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Just out in Le Monde: a portrait of Jerome a Paris, the man from Polytechnique who went to the YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas:
Jérôme Guillet, un X d'influence LE MONDE | 19.06.06 © Jérôme Guillet, an influential X (An "X" is an alumnus of the "X", France's Ecole Polytechnique).
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The portrait, by Corinne Lesnes, concentrates on Jérôme's contribution to the YKos convention through the Energize America project, constructed online in collaboration with a group of Kossacks interested in energy policy.
L'enchaînement s'est fait spontanément, comme souvent dans la blogosphère. Jérôme a commencé par écrire sur son sujet de prédilection, après avoir remarqué à quel point les commentateurs politiques sont "ignorants sur tout ce qui touche à l'énergie". C'était en 2002. Les blogueurs accusaient les Etats-Unis d'intervenir en Afghanistan pour contrôler le pipeline Turkménistan-Pakistan, un projet qui "ne se fera jamais", balaye-t-il. "Je me suis mis à lancer des idées, les lecteurs ont fait le tri, j'ai fait une deuxième version. On découvre le pouvoir du site en l'utilisant." Things came together spontaneously, as they often do in the blogosphere. Jérôme began to write on his favourite subject, having noticed to what extent political commentators are "ignorant about everything that ahs to do with energy". That was in 2002. Bloggers were accusing the US of going into Afghanistan in order to control the Turkmenistan-Pakistan pipeline, a project which "will never happen", he says, sweeping it aside. "I started throwing out ideas, the readers sorted through them, I wrote a second version. You discover the power of the site [Daily Kos] by using it." (If you suspect a heavy-handed editor shortened the article between the pipeline and the beginnings of Energize America, you might be right...) The article goes on to discuss the principal stumbling-blocks, in terms of opinion, the Energize America plan came up against on DKos: the gasoline tax, and nuclear energy, and the compromise patches that were found. And finds the process successful:
Jérôme Guillet a présenté le plan énergie de "Daily Kos", vendredi 9 juin à Las Vegas, lors d'une table ronde avec Bill Richardson, le gouverneur du Nouveau Mexique, ancien secrétaire à l'énergie de Bill Clinton. "Je suis enchanté d'être ici", a plaisanté l'Américain dans un français parfait. Jérôme Guillet presented the DKos energy plan, on Friday 9th June in Las Vegas, in a panel with Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, Bill Clinton's former Energy Secretary. "Je suis enchanté d'être ici," joked the American in perfect French.
Personne n'a l'air de s'étonner qu'un Français participe à l'élaboration d'un programme qui entend influencer le Parti démocrate américain. "C'est le bon côté de la technologie : elle permet de faire tomber les barrières nationales, explique Marcos Moulitsas, 34 ans, dit "Kos", le fondateur du site auquel il a donné son nom. No one seemed astonished that a Frenchman should participate in building a programme that sets out to influence the American Democratic Party. "It's the good side of technology : it lets you bring down national barriers," explains Marcos Moulitsas , 34, called "Kos", founder of the site he gave his name to. Yeah, well all this is fine and serious, say you, but what we want is gossip. People talk. Celeb stuff. How 'bout this?
Dans les couloirs de la conférence à Las Vegas, Jérôme a ses fans qui se font photographier à ses côtés, comme "NycEve", alias Eve Gittelson, de New York. In the hallways of the conference in Las Vegas, Jérôme has his fans who have their picture taken with him, like NycEve, aka Eve Gittelson, of New York [Hi nyceve!!!] Avec son allure bon enfant et son visage carré, le polytechnicien a un côté Al Gore. With his nice-boy look and his square features, the Polytechnician has a hint of the Al Gore about him. (I somehow doubt Jérôme was expecting that one... But Eurotribbers have the right to know, imo...) And European Tribune in all this? Disappointingly, Le Monde does not publish as much as the name of this excellent blog, let alone supply a link.
Outre sa contribution à "Daily Kos", il a monté un site européen pour répondre aux médias anglo-saxons, où s'exerce d'après lui "une vraie démonisation" de la France, "le pays qui défend encore le rôle de l'Etat". Beyond his contribution to DKos, he got up a European site to respond to Anglo-Saxon media, which practise, according to him, "a real demonisation" of France, "the country that still defends the role of the State."
Would have been nice to see European Tribune mentioned. What's up, Le Monde? Afraid of competition? |
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