Kryptomode is french, loves fashion, is a good friend of mine and is one of our first beta testers for JogTheWeb.
Fashion is her second name and believe me if I say Kryptomode is a régal to look at.
For those who don't know "mode" means fashion in french and Krypto... well that'll stay the mysterious part.
Kryptomode has worked on this lovely fashion related track with her 13 year old daughter...
Enjoy!
As a reminder: to jog the track simply click on the arrows...
Mode 2008 pour toutes : les fashions et les classiques
mercredi 20 février 2008
samedi 9 février 2008
Education is all about...
Education is all about teaching my children what I have figured out as being best for them. In fact it doesn't always coincide with what I consider is sure or best for myself as age brings in a certain dose of cynism or sad realisation that would be both too heavy and misunderstood by my loved ones...
In fact I'm quite convinced that education is a bit like charging a battery. You "feed in" as much good will, trust-in-others and love as possible in your child which gives him an incredible energy to start in his adult life. That would be because he is convinced that the world walks with him and that given the right arguments anybody will see the things as he does. As life goes on the battery runs progressively down as the adult realises that some people aren't that kind and that others have other "absolutely true" beliefs of their own...
Stangely enough some people go along through life remaining optimistic and happy. These same peolple are often those who live over a hundred years old. That kind of conforts me with this battery theory...
Well I got a bit side tracked from what I really wanted to talk about: Rugby.
My 8 year old boy loves rugby and I'm happy about it because the team spirit (and all that) seems to be a precious value for the life venture. The only thing is that I've never really been interested in rugby. If there is a match on and that I'm with rugby-lover friends I'll be very happy to share the moment and get excited over all these adult men running after a ball whilst knocking each other over and tortoise-like hugging... but if I'm alone I can't stand a minute of it. I just don't get the feeling for it and I honestly envy those who do (... well from time to time anyway).
In june last year my boy had his end of term school show and with the other boys of his class he performed (danced would hardly be the word) the New Zealand Haka... and he prepared it so seriously and his grimaces were so true that I looked onto it with all the pride and wonder I could show... In fact the wonder was genuine, I really wondered at the space-like-distance that stood between what normaly really impressed me and this Haka which impressed me because... well it was my little boy taking these war-ritual like poses... Ok, I must say the pride was also genuine ;-).
All this to say that when I was shown the videos in the following track, I knew I could laugh with my son about the NZ Haka without breaking anything he was building upon and that, by the end of the day, it was laughing that really gave sense to all my children's bringing up...
Haka history...
Enjoy ;-)
In fact I'm quite convinced that education is a bit like charging a battery. You "feed in" as much good will, trust-in-others and love as possible in your child which gives him an incredible energy to start in his adult life. That would be because he is convinced that the world walks with him and that given the right arguments anybody will see the things as he does. As life goes on the battery runs progressively down as the adult realises that some people aren't that kind and that others have other "absolutely true" beliefs of their own...
Stangely enough some people go along through life remaining optimistic and happy. These same peolple are often those who live over a hundred years old. That kind of conforts me with this battery theory...
Well I got a bit side tracked from what I really wanted to talk about: Rugby.
My 8 year old boy loves rugby and I'm happy about it because the team spirit (and all that) seems to be a precious value for the life venture. The only thing is that I've never really been interested in rugby. If there is a match on and that I'm with rugby-lover friends I'll be very happy to share the moment and get excited over all these adult men running after a ball whilst knocking each other over and tortoise-like hugging... but if I'm alone I can't stand a minute of it. I just don't get the feeling for it and I honestly envy those who do (... well from time to time anyway).
In june last year my boy had his end of term school show and with the other boys of his class he performed (danced would hardly be the word) the New Zealand Haka... and he prepared it so seriously and his grimaces were so true that I looked onto it with all the pride and wonder I could show... In fact the wonder was genuine, I really wondered at the space-like-distance that stood between what normaly really impressed me and this Haka which impressed me because... well it was my little boy taking these war-ritual like poses... Ok, I must say the pride was also genuine ;-).
All this to say that when I was shown the videos in the following track, I knew I could laugh with my son about the NZ Haka without breaking anything he was building upon and that, by the end of the day, it was laughing that really gave sense to all my children's bringing up...
Haka history...
Enjoy ;-)
Social Networking
Here is some breaking news :-), in fact I set up this blog to start publishing JogTheWeb tracks I like... and as I get on quite well with myself I'll start with my own :-D.
So this one is about Social Networks. Who hasn't heard about Facebook or Linkedin? In fact there are really plenty out there and here are a few:
Some social networks out there
I have obviously forgotten all those which aren't in this track and I'm terribly sorry about it ;-)
So this one is about Social Networks. Who hasn't heard about Facebook or Linkedin? In fact there are really plenty out there and here are a few:
Some social networks out there
I have obviously forgotten all those which aren't in this track and I'm terribly sorry about it ;-)
jeudi 7 février 2008
The Lift conference - Quite mind-boggling
If you're free in september and can be in Seoul do not miss the next Lift conference... Otherwise you'll need to wait till the beginning of 2009 and go to Geneva.
