In an article on out-law.com the appeal from bloggers being sued by Apple is discussed. This case relates to a product called asteroid that was leaked on powerage.org and other blogs two years ago. It will be interesting to see the outcome of this case in view of how it will affect bloggers in general […]
Archive for April, 2006
HSBC : simplifying the motivation for private pensions
Published 2 years, 3 months ago in News, Trend and Business. 0 CommentsI started writing an article about the HSBC survey that is discussed on USNews and was pretty astonished at the reference document from HSBC.
A quote from the USNews article gives away what the study is aiming at :
“Governments cannot afford to shy away from the enormous challenges and opportunities presented by the world’s aging population,” […]
An interesting article at NPR gives some insight from neurologist David Buchholz of Johns Hopkins University about which different factors may be at the origin of migraines. An interesting part is how certain food groups and more precisely specific types in these food groups are likely to be triggers for people that suffer from migraines. […]
Reading an article published today in the New York Times I started feeling sick in the first sentences. The title of the article is “MTV’s ‘Super Sweet 16′ Gives a Sour Pleasure” and the reality show it talks about is not unbelievable but rather is just in real bad taste.
After having seen so many pictures […]
Online Advertising : the bulldozer effect you cannot reject
Published 2 years, 3 months ago in News. 0 CommentsGreg Stuart from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) says :
Interactive advertising continues to experience tremendous growth as marketers experience its overall effectiveness in building brands and delivering online and offline sales
In an emarketer article today statistics from the IAB conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) concerning the trends in online advertising from April 2006 are available and […]
Luc Arbogast, aka Domus, playing Fjall D’Yr Vinur in Strasbourg
Published 2 years, 3 months ago in News. 13 CommentsIt’s been a long time since I had such an unusual and memorable experience and it happened while we were looking at the cathedral in Strasbourg. A guy sitting on a stool started playing an instrument (called a bouzouki) and singing. He is pretty large guy and has several tattoos on each arm. You look […]
While I was in Strasbourg for a few days (first time there, helping with a friend’s removal) I was taken out to discover the Flammekuche at the Flam’s. There was a really great atmosphere and great service so if you’re looking for a place to try out the Flammekuche, the Flam’s is a good address.
We […]
Up until now I had seen only chaos in the design of MySpace pages, thinking that MySpace was a trend setter for several things but also with the distinct impression that I was back in 1994 when quite a few of the first web sites/pages looked like all the myspace pages I have seen so […]
In an article posted on Oilman’s blog there is a story about a guy looking for a girl he met in an airport, I posted a note about it yesterday. I also came across a comment by IrishWonder on the same post :
Am I being too cynical or is it a cool case of linkbait?
This […]
A new article at emarketer, based on the latest Technorati report illustrates how the blogosphere is now at over 35 million blogs. The average rate at which new blogs are created each day means that a new blog is created nearly every second of the day ! In August 2003 there were 0.5 million blogs […]
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