C’était aussi le 12 décembre, juste avant ma bafouille en anglais, ouf, c’est plus facille. Le blog de Thierry Maillet, ne manquez pas aussi son livre Génération participation. Filmé par Malo, éditeur de MM2editions et créateur de cluster21.com.
Podcast avec Thierry Maillet
22 December 2006







9 January 2007 @ 15:49
[...] At the last vote (the referendum), French politicians not only lost, collectively, but were all shown up for being out of touch. So how are they going to remedy that before the April elections? How are they trying to prove that, contrary to appearances, they are in touch with a large and probably younger section of French society? Ségolène Royal, as I have said, has a low-key, intelligent approach, creating a participative blog. However, it is running out of steam and now she is fully engaged on the “official” front, I wonder whether she will be able to keep the blog convincing. Her principal rival, Nicolas Sarkozy’s solution is typically American-style razzmatazz. His way of showing he’s part of the scene is to get one or several stars to come to a big public rally, and there they perform a variant of the medieval obeisance ritual: they approach each other on-stage and on-camera, one, by his body-language, clearly the presidential candidate, the other, despite being a star, doing a sort of mock-humility act which we know is temporary. They face each other stiffly and indulge in mutual jaw-holding (in France people do this where Americans hug and thump backs – anyway Sarko is too short to thump backs, his people must have told him that clamping people round the knees is not good for his “I’m your man” image). To show he is just a click away from the connected community he likes to have Loïc Lemeur, a (or perhaps the) key French blogger, beside him on stage at the big rallies, taking email reactions from people down-loading the podcast of Sarko’s speech. Loïc is quoted on BonVote as running the most influential of the 1,328 political French blogs. Sarkozy honed his web image by making a lightning appearance at Loïc’s recent Blog Fest in Paris, Web 3.0, organised with SixApart. Clearly he could not refuse the invitation to speak before web-people from 36 countries, but in the event he had nothing much to say, and left abruptly after his speech. He must have sensed something in the air, for many dismiss him on their subsequent blogs as irrelevant. In other words, like Ségolène Royal, he still has not really understood what it’s about. As Thierry Crouzet, a very astute, committed blogger points out, both Sarko and Ségo still see the world from the old top-down, command-and-control perspective which no longer fits with what many in France want. [...]
16 April 2007 @ 23:41
trés bien cette video…bravo les mecs….je vais la mettre en avant si vous êtes ok dans ma prochaine communication sur “la fédèration des connecteurs” : lesaperosdujeudi 26 avril a la belleviloise.
17 April 2007 @ 7:43
Pas de problème Jeremy…
4 May 2007 @ 0:47
[...] In other words, like Ségolène Royal, he still has not really understood what it’s about. As Thierry Crouzet, a very astute, committed blogger points out, both Sarko and Ségo still see the world from the old [...]