HGTP (Hypergraphia Transfer Protocol) Turns 10: 03/03/03 - 13/03/03

March 3rd, 2003 - March 3rd, 2013.

I eventually opened my personal portal on the web exactly 10 years ago and today, I'd like to apologize to the millions of victims of this tragedy: the visitors from all over the world who lost at best their precious time, at worst their sanity in what is now a multi-site, multi-platform monster. Since I cannot predict the future (even if, I'm afraid, you shouldn't expect containment until I stop living - which includes writing, my most embarrassing bodily function), here's a quick summary of what happened over this doomed decade.


0) In the beginning was the word:


naughty homepage v1.0
(stephanemot.com during
the "geocities" years)

From the beginning, I embraced the web as the perfect extension of my poor brain, as something as absurd, unreliable, vain, and fragile as life itself. But it was not until 2003 that I decided to get my own address.

The concept was simple:
- No avatar, no pseudo: I commit to all the ill-written and nonsensical stuff I spill over the web. After all, they're just words, and my name happens to mean "word" in French.
- It's at the same time public and personal, but not intimate. I'm not pushing my own opinions, they simply have to come out of my system. Pure junk writing, no literature.
- It's egotic, not narcissic. Yes that's a game of mirrors, but as in some kind of a Borghesian experiment. And in this mess / maze, I can find pricelessly inane stuff that I would otherwise lose for good. Plus I need to fuel my own ecosystem, to plug it to both reality and virtuality. If I often build inept synaptic connections that slow the whole system down, I always learn something about my own impostures and dysfunctions.


I) Homepaging (Home, Sweet and Sour Home):

In 2003, I'd been journeying for 10 years into strategy and innovation. I had a lot of fun conceiving and managing online and interactive services and apps, or forecasting disruptions in highly evolutive ecosystems, but at home, the last thing I wanted was to create my own start-up (I'd already survived four of those), or to think about technology or solutions... particularly since I knew that major disruptions would come sooner than later, that the next Googles would change everything, that new concepts, platforms, devices, usages would emerge.

All I needed was a place to drop the 'junk writing' I excreted. Neither a flush toilet nor a vault: I wanted to easily access and browse it. Ultimately, I wanted my content to be in my own "cloud", as I drew it back then on my silly slides: a cartoon-like cloud accessible seamlessly from any connected device - no matter where I logged in, I wouldn't have to care about input or output formats, on which server I was.

I knew we were far from that. I'd already toyed with mini mobile sites (eg WAP and i-mode), and I wanted to stick to the web, and to its most rudimentary forms at that. I've loved Wikis from the start, and content management systems were already legion (I also missed Wordpress by a few months), but I didn't want to be smart anyway.

Opting for Geocities was not very smart. It wasn't the least user-friendly web hosting solution, but back in 2003, Yahoo! were already officially has-beens. Yet I've been "faithfool" to Y! for my personal email service since 1996 (still now!), and I knew that the transfer would be easy.

Because for starters, I really wanted the basics for my personal-content / self-editing purposes. No frills, no forum, no interactivity: simple web pages that I could easily transfer to a smarter platform when the time came.

My initial menu was very simple, even if I expected innovations for each dimension:
- Home (basic: landing page for stephanemot.com, with a few simple dynamic animations like newsfeeds - potential: media),
- Beings (basic: ego, friends and neighbors, authors I like - potential: networking/communities),
- Things (basic: books, soccer/footlog, photos, innovations/mot-bile... - potential: endless verticals, videos),
- Places (basic: Paris, NYC, Seoul, Uqbar, world, travels, maps, random... - potential: mobility, location based services),
- blogules (basic: all posts on one page - potential: dedicated blogging platform)
- About, Links, Stats, Guestbook pages
- NB: I also created a "boutique" page (Little Shop of Errors). Not to generate revenues, but to cover all bases, and to follow/anticipate innovations for key 'enablers', particularly through Amazon, a player with an unsatiable appetite.

Of course I was not satisfied with the result, but at long last I had my own room with a roof.

I forgot to mention the fact that the site was in English and in French, which made it twice as big and boring. If the main menu never changed, the monster grew to about a hundred pages, each one an ergonomic mess filled with useless junk.


II) Blogging (Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Disinformation):

From the start, I knew that I should have used 'special purpose vehicles', most notably a blogging platform for my blogules, but I didn't want to manage several sites in parallel. I didn't expect to produce that much junk that quickly.

You've got to thank George W. Bush for that.