I went there thinking it was another web 2.0 related event only spread out on three whole days... and in fact it turned out to be much more of an Attitude 2.0 event (I know adding 2.0 at the end of a word isn't really original but being original isn't quite the point here ;-) ).
90% of what I heard really interested me and got me thinking and I love that feeling (so rare ;-) ). I didn't agree with everything I heard but hearing about technology, psychology, ethnology, inventions, Carla Bruni (do let go!!!) and sustainable development among many other topics just kept me listening.
Here are a couple of JogTheWeb Tracks I built to tour you through the event:
My train was late I started with "The Venture Night"
Follow me through thursday
By the way JogTheWeb is in very private Beta (hardly out of alfa if you ask me...). Its very wobbly just now but its my baby...
Just one more word regarding the Lift conference:
Well done Laurent Haug and all his team for such an event!! Really, really worth it
I went there thinking it was another web 2.0 related event only spread out on three whole days... and in fact it turned out to be much more of an Attitude 2.0 event (I know adding 2.0 at the end of a word isn't really original but being original isn't quite the point here ;-) ).
90% of what I heard really interested me and got me thinking and I love that feeling (so rare ;-) ). I didn't agree with everything I heard but hearing about technology, psychology, ethnology, inventions, Carla Bruni (do let go!!!) and sustainable development among many other topics just kept me listening.
Here are a couple of JogTheWeb Tracks I built to tour you through the event:
My train was late I started with "The Venture Night"
Follow me through thursday
By the way JogTheWeb is in very private Beta (hardly out of alfa if you ask me...). Its very wobbly just now but its my baby...
Just one more word regarding the Lift conference:
Well done Laurent Haug and all his team for such an event!! Really, really worth it
dimanche 20 janvier 2008
Enterprise 2.0 – The shortest path
When I was at school I was told that the shortest path between two points was a strait line. I believed this for quite a while as maths was part of my engineering cursus and then I discovered that in the real world the shortest path between two points is the one I know… and that is often what large companies stumble upon when wanting to benefit from the Web 2.0 nimble technologies.
I once knew a project director who knew Lotus Notes inside out and whatever project he had to deal with, Lotus Notes was the answer. I have no negative opinion regarding Lotus Notes but one thing I am sure of is that it is not really meant to be a solution to all needs. I have witnessed some quite strange Lotus Notes based answers to projects dealt with by this project director.
The thing is that in a large company you have plenty of project directors who do not have much time to look around and see what’s new, so they have a tendency to always dip into a same bag of technologies to build their projects. A large number of these project directors have reached their position, more or less as a promotion, after many years of coding and analysis. Many are obviously really worthy people but they have much of their long built experience which is not only useless but also often encumbering as it offers out of date solutions.
Smaller companies do not have as much time and means as large companies so if a young employee seems good he’ll immediately be set project director and instead of leaning on his experience he’ll search the web to know whether others have addressed the same need. This project director will even put aside any message over six months old as he’ll feel it’s out of date…
Turning back to large companies, project directors are not alone they have technical architects to help them. These people are essential but are rarely given the means to really help. Their mission, theoretically, includes trying out new technologies in order to assist the projects in finding the best technological fit to their need. The problem is that these architects are rarely considered as essential and their number is often very low. I have often spoken to architects who complain that they have only time to study products which are imposed to them by their hierarchy (that’s right, once again the older generation who are often very intelligent but simply not aware).
One of my activities is to be a Knowledge Management consultant. KM is all about identifying knowledge, trying to get hold of it, transforming it into digestible material and finally doing your best to re-inject it at the right place… Well in fact it’s a little bit more than that but as far as Web 2.0 is concerned I’ll stick to it for the time being. Speaking of Web 2.0 it could be summed up by saying that its all about giving the user control and sitting back to see what he’ll do with it ;-). What really interests me is that once the user gets infected with the Web 2.0 virus he happily pours out his knowledge/experience/contacts and that could just be sooooo useful for large companies…
So there I go explaining all that could be rapidly achieved with Web 2.0 to the business analysts who are ready to listen to me. As I can be convincing we then go together and knock on the technical guys’ doors (the project directors I spoke of above). It nearly always happens the same way, they listen to us politely and, each time they consider we’re proposing a technical solution (wiki, blog, RIA …), they remind us that we must stick to expressing our functional needs. We try and stay as functional as possible and the meeting ends with a “we’ll see what can be done and will come back to you very soon”. They do finally come back (even sometimes very soon after) and nearly each time they propose either a specific development or the use of some pocket knife like existing application that they will try and twist to our need. The Web 2.0 technologies are not even considered.
As I said earlier on theses technical directors are often intelligent people who just do not have time to look around. Insisting a bit is often the key to ending up on the right track and everybody ends up happy.
The problem is that the Web 2.0 solutions are rarely envisaged by the business analysts knocking on the technical guys’ doors and most needs that could really benefit from a nimble Web 2.0 answer end up with lead weight shoes…
As I see it architects would often be the best key to helping large companies stepping up to be “Enterprise 2.0 inside”… if only they were given the means.
