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Where it is high time that America starts looking outside its navel

Yeah, good morning America. Wake up the f*** up, America. Lire la suite :: Read further

mardi 1 août 2006 à 15:04 in Là-bas - Over there

En me baladant sur le blog de Xave, je suis tombée par hasard sur le site de la Cow parade et ai découvert qu'elle battait son plein à Boston, où j'ai passé la semaine dernière. Lire la suite :: Read further

jeudi 29 juin 2006 à 11:29 in Là-bas - Over there

Où l'on retrouve le sens du mot bienvenue et autres digressions

Bon, ça y est, je suis arrivée. A l'heure où je vous écris, j'ai 9 heures d'avion dans les dents et une journée qui frise les 24 heures sans dormir, ça commence à faire beaucoup. Lire la suite :: Read further

samedi 17 juin 2006 à 07:36 in Là-bas - Over there

Or politeness in the New World

There is a funky drowl in the South, totally different from the one in Boston. Yesterday, Jean-Baptiste and I were reflecting upon the kind of people we had met during these few days. Bostonians, or at least people taking classes at Harvard law School, remind us of those parisiens branchés and bored, who don't really fit in the system but are its core at the same time. Here in Atlanta, where I have a 4 hour stopover before I go on to Frankfurt, people are nonchalant. Lire la suite :: Read further

vendredi 20 janvier 2006 à 16:07 in Là-bas - Over there

Reflexions on a lost career

We went to MIT today, to visit the Media Lab (Media Laboratory) and see what we could do there for the next Wikimedia Conference. The place is huge. As we arrived in Boston, we went to the FSF official launch of the GPL 3.0. The only thing I recall at that point is thinking well, this is just like any other university in the world; imposing monuments, shabby insides and notice-boards that have been so used they just look like a giant pinhole.That was when I entered through the front door. Now, the Media-Lab is situated in a white building not too far from the banks of the Charles River Lire la suite :: Read further

jeudi 19 janvier 2006 à 16:28 in Là-bas - Over there