Will try tomorrow on mobile... it's already 3am here... ;-)

My latest post on KoToNTeeJ: The muppets are back

Live African (mainly) music videos ? Check my channel...

African music Top Ten CDs - June 22, 2011 | Museke

African music festivals out of synch

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mostly agree...

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FINALLY MY BLOG POST ABOUT GOOGLE+: Why you momma won't use Google+. :-)

Didier J. MARY changed his profile photo.

#DSK as seen through the "Press" - Before/After...

Embedding or no embedding on G+... just linking so far... Here's a playlist of 10+ hours of African music... Enjoy!

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La gestion du son en HTML5... tres utile.

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C'est jour de release. Je voulais rapidement vous faire partager le projet qui m'a occupé ces deux dernières semaines : Buzz!

http://buzz.jaysalvat.com/

Buzz! est une librairie Javascript qui permet de manipuler facilement les sons sur vos sites web HTML5. C’est jusqu’à présent le projet dont je suis le plus fier. Ne me demandez pas pourquoi, c’est comme ça. Je suis pourtant conscient que le son n’est pas la priorité de tout bon développeur web et que la librairie ne battra pas des records de téléchargements. Mais à l’heure de l’effacement du Flash au profit du HTML5, il nous fallait avoir un bon outil pour égailler le net avec de nouvelles idées.

J’ai réalisé une belle démo pour mettre la librairie en scène et mieux faire comprendre le genre de créations que j’avais en tête au moment du développement de cette librairie audio. J’ai fait les choses en grand (un peu trop peut-être) pour démontrer qu’il n’est pas question ici de simplement polluer les sites avec des musiques à la con où des boutons qui font pouet-pouet.

http://buzz.jaysalvat.com/demo/

A vous de juger. Bien évidemment, montez le son et équipez-vous d’un navigateur récent HTML5.

Marques et musiques, enfin partenaires? L'un de mes anciens articles sur le nouveau blog du unLabel de CybearSonic.

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A suivre...

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Forcément, il faut que je partage ma note du jour ici aussi :
http://vidberg.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/07/05/google-ca-prend/

Facebook using their patents as a means to shut down others?????

Alle'sTones, la nouvelle generation des Brass Bands Beninois, en Belgique au mois d'aout... Leur 1er album en streaming sur SoundCloud...

Alle'sTones live in Douala in November 2010. Will be in Antwerpen (BE) 8/16-21 @ Zomer van Antwerpen (zva.be)

To prepare for the launch of Spotify in the US: the albums produced by CybearSonic's unLabel
enjoy!

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Nicely done!

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Excited to share this today.

Parmi les derniers logos créés...

Parmi les derniers logos créés...

Parmi les derniers logos créés..

Some fun with QRCodes...

If you're following me here on G+, you might connect on LinkedIn too..

KidTunes: Putumayo Kids Presents Kids World Party

The latest Playing for Change video "Satchita" - great Brazilian tune and project

Just discovered something "strange"... Could you confirm?
=> is Google+1 using Facebook OpenGraph data when submitting a link?

Background: on one of the Wordpress blogs I manage for a band, I had the following meta
<!-- start Facebook opengraph data -->
<meta property="og:title" content="AllesTones - brass Band from Benin - official blog" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="AllesTones" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="didier.j.mary" />
<meta property="og:type" content="blog" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.allestones.com/" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://allestones.com/img/allestones_thumbnail.jpg" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Alle'sTones is next generation Brass Band from Benin." />
<!-- end Facebook opengraph data -->

After adding the +1 button, I clicked on 2 pages and I checked on my Google profile what was uploaded... Both pages appeared with the same description, exactly what I had put in og:title, og:description, og:url

I then removed these meta from the blog, and tried +1 on another page... This time, the description was taken from the Title tag & the 1st line from the content...

What do you think?
Is this a way to keep consistency between the like & +1 buttons? To "synchonize" both graphs? To optimize indexing between both platforms?

Une expérimentation très intéressante des magasins Tesco en Corée dans le metro : le shopping virtuel via smartphone et QR Codes

Album en octobre et article a suivre sur KoToNTeeJ...

