My Wikipedia Experience

Music. Metal music. Like most of young people of their generation, members of CHECKMATE have gathered round this same passion. A passion which has linked them for so many years. Curiosity, need for understanding the complexity of music, desire of finding the key of this curious assembly made with noise, notes and rhythm, this delicious alchemy, have become a real obsession.

Created in 2003 by three friends from high school fan of Metal music, CHECKMATE took the time to learn, to evolve, to blossom, to develop itself year by year and achieved its final organization in April 2007. The band has no limit and plays a new metal music feed with various influences. The unique style of CHECKMATE was creating in diversity and hybridation, explorating the limits of each genre. Each member has revealed what is sleeping in his deep down. Their music is a miror : it is composed of their own reflections, both mixed in a surprising unity. This subtle mixture makes up the remarkable musical identity of CHECKMATE.

The Band has a key word : “METAL is an ALCHEMY”. Behind the screams, the saturated chords, the dissonance, and the deafening rythms, there is music. Through there creations CHECKMATE questions about the deep signification of this unusual music. Each piece is a part of the answer, because this is what music is all about. In a poetic way, Checkmate develop a new idea of what Metal is through the myth of the Alchemy.

The band has only one project…

...TO MAKE GOLD WITH STEEL

This the text I have written to present my rock band, Checkmate. It is a translation of our press release.

I wanted to post it on Wikipedia last week. I spoke about it to a friend and he said to me : “don’t do it. Your article will be censored and suppressed by Wikipedia’s directors because this kind of text is regared as self promotion...”. This relevant reflection raises a very important question : where is the frontier between information and advertising ? What a legitimate information is ? Wikipedia seems to answered it, but in a very arbitrary way...

E-books have no future

Everybody is presenting the arrival of e-books on the market as a new revolution. A technological revolution for culture which will reinvent our reading habits...It’s a fact and we can’t give up to these new cultural practices. But, to my mind, the problem comes from the reading aid itself. In fact, the question is the following: why people would buy an expensive machine just to read books while they could do it with their mobile phone ?

I-phone, and smart phones in general, are already offering this kind of services and a lot of people have used it for so many time. Nowadays people are used to using multimedias stuff, so why should they go back to “monomedias” ? That is the reason why e-books have no future.

Actually, there is a website which proposes a new kind of literature : www.smartnovel.com. Here you can buy some “roman-feuilletons” (serial novels for english speakers) especially designed for mobile phones. Some stories are written by famous authors and each of us are fascinating and well-writting.

10 rules to survive on the Internet

I have just come across a little video, a little simplistic but well directed, which reminds us the five essential rules of good behaviour on Facebook. I would apply them to every e-publishing system. Whatever the website you are using, whatever the security system, you have to be careful! Never post any document which could harm somebody or your own image, today or in the future.

Un guide des bonnes manières sur Facebook - Nouvel Obs
Une vidéo réalisée par l'équipe de YourTango résumant les principales règles de savoir-vivre à respecter sur Facebook.

Mots-clés : buzz facebook bonne manières yourtango

Video de obsvideo

My video resume !

Breaking the habits

A little video to illustrate a new subject:"breaking the habits", in a very poetic way

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French TV against cyber criminality !

Cyber crime, according to computer security specialists, is similar to the traditional crime, can adopt many forms and take place at any place or any time. Cyber criminals bound to such crime employ a variety of methods based on their expertise as well as their aim.

At the moment it does not exist any international law about cyber criminality. So a hacker would be able to access to a foreign computer system without being bother by the justice. Moreover there is no special group of control on the Internet and the police seems powerless in front of this serious problem.

To my mind it would be interesting to create a sort of Internet patrol to protect citizens against cyber criminals. This patrol could be composed of ex-hackers who want to redeem themselves. I think hackers could become a new weapon in the service of good, more efficient than simple police because they know everything about hacking techniques and how to find evil-minded people on the networks.

Bondy blog, a precious opportunity

Created in 2005 during the riot in the suburb of Paris, Bondy Blog has become the voice of suburbs. The blog publishes articles written by young citizens from Seine-Saint-Denis. It represents an opportunity for young people who come from an unprivileged background to express themselves and to lead journalistic investigations. Bondy Blog was often presented by its creators as a new school opened to everybody. It has become a reality. The website and the famous french journalism school, l'ESJ de Lille, have recently created in Bondy a preparatory class for the entrance exam to great journalism schools. The most promising students will be partly selected on the blog.

One of the blogers has produced a short report about the official inauguration.

inauguration ESJ Lille Bondy
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