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Bar­rack O. has been pres­i­dent of the United States for almost a year, yet still he didn’t solve all of our large-scale prob­lems: there’s still hunger, ill­nesses, wars and injus­tice — maybe he can’t do it that fast. I guess that grave change will not occur until 2012 (no, not the end of the world, but the next US pres­i­den­tial elec­tions). The team of Wired Italy takes a dif­fer­ent approach in terms of “who” to believe in: the fun­da­men­tal changes dri­ven by the inter­net are far more severe than those trig­gered by a sin­gle per­son, even if usu­ally referred to as the most pow­er­ful man in the world. So Wired Italy pro­poses that the inter­net per se should receive the next Peace Nobel Prize.

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Some of you may yet not have paid any atten­tion to the fact that I’m liv­ing, work­ing and teach­ing in beau­ti­ful Vienna, cap­i­tal of Aus­tria. No sur­prise, as I usu­ally don’t blog about .at-specific top­ics on this blog. But today I have to make an excep­tion as Aus­trian min­is­ter of sci­en­tific affairs Johannes Hahn recently announced — as a com­plete sur­prise to all involved par­ties by the way — that Aus­tria will quit the CERN project. Nat­u­rally, a mas­sive wave of protest has risen among Aus­trian sci­en­tists and a peti­tion has been put online. Read the rest of this entry »

The last elec­tion par­ties have ended by now, the USA are look­ing for­ward to a new era of fair­ness and social improve­ment. Will the new pres­i­dent be able to live up to his promises in times of an eco­nomic cri­sis? Looks like Bar­rack Obama has got to deal with a dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion, as the cri­sis is now spread­ing from the finance sec­tor to old econ­omy and car man­u­fac­tur­ers start fac­ing seri­ous trou­bles. Of course adver­tis­ing bud­gets will be cut, which will even­tu­ally lead to more and more online-money being spent for per­for­mance based mar­ket­ing. A rather bleak sce­nario for tra­di­tional adver­tiser, but def­i­nitely not the worst news for affil­i­ates. Read the rest of this entry »

“They’re awfully hard to tell apart…” Turn up your sub­woofers for this one! For their lat­est drum-and-bass pow­ered assault dance­floor shak­ers Cold­cut teamed up with America’s noto­ri­ous TV Sher­iff: it’s vivi­sec­tion time aka: this one is great remix of the media frenzy that broke out over the final phase of the pres­i­den­tial elec­tions: Read the rest of this entry »