March 31st, 2007,
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Gotta Name The Thing

Alright so this past week has been very productive coworking space wise, a couple of meetings, new people showing interest in membership, full membership (often called anchors) and even investing so it’s looking very promising.

While traveling and visiting spaces I made the decision to push a lot harder for this thing and it’s already showing results. Sweet. One thing that I keep wanting to find and people keep asking me for is a name.

A little restriction around these here Montréal parts is that the name needs to be in french or at least bilingual. Constraints are supposed to help creativity so I/we should be able to come up with something clever.

To add a bit of pressure, all the coworking spaces I’ve been following have excellent names, from the simple and to the point Workspace to the community/commons with a hint of proletaria like Citizen Space and Queen Street Commons to the “lodgy”, revolutionary Independants Hall. I also like the location based name like Hat Factory but that’s not possible now since the space hasn’t been found.

Ideas, words and concepts I think are good directions;

















  • Commons, citizens, community
















  • Open, collaborative, flexible
















  • Freelancing, independents
















  • Small, autonomous, agile
















  • “Artisan technologists”
















  • Think thank
















  • Boiling, bubbling, primordial soup, cauldron
















  • En français j’aime bien LE ou LA. Comme La Place, L’espace, La boîte.
















  • Timely, “in”, “cool” (although not using those words ;) )
















  • It’s an atelier, a workshop, a meeting place, a crossroads
















  • A focusing lens, a hotplate
















  • Plan, zone, area, labs, labo, usine
















  • Un jeu de mot à la “Les zapartistes” pourrait être le fun
















































  • Pas trop techy parce qu’on vise pas juste les geeks, on vise tout les pigistes.

    Je sais je sais, tous mes mots sont en anglais et je demande des noms en français. Les noms me viennent en anglais parce que tout ce que j’en lis est en anglais et les discussions récentes sont anglais aussi.

    Bon, des idées, ideas?

March 31st, 2007,
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World’s Most Networked Countries

















Sixth Global Information Technology Report, which rates how well countries around the world use information and communications technology (ICT) to drive growth and development. This year saw several notable trends, including strong ICT growth in Latin America, a decline in U.S. standing, and further slippage for Africa.—World’s Most Networked Countries

















March 29th, 2007,
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Baseball as Webapp

Oberkirch hits another one out of the park (sorry) with an excellent post using baseball analogies to draw lessons about how to build web apps and generally behave in business and development. Brett Favre is one of my sports heroes so finishing with a personal anecdote about him certainly helps too.

March 28th, 2007,
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The Bourne Ultimatum Trailer

The Bourne Ultimatum trailer is out. Until Casino Royale came out, in recent years the best Bond had been Bourne.

March 27th, 2007,
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Mes outils pour bloguer

Ça fait un bout que je veux écrire quelques entrées plus détaillées sur certains de mes softs préférés mais je n’ai pas encore pris le temps, en attendant, je répond au meme de Philippe qui liste ses outils pour blogger.

















  • Hébergement Dreamhost.
















  • Plateforme, Textpattern, passage à WordPress sous peu.
















  • Stats, je regarde plus ou moins les stats “pures” mais je suis abonné à mon ego search sur Technorati et je regarde périodiquement mon nombre d’abonnés sur Feedburner. Depuis quelques semaines je test aussi Reinvigorate, surtout pour les referrers.
















  • Éditeur, 90% du temps j’écris directement dans Textpattern mais sinon c’est Textmate.
















  • Pour la lecture de fils, NetNewsWire.
















  • Photos sur Flickr.
















  • Rares vidéos sur Vimeo.
















  • Favoris sur del.icio.us.
















  • Fureteur, Firefox.
















  • Collaboration (on s’éloigne de plus en plus du blogue), dernièrement Goplan.
















































  • Communauté. Bof, Twitter I guess et LinkedIn (si peu). C’est pas un “social software” mais ma communauté c’est pas mal plus Yulblog.

    Je passe le relai à Julien (devrait être intéressant puisqu’il podcast), Véro, Ed (so he has to figure out the post in french :-p ), MJ (sur PC, ça devrait être différent) et Sylvain qui doit être une bête d’open source.

March 27th, 2007,
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La fin d’une ère

Pu de Nika, pu vraiment de Lauzon pi là c’est Philippo qui est en pause. On savait déjà qu’il y avait beaucoup de nouveaux à Yulblog et que ces trois là n’y venaient plus mais là c’est vraiment la fin d’une ère.

March 27th, 2007,
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Sérieusement

Ok, sérieusement, autre que de dire “ooooh la droite! ooooh la droite!” avec des images de boogieman qui vous tournent dans la tête, pouvez-vous me nommer les politiques de l’ADQ qui vous font peur? Parce que pour ce que j’en ai suivi de la politique Québécoise lors des dernières élections, autre que les idées concernant le fédéralisme/indépendance/autonomisme, je les trouve aussi proches que le score, les idées des partis.

Note: Commencez pas à me gosser comme si j’était candidat de l’ADQ, je ne les défends pas (ni ne les attaques), je me pause la question.

March 26th, 2007,
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Vacation policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want

















When it comes to vacation, Netflix has a simple policy: take as much as you’d like. Just make sure your work is done.—Vacation policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want

















March 26th, 2007,
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Shameful

There’s bits of everything and all kinds of people in blogs as in life. The worse possible proof comes today with some crazy ass morons threatening Kathy Sierra using some disgusting, frightening, shameful, depraved language and actions. Free speech my ass.

I hope this doesn’t silence Kathy, one of the most interesting and positive voices on the web. Hang in there seems very small in such a situation but yeah, hang in there.

[Update] A couple of related posts you should read; Shawna, danah.

[Update 2] A balanced overview of the whole thing.

March 25th, 2007,
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How to Deal with Difficult People

Great advice from Hugh, How to Deal with Difficult People.

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