Loïc Le Meur blog

Slow blogging...

Sorry slow blogging these days, I am in a small family chalet in the French Pyrénées (mountains in the South West of France, close to the spanish border) and I concentrate for once on my kids and skiing with them. I took a short video if you want to ski with me for a few minutes...
Here it is (Quicktime) if you get French you could also subscribe to my podcast on iTunes or listen and view all my podcasts there are 147 of them roughly, all in French sorry about that...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you !

Nicolas Sarkozy, Minister of Interior, video podcasted

Nicolas Sarkozy, France Minister of Interior and future candidate for the 2007 French Presidential elections welcomed me yesterday in his office at the Ministery. It is the first time ever in France a politician of this rank or Minister is podcasted.

We talked about:
-the Web and blogs
-his way of doing politics
-his answers to recent criticism from French show-business stars regarding his words during the suburbs crisis
-I offer him to announce officially his candidature to the Presidency in 2007 on my blog and he... accepts ;-)
-presents a few wishes to the bloggers and to the French for 2006

Lots of fun meeting Nicolas Sarkozy and doing this podcast ! Sorry it is in French...

On the picture, I am showing a video podcast to Nicolas Sarkozy, on a video iPod of course !
update:
-thanks to Rodrigo and vpod.tv here is the streaming version
-thanks to Agoravox, there is also a transcript of the interview [fr]

The result is in my podcast feed (subscribe in iTunes, RSS2) a 20 minutes video (90 Mo mp4v) and audio podcast (9,2 Mo, mp3). Nicolas Sarkozy was the man who managed the so-called "Paris riots" crisis.

Business Week just wrote a nice article about it: "The Podcast shaking up French Politics"

Technorati Tags: france, paris, podcast, podcasting, sarkozy, video, videoblog, vlog

Podcasting search growth in Google

Interesting graphs on the evolution of Google searches on Wikipedia and Podcasting, thanks, Will.

LesBlogs conference videos are online

Les Blogs videos are online. Thanks Rodrigo, Ivan and the entire vpod.tv team for all the time and means you have put into making all these videos available online.

Technorati Tags: lesblogs

Highlights 2005

I like Hugh's idea of 2005 highlights, I'll have to write mine, too...

Paris Metroblogging live

Paris Metroblogging just launched. Even though I am listed as one of the authors, I should work on a post sometimes ;-) Congrats, good luck and thanks, Sean.

Sync OSX with your n90

Hack

How trust in mainstream media keeps going down

Want to date this beautiful model or dream to look like her ? Too bad, she does not exist, not exactly like this. Follow step by step the modifications on the pictures before it got to the magazine cover, check the "breasts" button...

It's like advertising, mainstream media keep creating a false version of reality that does not exist, a beautiful fake version of life. The result is that the trust keeps going down. I was recently talking to a friend who works at a TV station who told me that most of the "questions of the audience" you see in TV broadcasts are totally inventend, such as the SMS of some of our French stars...

Before / After: see by yourself

Via Marc Perrin.

Will US consumers buy more iPods than cell phones ?

Consumer research by Morgan Stanley:

"The analyst recently conducted a survey of 2,500 US consumers and found that they plan to buy more iPod and related products than any other electronics category.

"To hone in on this point, more people plan to buy an iPod this holiday season than a cell phone," the analyst said."

Just switched to OS X ? List of must haves.

The list apps you must have.