As any paper business, times were not very happy a few semesters ago. “It’s not very fun to manage de-growth. A vicious circle is not exciting” says Guy. So the company decided to invest in the future, invest in digital.





As any paper business, times were not very happy a few semesters ago. “It’s not very fun to manage de-growth. A vicious circle is not exciting” says Guy. So the company decided to invest in the future, invest in digital.
I am big promoter of transparency, in a pure and equal form. In that sense, I love the message I received on Sat from Elon Musk regarding the fires in a Tesla model S last Friday. First of all, I liked the sense of the message, and agreed with its content – in a word, shit happens, and in Tesla’s, it does not harm the driver. Secondly, I loved to see the complete email exchange between Tesla’s C-level staff and the unlucky client that got its Model S on fire. Transparency, the way we like, with exemplarity.
The mail is fully reproduced below:
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ITU Telecom World has always been an important miles stones in my life, both as a doer and thinker.
Following last year kind invite, I accepted to participate to this year event and speak in a few conf and panels.
A very hot topic and interesting would be : “How can World Citizens Ensure their Privacy in a Digital World?” at
We will be covering questions like-
– What should citizens do and what are their rights?-
– What should be the role of Government and Business?-
– How should we ensure this in laws and international standards?
Any inputs you reader would like to provide ? Feel free to post a comment and chat with me on Twitter.
If you think that HD is the fist step of the stairway, you will love this video from tech company NeoLune.
Get ready for the endless zoom !
Interesting chat from Kevin.
A point that he largely missed (or was edited) is the major difference between the big crowd TV broadcasters and Netflix, which is the ownership and the use of big data by the US movie streaming company. A data that others don’t have, and would actually not really use the right way if they had it.
Check this great article from GigaOM on the successful launch of the series “Orange in the New Black”.
I hereby reproduce the content of the PR release of WAN IFRA, The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). Feel free to share.
Paris, France and Darmstadt, Germany, 26 August 2013
World’s press protests against destruction of Guardian newspaper hard drives and apparent decline in press freedom of UK
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have protested to Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom against the actions of government officials that led to the destruction of computer hard drives belonging to the Guardian newspaper last month.
In a letter to Mr Cameron, WAN-IFRA, the global organisation of the world’s press, called on the United Kingdom to reaffirm its commitment to press freedom and “respect the rights of journalists to protect their sources and to create the conditions necessary to ensure the press can continue its crucial role in maintaining free and fair societies, without government interference or intimidation”.
WAN-IFRA expressed its dismay at the government’s decision to pursue the threat of legal action should the Guardian not hand over or destroy computer hard drives, in a bid to prevent the publication of reports based on the leaked files supplied by National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.
“I am afraid the United Kingdom is progressively losing its place as a world leader in freedom of expression and a free press”, said Vincent Peyrègne, CEO of WAN-IFRA. “That the government felt the need to threaten legal action to block reporting into issues of public interest is deeply distressing and will have a chilling effect on press freedom in the UK and beyond. This is especially pertinent given the information contained in the hard drives was stored elsewhere and destroying them was a symbolic gesture only”.
WAN-IFRA also expressed concern regarding the detention of David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has been instrumental in breaking the story on the NSA files, under the UK Terrorism Act of 2000. Mr Miranda had his personal electronic items confiscated and was held for an unprecedented nine-hours without charges being brought against him.
WAN-IFRA has seen an increase in the arrests of journalists under anti-terror legislation in recent years, particularly in countries such as Turkey and Ethiopia.
“It is extremely upsetting that the UK government has used anti-terrorism legislation to detain the partner of the Guardian journalist associated with the Snowden files”, Mr Peyrègne said. “WAN-IFRA regards this as a complete misuse of anti-terror legislation.”
“I am calling on the Prime Minister of the UK, in the strongest possible terms, to provide his assurance that the necessary inquiries will be made to ensure that any inference of association between journalism and terrorism is not part of official policy that puts the UK on the same level as Turkey and Ethiopia, whose governments misuse anti-terror legislation to silence critics”.
This most recent protest letter follows a letter to Mr Cameron in April 2013, regarding the proposed Royal Charter on Self Regulation of the Press and the serious questions that remain regarding the future direction of independent press regulation.
Reports suggest that since Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry into press behaviour, as many as 59 journalists have been arrested under three separate police investigations. None have been convicted and many have spent months on police bail.
The most recent letter can be read at http://www.wan-ifra.org/node/84088
WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore and India, is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. Its core mission is to defend and promote press freedom, quality journalism and editorial integrity and the development of prosperous businesses.
Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, Deputy CEO and Director of Communications and Public Affairs, WAN-IFRA, 96 bis, rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris France. Tel: +33 1 47 42 85 07. Fax: +33 1 42 78 92 33. Mobile: +33 6 10 28 97 36. E-mail: larry.kilman@wan-ifra.org
Hilarious and well produced.
2’13” “She is there for only for one reason. Euh… Make that too reason”.
Enjoy the week end : )
A nice piece to understand the future already today.
20 predictions for the next 25 years | Society | The Observer.
I came across that great movie today. Enjoy. But do no watch while eating.
Even more happy than usual to be vegetarian.
I just wanted to share with you a few presentation for 2 reasons.
1 / AllTheContent, my company, is recruiting sales agents in French and English, and looking for beta testing clients of new services.
2/ more trivial, I can test the slide share widget.
Feel to contact me for any question.
Capturing and broadcasting odors and aromas with photos and videos will be – for sure – an important trend in the decades to come, even in a shorter term. I was passionated by the subject from 99 to 2005, then focused on other “too early” innovation.
Coming back with the idea earlier this year, I was actually sure it existed already by now. Looking for it, there were no products but I found this great piece of content on Protein which talks about such tool. Still a design concept, soon a prototype and not so far from now, on the shelf on your electronic store. Check this article, on Aromastagram | An odor capturing camera imbues your photos with the scent of the moment.
Provide a multi-sensory experiment
I have always been interested by multi sensory experiences and made a lot of trial / real size test / performance with that in my musical / party organizing years.
Closer from now and from the content industries, in 2005, we did sign a deal, DreamLanes, with France Telecom spin-off that had patent a odor-diffusion tech associated with ambient / nature video. Aromas where artificial flavors and/or essential oils. It could also diffuse steam like fog in the room. They also had a “consumer product” called Videorama – check the product sheet . We, at AllTheContent, provided the content.
They were actually a lot too early. Most interested content industries were relaxation and…. porn ! They finally repurposed their offer for creating tailor made scent in cars or shops.
Once you’ve passed the little IBM ad at the start, you will enjoy a really interesting interview with Dr. John E. Kelly II, senior VP and director of IBM Research. The most interesting part are in my perspective: the part of IBM’s Watson (the joepardy winning computer), cognitive computing, as well all the newest lab in Nairobi, Kenya and the future of Africa as an important growth market for IBM.
Curated content. Not personally involved into production or content.
Today, in 2013 it appears to me that we are in a situation not so far from the appearance and emerging domination of Google a bit more than 10 years ago. Indeed, a lot of people today acknowledge that Google is the leading, not to say the only search engine, but does not really provides good results in many cases.
In my perspective, the fact that millions of companies can sell you tricks, features, services, official or not, with or without Google certification, that can improve your ranking into Google services is – in itself – a proof of the current weakness of the search engine.
Indeed, when there are tricks and techniques that allow you, with cash and investments, to be well positioned in search results, we’re not into algorithmic search anymore. We are into a directory with paid visibility ….A directory exactly like Yahoo! was at the time.
In my perspective, all the recent announcement of Google of the past two years have been bringing sanctions to limit the abuse of SEO. From Panda to Pinguin, the zoo of algorithmic updates shows that Google is well aware of the problem that I am underlining now.
I think customers would also have expected that the search algorithm itself improve as much as a “Google Now” on Android phone, which seems to be the way forward. You would also expect deeper search that encompass the deep web. Finally, the search and discover function of YouTube are surprisingly weak, unrelevant and not updated (… subscribing to channel is not the way you find the long tail content you may be searching for). Well, there are things to do, but it is not there yet.
So in my perspective, SEO and in a lesser way, sponsored links, are the biggest money maker but also the biggest threat on Google search future. In the 2 to 3 years time frame, I would expect Google to be able to provide a “Google Now” types of experiences to desktop (maybe, connected TV) users, while fighting hard against a new group of competitors that used the room currently left by Google to enter the market !
La blague est connue de tous les amateurs de politique. « Quelle est la taille de N. Sarkozy ? Un mètre quarante-sept selon les syndicats. Un mètre quatre-vingt-huit selon la police ». Avec le journalisme des objets, ce genre de débat sera rapidement clos.
L’Internet des objets est souvent décrit comme la prochaine évolution physique du réseau. En effet, chaque objet communiquant ou créateur de données peut devenir connecté, et, ce faisant, devenir une partie de la toile mondiale.
Caméras de surveillance, détecteurs de mouvements ou senseurs divers, les différents types d’outils de mesure qui peuvent se connecter à Internet sont toujours plus nombreux. D’abord fixes, ces instruments deviennent de plus en mobiles (intégration aux véhicules, aux drones, aux appareils nomades).
