Email spams are out. Please welcome Facebook spams!

Whether you are encountering random invites to become X's friend or to install Y application. If you receive a couple of messages from the administrator of a group promoting this event, or that product. Then, you can be glad to be among the numerous people facing the new Facebook spam hassle. It appears then that 43% of all facebook messages could be defined as spam according to a study conducted by HP Labs (Information Dynamics Laborator).

As Lauren Cooney highlights it in her experience, Facebook is victim of its success as it shifted from a personal tool to (re)connect to a mix of personal and professional plateform to network with others (potential clients?). Now people try to figure out how to use the power of the social network to conduct business. In my sense, most of them conduct it in the old way with push marketing without using effectively interesting interactions with potential customers.

Whether you like it or not, you have to accept it. The only thing that makes me angry is the hypocrisy behind a lot of groups. Many group admin use the group to spam people for product, service or events, at least groups like Ernst & Young are honest as they are "sponsored"!


That raises two points in my sens that can be solved.

The managing issue is due to the fact that Facebook does not allow you to edit some basic group features, just with the applications. As a user, you should be able to chose how you want to interact with a group: receive or not messages from the group admin, receive or not notification of new posts, or group modifications etc...

Then, the community issue is due to the lack of real "self regulation" tool. People in a group cannot dismiss an admin of a group or even a person there. The admin has all the rights. In fact that's against the web 2.0 spirit. I am sure that you all noticed the little thumbs up and the cross on facebook's News Feed. They should add that for every member and every post in a group. That would make sens in a web 2.0 spirit and will help self-manage groups. of course the dismissal would be after many people "report" that.

Actually i really don't understand why the programmers of Facebook do not give the user more managing power over their own Facebook's experience. Perhaps that's only made to let more interaction instead of leaving the user to chose to limit them to his will.

Supreme courts rules that Al Gore cannot accept the Nobel's prize! LOL! ;)

You might know opednews.com? Well here is a little masterpiece by Jim Freeman about Al Gore's Nobel Prize:

In a stunning reversal, but true to their core beliefs, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that Al Gore cannot accept the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded him.
The court, in an unsigned finding (as are all Gore decisions) responded to George Bush's anticipatory plea for a restraining order based on the fact that "it's not all that hot out anyhow and what in the hell has that got to do with peace?"
Naming the Nobel Committee "just a bunch of Norwegian troublemakers," the court held that Gore cannot accept an award from "those who live too far north to know what warm really feels like." The ruling came within twenty minutes of the announcement and caught Nancy Pelosi, uncharacteristically, in a brown dress.
Dana Perino said the White House would have no comment other than an unconfirmed report by a source that declines to be identified, that the president called Chief Justice John Roberts, effusing "this is the second time that bum has had his ears trimmed by this court and you'd think he'd have finally learned a lesson."
According to a source close to the president, this is only the second time in his career that he has effused.

The reaction of Al Gore when he heard the news! ;)

Actually Bush should have shared the price with Gore, as without all the mistakes he did, Al Gore wouln't have the same spotlight on his face!

So i vote for a nobel shared between Bush and Al gore, not with the UN blablah... ;)

You know it's like the good and the bad cop: they had to be in a duo in order to notice them. So, are Gore and Bush! ;)

Actually, that's quite funny that a person could be nobel prized for peace because of fighting global warming as there is no real relationship with peace. But the bottom line is that the buzz is growing: on both sides: Gore's and the Nobel's ones.

It's all about communication. I m sure that there is someone who died, or who is saving a lot of people from the war in Irak, but no one notices because THIS IS NOT ORIGINAL!

That's unfortunate, that's sad, but that's true: it's far more original a former ex-running president which converted into fighting global warming and which succeeded in drawing attention toward the cause!

I do not say that what he did is not great, i m just stating that's not that great to see how people want original things.

I m not sure that the money and the attention he got were very necessary. There are far more other peace cause which needed that! Each award carries a cash prize of 10 million Swedish kronor, which this year is worth about $1.54 million. So Gore will go with roughly 700 000$, that's not a lot as he is used to give conferences for 100 000$, but still, i am curious to see how he will use his money? A good move would be to give it to a charity, an anti-global warming or a peace movement.

After the Oscar and the Emmy, here comes the Nobel! ;)

Finally here is a little opinion as i liked the view of The Koreatimes:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2007/10/137_11897.html

Not to deny Al Gore his full honors but it seems to us that the Nobel went rather far afield in awarding the former vice president the prize for peace for espousing and publicizing a special, if widely held, view of climatology. And indeed Gore did share the award with 2,000 or so scientists who make up the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Generally the prize goes to what are more generally considered peace activists -- Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, for example.And although the list is secret Gore's rivals for the awards included a roster of longtime human rights advocates.

The success of Gore's film ``An Inconvenient Truth," an Oscar-winning documentary that takes an alarmist view of climate change, especially global warming (Gore says "we face a true planetary emergency"), positioned him for the prize. And a British court has questioned some of the claims in the film, among them that sea levels will rise 20 feet ``in the near future."

The Nobel committee made the long stretch linking global warming and world peace by arguing that the disruption, mass migrations and competition for natural resources caused by climate change could mean ``increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states."

