I edit therefore I am

I am also editing my travel trip with dopplr.  Here is my raumzeitgeist for 2008. I’ve travelled around european to discover various clture. I produce a post for each travel and they can be found on my french blog Assonances.

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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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