Several strikes in french media groups show difficulties to migrate traditional media to the new digital era and move towards profitability.Simulatenously, 3 strikes have been called by the staff in 2 media groups – Largadere Active, the world’s largest magazine publisher and NextRadio TV. At Europe 1, one of the leading french news radio, 100 […]
One of my friend just emailed me this sunday night that she was held 4 hours in her plane in JFK airport in New-York. 4 terrorists threatened to blow the airport, exploding the jet’s fuel tanks and pipelines. No damage. Here is what Paola wrote : just back from New York, where we, travellers, escaped […]
Stuart told me about fotonovelas. The concept is to write comics using photos instead of drawings : Complex perspectives and dark imagery have had a long history and far-reaching impact within the Latino and Chicano communities in the U.S., as well as Mexico and Latin America, where they continue to thrive as a mainstay of […]
Real success for yesterday first French Yulbiz (a canadian initiative), put together by Fred Cazzava. I would say anything between 100 and 150 people. Fred is preparing a surprise… Francois Ziserman launched his consulting company focusing on e-commmerce and building marketplaces. He signed his first contract. Can’t disclose this. We had met several month ago […]
Aren’t you a fan of Wallace and Gromit? I am. Aardman Animations, on May 30th, announced a deal with Joost, the online video platform. This deal is a win/win situation and here is why. For Aardman, it is a great avenue for distribution as the product – short animated films – is not always targetted […]
Internet, I-tunes and later Pandora had driven me back (briefly) to the music stores where i had not bought music albums for years. With Pandora, I was able to build radio channels around some of my favorite artists – Moby, Pat Methany, Massive Attack, Philipp Glass (on Last.fm) and many more. What i particularly liked […]
Emmanuel Chain wanted the audience to meet the TV stars, anchor men and personalities. “The salon de la tele” will be about what’s behind the TV Set and about tomorrow’s television programs. His idea became the first consumer show about television. The show will welcome all TV channels and most media players in France. He […]
Have you heard of the taxi driver’s paradox according to Christian Jegourel, the founder of YouVox? “Everybody drives a car, but a few of us make it our job”. I don’t like to drive but i get the idea! YouVox regroups several collaborative online web magazines built by amateurs journalists. It is French for the […]
Do not open unknown links on Skype. There has been an effective and malicious attack with the new variant worm targeting Skype. It comes in a chat message as a .pif file, that poses as “photos”. It targets anyone on your contact list using AIM,ICQ,Messenger,Miranda,MSN,Trillian (which uses all of the above) and Yahoo. You’ll find […]