E culture

First of all, I admitt that it's quite difficult to talk about 'e culture' because to me it means so much things. For example, do websites about shops like 'Fnac', or 'Amazon'.. can be considered like examples of e-culture if they sells books and so on ?

To me e-culture changes so much things. In fact after my studies in Litterature I choose to join the CELSA because I was thinking that the internet would take an important part in the future of the culture. Internet, and the fact that people can't help writing to each others, is one of the best example which shows that the written medias are not dead. On the other hand the convergence between several medias in the internet is so interesting.

Howewer in order to become specialist in mediatic strategy I think I have to learn more about technical abilities : like how to create a website and things like that ... There are many things to create and so much to learn with the Internet.

Social networks !!!

Well this is typically the kind of things I can't stand : annotating about a subject I don't believe in like social networks on the internet. To me this is such an artifical way to create a real network : for example when teenages try to have the biggest number of contacts on their blog adding anybody in their list !
But it raises interesting questions like : will Linkedin really help people to find a job ? Why not ? I'm expecting to see that.

Privacy pollution !!!

According to me the web can bring a new form of identity theft. For example, I don't want to use Facebook or Myspace anymore because I'm afraid by the fact that anybody can visit you, maybe copy your photos and things like that... I don't like people who can't help send you links to join them and so on.. It makes me think of phone calls for advertising... But maybe I can change my state of mind with this blog ....

WIKI

No a wiki isn't the name of a fruit...

In fact, a wiki is a medium which can be edited by anyone with access to it, and provides an easy method for linking from one page to another. Wikis are typically collaborative websites, though there are now also single-user offline implementations. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".[1] One of the best-known wikis is Wikipedia.[2]

THE ELEMENTS FOR A GOOD BLOG

I can notice it right now, create a blog is not an easy thing. To make it interesting Ithink you have to deal with your personal interests and your readers' ones.

For example I thought it woukd have been great to put pictures on it, maybe photos...

If I could I would also enjoy to share music and files with my readers but first of all I think I have to find an interesting subject to talk about....

CROWDSOURCING

Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a job traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task, refine an algorithm or help analyze large amounts of data.

Recent examples of crowdsourcing
Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia edited by volunteers. The English Wikipedia currently contains over 2,000,000 articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

In 2005, Amazon.com launched the Amazon Mechanical Turk, a platform on which crowdsourcing tasks called "HITs" (Human Intelligence Tasks") can be created and publicized and people can execute the tasks and be paid for doing so. Dubbed "Artificial Artificial Intelligence", it was named after The Turk, an 18th century chess-playing "machine".
Searching the Nevada desert for the crash site of Steve Fossett.[1] and so on...............

Class subjects

According to me, the best example of a business model which deals with generosity is Wikipedia. On one hand it shows well the internaut need to participate and to become some kind of 'citizen journalist' and creating the information. On the other hand the plurality of the subjects, and the fact that every social classes use it, underline the importance of generosity in the internet. Less and less internauts want to pay for something which has become a 'service'. Moreover, Wikipedia can become an example for libraries, museums and so on who could share their works of art with a largest audience on the internet.

Once again to prove the generosity of Wikipedia I will use it to post most of my messages.