New article about the recent journalist strike against censorship at Southern Weekly, China.
Published in Les Inrocks n894, thanks to Mathieu Martinière.
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New article about the recent journalist strike against censorship at Southern Weekly, China.
Published in Les Inrocks n894, thanks to Mathieu Martinière.

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The WeiboScope at JMSC wasnât designed to provide an accurate measure of the volume of deleted posts. It samples some usersâ timelines (latest 100 posts or so) at definite times, usually a few times per day, and compares copies to find deleted ones.
However, we have a handful of people...
My talk at TEDxWuxi recorded in Dec 2012 in Wuxi, China. The thing was called Urban Organology and intended to show a snapshot of some research I am doing right now about tech, memes, urbanity and -- organs.
in Chinese.
The more I am trying to understand the relationships between actual urban space and our social world online, the more I am confused by finding myself surrounded by disparate objects. Technological devices, Internet memes, fast-growing cities, air pollution, cultural memories : all those seem to be related in some discrete manner, though I have no real clue on how to unravel it.
Moreover when dealing with scientific research, I just don't see how the different methodological and conceptual approaches at my disposal could honestly answer those questions. There is such a mess of meanings and structure out there, we may need some closer observations methods and thinking models to describe what is actually happening.
That is why I came up with this weird idea of Urban Organology: to anatomize the body to this global brain-in-a-vat that Internet has became today, the so-called "collective intelligence". To read Stiegler, Deleuze, Leroi-Gourhan, hacker blogs, API documentations, social networks datasets and to live in huge Chinese cities made me think of this cheap sci-fi vision of our world as organs.
It has nothing innovative really and if you are focused on research deliveries and outcomes, this talk may not seem very consistent to you. Take it as an attempt to express some unfinished views on unstable objects.Â
Plus, I will add that to express such thoughts in Chinese was quite challenging to me as well.
So, I am not so sure about the result but I had fun doing this TedX talk anyway :)
Mèmes et humour : les armes de l'Internet chinois
My last article about memes and Internet in China (in French)Â .
En Chine oĂš les mĂŠdias officiels tiennent dâune main de fer la bride de lâinformation, lâInternet et les rĂŠseaux sociaux sont aujourdâhui devenus le champ dâune vaste bataille pour dĂŠbattre et imaginer la sociĂŠtĂŠ chinoise de demain. Ici, censeurs et internautes se livrent Ă un chassĂŠ-croisĂŠ oĂš chacun prend bien garde de ne pas se laisser dĂŠcouvrir. Peut-ĂŞtre les vĂŠritables hĂŠros de cette guerre de lâinformation sont alors de simples photos truquĂŠes de crabes et de lamas. AppelĂŠes mèmes, ces blagues numĂŠriques dâapparence bien souvent inoffensive font chaque jour le tour de la Toile chinoise, portant en elles toute la subversion dâinternautes aspirant Ă plus de libertĂŠ pour leur peuple.
Read the full version here
Just received a New Year greetings card from Future Challenges accompanied by the first issue of FC reader!Â
You can read the complete issue called Work in the developing world here or check my article about The Difficulties of Students in China on the Employment Market on FC website.Â

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Data, culture, organismes et organisations
A la suite d'une rÊflexion intÊressante sur la crÊation de valeur par Les Mutins me vient l'envie d'Êcrire un post sur ce blog que j'ai desertÊ depuis longtemps.
Le texte du blog de la Mutinerie parle de "lâillusion de la linĂŠaritĂŠ dans la crĂŠation de valeur" :Â
On cherche souvent Ă chasser les tendances, Ă dĂŠtecter les nouveautĂŠs Ă coup de statistiques et dâoutils de mesure quantitatifs, mais je crois que cette voie, sans ĂŞtre inutile, tend cependant Ă nous induire en erreur rĂŠgulièrement.
Personellement, je travaille à comprendre du data depuis pas mal de temps maintenant et je rejoins complètement cette analyse.
En effet, les donnÊes dans le sens le plus large ne sont après tout que les restes d'un Êvènement dÊjà passÊ (une rÊponse, un rÊsultat, un post, un clic...) La grande ignorance des donnÊes, c'est justement l'actuel (le prÊsent), son futur, ce que ces donnÊes reprÊsentent et ce qu'elles reprÊsenteront sous un jour qui ne s'est pas encore levÊ.
