Cyberquatting is coming to the EU. The victim: The ECR Group in the European Parliament. Brought to you by Jon Worth: The new group took the name European Conservatives and Reformists (a contradiction in terms even in the name) but no-one thought to register any domain name for the new group before its establishment. So [...]
It has been 8 years since 9/11 and we are still dealing with the consequences. Not only in Afghanistan, Iraq, or somewhere else (obviously these a major problems as well) but also ‘at home’ in Europe. So here is something to think about: The video is a German perspective (with English subtitles!) on the recent [...]
Some lazy blogging – Another video in our irregular series (see here for part I and part II) on how to explain political issues with an online video.This time a visualization of the credit crisis: The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis. The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the [...]
After a failed attempt a couple of weeks ago, Europeana, the European digital library, was finally launched! (at least in some sort of beta version) Numerous prestigious European archives, libraries and musems contributed to the site and added around 2 million “digtial objects” (images, texts, sounds, videos) to Europeana. So if you fancy browsing through [...]
Interesting piece of research on “how online experiences feed back into offline perceptions” in the case of the official europa.eu website which indeed has some potential for improvement regarding content, accessibility, participation and navigation. Some points are obvious, others quite surprising though: The hierarchical structure that relies on top-down decision processes often led to the [...]
Just a short update on two issues that have also been discussed on this blog: 1. What happened with the “Telecoms Package” (that I have mentioned here and here)? It seems that most of the worrying amendments regarding copyright issues (especially the three strikes approach) were not adopted by the European Parliament. A detailed analysis [...]
The first reading of the so-called Telecoms Package will take place this Wednesday at 11h30am in the European Parliament. The main problem with the directive is the following: Originally the initiative aimed at regulating the market of telecommunication companies but, due to some intense lobbying by some big media companies, it now also contains proposals [...]
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