Loïc Le Meur blog

Blog as you speak, not as you would like to write

About.com has a nice entry about 6 time management tips for bloggers. Here is one:

2) Blog the Way You Talk.

When you try to sound clever, intelligent or funny in your blog and it's not really your style, then blogging will feel like a chore. So, forget what you think blogging should be like and just do things your way.

On this blog, I have been applying this all the time, my english is far from being perfect and I write as I talk, at least you know it is me...

via Robert and Corporate Blogging

Great blogging cartoon (from: Trevor Cook)

Via Robert, from Trevor Cook, a cool blogging cartoon:

From the Cincinnati Enquirer, courtesy of Kevin Dugan and Tom Murphy ...More

Nanopublishing is probably the next opportunity

Nanopublishing soars: Gawker Media continues its growth and WeblogsInc has just announced new hires and a goal of 100 vertical blogs on-line before the end of the year. As always, there are many intiatives in the US, few in Europe, few that are not in English. It is understandable as it is much longer to generate enough revenues for a small team on a French or a German vertical blog, but I am sure the opportunities are very interesting too.

So, when will Europe finally wake up on nanopublishing too ? I have met three VCs in Europe recently and they all complain that there are not enough entrepreneurs with new projects these days.

The influence of blogging in US Elections: can you help me for an interview ?

One of the main business radio asked me if I would accept a live interview on Tuesday morning about how blogs and bloggers influence the US Elections.

I have not been following that subject very closely (I should have, I know) but as I like to take risks, I accepted. The good news is have two days to prepare.

Could you advise me of any good post, article, link, summary that would help me ? Any example of a blogger having had some impact to your knowledge ?

Thank you in advance !

The CEO of Macromedia gets corrected by Russel Beattie and comments his blog

Another surprise this morning on the impact of blogs in the Corporate World when I read Rodrigo's post about Russel Beattie correcting wrong numbers quoted by Robert Burgess, the CEO of Macromedia.

The most interesting part is when Robert arrives on Russel's blog and comments the correction to apologize. Dan is probably right then, we are becoming the media...

Ellen was finally fired yesterday...

OK. I apologize for a misleading title, that Joi took from me (sorry again, Joi !) and apologized for it. We were both seriously corrected. Finally Ellen was really fired.

Managing also a small team, I can't say I would have approved this type of blogging, for obvious reasons, but firing may not be the right solution... Anyway, difficult to say without having all the details from both sides, I just have to wish good luck to Ellen, sorry this all happened.

update: if anybody could translate this article (from Norway ?), I would really like to understand what it says about my post...

update (2): David Carr, lawyer and in the team of the Big Blog Company, comments the story and advises companies to write blogging charters, fast...

Fear of Bloggers in Business

Don't fear bloggers, see them as an opportunity (via tBBC)

The BBC talks about Ellen, a flight attendant fired for blogging by Delta Airlines

Ellen Simonetti, who writes the Diary of Flight Attendant, has been fired (BBC article) by Delta Airlines because she posted pictures of herself in uniform. Maybe a blog to protect the rights of fired bloggers should be launched ?

A new European news aggregator

I have just discovered StepNewz that sorts the content of blogs and traditional media by theme. Good initiative, I like to see that Europe wakes up !

A Spanish Gadgets blog: Xataka

A very nice Gadgets blog in Spanish... Xataka, congrats, Julio !.

A visual tool to view music

Music Plasma shows you a map of artists, by style. Just type in the name of the artist you prefer, you'll like it.

If you are interested in I-mode

You should probably read i-mode Business Strategy blog, a good one.

A conference on blogs and PR/Marcom Professionals

Here is a new conference that will happen simultaneously in Europe and the USA, on blogs and Marketing Communications Professionals. Excellent initiative.

To continue talking about Sauna

As I see there is some blogging about my note on Finnish Sauna, I can't help but give you more. Ross also likes it and his father in law has even invented a special plastic Saunaviht.

It is very popular in Finland (on TV, yes !) and in Estonia, it is called Saunaviht. It was even fleshboted on the famous Gawker erotic blog.

Learn more about sauna.

430,000 people in the World live on their Ebay revenues

Via this article of the French NetEconomie. Bill Cobbn Senior VP of Ebay Inc says that 430,000 people live on their Ebay revenues.

Six Apart Europe Team Picture

Hello from Paris, I had completely forgotten to blog this picture of the European team

From left to right, me, JY (Fr), Victor (Es), Olivier (Fr), Maarten (Be) Boris (Fr), Heiko (De), Geraldine (Fr), Barak (US), Sandra (Fr) et Alistair (UK)

An interesting idea (thanks,

An interesting idea (thanks, JM!) , you can now offer your readers a printed book from your blog, Printmyblog will pay you 75% of the revenues generated above $4 per book

A real Sauna in Helsinki

I love Sauna and Marko invited Joi, Heiko and me in Helsinki to experiment a genuine finnish sauna at the Finnish Sauna Society.

The saunas are heated by a classic fire, not electric, and very different to any other Sauna I have experimented before, the wood is very dark, there is few light inside and the feeling of the non electric heat is very good. We have had five saunas and five jumps in the 8 degrees sea (there was a beautiful clear sky and our jump was surrounded by trees). The more you jump and sauna, the less you feel the temperature difference even tough I had never heard my heart that way before. It was a real pleasure to whip Joi (and get whipped too of course) with birch branches.

We stayed some time naked outside with an outside temperature of just a few degrees without even feeling it just before cooking our own sausages.

The whole, amazing experience, took several hours. Now I want to be back in Helsinki again when it is colder for avantouinti. Thanks again, Marko.

Update: Euan and Marc laugh at my bad english :=)

Off to Helsinki for 24 hours

See you when I return :=)

A great article on Six Apart in the WSJ yesterday

We have had a great article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, that Ollie has scanned for us, this is perfect I will not have to do it (but when will the WSJ finally understand that it has to "be linkable or die" rather than many paid subscribers, long term ?).

Linked In secures another $10 Million

Congrats Reid and all the Linked In team, for raising another $10M, I am so happy, proud and honored to be in such an amazing list of Angel Investors.

Linked In has now more than 1.2 million members and over 50 million connected contacts, wew ! Now Reid, let's go international...

I have not blogged today

but I have blogged a lot on my moblog !

3 conferences in one day: too much going on !

I think it is the first time I do three presentations on blogs in the same day at three conferences and three different locations,
-the Knowledge Management Forum in Paris, the yearly event on KM
-the Lisa Forum in Marne la Vallée (about an hour from Paris)
-the Solutions CRM conference, the main event on direct marketing

What a day... Only three presentations to prepare tonight ! What I like about the blogging business is that you cannot get bored. See you tomorrow.

A new Italian political blog

PoliticsMatters is a collective blog in Italian and English that just launched. Of course, the US elections and its Worldwide effects is one of the main topics, seen from Italia.

A great article about blogging on PC Actual in Spain

Victor talks about an article on how to create a weblog in PC Actual Spain and of course I am really happy to see TypePad was their solution of choice.

Glad to see Spain starts to wake up on blogging !

An Italian blogger hosts a TV show !

Marco Montemagno has been invited to host a Sky News television channel show. The first time in Italy that an Italian TV news channel uses a blog as an information source. Congrats, Marco !

The French daily Le Monde launches journalists blogs

The well known French daily Le Monde has just launched the blog of two well known journalists, Pierre Assouline, and Corine Lesnes, Big Picture, who writes about the US Campaign.

Thank you, Le Monde, for your trust in TypePad.

The French daily Le Monde launches journalists blogs

The well known French daily Le Monde has just launched the blog of two well known journalists, Pierre Assouline, and Corine Lesnes, Big Picture, who writes about the US Campaign.

Thank you, Le Monde, for your trust in TypePad.

Big news at Six Apart today

We just announced big news today and Mena explains it best.

Thank you August Capital and thank you, Movable Type and TypePad users for trust.

Sorry for being so bad at my blogging these days

I am in London currently going from one meeting to another and preparing the launch of Six Apart UK with Alistair Shrimpton, sorry I cannot find the time to blog :=)

LONDON CALLING

Testing audioblog

Gmail Adds Atom Feeds

Gmail Adds Atom Feeds (via Micro Persuasion)

Gmail has added Atom web feeds, a format that's akin to RSS. The feeds include a summary of each new message in your Google email. See screen grabs. In addition, the service rolled out a more robust contact interface that nicely lists all your contacts the related messages that live in your archive as well as the ability to forward your messages to any other email account.

Soros started blogging

George Soros just started his anti-Bush blog.

Welcome TypePad Belgium and Netherlands

I completely forgot to blog that we just launched TypePad Belgium and TypePad Netherlands

Come si fa un blog: the blog book in Italy

Sergio has just released his book about blogging in Italy, Come si fa un blog. Cool !

Just refused a 1685 contacts Linked In Connection !

My highest ever, I just refused a LinkedIn invitation from a person with 1685 connections. This is totally pointless as you end up being asked to introduce people you don't know to other people you don't know. I only connect to people I have met at least once in LinkedIn.