Christian Prommer's Drumlessons Vol. 1

Finally I found some time to listen to the episode from January 23rd of my favorite Radioshow: Offtrack Radio, hosted by Dirk Rumpff (wanted to link is bio here, but strangely it's a .zip file with 3 Word docs in there).

Anyway... I was cruising along with Mark Pritchard, Burial and Lexx when I heard it: around the world (yeah - the ONE you know) ... but in a jazz version, a good one!

Good thing is, with the Radioshow you get a track list and a quick look told me it was Mr. Christian Prommer who was responsible for that.

And three clicks later I also knew that he's got a new album out on SonarKollektiv (founded by infamous crew Jazzanova, also check the other artists).

Anyway, I'm getting carried away. Just bought the album in their shop, heard it and now I'm trying to pass the news on to you: it's goood. You can listen to it here.

Maybe wait a day or two before buying it from their website, the ID3 Tags are kind of messed up. Wrote them an e-mail, let's hope they'll fix it.

Doodle - a brilliant idea!

I don't remember how I found it (it's been a couple days since I read about it somewhere), but I'm glad I did.
What a great little tool on the web: Doodle.

The two things you can do here are 1) polls and 2) schedule meetings.
You might wonder why this should be something really special...

Here goes my reasoning:

- it's dead easy to set up
- clutter-free design
- no sign-up required
- "back" and "forward" buttons work like they should - meaning the app remembers your choices
- ....

o.k. these are all more or less standard features (or at least they should be!).

But the real power of this little program is the scheduling function.
Have you ever tried to get a couple of people (who don't work in the same company and use Lotus or Outlook) to agree on one date / time?
It's a hassle, I can tell you.

Well, this tool solves this problems in a really nice and easy way!
Check out the example below:

http://www.doodle.ch/pi5wayfyznrvti49

Good stuff!

Camping in Paris

Some updates on upcoming (Bar)Camps here in Paris:

Wireless Camp (Tag: Wirelessbarcampparis)

" Cette journée aura pour mot d’ordre le partage de connaissances entre passionnés, professionnels ou débutants, au travers de tables rondes. Des sujets tels que la sécurité, le roaming, les technologies et matériel seront abordés."

Date: January 19th
Organisers: 4 computer science students, links to their blogs on the "inscrits" page.
Participants: 27 so far (Tuesday, Jan 8th)
Location: See "Upcoming" badge in the sidebar
Rating*: Not many attendees, the topic is not really defined, but might be interesting to see engineering students' views. I give it a 3/5.



SciCamp (Tag: Scicamp)

Recherche, Innovation et Echange (Research, Innovation and Exchange)
"L’évolution des modes d’organisation, de fonctionnement et de gestion de la recherche et de l’innovation est particulièrement manifeste dans cinq domaines" ... read more here.

I just found out about this yesterday... thank you Grégoire!

Date: January 12th
Organisers: CRI (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires, of the Paris-Descartes University), Adéfis (Association d'Éxperimentation en Formation Interdisciplinaire et Scientifique) and faberNovel (an innovation consulting company).
Participants: 36 so far, very high caliber (PhD students, professors, researcher, directors), wide array of specialisations.
Location: See "Upcoming" badge in the sidebar for details.
Rating*: Mighty interesting topic and people! 5/5

*
0/5 = I will NOT go ... and did I mention it's on a Saturday?
5/5 = RUN! ... you might miss something!

.... all based on my personal opinion, of course!

Do you know of other interesting ones? Let me know in a comment.
Don't know what a BarCamp is? Check here.