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Playlist that I created thinking of my family and friends in Paris. Some of them live 3 blocks from the Bataclan. Thinking that our humanity is our best weapon against obscurantism. United we stand across all religions.

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More from Quebec, la belle province.

Not available on Spotify or Google Play Music...

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Listent to this online radio channel to get a good overview of Quebec music “from Charlebois to Arcade Fire”. This was created for a past exhibition by the Musée McCord.

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Adding it to my Québec me voilà! playlist. Great stuff.

Misteur Valaire - Dan Dan

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Québec me voilà! My latest playlist as I’m going to Québec in about one month. Excitement is growing for the least. Music is clearly part of the trip prep to get the right vibes.

What to expect in this playlist:

- Mostly francophone songs (yes, I’m biased), but not only.

- All genres from rap, electro, latin groove, to rock or folk. Name it!

- I cheated a little bit... Some groups may be not from Quebec. In the case of Timber Timbre, they are neighbors from Ontario.

Keep coming back to it as I’m going to add to it.

Enjoy!

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Another fantastic collection of drawings as a tribute to Charlie Hebdo and its casualties. By the daily newspaper Le Monde. Great format with a full page slider for each image.

Cartoonists from around the world, all of them are Charlie (Le Monde)

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In homage to the casualties of today's shooting at Charlie Hebdo.

Collection of satirical cartoons to remember them and show support

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I got fascinated by the skating shoes in this painting The Skating Minister by Henry Raeburn: the binding system, the realism. Morover, the subject being so different than anything I've ever seen in art, it piqued my curiosity for the least.

This painting is used for the promotion of an upcoming exhibition at the De Young in San Francisco:

Botticelli to Braque: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland March 7 to May 31, 2015

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I lost my heart to Tomales Point and Pierce Point Ranch in Point Reyes! Many points for only one point: there are so many things to enjoy in California! For more on a fantastic hike (with tule elks and coyotes) at Tomales Point and the history of ranching at Point Reyes: http://www.everytrail.com/guide/tomales-point-at-point-reyes-national-seashore http://www.nps.gov/pore/historyculture/people_ranching.htm

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As a marketer, purchasing sourced traffic (and to a lesser extent programmatic and retargeted ads) doesn’t seem like such a great idea after all once we know a few stats: - 52 percent of sourced traffic was fraudulent. - Bots are also particularly prevalent in programmatic (17 percent) and retargeted (19 percent) ads.

The good news is that IAB and ANA are conscious of these important problems as this study ordered by ANA testifies: http://www.ana.net/content/show/id/botfraud (The Bot Baseline: Fraud in Digital Advertising).

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A fantastic eye opener about the cyber dangers associated with social media.

>> Access the full report <<

(Note: I work for Proofpoint, the company that acquired Nexgate, author of this infographic and source report)

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“To respect any human being, you must respect their time.”

CEO of Ghana’s UT Bank Prince Kofi Amoabeng in a talk yesterday at Stanford GSB. Amoabeng encouraged entrepreneurs to consider if their new product or service will save people time or increase the quality of their time. Read more on Twitter: stanford.io/1zfd88p.  (via stanfordbusiness)

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Are you using Twitter wrong? Check out these stats from HubSpot and Social Bro to find out.

Based on stats from 200,000 corporate tweets.

My favorite lessons learned from this article

> Place URL in middle of a tweet (26% more likely to be retweeted).

> Use only one hashtag (69% more likely retweeted than with two hashtags).

> Test direct message campaigns in parallel with email campaigns (DM campaigns get 300% higher CTR than one-off email campaigns).

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SEO: What you get is what visitors can see

Watch video at 10:55 (Hangout video by Search Engine Roundtable with John Mueller of Google showing in article 'Google: Your Content In Tabs & Click To Expand May Not Be Indexed Or Ranked')

In short

If we want to make sure that content is indexed by Google, we have to make it visible by visitors.

If visitors can't see it, Google bots won't see it either.

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A sample of pictures from Beth Moon in the article Portraits of Time: Ancient Trees published in LensCulture.

Very different trees from very different places across the world. All photos in black and white.

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Curious about the ESA space mission Rosetta and Philae? Enjoy a great 3-minute video made by VOX on All you need to know on Rosetta & Philae.

11 important facts regarding this mission:

First mission to make a controlled or soft landing on a comet (vs. a crash landing, which NASA did before).

The objective of this mission is to understand the beginning of the solar system as comets are the oldest things we can reach.

Mission on a comet named 67P C-G, for Churyumov and Gerasimenko, the two astronomers who discovered this comet in 1969.

Not a potato but a duck! The comet is duck shaped to ESA's surprise when Rosetta first sent pictures of it. It is 2.5 mile wide and about the size of Mount Fuji in Japan.

Comet speed: It goes up to 84,000 miles / hour.

Rosetta's travel: It was launched in March 2004, i.e. traveled for over 10 years before reaching its destination.

Rosetta went to hibernation for 2.5 years.

Philae landed at the speed of someone walking.

Philae weights 100 kg on earth, but as there's no gravity on the comet, it is about the weight of a sheet of paper there.

Philae was supposed to have a battery life of 64 hours, but ended up in a place with less direct light than expected, and it went dead after 57 hours. Within this timeframe, it was able to make sample analysis as planned and send the data.

Rosetta will orbit the comet and send photos until December 2015.

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An old map of the Berlin Wall from August 31, 1962 issue of TIME.

This map was retrieved by the TIME for an excellent article about the Berlin Wall history: 9 Essential Berlin Wall Stories

Don't miss it: it is super clear and even include an interactive timeline.