Saying that I got obsessed with the 2004 US Elections is an understatement. Only a portion of my 2003-2004 junk posted on various fora and media landed on the two interminable pages devoted to blogules (one in French, the other in English), but I postponed until after November 2, 2004 the switch to Blogger. Not the best platform back then, and I didn't feel comfortable growing a Google-dependence, but I expected Big G to lead on the way to convergence.

I haven't invested much time on my homepage ever since. When Geocities folded, I'd already had dispatched the bulk of the content to specific sites*, so I only transferred a tiny portion of the monster. To Google Pages. Again, not the best platform. Again, more Google-dependence.

Anyway. Today, stephanemot.com is basically a non-existent hub, an empty shell with little content and traffic. Nothing like its heyday madness, when Geocities had to regularly shut my site down because flocks of visitors coming for different 'verticals' were all converging to the same spot.

So we're in December 2004: John F. Kerry is not measuring the drapes at the White House, and I've just moved 3 of my blogs to Blogger: blogules (in English), blogules V.F. (in French), and mot-bile (innovation - in English). I still don't know today how I managed not only to feed and maintain the three of them, but also to need even more sites to sort more junk.

I spun off my soccer blog on France Football in October 2005 (in French - platform: Blogspirit). footlog quickly became a hit, and CNET France noticed this weird guy who blogged on soccer in French and on innovation in English: would you do a blog for us ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup? I did, for free, and it was fun. But I'm glad it's over:  I've got enough trouble maintaining the whole shebang as it is, and I regularly turn down similar offers. I did accept a stunt for a French radio, to give it a try, but writing remains more fun. Among the different citizen journalism platforms I tried, I feel most comfortable with Rue89. I don't do columns, even if various papers have published my stuff or mentioned my work (eg Newsweek, IHT, Le Figaro, LA Times, Asian Times, Korea JoongAng Daily, Korea Herald...). I've been editor in chief in a previous life, but I'm not a journalist: I'm into Weapons of Mass Disinformation, see?

Nowadays, I seldom post on footlog, which in its own heyday ranked among France's top 7 sports blogs. I still force myself to post now and then on mot-bile, because that's a way of keeping an eye on sectors and players I enjoy decrypting. And if my blogules remain hot during election cycles in France and in the US, I've been much more busy with yet another blog.

I started SeoulVillage in February 2007, 6 years ago. More than a spin off of my blogules about Korea, I initially had in mind a proto-literary project about this shape-shifter of a city. I cowarded out, opted for English, and started yet another blog by yet another Foreigner in Asia. I'm happy to count many Korean culture lovers, researchers, journalists, or urbanists among frequent flyers, but I owe this city I love something more intimate. Hopefully, I shall complete this year my first collection of fictions about Seoul, in English.

Because I have the gall to define myself as an author, remember? Not much has been published to support the claim, but I've got another set of useless websites to maintain because of that**. More empty shells, I reckon: my excuse for a literature got lost in an void that, literally, can't even be described as interstellar.


III) Social Networking (Hypergraphia meet Multiple Personality Disorder):

Even if my Facebook or Twitter pages are not part of my personal portal, I have to mention here the difficulty of coping with various selves in social networking times.
 
I mostly write as myself and as SeoulVillage, but that's only the tip of the iceberg. To name the main sites:

• as Stephane Mot, the junk writer: 1 zombie website (stephanemot.com), but relatively active Facebook (facebook.com/stephanemot) and Twitter (@stephanemot) accounts.
• as Stephane Mot, the failed author: 2 book websites (dragedies.com, laliguedesoublies.com), 2 Facebook pages (one for the author, one for his dragedies), 1 Twitter account (@dragedies)
• as Stephane Mot, the start-up veteran: 1 blog (mot-bile)
• as Seoul Village: 1 blog (seoulvillage.com), 1 Facebook page (facebook.com/seoulvillage), 1 Twitter account (@theseoulvillage)
• as blogules: 2 blogs (blogules.com, blogules en Francais), 2  Facebook pages (EN: blogules - facebook.com/pages/Blogules/263494297051758 / FR: blogule - facebook.com/blogule), 1 Twitter account (@blogules)
• as footlog: 1 blog (footlog.blogs.francefootball.com), 1 Twitter account (@footlogbis)
• as Kim Mudangnim: 1 website (kimmudangnim.com), 1 Facebook page (facebook.com/pages/KIM-Mudangnim/246625385375575), 1 Twitter account (@kimmudangnim).
  NB: I don't want to be a drag, but I had to mention this female character I created a couple of years ago (the story was published in Every Second Sunday - see "SWW 2010 Anthology"). No, Kim Mudangnim is not my female self (I'm not that sick), but I know she'll be back sooner or later. Until then, she needed someone to open virtual doors for her. 

