jap house fashion" shop. It is not, not a fashion, nor a minimalist style (subjet to change thus faster renew of products). It's a real phylosophy of consumerism, simply described in this small dedicated website, a lesson for our way to see things ::: http://www.muji.com/message/

For the ones who didn't yet see it : An inconvinient Truth is quite a stroke. Not that we didn't know about global warming, but this documentary of Al Gore shows us to what extent it has reached, and how heavy are the changes we have to make in our industry and economic system. Here is the link to a friend's page about it, and other 3D video made by an animator, another good call. http://www.aolistudio.com/saveme Wish you a good screening !

Here's an interesting interview of an old designer, having a rather clear idea of what is design. In my sens this is more talking of communication-graphic design. The word "content" could be replaced by "function" or associated with. Be the principle of it, is the same. Hope this can enlighten some of you on our role. :)

PROCESSES AT WORK IN BASIC LEADERSHIP SYSTEMS ::::::::::: Totalitarian system, i.e one man gouvernance plus suppliers, would be the perfect match, if that man, and his "arms" where totally devoted to the human cause. Unfortunatly history has shown that one man cannot take such a thing without loosing his mind. Greed, paranoia, pride, deprive him finally, of any ability to take clear jugement. It may not come initally from him, but his pretendants will soon start, then forcing him to do so... Democratic government system on the other hand, is working fine until a certain point of sofistication of a society. Because the number of intepretations for reality perception, before arriving to the governance deciders, is becoming to big. The rigorous perception of people's reality is twisted on the way up, not only by natural distortion of synthesis, but also by the personnal ambitions of the persons doing this synthesis. After replicating this processes a certain ...

juste un lien vers un article, qui, une fois de plus , m'a fait m'insurger contre ce gouvernement, qui veux faire bouger les choses, mais dans quel sens ? Le CNRS institution réputée pour son intégrité dans la recherche fondamentale, a failli, et est encore en danger, être démantelée. La volonté du ministère est de le découper en secteurs pour une meilleure affiliation aux entreprises, avec à la tête de chaque département, un membre du parti ! On se croirait dans un scénario à la big brother... Je parlais d'intégrité, et ce qui la définie je pense c'est le détachement de la recherche d'un principe mercantile et sa neutralité politique (les deux étant curieusement liés). Sinon on retombe dans l'horreur, exemple des lobbi des groupes pharmaceutiques. Or le décret qui allait être appliqué, si les chercheurs ne s'étaient pas mobilisés, allait anéantir ces deux aspects, et qui plus est, réduire considérablement l'aspect pluridisciplinaire (fondamental aussi j...

hello, here is the necessary post to get into technorati, a kind of search engine for blogs, hopping to diffuse more widely the good talk of the GloggiBlog ;) Technorati Profile

Hello, today again another post, wow it's christmas ! Anyway here are two stuff you might find very usefull : - site Collectons.org > donne toutes les infos sur la manière de recycler les vieux matériels électroniques et le reste en généal ----- gives all information on how to recycle old electronics, specifically what you dont know what to do with, and everything in general. - carte des pistes cyclables paris ---- paris cycling map : télécharger-download (1Mo)

Here is a definition in French, by Alhouss, of what is to be seen as the next economico-sociological trend of the 21st century ! Thanks Alhouss, Enjoy ! NB ::: blue text are my notes, not part of it // les notes en bleu sont les miennes ne pas les prendre en compte dans le discours.! ---- begenning of quote ----------- Quid du system Episode I. Qui de la poule ou de l’œuf a précédé l’autre ? Le droit a-t-il précédé la morale ou inversement? Si le droit s’entend comme un ensemble de règles juridiques visant à régir le comportement des hommes en société, il n’en reste pas moins qu’il demeure un système, du moins en Europe continentale, qui se veut un ordonnancement global de la société. Toute société est régie par un système, un paradigme donné qui est la source des us et coutumes, traditions et habitudes sociales. >>> Le droit est le « système » qui régit toute société humaine. Il se base sur les us et coutumes et les normalise (et non le contraire !). Le contrat en e...

Is it time for appple to stop making us dream of something that we dont need anymore ? Or how the sleak design doesn't mean anything more than trend now. For long apple have had a reputation of a firm doing computers integraly, and with integrity (from the hardware to the software by cool designers ;p), which made its growing success. Somehow, one could say that Steve Jobs (CEO and creator of Apple) has wone the battle against Bill Gates (CEO and creator of Microsoft), once his friend and co-nerd developper, than his worst enemy. Eventhough Microsoft owns 20% of Apple since 1996 (for more info about the story, see the movie "pirates of the silicon valley"), they've been able to keep on track : doing the products considering the good use of it (user experience first !). One of the reason today sells on portable computers are 50% for Apple and up to 15% on desktop computers, compared to only 5% of the market all in all before... ! For all that, and its not little, RESPE...

There you go, the pics of that cool weekend ! Good memories! See ya pals ! >>> download zip (11Mo)

Hello everybody, here's a simple observation everybody can make today. When you watch a mass media, whatsoever, you can observe mainly 2 things : _ news about catastrophies, or personal scandals. Always a good seller...! _ news about products and the way they influence our society, how consummerism becomes fancy. Here's the simple, maybe naïve and certainly not new, proposition I make : the focus should now be made on how : _ products help our lifes to be more simple , more full and constructive (meaning a totally different range of products to be presented). "Non products" or DIY should be a rubric of everyday news too (how to recycle and stuff like that) . _ some people or organisation acts influenced local or international evolution of our society. Concrete solutions for actual issues. Personnal and communitarian success stories... NB ::: > All that being of course very rigorous considering sourcing, and those being transparently put forward, specially ...