Souvent, j'ai l'idÊe que les millions de tableaux et de graphes sont juste une enième vanitÊ humaine pour dÊpasser son ignorance du futur. La kabbale du VC, le dashboard du trader, la boule de cristal du social marketing et la plume du data journaliste ont tous en commun la perte substantielle des rÊalitÊs humaines et de l'environnement. Les modèles conceptuels qui servent à l'analyse de donnÊes sont complètement dÊpassÊs et les consÊquences d'une sociÊtÊ "data-driven" sont aujourd'hui dÊsastreuses - avec la finance et le ROE pour maÎtres notamment.
Organismes et organisations
Depuis quelques jours se tient à Paris Les Entretiens du Nouveau Monde Industriel orchestrÊ par Bernard Stiegler sous le jour de sa thèorie concernant "l'organologie gÊnÊrale" des objets et des êtres.
DÊrivÊ du grec, organon (outil, appareil).
Lâorganologie gĂŠnĂŠrale dĂŠsigne une mĂŠthode tentant de saisir conjointement, au cours de lâhistoire de lâhumanitĂŠ, les organes physiologiques, les organes artificiels et les organisations sociales. Lâorganologie gĂŠnĂŠrale dĂŠcrit une relation Ă trois classes (physiologiques, techniques et sociaux). Un organe physiologique (y compris le cerveau, siège de lâappareil psychique) nâĂŠvolue pas indĂŠpendamment des organes techniques et sociaux.
Citation d'après le site d'Ars Industrialis
En effet, comme le notait Edgar Morin dans son livre Introduction à la PensÊe Complexe, il ne s'agit pas seulement d'Êtudier les phÊnomènes en tant que tels, mais de tenter un renouveau du paradigme scientifique fondÊ sur l'analyse (i.e. la sÊparation nette des objets ÊtudiÊs). La modernitÊ avec ces objets technologiques et l'incroyable bond de la population mondiale ont rendue très complexes de très nombreuses dÊcisions, entreprises ou situations aux rÊpercussions incontrollÊes.
L'analyse des donnÊes existantes est sans doute une partie de la rÊponse, mais elle s'intÊresse dans sa majoritÊ aux structures gÊnÊrales : l'organisation (l'entreprise, le rÊseau, la collectivitÊ, etc.) et les organismes (le vivant). La question cruciale de "l'Êcologie" nous met aujourd'hui face au vrai challenge : la prise en compte de l'existence des organismes dans la construction d'organisations (industries, villes, etc.)
Comment cultiver et quantifier le vivant
La grande mission que s'est dÊsormais donnÊe la science est de quantifier et qualifier ces organismes, avec d'Ênormes chantiers comme le dÊcodage de l'ADN ou encore la neurologie et le Connectome. La "data science" quant à elle poursuit l'oeuvre des sciences sociales et entreprend la quantification / qualification à grande Êchelle des organisations : rÊseaux sociaux, Open Data, etc.
Reste Ă envisager le point crucial : leurs relations, qui la plupart du temps se jouent sous un mode non-quantifiable. Des disciplines comme le management ou la psychanalyse se sont penchĂŠes de près sur cette question de la relation des personnes Ă l'organisation, souvent sous le concept de culture (culture gĂŠnĂŠrale, culture d'entreprise, background culturel, etc.).Â
Nous pourrions ainsi considĂŠrer la "culture" comme un ensemble de mĂŠthodes qui doit produire une harmonie nĂŠcessaire entre organismes et organisations, un accord sur la manière dont personnes et institutions doivent ĂŞtre cultivĂŠs afin de vivre en bonne osmose. A ce sujet, le philosophe allemand HP Sloterdijk dans son livre Règles pour le Parc Humain a rĂŠalisĂŠ une brillante critique de l'ĂŠducation humaniste et de la littĂŠrature comme entreprise de domestication de l'homme par l'homme.Â
Cultiver des humains, des lĂŠgumes, des machines, etc.
Pourtant, il semble bien, Le dÊfi d'aujourd'hui est bien de d'interroger cette idÊe de culture dans un contexte oÚ les organismes/organes en prÊsence ne sont plus seulement humains mais aussi robotiques, animaux, vÊgÊtaux, minÊraux (les fameuses "ressources"). Comment comprendre les relations entre la culture des cellules et la culture des sociÊtÊs? Comment construire ces "mÊthodes de culture" pour l'ensemble des êtres vivants sur notre planète? Ou peut-être mieux encore, quelles seraient les alternatives possibles à la culture? Je doute qu'on ai des donnÊes là -dessus.
Data Journalism + Hackerspaces in Amusement #13
feat. my bro ThÊo Pillault !
Generative logo design
Definition : "A generative logo use a computer-based algorithm to provide different shapes as basis for a visual identity."
I was recently asking to create a logo and I thought about computer-based patterns/algorithm to generate it first.
