Pour libérer la connaissance, votez pirate
Posted by Brice Le Blevennec | Filed under General, Thoughts
A l’issue des dernières élections européennes, un nouvelle formation politique a fait son entrée dans l’hémicycle de Strasbourg : le Parti Pirate. Né en Suède, celui-ci a recueilli plus de 7% des voix lors du scrutin et a même réussi à faire élire deux députés européens. Leur doctrine, selon le site officiel : “Nous sommes de simples citoyens du monde entier, que l’on traite de “pirates” parce qu’ils défendent le partage de la culture et de l’information. Cet accès libre et égal pour tous, la technologie le permet : seuls nous en séparent aujourd’hui quelques intérêts privés, commerciaux ou politiques. ” Autrement dit, le parti pirate combat farouchement la propriété intellectuelle. Et je partage certaines de leurs vues sur la question.
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It’s about time for our body to mutate
Posted by Brice Le Blevennec | Filed under General
The human body definitely need an update.
The human body. Why women have only two tits when wolves have six ? Why do we still have foot fingers ? Why is our exhaust pipe so close to our enjoyment zone ? Why two nose holes when there are no stereo odors ? Why men have chest hairs ? Why do we smell under the arms ? Why do we have useless belly buttons and no iPhone slot ?
I prefer to stay up late
Posted by Brice Le Blevennec | Filed under General
Yes I have always been lazy and this is my main motivation for working so much.
Advice From A Frenchman In Brussels
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BRICE LE BLÉVENNEC, FOUNDER OF EMAKINA AND A NUMBER OF OTHER VENTURES, OFFERS SAGE ADVICE TO WOULD-BE ENTREPRENEURS
Brice is French. He thinks that may be one reason why he succeeded in Belgium. And succeed he did. He is best known for founding one of the country’s largest interactive agencies, EMAKINA, where he remains active today as ‘chief visionary officer’. But Brice has carried that title at several other ventures too, some of which he founded (ContactOffice – a virtual office) or helped get off the ground (Tunz.com – a mobile payment solution). Brice has also been a regular on Belgian radio and television and this year won a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to interactive marketing and advertising. So what tips does he have for would be entrepreneurs (besides changing citizenship)?
De la noosphère au web sémantique
Posted by Brice Le Blevennec | Filed under General, Thoughts
Au début du 20e siècle, le chercheur et philosophe français Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) développe le concept de noosphère inventé par Vladimir Vernadsk. Wikipedia décrit la noosphère comme une “représentation d’une couche de faible épaisseur entourant la Terre (…) qui matérialiserait à la fois toutes les consciences de l’humanité et toute la capacité de cette dernière à penser”.
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Le numérique mettra-t-il fin au besoin de posséder ?
Posted by Brice Le Blevennec | Filed under General, Thoughts
Vous avez passé la première partie de votre vie à entasser des livres, des CD, des jeux vidéo, des DVD… sur vos étagères. Demain, ces mêmes étagères seront vides, voire absentes de votre domicile. Vous ne me croyez pas ? Regardons ensemble les changements à l’oeuvre dans l’industrie de la culture et des loisirs.
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Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good
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When Kingons attack
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More on http://www.whenkingonsattack.com/
A haiku about Monsters vs Aliens
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Girls turn gigantic.
Join monsters to save the world.
Stay giant at the end.
Emakina lance Emakina/Yoga, un nouveau Centre d’Expertise dédié à la pratique du Yoga.
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Dirigé par Benoît Conotte, Yogi et ancien Business Development Manager, ce centre d’expertise va s’attacher à développer une offre unique de services destinées à soulager les clients d’Emakina.
Brice le Blévennec, CVO nous confie : “Durant le salon Digital Marketing First, Emakina Belgique et The Reference avaient invité deux masseuses sur son stand. Ce fut un succès énorme. Nous avons constaté que nous avions réalisé des dizaines de massages, mais vendu aucune campagnes interactives et pas le moindre site web. Une des forces d’Emakina est sa capacité à se remettre en question en tenant compte des besoins du marché. Nous avons donc rapidement annulé nos formation AJAX et formé nos équipes aux techniques ancestrales du Hatha Yoga.”
Emakina Chief Yoga Officer
“Avec la crise économique, nos clients sont de plus en plus stressés. Le métier d’Emakina a toujours été de soulager ses clients en leur offrant les solutions les plus pertinentes. Après Emakina/Perform qui offre une combinaison unique de Web Analytics et de Search Engine Marketing et Emakina/Media, première société spécialisée dans le Media planning et buying 100% Digital, nous lançons un nouveau Centre d’Expertise Emakina/Yoga.” ajoute Denis Steisel, CEO d’Emakina Group.
John Deprez, CEO d’Emakina Belgique précise: “Passer du end-to-end Project Management au end-to-end Customer Management concrétise de notre stratégie d’entreprise : rendre nos clients heureux. En pratique, pour livrer des projets sans bugs nous avons complété nos méthodologies waterfall, Prince2, SCRUM et avons recourt désormais à la méditation, voire à la prière dans le cas de projets Java complexes.”
