Topic: POLITIK - on October 30, 2008 at 5:16:00 PM CET
SARKOZY - RAP - King bling-bling
Spot mit Spott: Frankreichs Staatschef Nicolas Sarkozy als hyperaktiver, Hüften schwingender Edel-Rapper - ein bissiger Animationsclip auf Monsieur Le Président macht Furore im Internet.
Paris - Der kleine zappelige Gnom mit der großen Sonnenbrille, der fetten Zigarre und der glitzernden Rolex am Handgelenk kommt als anonyme Comic-Figur daher - und doch ist vom ersten Bild des Animationsclips an klar, dass es sich hier nur um Frankreichs Präsidenten handeln kann.
Die hibbelige Körpersprache, das markige Organ, die gehetzte Diktion und die Ausfälle ins Vulgäre - hier kommt "Sarko Superstar", ein ironisches Spiegelbild des echten rastlosen Präsidenten: "Le Clip qui déchire" (etwa: "Der Clip, der fetzt").
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Topic: WEB - on October 30, 2008 at 11:18:00 AM CET
Cybercrime wave sweeping Britain
Cybercrime in the UK rose by more than 9% in 2007, according to a new report.
Online identity firm Garlik's cybercrime report claims that more than 3.5 million online crimes were committed in the UK last year.
The majority of crimes related to fraud and abusive or threatening emails. There was an 8% drop in online identity theft and sexual offences fell 2%.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on October 30, 2008 at 11:16:00 AM CET
Prince: So Close, Yet So Far
The musician Prince has been quite fascinating to follow over the years from a business model perspective. He has aggressively experimented, and for a while seemed to be the perfect example of a musician who understood how to embrace new business models allowed by the internet. He was creating tons of new music, some of which he was giving away free in order to promote scarce aspects of his business model, such as concerts (he sold out 21 straight concerts in London after giving away his latest CD totally free), while also embracing the idea of getting people to pay him upfront to create music. He also experimented with things like having companies sponsor him, setting up a subscription fan club and even owning a dance club in Vegas where he would perform regularly. All were perfect examples of the sorts of business models that we talk about all the time. And the model was clearly quite successful for Prince, helping him to earn quite a bit of money off of those scarcities.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on October 30, 2008 at 11:14:00 AM CET
Albert Einstein's theory of royalty longevity
The famous scientist might have been dead for 53 years, but that didn't stop him earning £11m over the past 12 months.
It's no surprise to see Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe on a list of the top 10 highest earning deceased celebrities, but what's Albert Einstein doing there?
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Topic: POLITIK - on October 30, 2008 at 11:11:00 AM CET
America the Banana Republic
The ongoing financial meltdown is just the latest example of a disturbing trend that, to this adoptive American, threatens to put the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave on a par with Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Equatorial Guinea.
In a statement on the huge state-sponsored salvage of private bankruptcy that was first proposed last September, a group of Republican lawmakers, employing one of the very rudest words in their party’s thesaurus, described the proposed rescue of the busted finance and discredited credit sectors as “socialistic.” There was a sort of half-truth to what they said. But they would have been very much nearer the mark—and rather more ironic and revealing at their own expense—if they had completed the sentence and described the actual situation as what it is: “socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the rest.”
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Topic: WEB - on October 30, 2008 at 11:03:00 AM CET
Surfen wie in China
Surfen wie in China funktioniert prima mit dem “China Channel Firefox Add-on“. Damit kann man die chinesische Internetzensur bequem von zuhause erfahren und genießen.
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Topic: WEB - on October 30, 2008 at 10:59:00 AM CET
China Channel Firefox Add-on - Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!
The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet user outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies). It's open source, free and easy.
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