NEW YORK (Reuters) – About 13 million Time Warner Cable Inc subscribers were to lose most Fox programing at midnight on Thursday unless the cable service provider reached a last-minute deal to pay fees to News Corp to broadcast the shows…[reuters.com]
Altra splendente dimostrazione del totale -e tanto veloce- declino dell’Italia. Non ho più parole…
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/app/
La valise diplomatique
jeudi 12 mars 2009
Hadopi : surveiller et punir Internet
Nicolas Sarkozy est le partisan résolu d’une gouvernance moderne, basée sur un dialogue avec l’opinion publique à travers les médias et les corps constitués. Son usage de l’outil législatif manifeste cette option. Plutôt qu’à établir les règles du jeu social, les lois soumises au Parlement servent à adresser des messages ou à afficher une politique.
André Gunthert [monde-diplomatique.fr]
Résultats 1 – 10 sur un total d’environ 73 300 pour George Bush pire président de l’histoire (0,31 secondes)
Google donne déjà plus de vingt mille réponses à une recherche en anglais associant « George Bush » et « pire président de l’histoire ». De quoi ébranler tous ceux qui prétendent que la politique se porterait mieux si ses responsables maîtrisaient les techniques du management. Car M. Bush possédait un Master of Business Administration (MBA)…
par Ibrahim Warde [monde-diplomatique.fr]
La Russie continue de s’appuyer sur les antennes londoniennes de cabinets du groupe Omnicom pour gérer sa communication d’influence en Europe et aux Etats-Unis.
Selon un véritable jeu de “poupées russes”, les bureaux de Ketchum, Inc. et de Gavin Anderson à Londres coordonnent toutes les activités d’influence privées de la présidence russe et de Gazprom, sous-traitant en cascade à d’autres firmes contrôlées par le groupe de communication Omnicom (voir schéma). Dernier contrat en date, Ketchum vient de signer avec le cabinet de lobbying Alston & Bird basé à Washington, où le Kremlin emploie déjà le Washington Group et Integrated Solutions Group. Au Kremlin, le principal intermédiaire avec ces firmes est Dmitry Peskov, chef du service de presse du premier ministre Vladimir Poutine.
Ces sociétés de lobbying sont des relais indispensables pour défendre les positions russes dans la crise du gaz en Ukraine ; pour promouvoir l’adhésion de Moscou à l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC), pour laquelle la Russie milite depuis 1996 ; ainsi que pour gérer la réputation des dirigeants du Kremlin. Moscou sous-traite également des opérations de séduction pour attirer des investisseurs étrangers.
Article inédit de Vincent Caron sur Le Monde diplomatique
From [independentsources.com]
Attn: Entrepreneurs
Everyone knows that if you are going to operate a business in today’s world you need a domain name. It is advisable to look at the domain name selected as other see it and not just as you think it looks. Failure to do this may result in situations such as the following (legitimate) companies who deal in everyday humdrum products and services but clearly didn’t give their domain names enough consideration:
1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is
www.whorepresents.com
2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at
www.expertsexchange.com
3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
www.penisland.net
4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
www.therapistfinder.com
5. Then of course, there’s the Italian Power Generator company…
www.powergenitalia.com
6. And now, we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:
www.molestationnursery.com
7. If you’re looking for computer software, there’s always
www.ipanywhere.com
8. Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church. Their website is
www.cummingfirst.com
9. Then, of course, there’s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website:
www.speedofart.com
10. Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website at
www.gotahoe.com
Taking their cue from the CIA, almost every branch of the American intelligence community now has specialists who deal with open source intelligence (OSINT). [intelligenceonline.com]
The new EL CULTURAL cover page! I wish to get the print version asap…
El festival abre sus puertas a la renovación…
Comienza la 56 edición del Festival de San Sebastián con la proyección de The Other Man, de Richard Eyre. El protagonista, Antonio Banderas, recibirá el premio Donostia de este año junto a Meryl Streep. En la Sección Oficial, destacan figuras consolidadas como Kim-Ki duk o Michael Winterbottom y la fuerte presencia de producciones europeas y asiáticas, proponiendo un mosaico de las tendencias que dominan en estos momentos el cine mundial. En las fundamentales secciones paralelas, la película de Woody Allen Vicky Cristina Barcelona rodada en España abrirá fuego en la jornada inaugural. Carlos F. Heredero aporta el análisis crítico en estas páginas. Otros cineastas de renombre que exhibirán sus filmes son Laurent Cantet (Entre les murs) o Jia Zhang-ke (24 City). Además, analizamos los motivos de la escasa presencia de cine español en los festivales internacionales y el escritor Antonio Soler dibuja el perfil humano de Banderas. [elcultural.es]
The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web.
