Éloge de la courtoisie en-ligne
Nous y voilà! Après avoir terminé mon billet sur le contact social, j’ai reçu quelques commentaires et eu d’autres occasions de réfléchir à la question. Ce billet faisait suite à une interaction...
View ArticleGender and Culture
A friend sent me a link to the following video: JC Penney: Beware of the Doghouse | Creativity Online. In that video, a man is “sent to the doghouse” (a kind of prison for insensitive men) because he...
View ArticleSocial Networks and Microblogging
Microblogging (Laconica, Twitter, etc.) is still a hot topic. For instance, during the past few episodes of This Week in Tech, comments were made about the preponderance of Twitter as a discussion...
View ArticleA Glocal Network of City-States?
This one should probably be in a fictive mode, maybe even in a science-fiction genre. In fact, I’m reconnecting with literature after a long hiatus and now would be an interesting time to start writing...
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How I Got Into Beer
Was doing some homebrewing experimentation (sour mash, watermelon, honey, complex yeast cultures…) and I got to think about what I’d say in an interview about my brewing activities. It’s a bit more...
View ArticleWar of the Bugs: Playing with Life in the Brewery
Kept brewing and thinking about brewing, after that last post. Been meaning to discuss my approach to “brewing bugs”: the yeast and bacteria strains which are involved in some of my beers. So, it’s a...
View ArticleJazz and Identity: Comment on Lydon's Iyer Interview
Radio Open Source » Blog Archive » Vijay Iyer’s Life in Music: “Striving is the Back Story…”. Sounds like it will be a while before the United States becomes a truly post-racial society. Iyer can...
View ArticleMinds of All Sizes Think Alike
Or «les esprits de toutes tailles se rencontrent». This post is a response to the following post about Social Network Analysis (SNA), social change, and communication. …My heart’s in Accra » Shortcuts...
View ArticleReply to Alex Gagnon’s Google Paradox
[Tried adding a comment directly on Alex Gagnon's Posterous blog, but it kept stalling. So I'll post this here, which may make for a different kind of interaction. Besides, I'd like to blog a bit...
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Some German Movies I Liked
I remember a discussion I had as a kid, about German culture. A normal kind of conversation, in my family. As Francophones of Québécois and Swiss origins, our perspectives on Germany were quite skewed....
View ArticleBeer and "Ethnicity"
[Ugh! I lost a first version of this post because of Blogger maintenance… Now I know why people complain…] The very first comment on my young blog is an extensive excerpt from Bob Skilnik's book on...
View ArticleBrewing Cultures: Craft Beer and Cultural Identity in North America (Draft)
Here's the draft of my presentation for a food and society conference at Boston University this past Thursday. Brewing Cultures: Craft Beer and Cultural Identity in North America (draft) And associated...
View ArticleBeer and German Identity in Norway
My ASFS/AFHVS presentation is already susciting interesting comments. Of course, there's a lot of things to say about the perception of German beer.
View ArticleThe Vitality of Quebec Culture
[Kept this one in my draft list for about a month. But thinking of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and other issues pushes me to post it as is. To be continued…] This is something of a follow-up on my...
View ArticleBarthes on Wine
www_incipitblog_com-20050913-ROLAND_BARTHES-Mythologies_Le_vin_et_le_lait-Le_bifteck_et_les_frites.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) Says a lot about drinks and cultural identity.
View ArticleSelf-Help and Sociology
On a recent episode of his video podcast, ze frank made some parallels between “changing your life” and “being perceived by others”: the show with zefrank: most popular. To me, ze’s ideas connect the...
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Cultural References and Mass Media
An effect of my not having a television is that I occasionally miss “references to popular culture.” Case in point. xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe To add...
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