Nobel officials deny it but many others see the award as a jab at the Bush administration for its rejection of an international treaty calling for drastic reductions in carbon emissions. Among them is global warming skeptic Bjorn Lonborg who saw nothing wrong with giving the prize to the U.N. panel but said, ``Awarding it to Al Gore cannot be seen as anything other than a political statement."

But, as Gore surely learned after the Florida recount when he almost became president, once you've won it really doesn't matter how you got there. Andit is not as if Gore is a late comer to the cause of environmentalism or something he took up to keep his name in the news.

The environment has been a career-long avocation of his. Shortly before he became vice president he published the bestselling and also alarmist ``Earth in the Balance."

Even though we're still not sure we see the link between peace and polar bears, we congratulate Al Gore and the U.N. scientists on their prize.

Papa est en haut - Gad El Maleh - [Festival Juste pour rire, just for laugh - 15 & 16 juillet 2007 à Montréal]

Que dire du nouveau show de Gad El Maleh?

Intéressant, mais pas renversant. Globalement, ca résume bien mon sentiment à son égard.
C'est vrai que c'est sympa, avec plusieurs nouvelles situations: la relation homme-femme, l'amour, les enfants (un peu). L'incomprehension entre les sexes donnent matiere a faire. Si on y rajoute la "localisation" de son spéctacle au Quebec et donc quelques bonnes vannes sur les quebecois, et quelques bonnes remarques aussi! (j'ai adoré le recyclage de lettres, de l'humouris' à iciT! ;)

Mais sinon, je reste un peu sur ma faim, j'ai pas aimé l'enchainement de blagues vers la fin (impression d'un blague-test pour voir laquelle percute le plus), ou les references un peu trop recurrentes par rapport à son ancien spéctacle. Je veux bien garder un fil directeur avec L'autre c'est moi, mais ca en fait un peu trop à la longue. En tout cas attendez vous à entendre parler du DVD, du blond etc...

J'ai un peu l'impression que c'est soit un:
- l'autre c'est moi, version 1.5 remasterisée
- papa est en haut, version beta.

Je penche pour la version beta de papa est en haut. Il doit y avoir un bon 70% de choses originales, mais je crois qu'il y a encore du travail avant l'olympia. Peauffiner les blagues, les chutes etc..et rajouter de la nouveauté! Quoiqu'il en soit, apres ses trois derniers spéctacles, sans sentir le rechauffé, celui-la ne parait pas du meme niveau!

Mais quoiqu'il en soit, c'est un énorme plaisir de le voir sur scène, il maitrise son corps (j'adooore le voir danser!), son espace (et courir!), ses instruments (bouteil d'eau, guitare, piano) et son public (belles interactions, n'est-ce pas l'electricien!)

Et vous, l'avez vous vu? Qu'en pensez-vous? Que pensez-vous de Gad en général?

Et voici un tout petit appercu visuel...
...ca dure juste quelques minutes, desolé, mais par respect pour l'auteur, on en reste là. Allez le voir!
[Note: if you are reading the above post in a feedreader, you'd better go to the original post in order to watch the video!]

Mardis de l'humour - Pub Saint Ciboire - Sortir à Montréal - Canada

Mardis de l'humour
Tous les mar à 20h Pub Saint-Ciboire
1693, rue St-Denis, Montréal

Vu deux fois. Deux bonheurs.

Je ne suis pas quebecophone. Je dis ça car j'ai eu du mal avec mon premier mardi de l'humour. J'y suis allé avec mon père qui venait me voir du Maroc, et lui n'a rien compris du tout! ;) Moi au bout de 8 mois, je comprenais...un peu. Mais c'était dément! Que ce soit la politique, les hommes, les femmes, le canada, le sexe (beaucoup), la bière (trop!;)...enfin, tous mes et certainement vos thèmes favoris sont repris en coeur chaque mardi chez ce cher Saint, Ciboire de son prénom!

Enfin, tout ça pour vous dire que ne serait ce que pour améliorer votre québécois, il faut y aller. D'ailleurs je vais en parler à Immigration Canada, c'est la qu'il faut aller faire leur test d'intégration culturelle. Tu comprends le langage du St Ciboire? Tu rigoles? Et voila t'es bon pour le Québec! ;)

Et puis, on rigole, rigole...tout le monde rigole... parfois je ne comprends pas et je ne puis que suivre le mouvement ! Je vois déjà ceux qui se disent que c’est con, mais vous verrez vous ferez de même…c’est une vague de bonne humeur que d’entendre les gens rire ! Et ca pousse a faire de meme..

Bon, il faut avouer que ce n’est pas l’humour le plus raffiné, ni le plus recherché que j’ai eu a apprécier, mais c’est un très bon défouloir ! Ca remet les choses de la journée, voir de la semaine à leur place. Je ne suis pas praticien, mais vous le conseil au lieu de tous ces médicaments de Merck et compagnie que certains ingurgitent !

Venez, partagez une bière, partagez un sourire, un rire, et surtout, défoulez vous, ça fait du bien !!!!

ilias Benjelloun,

PS: Si y’a d’autres endroit de même, faites moi signe please : ilias.ben(je ne veux pas de spam)@amontreal.com – pensez a enlever le : (je ne veux pas de spam). Merci !!!!

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