I'm not suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder, but from Hypergraphia. Of course, these 4 websites, 5 blogs, 7 Facebook pages, and 6 Twitter accounts are only part of my online presence. Of course, I also write an awful lot of junk offline. Of course, I don't like 99.999% of what I write (starting with the parts I can't even understand when I try to read them afterwards). Of course, there are rewarding as well as embarrassing moments.

Sorry, but I can't fix my writing. Writing is my fix.

blogules 2013
Since 2003, nonsensical posts about noncritical issues in nonenglish (get your blogules transfusion in French)
NEW: join blogules on Facebook!!! and Twitter (@stephanemot, @blogules)

* in 2007, I spun off a few pages that were not meant for a blogging platform, but nonetheless ended up on Blogger, like Little Shop of Errors (boutique - in French), Citizen Came (visitors stats - in English). I also backed-up the 2003-2004 blogules archives (in English and in French), as well as my soccer pages (footlog archives).
** see dragedies and La Ligue des Oublies (nevermind Kim Mudangnim).

Join blogules on Facebook

For their IXth Season, and to celebrate the mother of all election years (the US, France, Korea - the South at least -, China, Americanidolistan... everybody votes in 2012), blogules just launched their official Facebook pages.

That's pageS with an S because as you know, blogules exist in French and pseudo-English versions. And regardless of who lands where, I badly needed a specific platform for each language, something I can't afford on Twitter - even if it's free - since, mercifully, there's only one me (@stephanemot).

So welcome to the new pages, come get your blogules fix and spill your own comments:

• for the 'Englishoid' blogules:
  (on Facebook: facebook.com/pages/Blogules/263494297051758)
  
  



• pour les blogules en V.F.:
  (sur Facebook: facebook.com/blogule)
  
  

And while I'm at it, you are of course invited to like my other Facebook pages:

• my author page, as confidential as can be: facebook.com/pages/Stephane-MOT/224480897565707
  
  


• the page of my international bestseller (my miserable dragedies count fewer readers than the Bible but they also come from all continents) : facebook.com/pages/Dragedies/119682828112662
  
  


• the page for my SeoulVillage.com blog: facebook.com/pages/Seoul-Village/128135973930557
  
  

So many pages for such inept content... but at least we're not falling trees for these.


blogules 2012
Since 2003, nonsensical posts about noncritical issues in nonenglish (get your blogules transfusion in French)
NEW: join blogules on Facebook!!! (also in French!)

Korea : too soft, but not soft enough

The major blackout Korea just experienced may be the consequence of a hacking of KEPCO earlier this year. It also could be due to a simple bug.

I can't help but believe in the first scenario, which would cast yet another unsettling cloud over the country and its security.

Over the past few months, Korea has proven embarrassing vulnerabilities in strategic areas :
- conventional warfare : military / organizational fiascos following North Korean attacks (ie Yeonpyeong)
- hackings / suspicious blackouts at the core of vital networks : financial (ie banks), media / internet, air traffic, and now electricity...

So regardless of who is responsible here (incompetence) or there (most fingers pointing at North Korea or China), a malicious organization could completely incapacitate Korea within minutes without using any conventional weapon. Even if the aim is not an invasion per se (nor even a diversion preceding an invasion of say North Korea), this would definitely damage the reputation of Korea as an economic powerhouse.

With its drive, infrastructures and talents, Korea should be ahead of Israel in national security. KISA (Korea Information Security Agency) significantly improved its visibility, but the national culture remains focused on hardware.

Samsung has eventually understood it needed to evolve and change business models, but it took series of obvious wake up calls (ie Google wolfing down Motorola). The government will probably follow suit. And if spurs are needed, the potential candidacy of Ahn Cheol-soo at the 2012 presidential elections might help : the founder of antivirus specialist AhnLab has some credentials in the area.


blogules 2011
(also on Seoul Village : "Korean blitz : all bases loaded")

FCC : another hot potato for the Congress

2010 - A regulator that fails to regulate may need some fixing.

