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		<title>To-do List</title>
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wake up earlier in the morning so I could catch Steph on Skype after the gym
chose to watch CNN over MTV at the gym
show up at the next Pecha Kucha so I won&#39;t die stupid and un-cool
blog less (you wish)
sleep more (i wish)
finalize this diet story and get over with teenage insecurity
pay my bills on time
listen to the voice mail which password I don&#39;t even know
watch less TV
stop staring at ...]]></description>
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<li>wake up earlier in the morning so I could catch Steph on Skype after the gym</li>
<li>chose to watch CNN over MTV at the gym</li>
<li>show up at the next Pecha Kucha so I won&#39;t die stupid and un-cool</li>
<li>blog less (you wish)</li>
<li>sleep more (i wish)</li>
<li>finalize this diet story and get over with teenage insecurity</li>
<li>pay my bills on time</li>
<li>listen to the voice mail which password I don&#39;t even know</li>
<li>watch less TV</li>
<li>stop staring at beautiful women&#39;s breasts</li>
<li>stop stressing out when late on schedule and stop sweating palms cuz it&#39;s really disgusting</li>
<li>going back to this nice and cheap spa I went back in May</li>
<li>try to be nicer to people even to the dark side&nbsp;</li>
<li>stop plotting the end of the world or armageddon by jogany</li>
<li>show up at MTW next event&#8230;.on time!</li>
<li>call the few friends I have left </li>
<li>stop partying like crazy on fridays so I won&#39;t look like a zombie on Mondays (2 days to recover)</li>
<li>start following US elections more seriously</li>
<li>read Malagasy newspaper once in a while </li>
<li>call less often the FBC kids</li>
<li>mail them less often</li>
<li>dedicate a day for spamming (or 2 or 7)</li>
<li>find a way to look interested and not sleepy during endless meetings</li>
<li>aza ampijaliana intsony ny teny gasy</li>
<li>tell my family about my 2nd job</li>
<li>appreciate life </li>
<li>email BFF and check if he is still with his weird GF</li>
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<li>will do my best to stop swearing this much</li>
<li>tell G. he seriously needs to take a shower and use less Ego-filled-shampoo</li>
<li>accomplish incredible and impossible projects with Foko</li>
<li>dream big and bigger</li>
<li>alcohol has never resolved anything but problems look so tiny after few glasses</li>
<li>change my playlist on Last.fm</li>
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<li>stop using Twitter for urgent and inappropriate messages&nbsp;</li>
<li>act surprised and proud when lil bro gets a 14 sur 20</li>
<li>act surprised and proud when lil sis gets a 14 sur 20</li>
<li>speak malagasy to quebecois</li>
<li>buy this lovely bathing suit you will never wear</li>
<li>call back the banker who cut your cards unshamefully</li>
<li>choose the paintings on the bedroom walls (big deal should call lilia)</li>
<li>who is the boss?</li>
<li>spend less time on people&#39;s facebook pictures albums</li>
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<li>finish my last year to-do list </li>
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		<title>Why Won&#8217;t Forumists Blog? - Pourquoi Les Forumistes Ne Bloguent Pas?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pourquoi les forumistes ne bloguent-ils pas?&#160;
ai-je demand&#233; a Pissoa un dimanche matin a Montr&#233;al et apr&#232;s-modi a Johannesburgh (la veinarde).En 2 clicks elle m&#39;envoit sur le blog d&#39;Hery-the-boss* qui avait d&#233;ja pos&#233; cette question :Inona no misakana anao tsy hi-blaogy?&#160;(qu&#39;est-ce qui vous emp&#234;che de bloguer?). En une simple phrase DotMG lui r&#233;pondit : parce que personne ne me lirait. BAM! Et voila! Je suis totalement au diapason avec cette affirmation ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.purplecorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/fr.thumbnail.png" border="0" alt="Fr.png" width="28" height="28" />Pourquoi les forumistes ne bloguent-ils pas?&nbsp;</p>
<p>ai-je demand&eacute; a Pissoa un dimanche matin a Montr&eacute;al et apr&egrave;s-modi a Johannesburgh (la veinarde).En 2 clicks elle m&#39;envoit sur le blog d&#39;Hery-the-boss* qui avait d&eacute;ja pos&eacute; cette question :<strong><a href="http://hery.blaogy.com/post/4/2542">Inona no misakana anao tsy hi-blaogy?&nbsp;</a></strong>(qu&#39;est-ce qui vous emp&ecirc;che de bloguer?). En une simple phrase DotMG lui r&eacute;pondit : parce que personne ne me lirait. BAM! Et voila! Je suis totalement au diapason avec cette affirmation (et peut-&ecirc;tre me plaindre un peu) car nous avons un vrai probl&egrave;me au niveau du manque de commentateurs aux FBC avec des gamins tellement motiv&eacute;s qu&#39;ils publient parfois deux fois par semaine.</p>
