I should write a blog post about that

Cela vaudrait bien une note de blog... Note to myself: write a long blog post about this instead of miniblogging it. A miniblog by Thibaut Thomas Blog Principal

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Si ça marche, nous serons riches. Et si ça marche pas, nous serons riches aussi. Car nous aurons arrêté de dépenser 400 millions par an.
— Vincent Bolloré au sujet du projet de technologie électrique Blue Solutions, conceptrice du démonstrateur à grande échelle Autolib. 
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permalink lacma: Two years ago, we launched an experiment: an online image library where we made 2,000 high-resolution images of artworks that the museum deemed to be in the public domain available for download without any restrictions.  This week, we’ve exceeded ourselves with the launch of our new collections website, giving away ten times the number of images we offered in the initial image library. Nearly 20,000 high-quality images of art from our collection are available to search, download, and use as you see fit. What Do Cats Have to Do With It? Welcome to Our New Collections Website Dear Tumblr-verse, Merry Christmas: we just gave you 20,000 high-resolution images, for free. Now we have just one question: what are you going to do with them?

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Two years ago, we launched an experiment: an online image library where we made 2,000 high-resolution images of artworks that the museum deemed to be in the public domain available for download without any restrictions.  This week, we’ve exceeded ourselves with the launch of our new collections website, giving away ten times the number of images we offered in the initial image library. Nearly 20,000 high-quality images of art from our collection are available to search, download, and use as you see fit.

What Do Cats Have to Do With It? Welcome to Our New Collections Website

Dear Tumblr-verse,

Merry Christmas: we just gave you 20,000 high-resolution images, for free. Now we have just one question: what are you going to do with them?

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la qualité du journalisme dépend d’abord de choix, de décisions de rédaction en chef. S’engager dans la course de vitesse de la mise en ligne de dépêches, ou permettre à ses journalistes de prendre le temps d’aller au fond des choses n’est pas un choix imposé par la technologie : c’est un choix éditorial
— Pierre Haski, co-fondateur de Rue89. 
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permalink Conseil d’artiste pour les agences.

Conseil d’artiste pour les agences.

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Beautiful poetic wind-powered landmine deminer. So cool it’s already programmed at the MOMA.  

(Source: vimeo.com)

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permalink Curious Rituals : Gestural Interaction In THe Digital Everyday
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permalink Branding : “Copenhagen by Carlsberg”. A “metrosexual” beer brand experimented in the UK. 

Branding : “Copenhagen by Carlsberg”. A “metrosexual” beer brand experimented in the UK. 

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There was a kind of ghostly teenage DNA at work in the Sprawl, something that carried the coded precepts of various short-lived subcults and replicated them at odd intervals. (…) The Moderns were mercenaries, practical jokers, nihilist technofetishists.
— An introduction to the 2012 Anons ? in Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984
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Fads swept through the youth of the Sprawl at the speed of light; entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive for a dozen weeks, and then vanish utterly
— Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984
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permalink The Naked and the TEDtnr.com Hybrid Real­i­ty: Thriv­ing in the Emerg­ing Human-Technology Civ­i­liza­tion By Parag Khan­na and Ayesha Khan­na(TED Books, $2.99)The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Strug­gling and What We Can Do About It By Philip… Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.”

The Naked and the TED
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Hybrid Real­i­ty: Thriv­ing in the Emerg­ing Human-Technology Civ­i­liza­tion
By Parag Khan­na and Ayesha Khan­na
(TED Books, $2.99)

The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Strug­gling and What We Can Do About It
By Philip…

Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.”

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