I edit therefore I am

Just received that email from facebook.

Hello,
You made one or more wall posts that violated our Terms of Use. Among other things, posts that are hateful, threatening, or obscene are not allowed. We also take down posts that attack an individual or group, or advertise a product or service. Continued misuse of Facebook’s features could result in your account being disabled.
If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page at http://www.facebook.com/help.php?topic=wposts.

The Facebook Team

This thing is obviously boot generated but… 2 questions:<

• Why ? …. Someone probably flagged a comment or a note i made.
• Where ? … I have no indication what so ever of the “edit” I’ve made that generated such a reaction. And that’s probably the worse, not being able to identify my  allegedly bad behavior.

Two weeks ago i received a Copyright infringement from youtube :

Nous avons supprimé ou désactivé l’accès au contenu suivant suite à une notification de Tandem Films qui a signalé qu’ils contreviennent à : How my cat wake me up: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=gZlgU6twZ0U

I knew where I made a mistake but better than anything it make me discover the original producer of that video that I loved and uploaded but that didn’t mentioned the producer.

Conclusion: infringement on youtube makes you better, whereas on Facebook it makes your more interrogative and probably a bit dumber (because of this non knowledge)

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So here we are, back to blogging.

I took a blogging break and used the time to edit stuff around. One of them was/is to edit the real world, and for that I’ve used couchsurfing.

I’ve registered on couchsurfing the 8 august of last year, just after coming back from barcelona where I really enjoyed the “The Spanish Apartment” spirit maybe because it was an even better breath of fresh air after 5 months at the office.

First, Ive spent some time in the community, discovering the behaviours, the groups (opted for Lomo & photography and for practical purpose paris). Discovering the signs for trust and the way contribution was possible.

Then as soon as my new flat was available, I started hosting… and actually meeting people. From abroad and from paris, even people close to me (hi, Emmanuel). On average the ratio of very nice encounters is a lot better than with my local life and the least interesting experience was nevertheless a fairly nice evening (speaking about california).

We are now 500 000 members. France is the second country with 44,159 members but first in share of national population. Here are the stats of the day.

• CouchSurfers 517,516
• Successful Surfings (approx) 406,659
• Friendships Created (approx) 514,633
• Positive Experiences (approx) 808,689

TV helped a lot and like always it has an impact on behaviours. That’s part of the growth process. Digg dealed with it, some other start-up are currently crossing the chasme…. Paul Lamere describes it as the biggest challenge of last.fm.

I am now also a surfer … and i am confident for couchsurfing. but we’ll see.

Here are my first real edits. Pictures taken in cities where I’ve couchsurfed, video mixing done by animoto.

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