Jean-Marc Liotier

"The quickly acquired belief that internalized knowledge has become obvious is the reason why a beginner makes an awesome tutorial author. When I discover something new, I take notes and when I get somewhere I reformat my notes to show how I got there. It does not take me much more time than just taking notes for myself, and it rewards me with reactions from fellow learners. Those smart people who do not share may not be so smart after all…" - Jean-Marc Liotier

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I'll be there from December 21st until December 27th. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Jean-Marc Liotier

"In the paper era, only librarians had subscriptions to a significant number of industry periodicals. They curated and digested them for wider consumption in simpler forms. Now everyone can be a librarian, but only the power users really want to – so it is quite natural that the market for their specialized tools is limited. Besides, I haven’t heard anyone complain that compilers haven’t gone mainstream. Like tools used by developers, RSS readers are often built by the same class of people as the one who use them. But VC despair not : RSS is also the technology for the most of invisible links that currently percolate news from site to site – there are plenty of opportunities to do business over that, and it does not look like an RSS reader." - Jean-Marc Liotier

http://identi.ca has threaded views for conversations. Try it - you can even cross-post to Twitter ! Here is an example : http://identi.ca/convers... - Jean-Marc Liotier from FriendFeed MT Plugin

"I gave the Identi.ca -> FriendFeed -> Facebook path a try, but the FriendFeed to Facebook link sometimes posts out of order and that solution won't let me exclude @replies from what ends up on Facebook. So I'm back to using the Identi.ca -> Facebook path via the Identi.ca Facebook app." - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Google says : > "We know that mapping is a proven method to > enhance community development". Indeed... And that is why you should not do Google's work for free while you lose rights to your own data. Can you imagine providing Google with good data and then having to abide to Google's leonine license when you attempt to do anything useful with it ? I may sound like a broken record, but why would anyone chose to help Google build its own product instead of participating in a community effort ? "Citizen cartographer" only has meaning if there is an actual community around a freely shared object. If you feel like mapping, you should really give OpenStreetMap a serious look : it has reached critical mass and it won't enslave you. See you at http://www.openstreetmap.org" - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Why would you do Google's work for free while you lose rights to your own data ? Can you imagine providing Google with good data and then having to abide to Google's leonine license when you attempt to do anything useful with it ? Why would anyone chose to help Google build its own product instead of participating in a community effort ? If you feel like mapping, you should really give OpenStreetMap a serious look : it provides data for free under an open license, it has reached critical mass and it won't enslave you. See you at http://www.openstreetmap.org" - Jean-Marc Liotier

"I was only beginning to grasp the Del.icio.us API when the OAuth cliff appeared on my way. OAuth is a good thing, but such additional complexity is quite dissuasive toward novices such as me, so I was disappointed to find that there is no sample code demonstrating basic interaction with Del.icio.us using OAuth. But the it was astonished that I felt when I discovered how little Yahoo has been communicating about this evolution. Since the success of Del.icio.us depends on keeping a critical mass of users and developing an ecosystem of applications around it, I wonder why Yahoo flunked change management so badly." - Jean-Marc Liotier

"L’ICANN en remet une couche : - http://www.numerama.com/magazin... - http://www.pcworld.fr/2009..." - Jean-Marc Liotier

The obvious question that immediately sprung to my mind : why not OpenStreetMap... I found it in Waze's FAQ at http://www.waze.com/faq/#17. Here is an excerpt of the answer :"When looking at the OSM licensing terms, we felt that they might limit us from certain business models in the future". In plain language, Waze wants to own the data and benefit from restricting access. So if you wish to spend the time and effort to contribute to a mapping project, why not chose one which will let you whatever you want with the data and who will always keep it that way ? OpenStreetMap is like Wikipedia for maps. It creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. If you enjoy mapping, give it a try : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki... - Jean-Marc Liotier from FriendFeed MT Plugin