Sarkozy goes dancing on 'Le Web'
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The potential next president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, wants you to chuckle at his expense by visiting www.discosarko.com. The Web site unleashed on cyberspace as part of his election campaign shows a virtual ...Comment
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"It would really be astonishing if the two men would not benefit from this to meet each other"  Not for the first time, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's choice of foreign holiday destination has raised more than a few eyebrows at home. via The Star Online
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In politics, as in good comedy, timing is everything, and news that President Nicolas Sarkozy is dating Italian model turned singer Carla Bruni has raised a wry smile or three after a week of bad political headlines.
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France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy announces his intention to run for the presidency next year.
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(InfoWorld) - The stars of the French blogging firmament attending a social media conference on the edge of Paris were outshone on Tuesday by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who stopped by for a surprise visit. A last-minute addition to the program, Peres spoke in English for 45 minutes, touching on themes including economic development, philanthropy, transparency, and democracy, but hardly spoke about IT. Conference host and blogger LoÃ¯c Le Meur said that Peres invited himself to the event. The Israeli politician was apparently already in Paris, and had encountered Le Meur before, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Le Meur said. French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is also expected to pay a visit to the conference, Le Web 3, on Tuesday afternoon. On Monday morning, Le Meur said everyone at the event had invited themselves. Le Web 3 was promoted purely by word of mouth, he said, and he had not sent invitations to any of the 1,000 people who signed up for the conference, 55 percent of them from outside France. However, Le Meur changed tack on Monday afternoon, as he wrote later in his blog. Profiting from the prestige that Peres' visit brought to the conference, Le Meur invited three presidential candidates to attend: Sarkozy, of the ruling right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP); SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal of the Socialist Party, and FranÃ§ois Bayrou of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF). That Sarkozy was the first to reply and accept Le Meur's invitation is little surprise. Le Meur interviewed Sarkozy in a video for his blog last year, and then announced his intention to vote for Sarkozy in a Sept. 10 blog entry. Both blog postings were widely reported in the mainstream press at the time. It was Bayrou that turned up at the event first though, drawn as he put it by the potential audience of 60 million readers. The real reach of French blogs is harder to determine. Studies have reported that the country may have as many as 20 million bloggers. However, there are only 10 million Internet subscribers in France, according to government statistics. Only 1.2 million, or around 2 percent of the 62.5 million blogs tracked by search engine Technorati Inc. are French, the company's chief executive officer David Sifry said at the conference. That figure may be under-reported, Sifry said, as some of the major French blog hosters do not automatically transmit notice of updates to Technorati. Sifry spoke of the positive feedback mechanisms inherent in the blogging community: Technorati statistics show that the more often bloggers write, the more their blogs are linked to, and so the higher their profile becomes, encouraging them to write more. The company indexes blogs by their content and the tags, or keywords, that their authors attribute to them. On Tuesday morning, "leweb3" was the second most-popular search term on the site.
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"With taxpayers' money, I am not prepared to broadcast a channel that does not speak French"  President Sarkozy said a French channel can only speak French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said his country will stop broadcasting its English- language 24-hour news channel, France 24. via BBC
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French presidential hopefuls Nicolas  Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are both selling themselves as  something new for France and both have seasoned advertising  executives to help them do it.
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French centre-right presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy sets out his foreign policy vision.
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Mesdames, Messieurs, France is now open for business. Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency on pledges to open up the economy, and his government is selling one message: Things have changed.
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President Nicholas Sarkozy might have  just got re-married, but his love affair with the French  electorate appears well and truly over.
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People around the world are coming together to celebrate the world wide web and its impact on people.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on the battle of the blogosphere under way in France three months ahead of the presidential election.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell enjoys a cartoon about French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, and grasps the strategy of his Socialist rival, Segolene Royal.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy used to take on foul-mouthed rappers. Now, his eldest son appears to be embracing them.
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France's Socialist candidate Segolene Royal tries to revive her presidential bid in a televised appearance.
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Former rapper wants to give YouTube a run for its money with new social, dance hub.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday signalled an even closer relationship with the country&#39;s neighbours over the Channel by launching a version of his own website in French.