A mon avis, une grande partie de ces outils sont déjà pertinents dans une démarche journalistique d’enquête et de vérification des faits. Plus largement, ces technologies pourraient aussi être utilisées pour générer des données en masse afin de créer des statistiques valides, sans avoir les limitations traditionnelles des échantillons réduits.
Dans la lignée de la witz citée en titre, l’exemple classique de la manifestation où les organisateurs indiquent une participation de 1 million de personnes alors que la police ou le gouvernement, lui, ne confirme que 200 000 présences, est typiquement une bonne illustration des questions auxquelles le journalisme des objets peut amener des réponses. Des réponses fermes, empiriques, exhaustives et consultables par tous. En effet, de ces deux chiffres, l’un est forcément faux. Mais ce qui paraît le plus probable est que les deux déclarations sont (volontairement) incorrectes et que la vérité numérique est médiane.
Sans attendre aucun développement technologique, il est d’ores et déjà possible de répondre à la question du nombre de manifestants de deux manières. En partant du principe que le nombre de manifestants est de x/m2 (dépendant de la nature du public présent, exemple : lycéens ou familles). Le décompte devient alors possible en accédant à une image exhaustive de la foule au complet à un instant T (avec un drone en survol). Autre alternative : en analysant le flux complet de personnes à un point de passage fixe (webcams privées ou caméras de surveillance).
Utiliser les outils existants pour être précis n’est plus un luxe aujourd’hui. Avec le journalisme des objets, les médias bénéficient d’une nouvelle famille de sources, non-humaines, fiables et ouvertes, qu’ils se doivent d’utiliser.
Clément Charles | ATC News Agency
PS : En réalité, l’ancien président français mesure un mètre soixante-neuf.
Articles in French only : / Retrouvez ici l’article paru dans cominmag, le magazine Suisse des professionnels et médias et de la Communication. Version originale ci-dessous.
I had a lot of pleasures of following Frederico Zannier project to sell its own data. He sucessfully closed this week end a first round of 2 733 USD of people that will pay to get part or whole of his data.
On making money with data, Frederico has this great quote
” In 2012, advertising revenue in the United States was around $30 billion. That same year, I made exactly $0 from my own data. But what if I tracked everything myself? Could I at least make a couple bucks back?”
This is just the start of citizens starting to take control of their own data. Get ready !
I had the opportunity to attend the “Fight For Transparency” event at the Academy of Journalism and Media (AJM) of University of Neuchâtel. The content of the event was really great with high end speakers and very interesting debates. Overall, most of the speakers and the audience agreed the idea that more transparency the better and that transparency can improve democracies, but that such usage of transparency must be done in a deontological, ethical, and ideally transparent, framework in order to serve public goods without impairing personal and corporate privacy. I tweeted intensely during that even and wanted to share with you the most important element that I will personally retain of this day.
A mission for good
“It is not a battle for transparency, but the combat against secrecy”Kristinn Hrafnsson, Wikileaks Spokeman. #transparency #ddj
— ClementCharles (@ClementCharles) 24 mai 2013
“Concerned by the witch-hunt of whistleblowers. After wikileaks, it’s now happening to big media” Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Island, Pirate Party. — ClementCharles (@ClementCharles) 24 mai 2013
“More transparency could have limited the financial crisis”. Birgitta Jónsdóttir from the Islandic Pirate Party.
— ClementCharles (@ClementCharles) 24 mai 2013
Transparency, a daily battle
“Tools for opacity: secrecy, but also information overload by spin doctors and communication agency” François Pillet, Le Matin Dimanche.
— ClementCharles (@ClementCharles) 24 mai 2013
“we are not here for the money, and our business model is survival”Kristinn Hrafnsson, Wikileaks Spokeman. #transparency #ddj
in CH transparency is legally compulsory. But govt can ask up to 280K to provide the data. A nice way to make it impossible. #transparency
— ClementCharles (@ClementCharles) 24 mai 2013
ClementCharles (@ClementCharles) 24 mai 2013
“to be legitimate, secrecy must have a public benefit purpose. Time diminish the need for secrecy” Robert G. Picard #transparency #ddj — ClementCharles (@ClementCharles) 24 mai 2013
Some traditional media are also against transparency. For various reasons.
“Wikileaks, the best new thing for journalism in decades, but also a threat to traditional journalism” Kristinn Hrafnsson #transparency #ddj
— ClementCharles (@ClementCharles) 24 mai 2013
“Publishing stolen / hacked information is not serious journalism” Reiner Mittelbach. I don’t agree. Truth prevails from data protection.
