Disparate
A bilingual blog on disparate subjects. Un blogue disparate bilingue.
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Sharing Tool Wishlist - 32 days ago
My personal (potentially crazy) wishlist for a tool to share online content (links/bookmarks). Topics: A, Amazon, analytics, App Store, archiving, automatic processing, BackType, blog comments, blogging systems, bookmarking, bookmarklets, bookmarks, browsers, Chrome, cloud computing, cluefulness, CoComments, comment threads, comment-fishing, content, content editors, Crazy Predictions, creativity, del.icio.us, Diigo, enthusiasm, Facebook, Facebook Connect, Firefox, Flock, folksonomies, getting things done, Google, Google Accounts, Google Browser Sync, Google Friend Connect, Google Notebook, Google Wave, handhelds, hype, is.gd, Jaiku, Link This, linkfest, links, logbook, logging, microblogging, mindmaps, musings, MyBlogLog, MySpace, naïveté, nanoblogging, notebooks, OAuth, online privacy, online publishing, OpenID, openness, optimism, Outlining, pages, participatory culture, personal streaming, personal wishlists, Ping.fm, predictions, productivity, quick add, ramblings, RefWorks, Safari, Share This, social bookmarks, social butterfly effect, social graph, social media, social networks, social software, software, Spurl, Spurl.net, StumpleUpon, tagging, tags, Tech, techno enthusiasts, Technorati, Touch devices, Twistory, Twitter, TwtVite, ultimate tool, URL shortening, Web 2.0, WebCitation, wishful thinking, wishlists, workflow, writing, YouTube, Zoho, Zoho Notebook, Zotero
Social Systems Online (Old Draft) - 32 days ago
Wrote this a while ago, left it in my draft folder in Windows Live Writer. Posting it as-is. RERO!Was sent here (long after the post was submitted) by a friend of mine who knows my interest in using social science to deal with online issues. When eBay... Topics: A
A Glocal Network of City-States? - 80 days ago
Can we even think about a glocal network of city-states? Topics: academic fiction, Acadia, acephalous societies, Africa, African Union, alter-globalization, Anthropology, Antiquity, Athens, épistémè, Beverly Stoeltje, blurred boundaries, BRIC, Byzantium, Canadian content, CanCon, Chindia, cities, citizen of the World, city-states, cluefulness, colonialism, comment-fishing, communitas, Communities, confederacy, confederation, Consensus culture, constructivism, continuity, counting countries, Crazy Predictions, critical thinking, cultural anthropology, cultural diversity, cultural identity, culture, currents, decentralization, Democratic Nation-State, demography, development strategies, discontinuity, diversity, dual citizenship, dystopia, ecological crisis, egalitarianism, Empowerment, epidemics, essentialism, ethnocentrism, Europe, Europe des régions, Europe of Regions, European Union, feudalism, financial crisis, Fluidity, folkloristics, foreign policy, Foucault, Francophonie, French-Canadian nationalism, Geneva, Global Democracy, global diversity, globalisation, globalization, Globe, glocal, glocal network of city-states, glocalisation, glocalization, GNoCS, grassroots, groupthink, hegemony, humanism, identity, immanence, immigration, independence, individualism, Institutions, interdisciplinarity, international, Internet, Internet age, journalism, journalism as a discipline, knows no border, Kuhn, linear history, Lionel Groulx, literature, local, localization, market economy, mass media, memes, metaphors, modernism, modernity, naïve, naïveté, national content, national languages, national logic, nationalism, natural environment, neoliberalism, network structure, networking, no man's land, North American Free Trade Agreement, official languages, online communities, openness, optimism, ordered anarchy, Palestine, para-academia, paradigm shifts, participatory culture, participatory democracy, partnership, patriotism, personal, physical geography, Places, playfulness, political history, political maps, political movements, politics, post-national era, post-national shift, post-nationalism, predictions, pseudo-academic, pseudo-scholarly, Québec, Quebec politics, Quebec sovereignty movement, ramblings, regionalism, relatively egalitarian, René Lévesque, republicanism, Satoshi Ikeda, self-determination, shameless plug, social butterfly effect, social changes, social contract, social dynamics, social movements, social networking, social networks, sociocentrism, Sociology, sophistication, souveraineté-association, sovereignty, statehood, Switzerland, technological determinism, Twistory, United Nations, United States, unsophistication, urban continuum, urbanisation, urbanization, utopia, wishful thinking, without frontiers, World Citizenry, World Citizenship, World Stage
Ma contribution pour la Journée Ada Lovelace (#ald09): les femmes, la culture geek et le média social.
