Jeudi 28 mars 2002

En vaut-il la peine? Poser la question, c'est y répondre. 11:10:36 PM  Permalien

Le Seigneur Dézano Novembre? Il faut attendre en novembre seulement? Zut! "Obiwan Kenobi writes "In a gala event last night New Line Cinema revealed their Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring DVD Plans. This includes a 2-disc version on August 6th (in both Pan & Scan and Widescreen, click here for box art), and a special 4-hour, R-rated cut of the film debuting in a 4-disc set on November 12th. While the August release includes some nifty features, it's the four disc version, with the longer cut and three audio commentaries, that really gets the drool flowing." Now that's what I'm talkin about!" [slashdot] Oh yeah, baby! Somehow the word "drool" just doesn't cover it. [The Shifted Librarian] 10:31:05 PM  Permalien

Et le téléphone? Il est ou? À prime abord, voici l'outil parfait que bien des grenouilles d'affaires attendaient. Mais avec un téléphone!!!!! Sony Taking Pre-orders for CLIE NR Series "Sony has officially launched their new CLIE NR series in the US, just a few weeks after the same devices launched in Japan. The new CLIE's series consists of two models, the PEG-NR70 and PEG-NR70V which are equipped with a 66MHz Dragonball VZ processor, 16MB RAM, 8MB FlashROM, 320x480 16-bit reflective TFT display, PalmOS 4.1, lithium polymer battery, integrated MP3 player, built-in QWERTY keyboard, a Sony JogDial and of course a Memory Stick slot. Both units measure in at 5.5" x 2.875" x 0.687" and weigh 7 ounces. The NR series is a very unique device in a number of respects beyond it being the first Sony device to use a software based graffiti area. The NR is the first clamshell based PalmOS device to be launched to my knowledge and has the ability to "morph" into a number of different configurations to suit the needs of a user by way of Sony's Flip-and-Rotate design. The NR70V adds a built-in digital camera to the mix capable of snapping 320x240 photos. The CLIE PEG-NR70 retails for $499.99 while the NR70V will sell for $599.99, both units are expected to be available in early May.... We have posted hi-resolution photos of the new CLIE models in the discussion thread for this news item." [PDABuzz.com] I'm glad we're starting to see some new designs for PDAs, and I'm glad to see Sony doing it. I hope this is as cool as it sounds. Sounds like I'll have to accidentally end up at Best Buy in the near future to get a gander at these. [The Shifted Librarian] 10:27:19 PM  Permalien

Journalisme 3.0 Dan Gillmor realizes a new world for journalism. Dan Gillmor, editor with the San Jose Mercury News, writes about his first experience with interactive journalism. He calls it Journalism 3.0. Yup, journalism sure has changed in the 10 years since I went to J-school at San Jose State University. There we had to wait 24 hours to have a conversation. Now we can have a conversation in real time and without boundaries -- I can have a conversation via email or instant messenger with Dan now, even though I'm thousands of miles from him sitting at my home computer. That was improbable, if not impossible 10 years ago (Dan would have had to have had access to an expensive phone line at the conference center 10 years ago to converse with me the way he can right now via an 802.11 wireless link). Dan keeps saying that his audience knows more than he does. Well, that's like saying that a spoke in a wheel knows more about being a wheel than the hub of the wheel. It's irrelevant. The one I want to know is the hub of the wheel. That's the only part of the wheel that is connected to all the other spokes. That's the journalist. He's the one who connects spokes (people like me) to other spokes. A journalist's role is going to change to a connector. What's more important to the wheel? The hub or the spokes? Arguably it's the hub. For instance, I can't sit in every conference that Dan gets paid to go to. But, I might have something to say to other people who are on stage, or in the audience, or somewhere else. So, I'll go to Dan to say it. He'll decide the appropriate place for my information. It might only be appropriate for his personal blog. It might be only appropriate for him to email it to someone else. Or he might decide that my information is appropriate for his newspaper column. In other words, he's an information hub. I'm just a lowly spoke in the wheel. All surrounding people like Dan and Dave, or places like Slashdot. A journalist's power, in the future, is going to be arranging the spokes in ways that help the wheel turn the best. A lopsided wheel isn't a good one. That's why it's so important for a journalist to remain objective and "not bought off." I know Dan's employer believes pretty strongly in that (although, I note that they don't encourage Dan to point out what Knight Ridder is doing wrong). Dan's power is in his ability to hook each of us up together in powerful ways. It used to be that journalists saw themselves as the only source of information. Now they aren't. But, in a way, they are even more powerful. Because each of us now has the ability to publish to each other, we'll increasingly look to professionals like Dan to tell us who is doing and saying the most interesting things. Because Dan now has tools to converse with his "wheel" in real time (even when the spokes of that wheel are up on stage giving talks), we're all getting better information. I know that with every conference Dan goes to, and every weblog entry Dan writes, and every email of mine that Dan answers, his power in my life goes up. Note, too, that Dan's "brand" has gone up simply by him having a conversation with me, and with that guy on stage. Journalists who don't realize that the world has changed and that they better start working on getting more spokes in their "wheel" will soon be irrelevant and out of work. I note that Dan has remained employed even through the worst publishing depression to hit Silicon Valley's journalism industry in modern times. Ever wonder why? It's cause Dan has figured out there is a new era for journalism and has embraced it. [Scobleizer Radio Weblog] 10:19:11 PM  Permalien

Rhinoféroce Tout comme mon bon ami Serge Beauchemin, candidat dans Outremont en 1979, avec son fameux slogan "Soyons suffisant!", n'oubliez pas la grande soirée Hommage au parti Rhinocéros lundi soir au Lion d'Or à 20h00. Une soirée qui sera sûrement sous le signe de la folie et de la vie. Profitons-en pour remercier les 1 037 personnes qui ont cru en ce pas très humble en devenir, en 1979, dans le chic comté de Ville Lasalle. Invitation lancée aussi aux amis perdus. 8:49:18 PM  Permalien

Bof Journée bof! N'essayez pas les timbres à la nicotine pour arrêter de fumer sans consulter vous savez qui. Dans mon cas, totale incompatibilité entre moi et la chose. Ce sera donc "dinde froide" que je continuerai à ne pas fumer. 8:40:38 PM  Permalien