Over the ocean, it’s an intense battle between Obama and McCain. They say Romanians have 2 strong points when it comes to life: politics and sports. On political side, we have a Parliament who doesn’t care for it’s supporters, voters and population unless it’s election’s month; untill then it doesn’t matter that we’re poor, miseducated, close minded and so on, they just care about making a business from being a political figure - close high profit deals with the state, scamming the official founds and so on. when it comes to voting time, they place the “friendly face” on and start making promises. lots of …. but, wtf ? do we get tricked each time, don’t we learned something in the past 20 years. US citizens at least know what they vote ,and know how to cast their vote and for what they cast it. We also know, but …
Don’t vote! a social vote awareness clip promoted by the US government on social media, tv and print.
Some days ago on Wired, appeard a controversial article about the blogging importance for the internet of late 2008, well written by Paul Boutin. Some say blogging is the news of 2004, and the tool to use for the past 3-4 years, but not anymore, since microblogging services like twitter, pownce and others has taking the face of the blogging programs.
To quote Paul’s original “Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.“(read entire article here).
My question is what about the country differences? what works for US or Western Europe doesn’t go well in Asia or Africa, or even Eastern Europe, including Russia here. What do you think, it’s better to stop blogging and start texting/ sms ?
Update: opposite view, why blogs will rock in 2009 here
The American Crysis is affecting online activity, much more than offline; according to the lastest news, the Q3 2008 will have an downfall of 3-5% on ecomerce sales in the US, according with the previous one. The big companies will get reorriented strategies, and it seems that we can see some layoffs from most of the Top 500 web companies.
Yahoo looks in an optimistic view at 20% workforce reduction, and AOL one of the biggest market players for US is looking at almost 40% cutbacks. Google, who recently has become a teenager with 10 years of existence is taking a stand back and analyze position, while online financing / credit market is looking also at 30-40% cutbacks. Steve Jobs rumor of heart attack is taking an byte in Apple shares also. Top 3 US banks are getting about 700 billions $, so we’re looking at 40-50% stock raise for Citibank and JP Morgan shares.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street faced last week the biggest downfall in the stock history, with almost 10% down and a stop of short-term transactions until 2nd October. Realestate market is on the way down around the world, and Europe / Asia are looking with fear at the next months and feedbacks from the American financial crysis.
Planet oil reserves are planned for the next 20 years, while US government is rushing the production of the electrocars with 5-7 years, according a 25 billion loan for the biggest 3 car manufacturers, Ford and GM are on the way to top Toyota Primus with a car model early next year.
welcome to the new world! would be this way, all the way now or do we get back to the happiness of 90’s ?
To quote Paul’s original “Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.“(read entire article
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