After being awarded the right to deregulate broadband by a Supreme Court ruling in 2005 on the ground that it would not be a telecom service but an information service, the FCC allowed broadband subs to plug whatever hardware or software they pleased to their access, but after that ordered ISPs to fight against peer-to-peer abuses. Comcast logically sued and won the case at a federal court.

That same FCC has also been working on a much advertised National Broadband Plan which now appears to be left to its own devices.

The only way out of this farcical situation would be for lawmakers to restore some regulatory power, a move that could prove unpopular for partisans of freedom on the liberal front (no regulation for the internet : that's fascism) as well as on the libertarian side (no regulation whatsoever : that's socialism). If Obama thought he was done with ideological battles between health care madness and financial reforms, here's yet another hot potato to catch before mid-term elections.

blogules 2010

Googling Paris

"Parisian Love", Google's Superbowl ad. Rom@nce, cliches and snapshots... as artificial and predictable as Avatar, only cheaper. And just like Avatar, you keep watching :

News biorhythms and the future of newspaper

Before the introduction of printing in Europe by Guthenberg, people would travel for books. Then books could multiply, move and reach different readers in different locations. Now you don't even need paper and anyone can consult any priceless ancient manuscript from anywhere without fear of damaging it*.

Earlier this year, there was a exhibition in the library of Florence's Convento di San Marco on the process of book making, featuring beautiful objects and illuminations. I remember thinking, as I moved from one marvel of patience to another, about how people would look at a newspaper press a few years from now.

Doesn't it already seem like a black and white scene from Citizen Cane ? The journalist getting his scoop, writing it down, submitting it to the chief editor, the prints running like crazy, a headline splashing on a newstand, yelled by a street vendor...

Scenes from last millenium.

The future of newspaper definitely looks like "more news and less paper".

Many players are folding their last issues, and folding, period. The sector had been looking for new business models for years when depression struck, precipitating bankruptcies in an already fragile ecosystem.

Sourcing, writing, editing, printing, distributing, advertising... now it's less a linear value chain than a shape shifting value cloud. But there's still value out there, be it in relevance, ergonomy, utility, actionability, exclusivity, analysis / insights / advice, local, reassurance, trust, fun... or why not, the quality of the paper (actually, that's the reason why there's still a thriving market - readers and advertisers - for certain magazines).

Likewise, brands are more often scattered among media, platforms, authors, journalists, and contributors who can even be anonymous members of a popular online forum. With a high churn rate because things and people tend to come out of fad more quickly by the day. Any local newspaper can get its 15 Warholian minutes of fame because say, their cute kitten rescued from a fire in Armpit, TN has been over-retwitted as a scoop of michaeljacksonian magnitude.

Reading has become a multimedia experience with pop-ups, background music, rollover images... you start reading an article and end up watching a movie while purchasing virtual pop-corn for your tamagotchi.

Sometimes, the article you're reading is being edited under your very eyes. Like that page devoted to post-elections unrests in Iran on HuffPost, or DemConWatch's SuperDelegate list, which I consulted about every other minute last year.

News and hoaxes are everywhere, and each individual has what I call his or her own "News BioRhythm" : depending on the context you consume more or less but you somehow have to be fed at certain moments of the day.

The future of newspaper ? The term will more often cover the medium instead of the media brand : you won't be talking about the NYT nor the WSJ, but about your favorite epaper smartphone application, your favorite dedicated device (ie your Kindle, your foldable screen...), where you chose to consult the news.

We all have tools to arrange our own newspapers, but that's not necessarily what you want nor need. I started with My Yahoo! around 1995-96 but quickly switched to a more pervasive browsing mode. There are usually about 30 sites always on on my screen - half of which about news, news gathering, or keeping track of news I read.

I know, I have a problem with my NBR... I should twit my shrink about it (he takes only $13.59 + taxes per character).


* These days, you should fear more for your dutifully purchased ebook (see "Kindle's Total Recall")

If Americans knew

It's easy to twist figures or maps, but they simply can't lie when unfairness is so obvious.

Founded by journalist Alison Weir, If Americans Knew (ifamericansknew.org) is one of many trying to fill the gaps, but this site targets the American audience and that's an essential step towards peace in the Middle East.

Fair pedagogy is crucial, and the American audience must hear Palestinian voices as well as Israeli voices. Right now, that's not the case : US media tend to take the Israeli side even when Israeli leaders err on the wrong side of the road

Traditionally, Americans are not well informed of what's going on overseas in general. And too often, they can only see one side of the coin. It's not only a matter of networks being biased, but also of viewers with a short attention span for things not American.

