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Everybody’s got to live together
All the people got to understand
So you love your neighboor
Like you love your brother
Come on and join the band

Everybody needs to use e-culture
Oh it’s greatest adventure
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E-culture nowadays

Even if everybody has heard or used e culture nowadays, I think the concept can be quite different for everybody. To me e-culture mean having an access to art for example without escaping from home. For example I regularly buy my books on websites, because sometimes it's really cheaper than in a real shop. Personally it offers the possibility to everybody and to every social class to learn things with sites like wikipedia, dictionaries on line and so on... To me, it helps people sharing about what they know and it makes the whole worldwilde communicating.

On a professionnal way, it may allow me to work at home because you want have to do some research in the field. Whereas in multinational or national companies, new technologies and e culture can modify the whole organisation. For example you can organize meetings through Internet without moving from your work station. It also avoids long travels from people who work far away. As a person in charge of communication, it could be my future very soon.

But my personal advice is to continue sharing your time between e-culture and culture in "real places" like museums, exhibitions and so on... Besides, that's what many web sites are suggesting : because many of them deal with critics about cinema, and events... creating a link between the internet and material places of culture.

What e-communications change in our lives !!

If you want to see what I do during the strikes, let's have a quick look...

The future of the SMS...

According to many sources, about 16.8 billion chargeable person-to-person text messages were sent across the four UK GSM networks in 2002.

But what do you think about sending an sms not only for delivering a message but for showing a picture, a video ??
I think most of people nowadays keep having a very traditional use of the SMS. They are really helpfull, they can explain in a few words what you don't want to say in a long dialogue...

To me, consumers are becoming more and more comfortable with the use of their mobile phones as a device for communicating with their friends, colleagues and family.

In the future I hope and think that there will be more ways to send and receive text messages, for example dedicated web sites or business intranets as well as mobile phones.

On the other hand, partnerships with television, radio, advertisers, news sites, public sector agencies, celebrity and band promoters, for example will create a larger range of interactive text based services. There are many recent examples of this interactivity : like Channel 4's Big Brother, BBC's Fame Academy and ITV's Popstars. All these programmes votes and all that stuff with the bias of the cellphone.

Finally, if we consider that just like in Japan we will receive really soon television on our phones : why can't we imagine a new form of sms whith extracts of tv programms and son on ???

CV !!

Google : "don't be evil"

Obviously the business model of Google raises a lot of questions, like any company which is in the process of becoming a Monopolistic one ! To me people had the same troubles with Microsoft.

But the case of Google deals with a new problem : privacy protection. Nowadays Google is considered as some kind of Big Brother. For example you can find many websites which play with the claim on the claim of Google : "Don't be evil" to ask : "Is Google evil ?"

- Is Google evil ?

- Google as Big Brother

and so on...

But according to me the problem with Google is clearly linked to a fear really actual : privacy transgression. It can actually be in relation with the actual debate about cameras everywhere in the street and so on...

Success stories on the net

How many young creators of business models on the internet make people dream nowadays ? Reproduced but never equaled these models had made the fortune of their owners.

Google may be one of the best example : co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University, Google is now the famous searched engine, well known all around the world with famous claim : Don't be evil. Actually it's really amazing to think that most of the internauts use Google everyday.... Young creators haven't only earnt money they have created a new practice.

More recently we cant take the example of YouTube. The video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips, was created in mid February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. Now they are declaring that its business model was advertisement-based, making 15 million dollars per mont...

How such huge models and fortunes can happen ?

We can think of a great concurrence between practices, needs and offers... but in people'mind those example of success are really linked to the dream world of the intenet !! I think those example make sense with the famous book of Flichy called : The internet Imaginaire