Tag Archives: France

Facebook

Facebook is growing at a rate of knots, it’s hard to imagine where it will stop. This pick up from Mashable is interesting as it speaks to the aforementioned (prior post “Googlotics”) role of the online presence in political races. Put your two cents into this Daily Poll about whether online presence will have an [...]

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Strikes in Paris, Blogger & Yankees

strikes in paris

With a transport strike in Paris now underway, a breakdown with Blogger today (although it wasn’t exactly a strike, it almost felt like it) and the general strikeout by the Yankees (and maybe soon the Red Sox in the ALCS), it seems that strikes are in the air. And it doesn’t stop there. A quick [...]

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Why are we here? And the lifecycle of blogs

So, what’s the blog all about? Aside from facing the inimitable existentialist questions about oneself, I have seen a slew of posts on the “why” of blogs and what is it all for? A few observations come to the fore. As cited in Opinionated Marketers, it really depends on your own objectives (fair enough) to [...]

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Aggregating Blogs as new form of Journalism

My posting on the Tour de France was picked up by this “Bloggers looking for the straight dope” article in Slate, an online magazine, owned by The Washington Post Company. Again, this is a new form of journalism — picking up on the beat on the ‘net. I’m flattered to have been tagged on this [...]

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Digital Cameras – Digging Digital Dollars Saved

When I think of digital cameras these days I have two symbiotic thoughts that lead me to a euphoric urge to go out and buy yet another camera. 1) Why don’t we skip the small talk and get to the next generation now. I know already that my credit card sized Panasonic (Leica-inside) Lumix (left) [...]

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Air Travel … better enjoy the ads

When I compare intra-Europe flying to continental US flying, the two major differences for me are that there are many more direct flights from city to city in Europe (no hub & spokes) and that it is harder to feel the (economic) pinch on European airlines. While flying from Paris to London is technically international, [...]

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The young & the old – Japan and France

A country known for its long living citizens, Japan is ironically at risk of halving its population by the end of the century (currently at around 125 million). The Japanese Ministry of Healthy already projects, quite realistically, 100 million by 2050. The challenges of the non-modernist life (and business) style has caught up with their [...]

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