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J-Pop with a great choreography (Benj, je te le pique...)

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FUN : Japanese Musical : World Order

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Extrait du 1er album du nouveau Brass Band du Bénin. A (re)découvrir, partager...

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1st track from our 1st album to sing Peace in Africa!

RIP Kante Manfila, great Manding guitar player, who founded the band "Ambassadeurs Internationaux" with Salif Keita (end of 70s) in Abidjan...

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Atteindre la perfection, a la maniere japonaise...

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Only the Japanese have the patience to do something like this...

World music superstars denied entry into Canada

For those of you who use/test Spotify, if you like African music and/or WorldJazz, check our releases

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ecouter HFT me ramene loin dans le temps...

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Hubert Félix Thiéfaine n’était pas apparu dans un clip depuis (très) longtemps…
A l’aube de l’été et à l’approche de la très attendue tournée qui démarre cet automne, découvrez la vidéo de « La Ruelle des Morts »

"Norwegian Prime Minister Stoltenberg is absolutely right when he says we must fight antidemocratic lunacy with more democracy and more humanity. His quote from one of the young on Utøya, "if one man can show so much hate, imagine how much love we all can show together", is one of the most statemanworthy I have seen in my entire life. Both when it came from the young surviving lady right off the island, and from Stoltenberg on repeating it in his official capacity."

From http://falkvinge.net/2011/07/24/security-theater-lessons-from-utoya/ via http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110724/23110515226/looking-security-theater-through-lens-utoya-massacre.shtml (+Michael Masnick )

If you don't know him yet, discover Mo DJ - Electronic Marabou from Bamako...
http://www.facebook.com/MoDJ.ElectronicMarabou

Don't ask why, that's the sound I like...

RKK (famous French DJ and [radio] journalist) meets Gainsbourg for the 1st time... alcohol and handcuffs... (in English)

If you'd like to add me to "circles", I'm interested in :
- Music Industry (r)evolutions aka Music 2.0++
- World Music, World Beat, Jazz, World Jazz
- Africa (West & Central mainly): development, ideas, best pratices...
- Artist Management & Promotion
- Festivals, Booking, Touring...
- Digital Marketing, Digital Presence
- Sound & Music Design: OST, commercials...

Well, too many topics already...

CybearSonic is a French Sonic Agency. This set contains samples of the music or sound designs we create for our customers and sometimes just for fun...

Alle'sTones is the "Next Generation" Brass Band from Benin. They'll be in Europe for the 1st time this August, starting with 6 gigs in Belgium... Listen to their 1st album on SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/allestones or check their OneSheet for more info http://onesheet.com/allestones/

Finally... ReverbNation splits Reggae/World genre into 2 separate genres... I had requested this for more than a year... Still waiting to have worldmap instead of a map of USA only to see where the fans are located...

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L'avenir en marche ?

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Internet en Afrique, ça avance ! http://bit.ly/InternetCongo

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Innovation, you need it everyday...

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The Eight Pillars of Innovation

Susan Wojcicki, Google employee #16 on some of the biggest lessons she learned during many years at Google.

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Et si vous vous y retrouvez publié, c'est une forme de début de gloire, non ?

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For the French only, disregard otherwise!

"So What"... What else... Miles for ever...

Music for the weekend: Guinea meets Madagascar, Kora meets Accordion

Preparing for next Womex in Copenhagen...

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Easy & useful...

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TIP: Give your picture icon a BIO when it's hovered over.
(I did it and I think it's great!!! Hover over my pic icon to see.)

Edit your profile and select the employment section
In the first 'employer name' box write you BIO
Check off the current box on the the right and click save!
To see it in action I had to leave Google + and come back, but obviously it works beautifully!!

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Il n'y a pas que de mauvaises nouvelles pour l'industrie du disque...

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Latest logo created. Exists in large and small versions... More info @ http://www.uvva.fr

Logo created for our subsidiary - booking, touring, promotion and management, focused on World and Jazz music. More info http://www.telser.fr

How to recycle 8 Hummers...

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You definitely should listen to these 7 young musicans from Benin...