Topics: academic conferences, advocacy, amis, Années Lumière, audience, bloggers, Blogging, bloguage, blogues, cluefulness, comment-fishing, connaissances (acquaintances), creativity, critical thinking, culture, diversité, food and culture, français, friendliness, friends, geek crowd, geek culture, geeks, gender, globalisation, globalization, hegemony, humanism, journalisme, lectorat, linkfest, naïveté, nationalism, online communities, participatory culture, partnership, Places, plogue, praises, réseaux sociaux, readership, respect, Scientific American, social butterfly effect, social contract, social dynamics, social mobility, social networking, stereotypes, Tech, technology, voice, wishful thinking
Topics: academic conferences, advocacy, amis, Années Lumière, audience, bloggers, Blogging, bloguage, blogues, cluefulness, comment-fishing, connaissances (acquaintances), creativity, critical thinking, culture, diversité, food and culture, français, friendliness, friends, geek crowd, geek culture, geeks, gender, globalisation, globalization, hegemony, humanism, journalisme, lectorat, linkfest, naïveté, nationalism, online communities, participatory culture, partnership, Places, plogue, praises, réseaux sociaux, readership, respect, Scientific American, social butterfly effect, social contract, social dynamics, social mobility, social networking, stereotypes, Tech, technology, voice, wishful thinking
Social Networks and Microblogging - 122 days ago
Event-based microblogging and the social dimensions of online social networks. Topics: access control lists, acquaintances, advocacy, archives, asymmetry, audience, backchannel, baptism, BarCamp, blog comments, Blogging, blogging systems, blogosphere, bots, business cards, calendaring, cellphones, chatrooms, classification systems, cluefulness, Clueing, colleagues, comment-fishing, communitas, Communities, community of experience, conferences, confidential microblogging, confidentiality, connections, constructivism, Crazy Predictions, creativity, critical thinking, cultural capital, cultural identity, daily show, Dave Winer, development strategies, digital lifestyle, ennemies, event microblog, event microblogging, event organization, event participants, Event participation, event registration, event scheduling, event tracking, event-based microblogging, event-specific microblogging, exclusiveness, extraverts, extroverts, face-threatening acts, Facebook, fandom, fans, favourites, first impressions, Fluidity, folksonomy, follower to following ratio, followers, following, forums, friendliness, friends, friendship, geek crowd, geek culture, geekness, geeks, glocal, glocalization, groupthink, hashtags, ignoring people, inclusiveness, indirect connections, informality, innovation, Internet Relay Chat, intimacy, introverts, IRC, Jaiku, keywords, knowledge people, Laconica, LaTwit, LinkedIn, linkfest, liveblogging, local, localization, lurkers, Mahalo Answers, marketshare, Médialogues, media, mediascape, meeting people, meetings, memes, microbloggers, microblogging, microblogging ethos, microblogging groups, microblogging instances, microblogging platforms, microblogging systems, mindshare, MMORPG, MSN Messenger, musings, mutual friends, MySpace, naïve, naïveté, networking, next big things, Ning, nostalgia, notification systems, one-way connections, online communities, online privacy, online publishing, openness, opinions, optimism, oral communication, Orkut, participatory culture, passive participation, personal connections, PodCamp, PodCamp Montreal, PodMtl, politeness, productivity, profiles, profitability, public, ramblings, reciprocated, reciprocated links, reciprocation, reciprocity, relatives, Remember the Milk, responsiveness, secrecy, shameless plug, shared interests, shyness, SixDegrees.com, SMS, SNS, social, social butterflies, social butterfly effect, social connections, social contract, social dynamics, social media, social networking, social networking systems, social networks, social publishing, social software, sophistication, specialists, specialization, tagging, tags, taxonomy, TDSwJS, techno enthusiasts, technological determinism, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, This Week in Tech, timidity, trends, trust, trusting people, tweeps, TweetDeck, Twistory, TWiT Army, Twitter, Twitter groups, Twitter Snobs, two-way relationships, unconference, unconferences, unfollow, vocal, wishful thinking, wishlists, WordPress, WordPress.com, writing













