Archive for December 2008

quote of the year

“People will realize the most important voice on the web is their own, not the people they are following”

from Mr. Loren Feldman, of course.

About the embargo and the news

There are 2 major problems with what Mr. Arrington is saying here.
It sucks when the news gets out at the same time. 20 major blogs, the same news, nothing news. I like techcrunch for the news they bring, the news nobody else has. I don’t like the papers that are reporting the same news, without [...]

Preparing for the worst

With the economic chaos waiting to hit Romania, I have made some plans.
First is not to keep all my eggs in one basket. Not one source of income.
Second is preparing to have my income drop by 50%. Sounds reasonable, I think. And I hope it will not go beyond 50%. After I’ve done the [...]

Problem with the .ro blogosphere

I’ve been blogging since 2005, when the blogs were few and people were eager to read something outsite the crappy journalist/pr press. The door was open so me and a few others just walked in.
Now that blogs are mainstream, I see a lot of the new bloggers that step up and want to be like [...]

I am amazed

That people still live in a walled garden. That they are not informed. That they jump head-first in areas they do not know anything about.
For example, everybody knows we are facing a crisis, right? Almost! Because if you ask Romanians on the street, chances are that half of them do not know about a crisis [...]