Sur le vif, dialogue entre mon fils l'avocat et mon fils le médecin. Entendu dans le silence de ce dimanche après-midi :
- Ben non, Afro-américain ça veut pas forcément dire noir. - Si ! - Tu peux être américain et être blanc, non ? - ... hmm... mouais - Tu peux être africain et être blanc, non ? - ... hmmm... oui - Alors Afro-Américain ça peut pas vouloir dire noir ! ça veut juste dire africain ET américain, tu vois ! (long silence)
- ... Oui ... mais non. Pour tout le monde ça veut quand même dire noir. Ecoute, va voir maman, et demande lui de te raconter l'histoire de la chemise lilas.
(long silence puis bruit de course dans l'escalier)
- Ben toi, tu connais même pas le hareng vert qui siffle ! Maaaaaman, c'est quoi l'histoire de la chemise lilas ?
(second bruit de course dans l'escalier) Maaaaman, c'est quoi le hareng vert qui siffle ?
Orli is among the bunch of women who lead me to try to become who I am. Those whose advices and point of view are important to me. I learn a lot messaging time to time with Orli and regurlarly reading her blog, her friendfeeds' activity etc.
So, when she announced that she had created an interactive slideshows of 50 blogs written by 50 power women, I've ran to see it. Most are new to me but there are some I really appreciate. I agree with Orli, they are wonderful bloggers that worth reading.
If I were totally honnest, I would say that this is the first time I see an error in her flawless judgements because she has included me in the list, but at this time, I'm too proud that she has thought of me!
Personal message to Orli I'm not sure to well deserve to be a part of your amazing list, but what is sure is that being listed by you means a lot to me.
As more and more people come and read this blog, I guess it could be the last private message I'm going to write here. Hear. I discovered yesterday that someone very close to me comes secretly here without even telling me a word about it.
I also guess it might be your secret and now mine.
You probably use this GPS. They call it Cheap GPS, but they are wrong. As we both know "Don't ask your way to somebody who knows it, because you would risk to not loose you..."
Walk through my words as often as you want. J'écris aussi pour toi.
Oui, himself. Pour me demander d'être son amie. Dieu et moi en avons 5 en commun. C'est peu.
Oy veh ! J'avoue que j'hésite. Confirm ? Ignore ? Pari pascalien en vue !
Du plus loin de notre cache-cache tacite, la dernière fois que je l'ai trouvé, il n'en est pas revenu. Je ne pensais pas qu'il me cherchait encore.
Soit. Il m'a retrouvée. Mais après avoir relu l'historique, rien dans le contrat ne dit que nous pouvons/devons êtres ami(e)s. J'ai même consulté la mémoire familiale : ma grand-mère qui le tenait de sa mère, elle-même le tenant de l'oncle Mardochée a certes toujours prôné le "Pour ou contre, mais jamais sans" ... mais rien concernant une éventuelle amitié.
Surtout qu'il y a quand même un lourd contencieux sur lequel il n'a guère été explicite. Pour ceux qui l'ignorent, dans ma famille il y a déjà eu une vieille histoire entre une Myriam et lui qui a fait beaucoup de bruit sur les tablettes de l'époque et s'est très mal terminée. Faut admettre qu'en ce temps là les privacy settings de BibleBook ne proposaient pas la souplesse d'un FaceBook. En tout cas, je tiens à rassurer ici ma famille et mon amoureux, la vérité, il ne m'a pas pokée.
Donc, après mûre réflexion (dans un miroir sans tain) et le sourire en banane de Joseph mon amoureux, je me suis donc décidée à ne ni confirmer ni ignorer. Surtout qu'en matière d'Art, entre autres, il a grandement besoin de conseils. Mais ça, c'est une autre histoire pour un autre moment.
Pour ceux qui ne sont pas sur FaceBook (il en reste ?) il est partout et donc là aussi. Enjoy and spread the word ;-)
A couple of days ago I signed up for Lijit. For those unfamiliar with Lijit, Ouriel blogged about it with enthousiasm last summer, wich is how I discovered it -- yes this is THE full warranty. So, save your time by not reading what is following and directly go sign up. Really, go!
Still there? Ok here are some "reasonable reasons" why I've got a crush on Lijit.
First, before it provides you a pretty cool wijit (watch it, the widget of lijit which is not glitz), you have to register. Usual. Used to services that ask for id, email address, pwd and then let you go all by yourself? Forget the loneliness as soon as you put your name on Lijit. Lijit accompanies you on the long and boring road, gently, with a neat, simple and quick magic touch. It lets you see it already knows you without being intrusive. In less time it takes to realize you're an SNS addicted, you're in. All your accounts are listed. The more coherent you are, the quickest it finds you, but you can play hide-and-seek with ;-) Three settings and two clicks after, it's allready on your blog. Well, nice, but what can it do for you that other search tools can't ?
There are things it is better to self-experiment rather than to be explained. Try my Lijit, enter a word and see what Lijit offers and how. Experiment the way it seems totally built in the blog and be surprised by the way it also accompanies you in your search. A damned fluid application! That's the way it interacts with you as a reader. But be careful, if you are a blogger and adopt it, it feeds you with the evil paradise of your blog stats! Don't look at this page, never! ;-) Note: At this time I do not have retrospect enough to speak about my own results or stats, but with a little help of more readers, it should come one day or another.
Believe it or not, there's another incredible feature! With each wijit, Lijit attaches a real human evangelist who accompagnies you on the way. Skeptical ? Try it!
Disclosure: To be honnest it was not the first time I signed up. I already use Lijit on Crickee blogs, not only because the logo is pretty nice, the name really good, the design of their site really great or their blog quite well writen -- wich also could be excellent reasons though. So, few days after my sign-up for Crickee's blogs, I received a kind email from Tara. And yesterday I also received another nice email from Barney. It was not the same email! In a world where more and more emails are standardized and impersonal both took time to read blogs and send a personalized email, with rewarding thoughts.
I do not have a lot of certitudes, but I know that Lijit has got the vavavoom touch*: a useful tool that works simply and quite well, plus -- and that makes the most part of the vavavoom -- a great team, good devs and involved evangelists. All that I can say from my own experience is that both give a real and honnest attention to users. Even if I know how it works, and probably because I know how it works, giving me for a while the feeling that I am someone unique among the flock is a nice experience -- of course me, myself and I have also an ego ;-)
Thanks to that, Lijit is more than a tool, it is also a pleasant tour guide accompanist. Think about it, that's unusual and rare enough to be mentionned.
Live the bugs alive! It sounds the Seesmic Team has decided to eradicate all the bugs!
Awesome project, neat way to work on it, amazing tool to collect users feedback.
Note: Don't remind me I've said I would never podcast something by myself. If seesmic can change my mind, it could be a real landslide. More to come about never say never ... Merci à Loïc dont l'humour n'est pas une légende urbaine.
Sur le vif, dialogue entre mon fils l'avocat et mon fils le médecin. Entendu dans le silence de ce dimanche après-midi : 
