The Purple Corner » Blog of the week http://www.purplecorner.com Don't want to change the world | Only want to stop pretending Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:33:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The BOMBS (best of Malagasy blogs) need YOU http://www.purplecorner.com/2009/10/13/the-bombs-best-of-malagasy-blogs-need-you/ http://www.purplecorner.com/2009/10/13/the-bombs-best-of-malagasy-blogs-need-you/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:07:37 +0000 jogany http://www.purplecorner.com/?p=879 I was having fun minding my own business earlier this year and getting back to virtual life required a little more than coffee and CSS…Blogosphere was pretty much dying or getting too much serious and of course Simp was always Simp,so I did what any Goddess of Spamming had to do : Plan the next big crazy event for bloggers, twitterers, forumists, facebookists!

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http://www.bestofmalagasyblogs.com/bombs

Design nice logo using Open Source softwares and put them under CC Licences ? Checked

i loved designing with inkscape even though i lost a scandalously huge amount of time surfing around looking for inspiration. i fell for the clean and neet web 2.0 à la facebook lite designs and of course i never forget to use nice green à la foko shades. how cool are those cute symbols (sariteny sariteny sariteny) trying to free themselves from the squared frames (you get it right? the frames represent the blog which are also windows to malagasy culture…yes it's that deeply thought!)

Re-touch a nice WP theme and launch a nice and easy to use blog ? Checked

omg 3 weeks to rediscover poetry and how wp-themes actually work in 2009. because you know…upgrades, updates, up up up. you get easily lost when you are not ,oh no, a geek at all. someone please explain to me again what GNU means!!to get back to CSS, i am very fond of this portfolio structure where you can easily expose each blog with a screeshot of its first page. ok. i have to admit, i didn't put this much energy in recoding cuz it gave me headaches each time i tried to figure how to css per category per post.

Draft the rules and timeline to make things more "official" Checked

since i lost all the BOMBS2007 database, i had to reminiscing by myself (and with the help of the jury's google group) how we managed 2 years ago.yep. it has been 2 years.what happened since?oh well. i had a life. and you? so the rules are very very very loose. it was intentional.i surfed around the web for weblog awards (someone knows this is a big fat lie) and discovered that nobody was very serious with this stuff. in fact. it gets more fun the less rules you put. except for the very weird arabic weblog awards were they fought over each other because of something i totally forgot , so did they.

Invite the nicest folks on the blogosphere to join the Jury team? Checked

royalty. i know it's very bad and very childish to call people names. but King Teny Gasy, you know who you are, was the first to jump on board and …the first to submit his nominees. seriously it can't get more royal. oh yes it can. Queen of B, B for Blogs, was already spamming all over the web about the bombs. I just had to give her the official website and there she goes, being very royal.

Launch the BOMBS on every social network possible ? Checked

nominations will be twittered regularly, i am trying to convince serasera nice folks to host the chatroom scheduled on november 29th. of course everyone should bring THB. since this is a blog contest for bloggers who have blogs, the very bad intentions behind all this is to make people blog again, blog more and blog for the best and the fun of it. because 140 letters. seriously….what gives…

Get Coffee, Fall asleep on keyboard, miss lots of deadlines, watch Glee, listen to Glee, love Glee, write some very serious posts on "why the world needs to know more about Madagascar through its blogosphere?" I am tired….

i need to sleep. last year i pulled hundreds of allnighters for plenty of reasons (sometimes i just stayed awake just for the sake of staying awake and playing the zombie at work the next day). this time. man, my life has changed so much. I now feel very very very very tired and have lost a big proportion of my brain cells during the process. The positive side is that I know feel pride, a lot of pride, in the little big little things I manage to do within the very little time I have left.

What still needs to be done :

Ask people to promote the event – please, help

Ask people to translate the BOMBS in Malagasy and English pff…

Ask people to submit their favourite blogs (5 times per IP, I'm so cool)

Learn to write n a better French, Malagasy and English…my posts suck I know!

]]> http://www.purplecorner.com/2009/10/13/the-bombs-best-of-malagasy-blogs-need-you/feed/ 10 Pati et toi et Pourtant http://www.purplecorner.com/2008/08/17/pati-et-toi-et-pourtant/ http://www.purplecorner.com/2008/08/17/pati-et-toi-et-pourtant/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:57:29 +0000 jogany http://www.purplecorner.com/?p=633 Quelle fierté nous éprouvons, nous les petits coordo zélées que nous sommes, de voir nos 'petits' grandir grandir et mériter leurs places dans la blogosphère. Cette fois-ci, vous allez entendre parler souvent d'elle, Patricia discutent des petites histoires dans son université, de la famille et de l'amitié. Quand Patricia en a finit de vous impression en malgache, elle vire très facilement au français et finalise la touche en anglais. 

Ce n'est pas son premier article enflammée mais de plus en plus les bloggers s'en mêlent!

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 http://hkambora.wordpress.com/

 

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http://mielmanja.wordpress.com 

My name’s Olive and I live in Ambalavola, Majunga (401) .My nationality is Malagasy. My nick name’s Fandrama. I speak Malagasy and a little English. I’m student at Ecole Superieur de Journalisme Saint Francois D’assise. I’m in level two.

]]> http://www.purplecorner.com/2008/07/18/mielmanja-a-taste-of-majunga/feed/ 0 Afrigadget.com, solving everyday problems with African ingenuity http://www.purplecorner.com/2008/07/11/afrogadgetcom-solving-everyday-problems-with-african-ingenuity/ http://www.purplecorner.com/2008/07/11/afrogadgetcom-solving-everyday-problems-with-african-ingenuity/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:02:18 +0000 jogany http://www.purplecorner.com/?p=496
 
 
AfriGadget is a website dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity. A team of bloggers and readers contribute their pictures, videos and stories from around the continent. The stories of innovation are inspiring. It is a testament to Africans bending the little they have to their will, using creativity to overcome life’s challenges.

 
 

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Le site de Kollectif existe depuis juillet 2006 et s’est donné comme mission de recueillir en un seul lieu les activités publiques et professionnelles se déroulant dans la communauté architecturale du Québec, telles les conférences, les expositions, les vernissages, les formations, etc. Le but recherché est de rallier cette communauté architecturale autour d’une plateforme d’information unique, permettant ainsi de consolider les liens entre la profession et les universités, la pratique et la recherche, le design et la technique, les communautés anglophone et francophone.

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Welcome to my professional blog. I am a journalist and technical writer in Paris. My interests include: arts in Indian Ocean (music and theater), 3D animation and social issues.

Enjoy it,

Vola

go get 'em girl

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