— ClementCharles (@ClementCharles) 24 mai 2013
In the end, it is a question of data ownership. Again.
“in democracies, govt act as an agent of the public” R.G. Picard. My view: Yes. So, citizens actually owns this data and must access freely!
— ClementCharles (@ClementCharles) 24 mai 2013
Whaouh ! I had the great chance to be interviewed by award winning documentarist Antoine Viviani… The interview was on big data, quantified society, future of lifeloging and digital immortality. The team was great, and chatting with them, I understood that they conducted a lot of interviews in the US with some my personal heroes and key influencers such as Ray Kurzweil, Gordon Bell and Brewster Kahle. I was honored and impressed to among the interviewees for the film.
Previously, Antoine VIVIANI realize this fantastic interactive transmedia called IN SITU documentary and won some awards from it. You can still view it with its interactive enrichment online the specific Arte sub-site.
Caption (c) Antoine Viviani, Arte 2011.
Molière a popularisé le terme hypocondriaque avec son malade imaginaire. “Une écoute obsessionnelle de son corps amène l’hypocondriaque à interpréter la moindre observation comme le signe d’une maladie grave” dixit Wikipedia.
A l’inverse, l’hypercondrie est beaucoup moins connue. Elle consiste à imaginer que tout va bien, alors que manifestement, tous les indicateurs confirment le contraire. Mes quinze ans de pratique m’imposent un diagnostic: l’hypercondrie est le Mal des médias traditionnels, plus particulièrement des journaux.
En effet, j’ai passé une partie de ces années à travailler avec des responsables, directeurs et éditeurs de toutes tailles, pour rendre leurs titres plus pertinents pour leur audience, tout en étant plus rentables, et donc plus durables. Dans de nombreux cas, j’ai eu l’impression d’être un oncologue dont les patients, amputés de la langue et du larynx, expliquent avec une voix de vocoder que “le tabac n’a rien à voir avec leur problème de santé”, tout en fumant une clope par un trou en bas de la gorge.
Value VS Revenue
Le cas du patient “journaux” renvoie à cet exemple médical car, vu de l’extérieur, il est clair que le souci n’est pas réellement un problème de revenu (et donc de coûts), mais plutôt un problème de création de valeur (et donc de rôle dans la société ou de stratégie éditoriale). Dans ce sens, les changements cosmétiques, les réductions de personnels à la machette ou le suivisme des modes sont autant de traitements qui limitent la visibilité des symptômes tout en aggravant le mal fondamental.
Cette hypercondrie managériale s’explique par des raisons culturelles: le conservatisme pour préserver les acquis de confort. La recherche de confort à tout prix est un problème largement partagé par les différentes strates de l’entreprise. Elle est contre-productive, car, par définition, les médias ne doivent jamais se sentir à l’aise et être toujours sur la brèche, avec une volonté permanente d’adaptation pour refléter au mieux les attentes forcément évolutives de ses publics cibles. Agréable à court terme, le confort de ne pas envisager de changement ou celui de ne pas se questionner sur le rôle de son média, et plus généralement du journalisme, est le principal fossoyeur du futur de cette industrie.
Passion du statu quo
Ce statu quo a été renforcé par l’aspect générationnel des organigrammes. Alors qu’il est naturel de vouloir, individuellement et à chaque niveau, viser le confort, cette passion du statu quo n’est pas acceptable au niveau des dirigeants, qui ont la mission et la rémunération associée, de penser le futur. Alors que cette mission a été majoritairement ignorée par une génération sortante de dirigeants dont le seul but était de continuer à faire croître leur capital retraite dans des entreprises en réduction d’effectif, cette erreur handicape toute l’industrie dans sa capacité à se penser, à se renouveler et à s’adapter à un monde dont la mutation s’accélère.
A titre personnel, je ne pense pas que les médias soient condamnés ou qu’ils n’aient plus de raison d’être. A l’inverse, je crois en l’importance d’une information libre pour faire fonctionner une démocratie juste et équitable. Si la fonction est essentielle, le corps qui l’accomplit ne l’est pas. Les entreprises de médias choisissent donc aujourd’hui la nature de leurs lendemains.
Le moment est venu de cesser l’hypercondrie. Il est donc temps de sortir la tête du sable et de faire face aux défis qui sont les nôtres. Le journalisme sera important dans le futur. Ne le laissons pas être condamné par la fascination du passé.
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Cet article est paru dans ComIn Magazine, le magazine Suisse des professionnels de la communication et des médias, et sur MediaPart.