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Today my mobilist carnival #96 edit got a mention on the popular and award-winning web site Worldchanging.com (thanks Emily!).
WorldChanging covers global innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future. From consumer consciousness to a new vision for industry; non-toxic homes to refugee shelters; microfinance to effective philanthropy; socially […]

My next Amazon book order:
“Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder” by David Weinberger
“The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture” by Andrew Keen
“The New Influencers” by Paul Gillin
“The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman
“Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present” by Cory Doctorow
Let me know if there’s […]

I’m delighted to announce our next MobileMonday Barcelona event, on July 2: we are celebrating our first MoMoBCN anniversary at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). For this occasion we chose one of my favorite topics at the moment: Mobile Web 2.0.
I’m looking forward to finally meet Ajit Jaokar, co-author of the Mobile […]

For people like me swamped everyday in convergence (if you might wonder, it’s still happening), I suggest to read Convergence Culture (where old and new media collide) by Henry Jenkins. You might start twinkling hearing the word ‘convergence’ over and over again but this book describes, in a very clear way, the complexity of […]

This morning my last order arrived from Amazon.com. I am all excited since the package includes some of the books I’m really looking forward to read this spring like Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing by Adam Greenfield, Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins and Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century by Alex […]

Early 2004, I read his Open Source Democracy (a free downloadable PDF under Creative Commons license), he created for the UK thinktank Demos, which led me to his participation to the groundbreaking Merchants of Cool.
You can find a good overview of his writing, interviews and articles at his website and the disinformation.com page dedicated to […]

Next weekend you can find me at the ArtFutura, the digital art and new media festival of reference in Spain. The festival offers a wide range of activities between October 27th and October 30th - workshops, conferences, performances, special presentations and a powerful audio-visual program. Last year, I had the chance to hear Howard Rheingold […]

Soon writers are gonna find out everything about their readers…
Got this one through Stuart Mudie’s -always good to read- weblog called Blethers.com. Here’s my first socialbooklist on ConnectviaBooks.

Check also the SocialBooks Lab, the book version of social bookmarking:
“Get recommendations for new books from people who share your taste in books.”

Art Culture, Books, […]

I met François and Sabine from Minifizz last year in Brussels. They develop mobile games focused to meet the interest of young women/girls. Simple, smart, focused… I like that. They licensed their game portfolio allready to the USA and Japanese market.
But this post wants to focus on a new idea Fraçois developed this winter and […]