Yet change seems to be coming with new voices (Obama, J Street...), and the internet. In spite of the Israeli blackout (foreign media were blocked outside of the strip), all major channels had to somehow mention things happening in Gaza because these things were all over the web, because that was the "story" to "tell".

What Americans have been told for decades is that Palestinians are terrorists and Israeli under siege. What the world is realizing is that terror has changed sides, that Palestine is under siege, and that if hatemongers are gaining ground in Gaza, it's mainly because hatemongers are winning in Tel Aviv.

BTW, excellent and timely report from the Red Cross today.

blogules 2009

Change - Mobilization Has Started

Even after the elections, the Obama campaing keep a perfect record in management. The migration from barackobama.com to change.gov was one first step, and as expected, the grassroot operations machine is being re-mobilized*, weeks ahead of the inauguration.

I've been expecting from them a spectacular drive, nationwide and beyond, for a new kind of public / community service at the county level, and I guess we're about to witness it.


* David Plouffe's e-mail this Dec. 5th :

Exactly one month ago, you made history by giving all Americans a real opportunity for change.
Now it's time to start preparing and working for change in our communities.
On December 13th and 14th, supporters are coming together in every part of the country to reflect on what we've accomplished and plan the future of this movement. Your ideas and feedback will
be collected and used to guide this movement in the months and years ahead.
Join your friends and neighbors -- sign up to host or attend a Change is Coming house meeting near you.
Since the election, the challenges we face -- and our responsibility to take action -- have only gotten more urgent.
You can connect with fellow supporters, make progress on the issues you care about, and help shape the future of your community and our country.
Learn what you can do now to support President-elect Obama's agenda for change and continue to
make a difference in your community.
Take the first important step by hosting or attending a Change is Coming house meeting. Sign up right
now: http://my.barackobama.com/changeiscoming
To get our country back on track, it will take all of us working together.
Barack and Joe have a clear agenda and an unprecedented opportunity for change. But they can't do it alone.
Will you join us at a house meeting and help plan the next steps for this movement?
Thanks,
David
David Plouffe - Campaign Manager - Obama for America

GOP Primaries 2012 Kick-off - Charlie Crist's Second Coming

Iowa, get ready: the GOP pack is bracing itself for the 2012 Primaries.

John McCain ? declined. Sarah Palin ? you betcha*. Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee ? still there. Rudi Giuliani ? already dead.

Not yet ? Whatever. He won't run in 2012. Neither the NY Marathon, nor the Big Race. Maybe a fever, after his yearly flu shot.

One week after Obama's victory, 3 players are exuding Prez ambitions from every pore (4 if you include Condi Rice, but that goes without saying) : Bobby Jindal, Charlie Crist, and Tim Pawlenty are already campaigning.

Crist did his best to save appearances in front of cameras during John McCain's doomed campaign. A second coming of Crist in 2010 would put Florida back on the GOP map ("wasn't me"), a failure would probably condemn him to retirement in Maine (I suggest home sharing with Stephen King : Charlie keeps his sun tan alive during the summer, Steve prevents his own old bag of bones from screaming durin' 'em long yankee winters, ayuh).

Tim Pawlenty could be the reformer this party needs, but does he have the strength to run the ultimate campaign ? Can he lead and set people in motion the way Obama did ? That remains to be seen.

Bobby Jindal remains the favorite for 2012 or 2016. Besides, Obama helped his cause by breaking the biggest glass ceilings : Jindal's first name is Hindi (Piyush), and his ears are ridiculously stuck to his skull.

Let's see how those 3 not-yet-candidates perform on the web :

CharlieCrist2012.com belongs to Joseph B Mizereck &
Associates, Inc. from Tallahassee, FL
Created on: 01-Jan-07 - Expires on:
01-Jan-10 -Last Updated on: 26-Sep-08
The domain is active (for advertising
purposes) and officially up for sale

Crist2012.com belongs to Chris Stavrianos from Chicago, IL
Created on: 27-Feb-08 - Expires on: 27-Feb-11 - Last Updated on: 14-Mar-08
The domain used to be active (with scary commercial content) and up for
sale.