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More than 400 followers on SoundCloud... Listen to oour 1st album and download tracks for free...

Duke Ellington's Caravan revisited by AfroJazz Trio. Djeli Moussa Diawara is a Kora virtuoso with a unique 32-strings instrument... I'm sure you'll enjoy this track!

NSFW (?) but here's the encounter of 2 "giants" : Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Serge Gainsbourg... with 1 piano each... Performing Constipation blues (English & French "lyrics"... ;-)

PS : je pense qu'ils n'avaient pas bu que de l'eau... avant...

Miles for ever... AfroJazz version... Enjoy!

Sound Design for VoxAfrica (African TV channel). Music by Mo DJ, a Malian DJ who lives between London, Paris and Bamako.

Music supervision for SNPTV (French TV commercials board). Song by Inna Modja from her 1st album.

Have a nice WE... Bon WE a tous...

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Musique et animations parfaites... Un moment de poesie...

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Prenez 5 minutes...
http://vimeo.com/19024160

Une semaine que je travaille sur une boutique Prestashop pour un client "tourisme", depuis la fin de ma convalescence en fait... Et ça commence à ressembler à qqchose... Dois encore tester Paypal... et sûrement plein d'autres trucs... Promis, dès que c'est en ligne, je diffuse le lien, car il y a de très belles offres...
Demain, je me remets à écrire... J'ai abandonné mes blogs (+Blog KoToNTeeJ par exemple) depuis trop longtemps...

View from office window right now...

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Tres anglais, mais tres fun...

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Quand Barclaycard revisite l'histoire des moyens de paiement, avec un humour So British...

OK, here's the idea : take parts of a few Wii remotes, of Guitar Hero controllers, add telephones and a touchscreen, mix with real (then modified) instruments to create a new breed of wireless musical instruments. The result is the Brazilian band Percussivo Mundo Novo... Listen to Shogun...

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Pas besoin de commentaire, regardez, écoutez...

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Porcelain Unicorn.

I hadn't posted for a while on my "main" music blog,+Blog KoToNTeeJ, due to... well, many factors that I won't explain here... In the "In my ears" serie, here's the 3rd "quick'n'dirty" post... French music, sound & music design, technology and music... all with videos... Hope you'll find one that fits your "needs"...

Tried G+Games => I still don't like online games...

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Des maximes marketing illustrees... vous trouverez surement de quoi nourrir la reflexion...

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101 Marketing Quotes From the Best
http://goo.gl/er9Sb

Un (long) billet proposant plusieurs approches pour se créer une URL de profil Google Plus plus "attrayante"...

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To be remembered when G+ launches pages for brands...

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King Sunny Ade - Ja Funmi (Fight for me)

Tonite, needed some music to feed my nostalgy... Pulse is now playing on my stereo...

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Tres interessant de faire la comparaison, au-dela des habitudes alimentaires... Il manquerait, malgre tout, une relation au pouvoir d'achat moyen du pays, pour completer le tableau...

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(4) Interesting comparison of what people eat and how much they spend on food/week:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/26/102458/137/70/522670

Pour votre prochaine Campagne QR Code, quelques erreurs à éviter en y pensant avant...

De superbes GIFs animes et tres cinematographiques sur ce Tumblr... mon prefere...

Most of the blogs I manage use a plugin (WordPress Mobile Pack) to allow mobiles to browse, with statistics provided by PercentMobile. Here are a few screenshots from my dashboard for my "main" blog KoToNTeeJ (about African and Jazz music - written in French). For the last 3 months, I had 3% visits coming from 78 "phones", from 73 different countries. The percentage of visits is equal across the blogs.

Djeli Moussa Diawara - Live (New Morning - 02/2011)

Shots I did for Djeli Moussa Diawara's concert in Paris last February. Opening was DMD as a traditional Manding trio (Balafon, N'goni, Kora). Then his new Jazz trio took the stage (Piano, Percussions, Kora(s)).

DMD's new Jazz trio at Sauti za Busara's closing night in Zanzibar. Here, the band's rehearsing in the afternoon...

Speaking at ORTB (main TV channel in Benin) about the importance of developping festivals in Africa.

