Without e-comms, I will not be here :-)

I am in Celsa in order to complete my job profile and skills. You know now that I was (am) journalist and it's a hard competition to work in freelance.
One year ago, I decided to take in hand my life. I make a trainee at Doranco School to improve my computer skills.
I enjoy to be at the University now. I had to do it !

Less and less afraid about e-technologies !

During the english class, I really dicovered MSN, the webcam and Easy CV. It's not a joke but if I like very much Internet's opportunities and that every day I learn new softwares, new tools etc I have never used an instant messenger ! Last year, I began to express myself on a blog but actually I didn't really passionate by this support (above all I prefer writing for people who read me !)

And for the first time, I put videos on You Tube and I'm very proud and happy about this ! I will share it with friends and family. I learnt to handle my camera with its function video. Moreover, I learnt to add widgets on photos and videos. That's enjoyable !

Crowdsourcing ?

I have never heard this expression but maybe the wiki tool is a part of crowsourcing... The free encyclopedia Wikipedia or the cityzen site Agora Vox are some websites that anybody complete. The result is a work in common.

"Mass media against the medias of the mass ?"

A scheme is sometimes more easy than great theories !

Internet : a new space for political confrontation

"To remove the politics dust"

According to a french news L'express, the militant websites are increasing this year. For the presidential election, we can count it by hundreds. For example, the PS has got 237 sites and UDF 206. But the real innovation in this election campaign is videos. For the candidate Segolene Royal, it was difficult : the sequences about Bourdieu and teachers (download a million times) discredit her. On the other hand, Sego and her team create Desirs d'avenir, a web 2.0 plate-form which contribute to it's electoral opening. The citizens took part in the debate.

In my opinion, the phenoma will go on. In United States, this new way of using Internet is important to get a democratic image. Net surfers are under the impression that politics affairs are transparent. But I don't think so. Don't forget there is a lot of disinformation, lot of talks are out context. Anybody can broadcast anything. But let's have confidence, the web community is less and less credulous. So I think the best information political web sites will continue to furnish debates.

EMI without DRM

You understood that I like music and I worry for the problems concerning free download on Internet. In France, government write a lot of reports, converse with the music network, try to find solutions... In the country of l'exception culturelle, the DADVSI's law protect artists and their rights. So the Digital Right Management was perfect to control access.


But nobody can stop the progess, the digital technologies are current. Moreover, all the world is connecting, so it'a common assent which must be settled.


Last month EMI Music put on i-tunes all his catalog without DRM. The customers have the ability to download tracks without any restrictions.

I recommend also these 2 sites : Rock You or Slide to create a slide show to customise your pics.
For example, in this post : it's a rock band - friends of mine. Their name : Clint (I added a link to My Space to discover them) They have already played in New York and they received prices for their music and starring.
But be carefull : too much effects kill the effect !

Podcast and streaming (2)

TV5.org "Chut"

On this site, you click and you watch the file in streaming. Chut is a muli-fields arts programm of the francophone channel TV5.

It's not possible put and keep the video on your computer but you consult on tv5 it and then you book it !

Podcast and streaming

NOVORAMA.COM

On this site, you will find chronicles about indie pop rock and you can download a podcast to listen all the news of the week.

In addition you can stock the files in your computer !

A site-idea in digital technology

When you want to know all about e-technologie in any sector, it's easy : you just have to consult the french site Le journal du Net. You will find on it many news about e-business in Net economy, telecoms, marketing and above all : tourism !

Look at my boyfriend, he can't live without spend a time everymorning to check the newest innovations ! Nevertheless he doesn't have the same job like me.

OUR WIKI... DON'T FORGET TO LOOK AT IT !

In english class with Bob, we have opened the Wiki Space to talk each other about e-culture subjects. To share opinions, ideas and all that student want !

Our class performance !

On this link, you will discover all the universe of an e-english class at celsa... Thanx to Bob !

My first tube !

There is no sound but a lot of motivation ! Sorry it was my first test !

With Bubble Ply, you add bubbles on your own video, then you got a link and you publish (or not) on your blog and another website youwish ! Easy and enjoyable !

Question of the day... and some answers..

What are the resources on the internet that you can use to learn and improve your English ? Which ones do you actually use now ? Which one will you use in the future ?

Sometimes, I download podcasts "english as a second language". All a programm !

