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“An iPod is like the drawer of a night stand - you shouldn’t go looking through someone else’s without their permission.”
— “Private property” sur I Love Kiernan (July 22nd, 2008)
“Our commenting systems really suck. I didn’t realize just how badly they sucked until I started using FriendFeed. My comments here are gummed up with moderation, with spam filters that only sorta work, that don’t have threading, and have many other problems ranging from needing to be signed into, to not working on mobile devices very well, to requiring you to enter weird numbers or do math just to be able to post a comment. What does this mean? Only the most motivated will leave comments. That’s usually someone with an axe to grind. I’m so tired of those kinds of conversations “Scoble, you’re an idiot.” Hey, I already know that.” — “Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you” par Robert Scoble qui signe là un excellent billet à lire en entier (July 22nd, 2008)
“Ce qu’on appelle l’hyperprésidence n’est qu’une hyperprésence médiatique. Pompidou avait infiniment plus de pouvoir que Sarkozy. Il ne devait pas composer avec la Commission européenne, les collectivités locales, les multinationales… Prenez l’exemple de l’usine Mittal de Gandrange : le président Pompidou aurait immédiatement décroché son téléphone pour demander au patron d’une entreprise publique de racheter ce site. Aujourd’hui, Sarkozy doit obtenir l’accord des maires pour imposer le service minimum dans les écoles…”
— Guy Carcassonne : “On ne constitutionnalise pas le sarkozysme” sur Le Monde.fr (July 22nd, 2008)
“Ces quatre députés PS constatent que malgré les cartes qu’il avait en mains, le PS n’a été capable, ni d’empêcher cette réforme, ni de l’infléchir. Bref, il n’a servi à rien ! Depuis un an, c’est d’ailleurs comme cela, le PS ne sert à rien, n’apporte rien sinon du bruit, de la fureur et un renforcement de cette culture politique de la haine qui lui permet de masquer le vide de ses propositions et la vacuité de ses leaders.”
— “Remettre les choses à leur place” sur Authueil (July 22nd, 2008)
“Conclusion : sur ce qu’elle permettra, la révision est plutôt une bonne nouvelle pour les institutions française. Sur ce qu’elle aurait pu être, c’est une vraie occasion manquée, qui ne reviendra pas de sitôt. Et la France est bien partie pour conserver longtemps deux traits qui la distinguent défavorablement parmi les démocraties modernes : une deuxième chambre structurellement acquise à un camp, et des députés qui sont, majoritairement, des élus locaux plutôt que des représentants du peuple.”
— “Le bien est l’ennemi du mieux” sur Ceteris Paribus (July 22nd, 2008)
“(citant François Sauvadet, député Nouveau Centre) “Fidèles aux idées que le Nouveau Centre a toujours porté” hein quoi Sauvabaudet ? Le Centre ? Porter des idées ? Sur des sujets aussi compliqués ? Petit plaisantin va. Surtout que dans Le Monde, je ne sais plus quel idiot du NC racontait que leur principal souci, c’était d’avoir des garanties sur le maintien de leurs circonscriptions. Putes pour routiers.”
— Pierre-L fait avec brio le live-blogging du Congrès de Versailles dans “Front républicain contre la réforme des Institutions” sur forum-scpo.com (July 21st, 2008)
Law, Order & The Batman (via cowboyo)
“The promise of the cloud is flawed. It’s a leaky abstraction. We’re sold on the idea of a bulletproof, hands-off service that we’ll never need to think about and that abstracts away the petty vulnerabilities of individual servers. But in reality, the cloud itself is still running on a bunch of individual servers, and it’s still built and operated by a bunch of fallible humans.”
— “Cloudy promises” par Marco (July 20th, 2008)
It all makes sense now. It’s all a part of Jeff Bezos’ evil plan. Give cheap hosting to the biggest time-wasters in people’s lives, then make it all disappear. The internet is over. Time to look into this “reading books” thing.
Update: Oh, and it’s just a coincidence that Amazon is having a sale right now on books. Right.
“Geeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM. The irony was lost on some as they ran home, docked their new devices into a proprietary media player and downloaded closed source applications wrapped in DRM.
I am referring to the new iPhone - and the new Apple iPhone SDK that allows developers to build ‘native’ applications. The announcement was greeted with a web-wide standing ovation, especially from the developer community. The same community who demand all from Microsoft, feel gifted and special when Apple give them an inch of rope. When Microsoft introduced DRM into Media Player it was bad bad bad - and it wasn’t even mandatory, it simply allowed content owners a way to distribute and sell content from anywhere.”
— “The New Apple Walled Garden” par Nik Cubrilovic sur TechCrunchIT (July 15th) (via Transnets)
“It’s also clear that they like what they see at Friendfeed, which expertly combined the idea of an activity stream that was first popularized by Facebook with the microblogging trend introduced by Twitter. Users constantly add content that their friends read and comment on, which creates yet new content. The virtuous page-view creating cycle continues.”
— “The Friendfeedization Of Facebook” par Michael Arrington (July 21st, 2008)
Et c’est très bien comme ça. Que Facebook nous débarasse enfin des applications virales et hiddeuses à la con et nous donne la possibilité de 1/ centraliser notre production 2.0 ; 2/ de la partager avec nos amis ; 3/ d’en faire la base de nos conversations.
Dès lors FriendFeed ne servira plus à rien.
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Suddenly, 4chan’s elusive creator found himself the subject of articles in two of America’s heavyweight publications: Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal, which named him as Christopher Poole, a New Yorker who was only 15 when, with the help of his mother’s credit card, he launched 4chan from his bedroom five years ago. Time hailed him as the ‘Master Of Memes’ and described 4chan as ‘the wellspring from which a lot of internet culture, and hence popular culture, bubbles’. […] Inspired by a forum in Japan, the site has an unpolished retro look, as rough and ready as a scrapbook. It is an online community at its purest and rawest, the antithesis of polished networks such as Facebook: 4chan is like a brick wall where people can daub graffiti without fear of a comeback. Child pornography is banned, but otherwise there are few rules. Some posts are gloriously childish and nonsensical. Others can be racist, homophobic and misogynistic and peppered with four-letter words. Unlike most social networks, no one has to register a name or sign in. Consequently, the community has been described as a lawless Wild West of the web, a place of uninhibited bawdiness and verbal violence. A teenager in Texas posted a photograph of hoax pipe bombs and a threat to blow up his school on the anniversary of 9/11, but another user contacted police and the teenager was arrested.
However, the free-for-all has also been liberating, turning 4chan into an ideas laboratory and unleashing a ferocious creative force. Though most of what appears soon vanishes and is forgotten, the stuff that survives can easily jump to the wider web community and ‘go viral’, passing from person to person across the world.
” — “The 20-year-old at heart of web’s most anarchic and influential site” par David Smith pour The Observer (July 20th, 2008)“Le régime présidentiel à l’américaine n’est pas un régime pour la France. Et il ne faut pas toujours avoir peur de l’ambiguïté [de l’article 20 de la Constitution]. Elle peut avoir des avantages. […] Il est possible qu’à l’avenir des modifications importantes de la Constitution paraissent souhaitables. Tout cela reste ouvert. Nous y penserons ensuite, si nous avons le temps. […] Nous aurons montré qu’elle n’est pas immuable. Une Constitution, comme disait Solon, est bonne pour un peuple et pour un temps. Il ne faut pas la momifier.” — Charles de Gaulle, cité par Alain Peyrefitte en 1962 dans C’était De Gaulle, ed. Quarto Gallimard (1994), pp. 242 et 250