I once knew a project director who knew Lotus Notes inside out and whatever project he had to deal with, Lotus Notes was the answer. I have no negative opinion regarding Lotus Notes but one thing I am sure of is that it is not really meant to be a solution to all needs. I have witnessed some quite strange Lotus Notes based answers to projects dealt with by this project director.
The thing is that in a large company you have plenty of project directors who do not have much time to look around and see what’s new, so they have a tendency to always dip into a same bag of technologies to build their projects. A large number of these project directors have reached their position, more or less as a promotion, after many years of coding and analysis. Many are obviously really worthy people but they have much of their long built experience which is not only useless but also often encumbering as it offers out of date solutions.
Smaller companies do not have as much time and means as large companies so if a young employee seems good he’ll immediately be set project director and instead of leaning on his experience he’ll search the web to know whether others have addressed the same need. This project director will even put aside any message over six months old as he’ll feel it’s out of date…
Turning back to large companies, project directors are not alone they have technical architects to help them. These people are essential but are rarely given the means to really help. Their mission, theoretically, includes trying out new technologies in order to assist the projects in finding the best technological fit to their need. The problem is that these architects are rarely considered as essential and their number is often very low. I have often spoken to architects who complain that they have only time to study products which are imposed to them by their hierarchy (that’s right, once again the older generation who are often very intelligent but simply not aware).
One of my activities is to be a Knowledge Management consultant. KM is all about identifying knowledge, trying to get hold of it, transforming it into digestible material and finally doing your best to re-inject it at the right place… Well in fact it’s a little bit more than that but as far as Web 2.0 is concerned I’ll stick to it for the time being. Speaking of Web 2.0 it could be summed up by saying that its all about giving the user control and sitting back to see what he’ll do with it ;-). What really interests me is that once the user gets infected with the Web 2.0 virus he happily pours out his knowledge/experience/contacts and that could just be sooooo useful for large companies…
So there I go explaining all that could be rapidly achieved with Web 2.0 to the business analysts who are ready to listen to me. As I can be convincing we then go together and knock on the technical guys’ doors (the project directors I spoke of above). It nearly always happens the same way, they listen to us politely and, each time they consider we’re proposing a technical solution (wiki, blog, RIA …), they remind us that we must stick to expressing our functional needs. We try and stay as functional as possible and the meeting ends with a “we’ll see what can be done and will come back to you very soon”. They do finally come back (even sometimes very soon after) and nearly each time they propose either a specific development or the use of some pocket knife like existing application that they will try and twist to our need. The Web 2.0 technologies are not even considered.
As I said earlier on theses technical directors are often intelligent people who just do not have time to look around. Insisting a bit is often the key to ending up on the right track and everybody ends up happy.
The problem is that the Web 2.0 solutions are rarely envisaged by the business analysts knocking on the technical guys’ doors and most needs that could really benefit from a nimble Web 2.0 answer end up with lead weight shoes…
As I see it architects would often be the best key to helping large companies stepping up to be “Enterprise 2.0 inside”… if only they were given the means.
samedi 5 janvier 2008
Scapegoats and bond building
Friendship is all about two people looking in the same direction. The same thing is said about love in fact. Looking at one another ends up to be quite boring and once you've finished reviewing the pretty details you'll pass on to the not so pretty ones. So the best is to look in the same direction.
Sometimes its all about sharing a real interest in a same subject or simply working together on a same topic. But most times, it seems to me, bonds are built by having a common scapegoat. Team spirit thrives when everybody starts complaining about a same person. There is nothing really glorious about it but if you want to bond quickly wih someone else start criticising somebody that this someone else can't stand. Within minutes you'll be just so close and have so much to share...
Today facebook is all about you declaring you know others and then its all about standing all together and poking one another or hoping that somebody will state he has a secret crush on you... there is a bit of biting and racing but by the end of the day are you any closer to the rest of your friendly herd? I have the impression that it is all rather static in fact because it stays artificial. So how long till people tire from facebook if no real bonding takes place...
So I wonder whether facebook won't soon seriously go down the "scapegoat" path because it is a rapid bond builder and may bring some dynamics to it all...
Sometimes its all about sharing a real interest in a same subject or simply working together on a same topic. But most times, it seems to me, bonds are built by having a common scapegoat. Team spirit thrives when everybody starts complaining about a same person. There is nothing really glorious about it but if you want to bond quickly wih someone else start criticising somebody that this someone else can't stand. Within minutes you'll be just so close and have so much to share...
Today facebook is all about you declaring you know others and then its all about standing all together and poking one another or hoping that somebody will state he has a secret crush on you... there is a bit of biting and racing but by the end of the day are you any closer to the rest of your friendly herd? I have the impression that it is all rather static in fact because it stays artificial. So how long till people tire from facebook if no real bonding takes place...
So I wonder whether facebook won't soon seriously go down the "scapegoat" path because it is a rapid bond builder and may bring some dynamics to it all...
mardi 1 janvier 2008
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