CharlieCrist12.com and Crist12.com belong to Cadenza
Entertainment from Winter Park, FL
Created on: 30-Jan-08 - Expires on: 30-Jan-09 - Last Updated on:
30-Jan-08
Inactive (ads)

BobbyJindal2012.com belongs to Mark Fricker from Newton
Square, PA
Created on: 07-Feb-08 - Expires on: 08-Feb-09 - Last Updated on:
07-Feb-08

BobbyJindal12.com belongs to Rod Snyder from Naperville,
IL
Created on: 10-Oct-08 - Expires on - 10-Oct-13 - Last Updated on
12-Nov-08
Active (ads)

Jindal2012.com belongs to Peter Orvetti from Washington,
DC
Created on: 22-Oct-07 - Expires on 22-Oct-12 - Last Updated on: 20-Mar-08
Domain parked

Jindal12.com belongs to Brian Sabolich (Sabolich Realty)
Created on: 30-Aug-08 - Expires on: 30-Aug-09 - Last Updated on:
30-Aug-08
Domain parked.

TimPawlenty2012.com belongs to a more discreet
person
Registrant: Click Industries from Minneapolis, MN
Created on: 16-Jan-07 -
Expires on: 16-Jan-09 - Las Updated on: 17-Jan-08
Domain inactive

TimPawlenty12.com belongs to Kyle Sandstrom from Rochester,
MN
Created on: 30-Aug-08 - Expires on: 30-Aug-09 - Last Updated on:
30-Aug-08
Just registered page

Pawlenty2012.com and Pawlenty12.com belong to Michael
Deutsch, a MIT Alumni from Guttenberg, NJ
Created on: 03-Jan-08 - Expires on:
03-Jan-09 - Last Updated on: 01-May-08
Ads

Anyway, 12 or 16 suck compared to 00, 04, or 08. So forget about those. And "Smith2012" sounds too much web 1.0, XXth century deja vu.

CristforAmerica.com and PawlentyforAmerica.com are somehow "deja vu" too, but still available. Up to now.

JindalforAmerica.com has been booked for the long run (2016, an interesting date).
Registrant : Domain Discreet from Funchal, Portugal
Created on: 22-Sep-08 - Expires on: 22-Sep-16 - Last Updated on: 24-Sep-08

But by then, a web 3.0 candidate is likely to have come out of the blue... or even out of the red.

blogules 2009


* see "Sarah Palin and the Segolene Royal Syndrome - The GOP on the same path as the French Socialist Party"

ADDENDUM 20100211

This post recently received a visit from an interesting URL : vpn.giulianipartners.com (74.9.69.162). Yup. That's from Rudy's headquarters in 5 Times Square New York, NY 10036-6527... Sorry lads if I gave you inaccurate news regarding your dear boss.

Red blogule to AdSense, no sensibility

This site hosts a few ads as a part of its grand borghesian design. The aim of the game is not to raise funds (the few cents harvested will certainly not make for the time I spend / you waste on it), but to study how beings, things, places and times can get both freed and stuck in the net, the coopetition between reality and fiction, not to mention the interactions of my troubled mind and its environment (to which you now belong since you're reading these silly lines).
Anyway. Here is Google, grand provider of free traps, proposing its AdSense advertising programs and Google Coop Custom Search Engines. After resisting the urge, I decided to give both of them a try.
The custom search engine happens to be, as the name suggests, an engine that searches and can be customized. This one is supposed to browse my site but when I type "bush", a word that occurs about 3,850,926,712 times in it*, Google tells me sorry, there is no such expression to be found in this place. On the other hand, "Dubya" brings 6 pages of results, without even including the pages omitted. What when Google says "custom", do they mean "intimate" ?
AdSense is supposed to provide ads related to the content. I can specify where French is spoken and where English is broken, but it doesn't deter these kings of marketing from splashing banners in German for people visiting from Korea.
Worse : when AdSense decides to become accurate, it grows dangerous ! The other day, the Restored Church Of God was selling its crazy fundamentalist prophecies on the very pages where I was denouncing them ! I could stop the flow by adding their website to the list of advertisers banned on my site but I'm starting to wake up in the middle of the night.
Some day, when I type "bush" on my custom search engine, I will be proposed Dubya's autobiotheography.


* a little bit less according to Blogger's integrated search engine (Blogger being both the platform used by this excuse for a blog and a Google outfit !) : see "bush". By the way : still waiting for the new and improved version with tags.

White blogule to netrootizens - Impeach for Change

Better late than sorry...
I've been calling for an impeachment for over 2 years but this could be the time for it to happen.

I understand Dems had to keep a low profile before mid-term elections but now, they can unleash the (watch)dogs and talk impeachment.

The petition is on its way but I cannot join the party of almost 30,000 since I'm not a US citizen.