Here are some examples of generative logo designs
The MIT Media Lab visual identity has been created in 2011. It is not a simple logo but a matrix to randomly create more than 4000 possible shapes based on a same pattern, one for each person inside the Lab.http://www.rt80.net/medialab/
Another pretty similar expeirment is the Casa Da Musica (Portugal). The logo by Sagmeister Inc provides different shapes based on a same logic to express every different kind of music that could be played inside the building http://www.sagmeister.com/node/192
The Slovenian company Renderspace has come up with a little program that helps them to generate logo each time they like it http://designyoutrust.com/2009/02/renderspace-generated-identity/
Many great example are to be found within the awesome Processing community, like this logo for a brand named SoundsGood.
Indeed, Processing is the relevant tool to create such visual identity : clearly graphic-oriented, easy to code, providing online (javascript) and offline application (java), all you need is there.
In 2009, the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen has hired the london-based studio okdeluxe which has used Processing to create the logo of the event : http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/cop15-identity-processing/
My report about the debates on "Web as human right" during the W3C Conference in Lyon (France)
Published this week in French magazine Les Inrocks :Â
Feat. Anne-Claire Norot !

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Useful notes, tipsheets and videos from the School of Data Journalism for aspiring data journalists
Liliana Bounegru from Data Driven Journalism just posted this goldmine for all people who are interested in data journalism. I cannot resist to share it here :Â
At the end of April the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation jointly organised a four-day training on data journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. The training comprised of several workshops and panel discussions with a group of leading data journalists, including from the New York Times, Deutsche Welle, ProPublica and others.
Below are some links to notes, tipsheets and video recordings from these sessions which I hope you'll find useful.Â
Tipsheets and notes from data journalism workshops on EU spending, scraping, using FOI requests, data visualisation, getting stories from data and spending stories are available here
http://thedatahub.org/en/group/data-journalism.
Articles and video recordings from the workshops and panels of the School of DataJournalism:
Workshops:
http://webtv.journalismfestival.com/doc/1311/raccontare-la-spesa-pubblica.htm
http://webtv.journalismfestival.com/doc/1310/costruire-storie-dai-dati.htm
http://webtv.journalismfestival.com/doc/1303/rendere-accattivanti-i-dati.htm
http://webtv.journalismfestival.com/doc/1302/laposinformazione-vuole-essere-libera.htm
Panel discussions:
http://webtv.journalismfestival.com/doc/1512/anche-tu-puoi-essere-un-data-journalist.htm
http://webtv.journalismfestival.com/doc/1513/data-journalism-awards-presentazione-candidati.htm
http://webtv.journalismfestival.com/doc/1511/come-pu-il-data-journalism-salvare-la-tua-redazione.htm
http://webtv.journalismfestival.com/doc/1510/notizie-e-numeri-dal-giornalismo-di-precisione-al-data-journalism.htm
DataDrivenJournalism.net:
http://datadrivenjournalism.net/news_and_analysis
http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resourcesÂ
Some of my thoughts about China on Future Challenges
Just to share some articles I wrote some time ago on Future Challenges.
Future Challenges is published by the German giant Berstellman. The content organization is interesting : editors publish a "lead article" to introduce a topic and a worldwide team of bloggers respond to it with their "local views". So you can get points of views from many different countries on a same topic. IÂ am currently covering China, here are some samples :Â
From Wall Street to Central: How OWS is seen in China
The Difficulties of Students in China on the Employment Market
Water Sales vs Environmental Activists in Hubei
A new piece to my social pipeline
I am really fed up with reposting info to dozens of social networks services and still need such a long time to find works I have published. It is both very repetitive and time-consuming, two things that I like to avoid in my daily life as far as possible.
Isaac Mao discuss recently the new possibility offered to link web services to create what he called a social pipeline. To chain social networks has enable him to cross censorship borders, as even CCP cannot close every web services out there. For me, it is more about archiving and gathering in one place the best of what I am producing and publishing online. So far, I still not have the habit to update frequently my old website and blog, which imply that i didn't keep track of my recent projects and publications.
Now it is becoming quite problematic to explain what I have been doing for last 2 years so I've decided to start this blog to gather stuff I have been publishing recently. I use to recommend Tumblr to many non-tech friends, as it has a pretty straightforward and clean interface.
So I will be posting updates from here from now on.
Hope you'll enjoy reading !Â
HACK + DATA JOURNALISM feat theopillault:
Frontlines : Data Journalisme // Hack & Makerspaces
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Ideas, support & co-worked with boss ClĂŠment Renaud

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