<p>La plus grande motivation derri&egrave;re la cr&eacute;ation d&#39;un blog est finalement le d&eacute;sir de se faire lire et de recevoir en retour des annotations sur les r&eacute;cits qui parfois n&eacute;cessitent temps et &eacute;nergie. Et surtout si vous &ecirc;tes bas&eacute; a Majunga, vous pourrez y rajouter les 40 frustrantes minutes pour charger une seule image en ligne. Dans tous les cas, le plus grand souci est d&#39;attirer l&#39;attention de la communaut&eacute;. Quand on a soumis l&#39;id&eacute;e de r&eacute;unir tous les fils RSS des blogs Malagasy sans aucune distinction de races et de langues sur &nbsp;Malagasy Miray, l&#39;id&eacute;e derri&egrave;re fut de donner un peu plus de visibilit&eacute; a chacun et de cr&eacute;er des ponts entre les cultures (cr&eacute;oles ou nordiques), ce que les forums ne font pas vraiment. Ces voeux pieux &eacute;videmment sont tr&egrave;s durs a tenir rien qu&#39;en prenant pour exemple la communaut&eacute; malgache. La plupart r&eacute;digeant en malgache ou en fran&ccedil;ais et occultant la langue du web dans leur mission de promouvoir note culture, allez un petit effort, on blogue un tipeu en anglais please.</p>
<p>Mais qu&#39;est-ce que les forums ont de plus que les blogs? Un peu plus de r&eacute;ponses a la question &quot;comment-designer-un-logo-pour-le-barcamp&quot;. Mais il y a tellement de cat&eacute;gories tellement bien classifi&eacute;s que la plupart du temps un peu de spamming pourrait vous faire faire excommunier par le tr&egrave;s &nbsp;m&eacute;chant moderateur. Et dieu si sait si je ne le hais point celui-la. Les blogs sont peut-&ecirc;tre un peu moins pratique pour allumer le feu des d&eacute;bats. Mais si comme moi et la dizaine de g&eacute;n&eacute;reux bloggers avec un grand coeur, vous aurez d&eacute;ja ma&icirc;tris&eacute; l&#39;art de pol&eacute;miquer dans la section commentaire des blogs. Ceux-ci laissent quand m&ecirc;me un peu plus de champs a l&#39;Expression individuelle et nous permettent d&#39;illustrer celle-ci par tellement de m&eacute;dias tels que les vid&eacute;os et les podcasts. Hery nous a publi&eacute; un article sur le Social Networking et ses limites. Et j&#39;aurais aim&eacute; que vous sachiez lire le malgache pour comprendre le comportement virtuel malgache face a une plus grande audience. Certains iraient se laisser penser que cela s&#39;assimile a du Social Marketing qui a pour objectif de manipuler l&#39;audience vers un projet-produit particulier.Notez mes efforts pour vous introduire le Social media dans les r&egrave;gles de l&#39;art et avec une certaine emphase sur ce que les organisations a but non lucrative peuvent y gagner.</p>
<p>Les Forums sont tr&egrave;s populaires chez les internautes malgaches, sociabiliser tout en &eacute;tant profond&eacute;ment engag&eacute; dans sa communaut&eacute; est une de leur principale motivation d&#39;y rester et de ne pas vouloir quitter cet abri. J&#39;aimerais aussi parler de mes petites appr&eacute;hensions par raport aux usagers des forums. Nous y trouvons en eux des sources plus cr&eacute;dibles lors des crises politiques que sur les m&eacute;dias traditionnels qui sont pour la plupart des outils pour le gouvernement ou l&#39;opposition pour cr&eacute;er psychose ou tout simplement manipuler l&#39;actualit&eacute;. Mashada a &eacute;t&eacute; un r&eacute;ceptacle tr&egrave;s profitable durant la crise qui a parcouru le kenya en d&eacute;cebre 2007. Mais le cyber-activisme interess&eacute; des expatri&eacute;s m&#39;&eacute;coeure tout particuli&egrave;rement. Le foss&eacute; technologique (due principalement a la diff&eacute;rence de connectivit&eacute;) emp&ecirc;che d&#39;utiliser le web autrement que pour ses fonctions basiques (mail, info) de Madagascar ce qui laissele champs libre aux &eacute;lucubrations de la diaspora.Celle-ci ayant pris la place de &quot;repr&eacute;sentante&quot; de l&#39;opinion malgache comme lors de la crise de 2002. D&#39;ailleurs avons-nousdes bloggers poitiques ? ou bien contentons-nous encore de poursuivre le tabou et de se d&eacute;fouler dans la section commentaire? </p>
<p><strong>Why won&#39;t forumists blog?</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://www.purplecorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/en.thumbnail.png" border="0" alt="En.png" width="35" height="35" />I asked <a href="http://www.pissoa.blaogy.com">Pissoa</a> on a sunday morning in Montreal and afternoon in Johannesburg&nbsp; (guess who is the luckiest). In 2 clicks she sent me to Hery-the-boss* blog post about the same topic : <strong><a href="http://hery.blaogy.com/post/4/2542">Inona no misakana anao tsy hi-blaogy? </a></strong>(what is keeping you from blogging?). In one simple sentence <a href="http://blog.dotmg.net/"><strong>DotMG </strong></a>made the sincerest answer : <strong>because nobody would read me.</strong> BAM! There you go ! I can totally rely to this declaration (and vent a little) <a href="http://club.foko-madagascar.org/">since we&#39;re struggling to get commentors on Foko Blogs even with the kids posting more than twice a week</a>.</p>
<p>Because the main motivation to start a blog is to share and receive feedback on the stories you spend times and energy to publish. And if you are based in Majunga, you can add the very frustrating 40-minute unique picture loading. In both cases, I think the biggest obstacle is getting a community&#39;s interest. When submitting the idea of reuniting all the Malagasy<a href="http://malagasymiray.net/blaogasyfera/"> bloggers RSS feeds</a> on a common page at <a href="http://malagasymiray.net/blaogasyfera/">Malagasy Miray</a> weither they were based in Alaska or writing in fluent Creole,the main idea behind this was to give more visibilty and to bridge between cultures (even if we are all deeply in love with the island) what forums fail to do. These pious wishes have their limitations when you take the Malagasy communities for exemple. Most of the users write in Malagasy and French making the concept of &quot;promoting our culture&quot; very hard to realize with english ruling the web.</p>