But YOU, dear netrootizen reader, are more than often a genuine one. So visit Impeachforchange.org and cast your ballot. These "aggressive progressives" plan to create an Impeachment Committee for each of the 435 Congressional Districts.

White blogule to you - 100,000th visitor

My humble personal portal recently registered its 100,000th visitor and 153rd country of origin of visitors (Uzbekistan).

Among the URLs of origin (NB: addendum - for complete updates, see Citizen Came) :

- They are paranoid : US Department of Defense, US Department of Veterans Affairs, US Department of State, US Centcom, Project and Contracting Office for Iraq, UK Ministry Of Defence, The RAND Corporation, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NED), and many US military bases in the US, in Europe, Iraq, Asia...

- They have energy to share : Agip SpA (ITA), Air Liquide SA (FRA), APC Power Conversion SAS (FRA), Aral AG (DEU), Electrosvy AZ Volgograd (ROS), BP Plc (UK), Centrica Plc (UK), Comite Interministeriel aux Crises Nucleaires et Radiologiques (FRA), Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (FRA), Deutsche BP AG (DEU), US Defense Energy Support Center (USA, VA), Devon Energy Corp (USA, OK), EDF (FRA), EIFER - European Institute For Energy Research (DEU), Electrabel (BEL), ENI (ITA), FMC Technologies Inc (USA, TX), Gruyere Energie SA (CH), Hocol SA (COL), Hydro Quebec (CAN), Institut Français du Petrole (FRA), Innogy Plc (UK), LukOil (ROS), LURE - Laboratoire de rayonnement synchrotron (FRA), Lyse Energy AS (NOR), MW Kellogg Limited (UK), National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics (NED), Nigeria Lng Expansion Project (UK), Nigeria LNG Limited (NGA), Nuclear Energy Institute (USA, WA), RTE France (FRA), RWE (DEU), SAMIR - Societe Anonyme Marocaine de l'Industrie du Raffinage (MAR), Schlumberger (USA, NY), Shell (NED), Shell US (USA, TX), Suez (FRA), Synchrotron Soleil (FRA), Technip USA Corporation (USA, CA), TNK-BP (ROS), Total Fina Elf (FRA), Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc (USA, TX), Transocean Sedco Forex (UK), Tricat Group (USA, MD), Union Fenosa SA (ESP), Air Liquide America (USA, TX), United States Enrichment Corporation (USA, MD), Westar Energy (USA, KS), The Williams Company (USA, OK)...

- They observe : American Civil Liberties Union (USA, WA), Chr. Michelsen Institute (NOR), Commission Nationale des Comptes de Campagne et des Financements Politiques (FRA), Lowy Institute for International Policy (AUS), Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques - Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FRA)...

- They govern : Prime Minister, Ministries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Finance, Education, Research, Culture... (FRA), Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (UAE), Autorites Federales de la Confederation Helvetique (CH), Bundesregierung (DEU), Ministries of Health and Finance (BRA), US Department of Defense, US Department of Veterans Affairs, US Department of State, US Department of Transportation, US Environment Protection Agency, US Senate, US House of Representatives, NASA... (USA), Etat du Grand Duche du Luxembourg (LUX), Government of Malaysia (MLY), South African Government (RSA), UK Government (UK), Ministerio de Defensa de Espana (ESP), Ministere des Finances et des Investissements Exterieurs (MAR), Ministere de l’Interieur (BEL), Ministerie van defensie (NED), Ministerul Economiei si Comertului (ROM), Ministry of Communications (KUW), Ministry Of Defense (UK), Ministry Of Education (TWN), Ministry Of Education (SIN), Ministere de la Sante et des Services Sociaux (CAN), Senado (CHL), Secretariat General des Armees (FRA), States of Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississipi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin... (USA), Armee de Terre (FRA), Ministerio da Saude (POR), Government of Brunei (BRU)...

- They're transnational : European Community (LUX), Union Europeenne (BEL), EUROCONTROL - European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (BEL), UNESCO (FRA), UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (NED), INTAS (BEL), Institut d’Etudes de Securite de l’Union europeenne (FRA), NATO (BEL), The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NED), OECD (FRA), UNEP – United Nations Environment Program (KEN), UNEP – Energy Branch (FRA), UNMIK Kosova - United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (KOS), WHO (CH), The World Bank Group (USA, DC), The United Nations Volunteers (DEU), The United Nations Organization (USA, NY)...

