Archive for January, 2006

Innovation et secteur public

Monday, January 30th, 2006 (viewed 1568 times since 17 April 2006)

Dave Pollard, consultation en gestion de l’innovation, propose une cartographie des gisements d’innovation pour des organisations du secteur public (via Gilles en vrac). De quoi générer des innovations Internet d’utilité publique ?

$64 million for the NSA to mine through social networks of terrorists (and US citizens ?)

Thursday, January 26th, 2006 (viewed 1551 times since 17 April 2006)

It seems like the NSA is conducting a 3,5 years long $64 million worth research program on data mining maybe based on the eavesdropping of domestic and foreign phone calls and email exchanges. This program is called NIMD which stands for Novel Intelligence from Massive Data. Their approach is said to be based on the […]

Burglarized by our baby-sitter and her 8 accomplices

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 (viewed 2160 times since 17 April 2006)

Saturday night, my wife and I were having our first cinema since weeks. We had decided to let the 17 years teen-ager who lives next door keep an eye on our 3 babies while they are sleeping. Our apartment was burglarized by her and 8 “friends” of her.
“I was alone, everything went well”
23:15, Saturday night. […]

Que penser de l’entrepreneuriat social ?

Monday, January 9th, 2006 (viewed 5964 times since 17 April 2006)

Le “social entrepreneurship” (entrepreneuriat social/entreprenariat social) est un concept d’origine anglo-saxonne qui a bien du mal à prendre racine en France. L’idée est d’utiliser les forces du marché pour rendre le monde meilleur, de créer des entreprises lucratives dont l’activité économique a été conçue de manière à résoudre une problématique sociale voire humanitaire. Faire de […]

Un mini-PC qui tient dans une prise

Monday, January 2nd, 2006 (viewed 4278 times since 17 April 2006)

Via Multiroom: un mini-PC qui tient dans l’emplacement mural d’une prise réseau. C’est déjà commercialisé: cf. la brochure marketing.

Werewolf-in-a-box

Monday, January 2nd, 2006 (viewed 1484 times since 17 April 2006)

Remember the (written-in-French) post where I described this idea of getting an indian yogi consultant shipped to you in a box by UPS for some low-budget mission? The indian colleague who inspired me this joke just pointed me to his blog. And it appears that while writing about his experience in France, he didn’t describe […]