Posts Tagged ‘Davos’
google is a country: indeed
February 1st, 2010 by lifeproof
I thought that this topic would have already been saturated in the blogosphere and the social-media-sphere, but in contrary, except for The Huffington Post and The Guardian almost no other outstanding media has issued the subject.
Alan Rusbridger from The Guardian reports:
Google is not a country. Eric Schmidt – who would be prime minister if it was [...]
Tags: Advertising Age, Alan Rusbridger, Chad Hurley, China, Craig Newmark, David Drummond, Davos, Davos Economic Forum, Eric Schmidt, existence of virtual beings, Google, Google is a country, Google vs. China, Googledom, Hal Varian, Marissa Mayer, Newspaper Association of America, Nikesh Arora, Pew Research Center, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, UC Berkeley, virtual existence, virtual existence of real beings
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
Culture of Protest: Shoeing
October 2nd, 2009 by lifeproof
Yesterday, a 24 year old Turkish university student, who is a journalist at the same time at a small left wing newspaper, BirGün, has thrown his Nike shoe at IMF’s president Dominique Strauss-Kahn, while he was taking questions from students, after his speech at Istanbul Bilgi University.
This was a protest that was influenced from the [...]
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Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles