Viktor Orban and the new centralism

Is he so hungry for more and more power?

The disposable academic - The Economist

Do we really need a PhD? Why?

http://www.economist.com/node/17723223

Bosnia, Albania Celebrate EU Visa Lifting

Call for Papers - Community of Knowledge

As in the last post we addressed the issue of different content assigned to images and words, varying from a culture to another, you have the occasion now to share your experience, by applying to the Call for Papers for the Community of Knowledge. Speaking each other's language - also in terms of the words we are using - is a human business.

Good luck subscribers!

Mister Wong and Europe

Image via CrunchBase//The current logo

Mister Wong is a social bookmarking site created in 2006 and covering the German speaking realm. Recently, it got the Russian and Chinese variants. A very interesting and succesful idea.

But...not enjoying universal acceptance. The problem: the logo of the website - a Chinese man, with suite and glasses, in his 50s - was considered discriminatory by the American-Asian users. An aspect not familiar for the German/European public it was basically addressed. The creator of the site, Kai Tietjen, apologized for this inconvenience and replaced the logo with a very schematic - a kind of abstract African art representation, in my opinion - icon.

Different sensibilities, different worlds, but at the end, we have to take them into account, mostly when we are talking about businesses.

Nixon tapes

"The Nixon Library makes available almost 50 million pages of documents, over 300,000 photographs, thousands of motion pictures and videos, and the Nixon White House Tapes."

Communism sells/in East Berlin

Most part of the visitors from Berlin were interested in places and events connected with the Wall. And to do not forget that 2009 was the year when there were celebrated 20 years since the fall of the separation fence between East and West Berlin.