Karim Choukri, responsable des acquisitions et de leur intégration : “Autant faire appel à des société offshore pour la sous-traitance de projet web est impraticable et présente des risques sur la qualité des développements, autant pour les cours de Yoga nous envisageons de nouer des partenariat étroits avec des société Indiennes de la région de Bangalore. Ceci devrait améliorer sensiblement la contribution positive aux résutats, part du groupe, de cette activité.”
Et Brice Le Blévennec de conclure : “Encore une première mondiale! Nous somme la première agence de Watermael-Boisfort à offrir ce service intégré à notre offre de Full Service Digital Agency. Pour refléter ce nouveau pilier de notre activité, nous avons complété nos couleurs corporate Orange, Bleu et Vert (respectivement pour Créativité, Technologie et Business), du noir et du blanc pour symboliser le Ying et le Yang.”
Emakina
Creativite, Technologie, Business, Ying et Yang.
I demand Love
Posted by Brice Le Blevennec | Filed under General
As a materialist, I spent most of my past life getting rich so I could buy my child dreams. Unfortunately once adult and mature (very recently) all my desire turned impossible to buy with money.
Shall I turn myself to spirituality or is it as worthless ?
Love
Something you can't buy me.
Hope
or suspension of cynical disbelief.
Affordable needs
I got everything affordable and envy only the impossible
Making out in Brussels
Posted by Brice Le Blevennec | Filed under General
It lasted forever… like an hour. For the first 30 minutes I did not dare using my tongue, I kept touching her lips softly with mine.
It was the first time I could approach a girl closer than 50 centimeters, who was not of my family. I'm completely myop, I was fascinated by the details of her skin. I couldn't stop staring at her face. I'm pretty sure she thought I was a complete nerd or something similar, but at that time this word did not exist. May she thought I was victim of autism… actually maybe I was.
Anyway, it was during lunchtime, I remember I was very stressed she would not have enough time to eat a sandwich and may byte me at a certain point. Actually I was projecting my own obsession on her. I took me 12 years before we had sex for the first time. You can say that I'm the slowest seducer in the world.
After 30 minutes she was bored with my sweetness and took the initiative to teach me how to deep french kiss.
Zombies!
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I'll turn off my PlayStation and go outside IRL watch a last sunshine.
Brice in Time’s Up!?
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Brice Le Blevennec in Times's Up
Brice Le Blevennec in Times's Up
The principle of this game is making the other players guessing a famous character by describing him without pronouncing his name. I the first round, you can use analogies, puns, mimes, anecdotes, anything but his name… In the second round, you have less time to describe them, so you have to reduce them to a word. Of course I can’t resist asking to those who have played this game : how do you describe me in a word ? Let me know in the comment below this post.
Time's Up! box
If I were a superhero, I would certainly not wear tights
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Fulgurax is the world fastest housecleaner.
Fulgurax. I am faster than all other humans at doing boring tasks like cleaning my bedroom, mowing the garden or emptying the dishwasher.
Les minutes célibataires
Posted by Brice Le Blevennec | Filed under General
This book is special. It was created while my friend Valérie Nimal was appearing in Single, a radio show that I used to present. She gave us lectures of her erotic novels and everytime it was a very special moment. Now it’s a real book, featuring 39 novels and it’s about to be published by Luce Wilkin. It should be on the shelves around mid february, perfect gift to give to your mistress the day after Valentine’s Day.
It’s in french, but this is a very good reason to learn french 
Challenge me here with QuittersArcade
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Play Blast Quit, escape from planet Smokey or Bin’um here below !
If you like our games, just go to QuittersArcade and get them on your blog too !
Emakina launches new LiveSite technology
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We have already launched a first website using the LiveSite technology for a major bank in Belgium : www.ingliondeposit.com
Letter from Emakina President Brice Le Blévennec
Posted by Brice Le Blevennec | Filed under General
Dear Emakina Community,
For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for an Emakination keynote.
Unfortunately, my decision to have Denis deliver the Emakination keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.
I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Emakina community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.
As many of you know, I have been gaining weight throughout 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and before. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.
Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “storing†in me the fat my body needs to get rid of to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.
The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun diet. But, just like I didn’t gain this much weight and body mass in a week or a month or a year, my doctors expect it will take me until late this decade to loose it. I will continue as Emakina’s President during my recovery.
I have given more than my all to Emakina for the past 17 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Emakina’s President. I hope the Emakina community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Emakina first.
So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.
Brice
(source)
Bon an neuf !
Posted by Brice Le Blevennec | Filed under General
(english “Good New Year !”, but a pun in french as ‘neuf’ means both ‘nine’ and ‘new’)
In the french speaking part of Belgium everyone knows that Brice Le Blévennec is a complete nerd. For about 9 years he hosted CyberCafe, a cult radio and TV show about technologies ranging from the Internet to video games, from electronic gadgets to music, from geek art to hollywood blockbusters...