Internet in France - French Websites, Postsecret, Miss Bimbo, Priceminister, Rue 89, .Fr, Telehouse Europe, .TF, Ciao, Clubic, Lgifrance (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: French Websites, Postsecret, Miss Bimbo, Priceminister, Rue 89, .Fr, Telehouse Europe, .Tf, Ciao, Clubic, Lgifrance, Bakchich, Google.fr, Hns-Info.net, Dailymotion.com, Glowria.fr, Decisionnewsmedia.com. Excerpt: PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard. Select secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret's books or museum exhibits. Frank Warren, founder of PostSecretThe simple concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed. No restrictions are made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes and dreams. The secrets are meant to be both empowering to the author and to those who read it. Frank Warren claims that the postcards are inspirational to those who read them, have healing powers for those who write them, give hope to people who identify with a stranger's secret, and create an anonymous community of acceptance. PostSecret collected and displayed upwards of 2,500 original pieces of art from people across the United States and around the world between its founding on January 1, 2005 and 2007. The site, which started as an experiment on Blogspot, was updated every Sunday with 10 new secrets, all of which share a relatively constant style, giving the artists who participate some guidelines on how their secrets should be represented. It recently began posting approximately 20 new pieces each Sunday after a week when... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2269502