I like to visit tv5.org too. This website belongs to the francophon channel TV5. You can find a dictionnary to translate french into english and vice versa. You must see this website because I worked on it !


Explain the new internet model called a social network. Give some examples and explain what their purposes and user groups are.

A social network is a web tool, an application to share CV, professionnal contact (Viadeo, LinkedIn) you can also find love or friends (meetic) ! It permits you to connect with a lot of people - that on real life you would never had met. The user groups want to grow their relationship. Then they have more opportunities, they have more choices.

Internet and e-culture reveal a second world

As I said it last wednesday, e-culture is a possibility to open the mind, the imaginary...

For example, we can compared Internet to a mirror because the news tools of writing allows anyone to tell its story. So you can explain your life, put photos, you can show a lot thing about you. On the plateform skyblog : lot of young people try a to show an image of themthelves. But I don't think Internet a real mirror : it's a deformed mirror !

In another way, what counts is the answer. If you write, you want a comment, you are looking for a message. Internet is an echo : in many case you can find people like you, you can find on spider's web people with the same worries or hobbies... You are not alone, you gradually form a community with its believes, its codes, its manners of seeing the life... On the site Agoravox, you share your opinions and invite Internet users to react to your articles.

That's why Internet is also a rainbow : all the colors are express. Anyone can give voice to one's feeling. when the rainbow is here, the beautifull weather is not so far ! Express yourself !there are a lot of sites for this thanks to the forums, the comments... But sometimes it'a pity : people can speak about anything.

So Internet could be a mirage : you are under the impression that you are in a perfect world. In fact, it's true. Second Life is a falsification of world but 400000 persons exist on this website. Besides the slogan the catch phrase is "your world your imagination".

It'a very easy to make a new identity. With Internet, all the world becomes a magic illusion. You are behind the screen, you create a made-up story. Your hide and you protect your life with a psudonym, a confidential name.

For shy people, for disabled person (handicapped people), Internet is a dream. No one can judge them by appearances. The only thing which is count is their mind and the way of seeing the life.

Sometimes, anyone can be desappointed : Internet is a mascarade, it's powerful like a flash of lightning. The risk is to fall in darkness to after this !

At last, e-culture can be compared to a onion : that is to say if you peel it, if you spend a long time to navigate, you can find the quintessence. In this case Internet may help you in all the areas of your life.

Internet offers great possibilities for tourist and cultural promotion.

What it is necessary to know above all: tourism is the sector which gains more in E-trade. Train tickets, plane tickets, voyages, hiring of lodgings, hotel : the consumer does not hesitate any more to make purchases over Internet, it has confidence more and more. Internet is a formidable numerical tool which makes it possible to make promotion one to one. What means that the offers suggested are particularly well targeted, adapted to the requirements of the new traveller : the E-traveller.

In addition to making sell, Internet makes dream: it opens the imaginary. The photographs, the interactive maps, the panoramic vidéos make it possible to prepare its voyage, to mature its project and its ideas on the destination. But the great innovation with Internet it is the communities. Thanks to the blogs, the division of the opinions and the accounts of voyage, the internauts get more information , the consumers are increasingly enlightened and informed on the destinations , on the tour-operators and on the other travel agencies.

Introduction

I am Gaëlle Veillaux, I'm 26, I'm Parisian (but not for so long !)

I study in Celsa since february of 2007. The Celsa depends from la Sorbonne (Paris IV). The mention of my professional master is "Cultures, tourisms, and numeric communication." I worked for four years in journalism. I began in 2002 at the end of a time : free newspapers and explosion of Internet. For the written press, the difficulties are numerous : not as many advertising, not as many readers. And it's the same for magazines.

I did a lot of training courses in the prestigious corporation Hachette Filipacchi Media (Elle, Paris Match, Télé 7 jours...). Actually, I created the Intranet of the human ressources of the group. Then, it was easy to find another training courses but it was impossible to have the job. I was young and full of hope, that's perfect to stay a trainee !

In those days I met a person who would like create a new magazine... and immediately he thinks about me ! Here we go : the magazine was dedicate to teenagers girls. It was fun and the magazine has a great audience in France, Belgium and Switzerland. It will only last for a while : after one year, the redundancy hit for us !

Recently, I worked for Libération : look at this page ta see my articles on line.