[news.bbc.co.uk]
Relying on a network of lobbyists operating in leading Western capitals, Tbilisi emerged as the clear victor on the media front in its conflict with Moscow. (for intelligenceonline.com registered user only)
Electronic review: The Prodigy, More Music For the Jilted Generation / Experience Expanded Rermixes & B-Sides
In John Niven’s novel Kill Your Friends, a scabrous satire on the late-90s music business, the Prodigy’s second album, 1994’s Music for the Jilted Generation, plays a small but pivotal role. Addled record company executive Steven Stelfox becomes so incensed when his new boss says he likes the painting on the album’s inner sleeve – a dreadlocked new age traveller giving the finger to riot police raiding an illegal rave (”like some handicapped kid’s O-Level art project,” protests Stelfox) – that he beats him to death with a steel baseball bat, then kills his dog.
Kill Your Friends, by John Niven Reviewed by Matt Thorne
In the iPod age, music sound quality has been dumbed down to “Fisher-Price toy” levels, rock star and tech enthusiast Neil Young said Wednesday at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech Conference.
Zouhair Yahyaoui: human rights defender
Zouhair Yahyaoui was the founder and editor of the satirical website TUNeZINE and internationally respected as a human rights defender. He was imprisoned for his activities by the Tunisian regime on 4 June 2002 and was not released until November 2003 after an international campaign of solidarity. After his release he continued to publish www.tunezine.com and to speak out on human rights. He died suddenly of a heart attack on 13 March 2005. He was 36 years…
Blogging from East to West
According to Reporters Sans Frontières, at least 63 bloggers have been arrested, and most of those are publishing articles outside of the country [China]…
Journalist and cyber-dissident Zheng Yichun held on subversion charge
Need to feel more secure ?
Communications: VOIPSA Alliance to Secure Phone Calls on Internet
Other links about print media (French):
- M&#eacutedias en crise by Ignacio Ramonet
- Combats pour les médias ( MANIERE DE VOIR/ n.80 / AVRIL – MAI 2005 ), lire la recension
Japan :
- Takafumi Horie, a 32-year-old internet entrepreneur, has shocked Japan’s business establishment by positioning himself to gain control of Fuji TV
- Bobby Fischer on way to Iceland (from Tokyo)
Cuba :
I’ve posted Fidel Castro billionaire ? that’s links to Forbes but Hector Arturo, from Granma International, has something to write about Fidel’s fortune
From theregister.co.uk about some French cars…
- Sobbing Frenchman recounts Renault Laguna terror ordeal
- Man in satanic Renault terror ordeal
- French join motorised Lizard Alliance
Then other stupid (WCA) stuffs…no comments:
- LIVE-SHOT is similar to a trip to the rifle range with one very notable exception. Everything is done through a computer and the internet.
- Arm wrestling robots beaten by a teenaged girl
- When the polluter doesn’t pay on EU Insider about Airbus
- When people are slave of a multinational marketing operation
- Appeasement Revisited by Vaclav Havel
- They Kill Journalists, Don’t They?
- GM pays to walk away
- Kyoto Protocol becomes law
“Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle” it’s the title of the series broadcasted in North Korea by state-run Pyongyang television. Fashion victims are directly challenged, the TV programme even gave their names and addresses…
It is just another media campaign that’s looks (just a little) like a Communist propaganda or a regular use of the TV (as Europeans and US channels use to do) to make people becomes all the same, think the same and believe in the same things…
Check BBC for more info
UPDATE : it’s North Koreans could be more inspired for fashioned hair cut having a look to this nice japanese hair shop web cam ?
