Videocast made by myself, Erwan, Sylvain & Hélène

Check out this wonderful video...

Some useful links

This picture, illustrating the fact that I think that our presence on the web is like a castle in war - we must defend our point of view and our visibility, was made by me. So, here are some useful links for my presentation :

- Things that I did during Bob's class :

Of course , here is my Blog, but you can also see...
The wiki made during bob's class.
The myspace from my band.

- Links to Weblog made by artists :

Lewis Trondheim
Manu Larcenet
(Sorry but those two drawers are french - I love what they do)
Toaster Factory (I worked with this brand of street wear)

What I am

It seems very important now to deeply introduce myself and my work made durint this year of e-culture.

First of all, you must know that I'm a drawer and a musician. For me, Internet offers great opportunities to publishing my works.

For instance, with some other guys from our class (AKA Jean-François, Guillaume & Jeremy from the master1) we manage to build up a band. You can hear few samples of our songs & some videos here. Indeed, myspace permits to easily communicate on our band, and to build up a web of friends or bands that we like.

On an other hand, as I said before, I am a drawer : you have already seen some artworks that I did for the band. Internet permits to artist like me to broadcast their art without spending any money!

As an example I can give you for free this comic - made just for you Bob :



However, it is not so easy to put some good photos or pictures (like this one) on a blog. You must try to host it. For example, I use imageshack.us/

Some advices to make more progress and make it more interesting

Hey Bob, please do not take it in a bad way (And please, Bob, do not kill me for my frankness) but the truth is that answer to questions three hours a day is very boring, even if the questions are wonderful. I must say that it would be much more better if you would make confidence to all of us (we are not children!! We are big kids now!) and you would give us some opportunities to build up some more attractive things together. For instance, we can realize a video podcast, a common weblog, or some other common works. I think the better way to improve this course is to relax yourself and be confident: do not be silly when there is some noise or movement, it can be useful or actually creative!! The fact is that improving our English or our e-culture is easier and much more interesting when we do it ourselves!!!

A few about RSS… & about SHTTP

RSS is a flux to automatically actualize the information from the site (or the part of the site) that you chose. It is a kind of “on-demand” medium. Watch out this definition from wikipedia.org

An RSS flux is available on my blog (but it is not that easy to make it work)



About SHTTP : I must confess that I did not know anything about this technology. The most synthetic and interesting point of view was the one from wikipedia ( a goldenmine of information ;-)). So here is their definition :

"SHTTP means Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol which is developed by Enterprise Integration Technologies in 1995 to ensure security with commercial transactions on the Internet. A protocol that provides secure transactions over the Web. It is endorsed by a variety of organizations.

An extension to the HTTP protocol to support sending data securely over the World Wide Web. Not all Web browsers and servers support S-HTTP. Another technology for transmitting secure communications over the World Wide Web -- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) -- is more prevalent. However, SSL and S-HTTP have very different designs and goals so it is possible to use the two protocols together. Whereas SSL is designed to establish a secure connection between two computers, S-HTTP is designed to send individual messages securely. Both protocols have been submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for approval as a standard."

Cybercrime: the identities burglars…

" Ho my god!...What is the deal with my bank???!!!!"

For a good definition of cybercrime and identity thefts, see here;

Well what is the point with cybercrime : it is almost a way to stole money to people, with an appropriation of bank ID. But it is also a way to take the identity of an other person (on MSN for example) to steal personal information or to enjoy the perversity of being someone else. Everybody is potential victim.

How can you stop the fraud?

As soon as you are made aware of the fraud (usually a creditor will contact you or you will be denied credit, or you will see charges that are not yours on bills) you must immediately contact the three major credit reporting agencies by phone and letter to put a fraud alert on your credit profile. Get copies of the reports so that you will know which are the fraud accounts, and call the police in the county where the fraud occurs. You may not be able to stop the fraud immediately. It is very complex. But this will get you started. You will get step by step instructions when you order the coaching guide, The Identity Theft Survival Kit to find out what you need to do. You'll obtain copies of attorney-written sample letters to write to all the necessary agencies. The computer diskette has fill-in the blanks form letters to save you hours of retyping. Once you have learned all the facts of your case, write a 100-word statement explaining the situation and have that paragraph added to your credit profile.

Here are some other example of ways to protect yourself against cybercrime.

Broadcast yourself with YouTube : A “Do It Yourself” project

YouTube is a new easy way of broadcasting videos on the Internet. The deal is you can share funny, curious or amazing videos with your friends and everybody in the world. The really new thing is that it is truly easy; everybody can do it, not only nerds!!! That is, from my point of view, the key of its success.

There is a legend about the starting of YouTube : the conceptors of this website were trying to find out a way to broadcast short videos of a party that they did the evening before. At that point, they realized that it was very hard to put videos on the web, it was a geek deal! The fact is that a few month after that, their website exploded as the really brand new sensation on the Web. (What a story, indeed). Actually, the real official history is available here.

Often, YouTube is just a way to watch some old videos, or new funny stuffs to laugh about it. When I or some friends want to share some videos, it is almost to make a huge joke or to show bizarre or amazing events, like this :