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Octobre 19, 2002

Gone to Mexico for 2 days, with great hopes to hook up with Ken Layne and Laura Crane in a bar by the beach between Tijuana and Ensenada.

This fantastic blog of few words Fimoculous is right to go straight to the point. Let's try to link in his efficient manner:

* When a bunch of bloggers get drunk together in New York, they create... a drunken blog and lick each other. (see details with protagonists Amy, Blair, a certain Jim ... We don't do this kind of things in Los Angeles: we just frolic conservatively on water beds.)

*McDonald's experiment with internet terminals in U.K. restaurants ends badly (Via Rick Bruner)

*The winners of the Online News Association Awards: BO-RING!

*To our Aussie friends: Blogjam was appalled by this inappropriate advertising placement on the cover the Sidney Morning Herald. (On a lighter note: Blogjam is in the hospital these days, but he still accepts oral sex donations on his site.)

*talking of which: for whoever is irritated by blogs drowned out by PayPal donate buttons, Amazon wish lists, tee-shirts etc. the Selloutblog feels your pain and will inflict you even more. (Via Nick Denton)

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Octobre 18, 2002

Bonjour Wired readers! Thanks for stopping by but I need to let you know that the Wired story forgot to mention the French blogger and journalist who unveiled this Islamic site in the first place, the one and only CHRYDE!

In a nutshell: Chryde posted something on his site earlier this week and suggested I try to track down the people behind this horror movie site sheltering pro Osama Bin Laden web pages. I'm on this side of the pond (he's in Paris, I'm in L.A.) and it's easier for me. That's when I contacted Matt Rexer, the Cenobite webmaster, in the first place.

At the end, this is a good story and Chryde has proven to be one of the best French bloggers -he's smart, witty and wears extravagant sunglasses like a CHiPs cop on every picture.

posted by on 09:45 du matin | link

Octobre 17, 2002

Désolée pour le délai à répondre.... J'ai la tête sous l'eau avec de nombreux e-mails en retard, mais cela devrait aller mieux à partir d'aujourd'hui.

Jardinage underground: Après de longues soirées devant l'écran, je viens de finir le site d'une copine et voisine, Liz Stromme, une romancière américaine traduite et publiée en France. J'adore son style et sa passion pour le jardinage alternatif, sans engrais, en concordance avec le sol, l'air et le climat (par exemple: Liz est contre le gazon omniprésent en Californie, qui boit énormément d'eau, et favorise les cactus et autres plantes natives. Elle condamne la manie de faire pousser artificiellement des tulipes hollandaises sous le soleil de Los Angeles... ce genre de choses.)

Liz a dessiné son site sur papier. J'ai essayé de reproduire son croquis en tirant la langue sur le bouquin de HTML car je suis loin d'être une pro (le fond brun par exemple, est un pull de Liz scanné!) et voici le résultat: undergroundgardener.com. Le site est en anglais mais contient des textes en français. Si l'horticulture ou les romans sur Los Angeles vous intéressent, merci d'aller faire un petit tour. N'hésitez pas à laisser un mot à Liz ou à m'envoyer vos remarques pour améliorer le site. J'essaye de la convaincre de tenir un blogue sur le jardinage underground sur la page d'accueil, mais là, ça coince!

posted by on 05:27 du soir | link

The Ellen Feiss of blogdom? The U.K. Register writes that blogger Beth Goza, a marketing manager at Microsoft, is a rising webstar a little bit like Ellen Fleiss (the goofy, stoned teenager in the Apple commercial.) A parody of Beth Goza's blog mocks her boring posts on her dogs and the huge pictures of her cat and is making the rounds all over the internet.

I'm curious: does Beth Goza still have a job? Not only is her blog down, but saying she works for Microsoft all over her blog is maybe not a very good idea. Other bloggers have been fired in the past for involving their company in their personal blog.

posted by on 04:50 du soir | link

Octobre 16, 2002

Don't we all need an internet fridge?
Check out this fridge with a monitor and a connection to the Net. I remember people being very excited about this concept a few years ago... now it's here! Cyberjournalist Steve Outing writes in today's e-Media Tidbits that this fridge is one of the worst ideas ever:

"Yes, we've heard for a while the promise of bringing Internet access to appliances. There may be some merit to the idea, such as being able to turn on the oven to 350 degrees and start a pot of coffee brewing while at your office and have it all be ready when you get home. But look at this product description for an Internet refrigerator that's now on the market. It can show television programming, download MP3s and play them, check e-mail and surf the Web, and even take digital photos. Words fail me in describing what a poor product idea this is."
Well, I don't know, Steve. I would certainly be glad to download recipes and have them handy on this cute fridge. I often cook depending on what's left in the fridge (I enter keywords in Google, for example: broccoli, red pepper, tofu and the word "recipe" and select a recipe among the results.) Sometimes I need to combine 3 recipes and it's nice to be able to surf. Because my office is in the kitchen (not enough dough to rent a bigger flat), I can check out recipe sites and cook at the same time, but maybe later in life, when I have space, I can very well see myself staring at a shiny and beautiful internet fridge, and clicking to listen to Radio Suisse Romande while doing the dishes.

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Octobre 15, 2002

Rappel anti-spam: pour ceux avec des sites qui ne l'ont pas encore fait, n'hésitez pas à encoder l'adresse e-mail que vous laissez sur vos pages, grâce à cet encodeur. Sinon, les vilains robots des spammeurs repèrent votre adresse, la communiquent au côté obscur de la force, et vous bombardent de spam. Et ces temps-ci, les pourriels sont vraiment écoeurants.

Tous les conseils anti-spam de base sont sur cette page et comme toujours, sur le très bon site francophone Caspam.

posted by on 06:58 du soir | link

Bad, bad, bad journalists who leak new albums on the internet! Sunday's Los Angeles Times reported (beware: registration required) that advance copies of Faith Hill's new album sent by Warner Bros to journalists, retailers and radio programmers included a "watermark" encoded into the disc that identifies each person a copy was sent to.

Epic did better: the record company sent copies of forthcoming albums by Pearl Jam, Tori Amos and AudioSlave sealed into CD Walkmans with superglue (!!) with the headphones also cemented in so the player couldn't be hooked up to another device.

How did it work? These albums are all over the internet. And record companies are considering legal actions for copyright violation against journalists.

posted by on 08:34 du matin | link

Ben Hellraiser: Chryde a vérifié avec effroi cette dépêche de l'AFP selon laquelle ce site de fans du film d'horreur Hellraiser englobe un site de propagande islamiste. Le webmestre du Michigan (selon une recherche Whois) a tout d'un "average Joe" fan de fantastique. Je lui ai envoyé un mail pour lui demander what the hellraiser is going on?? Quelqu'un qui comprend l'arabe peut sans doute dire si ce mini-site islamiste félicitant Ben Laden est un canular.

UPDATE: le webmestre de Cenobite me répond, et signale qu'il vient d'enlever le site islamiste:
Thanks for the alert! No, I had no idea that site was on my webpage. I
shut down access to all of cenobite.com, changed my password, and let my
webhosting company know that I've been hacked.

What a weird choice in pages for Islamists to hack... in the middle of a
geeky fan-page about a horror movie series set in Hell? Strange.

Luckily, it looks like that site was only online since last week... I'll be
keeping a much closer eye on my server logs from now on, that's for sure.

Matt Rexer