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Une découverte... des jeux ou autres programmes bonus encodés sur des disques vinyl... A lire...

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Interesting article about vinyl records that contained Spectrum games...

Une synthèse en français d'une infographie (en anglais) sur l'usage des QR Code aux USA sur 1 an. Des informations intéressantes...

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Magique...

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Document INA : Lou Ree à l'Olympia en 73...

Create your own custom vanity URL to your Google+ profile, from your wordpress blog... e.g. http://www.cybear.eu/didierjm
Explained at the end of this post. OK, it's in French, but Google Translate is available on the page...

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Fidèle utilisateur de WordPress depuis 3 ans, avec une petite dizaine de blogs actifs entre les miens et ceux de mes clients (artistes, PME...), je vois que je ne suis pas seul...

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Finally releasing some of the new data -- spread the good word. :)

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"So what do they all have in common?" Content (incl. others...) that people want to consume or share or interact with : Information, shopping and social networking...

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What do nearly all of the top 20 websites in the world have in common?

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amazing... check the "real clip" too...

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A video a day to blow your mind away! Nr. 30
Tetris in real life. +Natalie Villalobos shared the original but have you seen the making of?
Let's make this series go viral on G+ by sharing and if you're new to it check out my stream! ; )
Natalie's original post.
https://plus.google.com/109895887909967698705/posts/3ntjLP8kBCx

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Actuellement preselection. Puis votes publics a compter du 27/8

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Isn't it odd that our Human Rights does not have its own logo? There is an on-going competition to come up with a logo for Human Rights. Anyone can submit, public voting will begin on 27th August, 2011.

Professor +Muhammad Yunus is on the jury to select a logo which will represent our Human Rights. Professor Yunus has selected his top 10 designs. Starting on the 27th of August, you can select the design that you want to represent Human Rights.

Jazz Amnesty Sound System “J.A.S.S #9″ – African Special | Music Is My ...

Tunisie, Egypte, Lybie... Au tour maintenant de : Togo, Cameroun, Zimbabwe...
Tunisia, Egypt, Lybia... Now's the time for: Togo, Cameroon, Zimbabwe...

La musique voyage… Elle suit le rythme de la longue marche des hommes… Elle nous parle son langage d’où qu’elle vienne, et parfois nous la comprenons.La musique s’épanouit, s’enroule, s’intègre, fusionne… puis resurgit, ailleurs, autrement, là où on ne l’attendait pas… plus rapide ou plus lente, plus forte ou plus douce, chahutée, syncopée ou soudainement assagie…Sa voix est rauque, comme lorsqu’elle a trop bu et trop fumé, ou légère comme une brise d’été, qui vous murmure à l’oreille que le soleil s’est levé, lui, et qu’il est grand temps d’ouvrir un oeil, au moins…Dans ses longs cheminements, la musique a suivi les instruments et les hommes qui les jouent… de port en port, de côte en côte… Et les outils à faire du son, tout comme ceux qui les jouent, se parlent et se répondent, s’apostrophent et se cherchent, pour donner du sens à leur conversation.

=> 5 Design Tips for an Effective ‘Social Media’ Logo
7 Ways Your Logo Design Impacts Social Media Marketing

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Le droit d'auteur pour les nuls... ;-)

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Legal Fictions http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/08/23/legal-fictions/

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30 years old... ouch...

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Song of the late evening: Talking Heads "Once In a Lifetime". From 1981. :)

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Je recommande les points 1 - 2 - 3 - 6 - 14 - 17

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(Wed09) Great list of ways to use LinkedIn to its fullest potential:

http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/23454/The-Ultimate-Cheat-Sheet-for-Mastering-LinkedIn.aspx

More LinkedIn tips and tricks:

http://linkedin.alltop.com/

Un mal complexe dans de nombreux pays Africains : les musiciens existants ne sont plus utilisés, les jeunes ne sont pas formés faute de structure, et de toutes façons pas intéressés par les instruments, même traditionnels...
Certes, les technologies permettent à un plus grand nombre de s'exprimer artistiquement avec plus de facilité, mais que restera-t-il de la musique et des instruments ? Est-ce inéluctable ?