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My buddy Laurence Rozier and I had an intriguing email exchange last week about why people maintain Web logs. We were talking about sort of normal people, not folks like me who have been writing their whole lives and just can't resist. Do they publish a Web log because they want to be noticed? To have their opinions read and acknowledged by others? To influence public opinion? To change the world? To show off their technology (as opposed to writing) skills and savvy? Or do they do it just for the sheer, stinkin' fun of it all? Maybe they are interested in sharpening their brain skills or, as someone I read just this morning (someone will point me to the right place and then I'll adjust this reference), sending their brains to the gym. I know. There's no one reason. There's not even one reason any one person blogs. But I'm curious to learn where the major sweet spots are. Most people with blogs (or, for that matter, personal opinion sites like mine) get read by relatively few people. Yet we keep doing it. Maybe it's a variation on the theme underlying the advice I give aspiring young writers who email me and ask me how to get started on their own careers. I always tell them: "Don't write unless you can't not." And maybe that's all there is to this blogging phenomenon. What do you think? Let's talk about it on my personal site discussion board. [Eclecticity: Dan Shafer's Web Log]
My answer is simple:
- It's fun
- You get to know great people in the process
8:38:04 AM Google It! 
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"The Information Age is in full swing. Governments, software companies, and the media have declared this fact for years. For the first time in the history of man, information is seen as a commodity rather than as a vague, ethereal concept.
As we enter into this Information Age, the methods of information gathering, storage, and retrieval have remained largely unchanged. Information is gathered for the moment, not for posterity. Little thought is given to the format and media the data is stored in. As a result, this information — the commodity we are slowly but surely basing our global economy on — is piling up as a non-standard, convoluted, disorganized mess.
We stand on the dawn of great advances in technology and knowledge that will benefit humankind in ways we can't comprehend; yet the darkness of the past stands ready to pollute our future and slow our advances"
Voici un bon texte qui fait écho à la metablogueconversation entre Michel et moi à propos des formats propriétaires de données.
3:15:19 AM Google It!
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Une bonne note à la portée WWW
Aufray, Brassens, Brel, Moustaki, Reggiani, Renaud, et ciel que j'en passe ! Plus de 15 460 textes à rêver. Fichiers audios surprises en prime et partitions pour ceux qui ont l'âme musicienne et le doigt agile. Entre autres, textes des chansons et trame sonore complète du fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain. Chanson française, je t'aime ! [via Les coups de langue de la grande rousse]
Mais comment diable fait-elle pour nous dénicher tant de si bonnes ressources? Y'a bon Banania :)
1:15:06 AM Google It!
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© Copyright 2002 Thierry Lalinne.
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