<p>What do forums have that blogs don&#39;t? More chances to find answers to the question &quot;<a href="http://www.purplecorner.com/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/barcamp_ok.png">how-to-vectorize-a-beautiful-barcamp-logo&quot;</a>.&nbsp; But there are too many categories so stricly classified you sometimes get excommunicate for a simple spamming (a lot I admit). And maybe I am the only one but : I sooo hate the moderator dude ! What blogs don&#39;t have, even if there are multiple authors, is the variety of topics and the easiness to start debates. But if you are like me and the dizain of very generous bloggers I know well, you already mastered the power of commenting.What blog offers is the power to express yourself and illustrate your ideas and projects by very simple tools such as <a href="http://www.purplecorner.com/2008/05/03/blogguez-autrement/">videos, podcasts</a>,etc.<strong><a href="http://hery.blaogy.com/post/4/5151#comments">Hery</a></strong> (again) just posted a very interesting post on Social Networks and asking (again) but its limits. At this point I wish you can read Malagasy to get Malagasy feelings on&#8230;. well&#8230;expression yourself on a wider audience. He warns about the tendencies to turn into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_marketing">Social Marketing</a> when manipulating your audience to get their attention for a product or a great cause.(Maybe you&#39;ve noticed my posts <a href="http://www.purplecorner.com/2008/08/05/prendre-dassaut-le-media-social-en-50-petits-pas/">to introduce social media and the wonders non-profits can benefit from it in french por favor). </a></p>
<div style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/2735401175/sizes/l/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3009/2735401175_fcdcd0da03_b.jpg" border="0" width="401" height="374" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/2735401175/sizes/l/">view larger image </a></div>
<div style="text-align: center">The Conversation :</div>
<div style="text-align: center">The Art of Listening and Sharing from<a href="http://www.briansolis.com/2008/08/introducing-conversation-prism.html"> Brian Solis</a> and JESS3</div>
<div align="center">&nbsp;also read this great thread on <a href="http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/08/from-social-med.html">Conversation Prism</a> since we all know it&#39;s all about the blablabla</div>
<p>Forums of course are very popular among Malagasy internet users and networking with the desire to stay commited to this community is one of the reason forumists find hard time to leave this haven. And finally I have to admit my little scares of forum users. When there are social and political crisis, we always fetch the latest news on sites like <a href="http://www.mashada.com/">Mashada </a>where everyone has done a tremendous job covering the Kenyan crisis and filling the void the governement instated black-out has put on mainstream media. We all know about wanadoo (now <a href="http://moov.mg">moov.mg</a>) during the <a href="http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=11&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2007%2F10%2F10%2Fcountry_facts%2Fmain3352065.shtml&amp;ei=D-6bSJu_MpzGggL_hLGeBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZ3nKCJsFUrxF7U0KaQ3EKjjSCIw&amp;sig2=-1B4TOua7jbuPz5P4aeh8A">2002 Malagasy post-election </a>crisis and the &quot;cyber-activism&quot; of the expatriates and well&#8230;the diaspora. This also brings us to the &quot;digital divide&quot; echues when connecitivity in Madagascar is still very hard to get and users only afford to connect for mails and &#8230;read forums. Again a lack of support on the commeting sections can very very very easily discourage a true activist even with tri-lingual capacities to share his perception of the society.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I hate to tell this but today I perceive forums as instruments for political propaganda more than a space of cultural, social and knowledge sharing.&nbsp; By the way do we have political bloggers ? or is this topic still very much banned on the post title and very discussed on the <strong><a href="http://www.rajiosy.com/">commenting section</a></strong>?</p>
<p><strong>*Hery</strong> is the creator of the <a href="http://namana.serasera.org/">Serasera network</a>. A community of more than 20 000 bloggers based in Madagascar but also in different parts of the world. Their socialization and conviviality are the strengh of the Namana Serasera when their members easily bond and plan outdoor activities such as trips (Roma, Majunga&#8230;) and also tree planting or fundraisings (for Infancy for example).</p>
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