- They research : CEMAGREF, CIRAD, CNET, CNRS Paris, CNRS Villejuif, France Telecom R&D, Geopsy / Sesarray Project, INRIA, INRS, INSERM, Institut Pasteur de Lille, IPSN - Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire, IRC - Institut de Recherche sur la Catalyse, IRCAM, ISIMA, LAAS - Laboratoire d'Automatique et d'Analyse des Systemes, LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, LIFL - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille, LURE - Laboratoire de rayonnement synchrotron, Synchrotron Soleil, Thomson Multimedia R&D (FRA), ETRI - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KIST - Korea Institute of Science and Technology, KISTI - Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, KREOnet - Korea Research Environment Open NETwork (ROK), BIB3R R&D project - Berlin Beyond 3G Project, Deutsches Forschungsnetz eV, DFN-CERT, EIFER, Fraunhofer-Institut fur Integrierte Schaltungen, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, PEROSH - The Partnership for European Research in Occupational Safety and Health, ZUMA Mannheim - Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (DEU), Bell Northern Research, IREQ (CAN), CERIST (ALG), CERN, IURST, SWITCH (CH), CIMAT (MEX), CNRST (MAR), DoCoMo Labs, Griffith Laboratories, ITW Technology Center, Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, MIT, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Philips Laboratories, SAIC - Science Applications International Corporation, Sharp Labs (USA), Mimos Berhad (MLY), NIKHEF - National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics, Philips Research, TNO - Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijkin (NED), NTA (NOR), Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (OST), GARR Consortium, Telecom Italia Lab (ITA), Internet Research Institute, JAMSTEC - Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, NITE - National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (JAP), GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development Limited (UK), Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (IRE), IBMC - Insituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, IRICUP - (POR), III - Institute for Information Industry, NHRI - National Health Research Institutes (TWN)

- They report from France : AFP, Bayard Presse, Canal Plus, Editions Philippe Amaury SA, Editions Atlas, Editis, L’Est Républicain, Eurosport, France 2, France Citevision, France Televisions, Groupe Contact, Groupe Express Expansion, Groupe Les Echos, Groupe Tests, Hachette Livre, Hachette Filipacchi Presse, Mediamétrie, Milan Presse, Le Monde, Pearson Education France, Prisma Presse, Le Progrès, La Provence, Radio Campus, Radio France, Le Republicain Lorrain, La République du Centre, RTL France, Societe du Journal de l’Union, Sports Media et Stratégie, TF1, TPS, TV Rennes, La Voix du Lyon ...

- They report from the US : American Media Inc (FL), CBS Broadcasting (NY), CMP Media (TX), Deseret News (UT), Discovery (MD), Disney (CA), Elsevier Science Inc (NY), Educational and Professional Publishing Group of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc (IA), Forum Communications Company (ND), Fox Inc (NY), Fox Sports Interactive Media Inc (NE), MediaNews Group (CO), MSNtv (WA), The New York Times (NY), Nauticom Sports Network (PA), New Press Gazette Corp (MO), Perseus Books LLC (CO), The Providence Journal (RI), Sony Pictures Entertainment (CA), Time Inc (NY), Tower Productions Inc (IL), Turner Broadcasting System (GA), Viacom (NY), Warner Brothers Entertainment (CA), The Washington Times Corp (DC), WDAY TV (ND)...

- They report from South Africa (South African Broadcasting Corporation...), Germany (RTL Plus Deutschland Fernsehen, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln...), Bangladesh (Prothom Alo...), Brunei (Radio Television Brunei...), South Korea (Chosun Ilbo, dong A , Hanvit Broadcasting, SBS, Sudokwon Ilbo…), Canada (The Columbian...), Denmark (Aktieselskabet Dagbladet Politiken, Danmarks Radio...), Spain (Retevision...), Finland (Helsinki Television Oy…), Hungary (Sanoma Budapest Publishing Ltd...), Italy (Infostrada Sports, RAI...), Japan (Asahi Shimbun, Nippon Television Network Company, Sankei Shimbun...), Lithuania (UAB Balticum TV...), Malta (Medialink Communications…), Norway (Bohusläningens AB, Shibsted...), The Netherlands (Prosper Business Media BV, Security Press BV...), The United Kingdom (BBC, Discovery Europe, Elsevier Science Ltd, The PA Group, Independent News Media UK, LexisNexis, Pearson Plc, The Unique Broadcasting Company...), Russia (Channel One Russia…), Switzerland (Edipresse, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Television Suisse Romande...), Ukraine (Express Radio Network...)
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