Depression

Not talking about 1929 though investments at the end of the year are at the same level they were at its beginning (sigh!)... We're talking about "feeling blue" and more. Check Wikipedia and Van Gogh's painting.

I wrote a post about depression as the French Ministry of Health issued an advertising campaign to help people suffering. The document is mostly useful and testimonials are used as a way to show that it can happen to anybody and they are not alone.

With an increased competition, weakened family, materialism and lightspeed news, we are submitted to stress, frustration and attacks.

I still remember the feeling before exams or right after bad news... The only way is to dive into action. Even hopless action is still better than let go and be passive. The least passive, the least depression can enter your brains. And it is one way to strt changing your life too.

www.info-depression.fr

Headroom, Max

When the first French Pay TV arrived in France, it was a revolution! in 1984 Canal + came with a new definition of television.

One of their programs came directly from the US and it was, at that time, a state of the art computer generated entertainment show entitled "Max Headroom".

I liked this character and as many other teenagers, dreamed of having Max in my own computer. As an icon from the 80's, Max Headroom had to have a post in this blog.

By the way, the picture comes from a very interisting book with great names : Jean-Francois Bizot (founder of Radio Nova, and Nova magazines among many other things, died in 2007/09/8) and Jean Rouzaud (musicologist with extended knowledge, still on the air on Radio Nova). It is one of the few valuable books about the 80's.

keitai shousetsu

Mobile phone novels? I found the news this morning on one of my favourite blogs from Francis Pisani. He found the initial track from Tech Crunch and from this Australian newspaper.

During my trips to Japan I saw all the passengers using their "keitai" [mobile] with an astonishing usage of their fingers whatever the size of the keyboard. Looks like the keitai becomes an extension of their person : key, wallet, TV, eBook, games, email...

Japan is way ahead of technology yet the content/themes of these books is more frightening than the innovative way of publishing.

TO BE COMPLETED