Archive for September, 2009
The “Facebook paradox” or: Our 10,000 lost Souls
It happened a fortnight ago during the September plenary. It was a sad day for Europe. It happened during the week that José Manuel Barroso was reconfirmed as Commission President. Facebook was to announce that for the first time they were making profit and that users would soon be able to phone their 300 million Facebook [...]
We are all history-makers
I was thankful when someone once told me that “when you surround yourself with people who never want to advance in life, you will be exactly like them”. “You have to surround yourself with people who have a plan in life, in other words with people who are “a life”, because when one has no [...]
New technologies: Keeping up without being killed in the attempt
Today is a big day in the life of the ep-webeditors blog. Nay, a rite of passage, a coming of age, an arrival in the sunlit uplands of Parliament bloggerdom. Today, our big boss, Jaume, Director and EP official spokesman, no less, appears for the first time on this blog. What’s more, he wants to talk about us!
Surfing (other) European parliaments
“We should insist on the use of new technologies during elections in order to boost turnout. It is also time to open a debate on European political parties”: with his over 1100 Facebook friends and his 69 years, the president of the European Parliament has been already defined ‘the Facebook president’. His inagural speech inspired [...]
Be media friendly
European Parliament can sometimes work in a media unfriendly way. Take an example of a plenary debates. MEPs discuss the hot issue one day but the resolution to the topic is adopted the day after. Would you like to write an full article on the concrete problem with a concrete solution that was adopted? Wait [...]
The devil has the best online videos?
The second Lisbon referendum draws near in Ireland and one of the interesting aspects is to see how the campaign is playing out on the web. In recent years, Ireland has been famously hi-tech (or at least has had a booming hi-tech sector), so this, along with the country’s well-known transatlantic affinities and youthful population, [...]
Greetings
Greetings There is a new gizmo in Strasbourg’s building: sterilization foam dispensers that allow everyone to quickly clean their hands. I suspect this new feature comes from the French strategic plan to eradicate all risk of a (H1N1) A flux virus in our premises. I became a big fan of those little dispensers. The Hamlet’s [...]
Squeezing just a bit more toothpaste out of the tube
Hardened followers of Parliament’s website may notice some differences about how the news pages cover the plenary session this week…
Being a black girl in a white world
There is a new lady in town – eg our beautiful team. The lady’s name is… Lady – an easy pun but it’s true. Meet our new trainee in this very touching first post.
Big worlds and small worlds
This is probably exactly the wrong place, indeed a self-contradictory place, to hint at heretically relativising thoughts, but being away far from Brussels for a few weeks has made me reflect on digital divides of various sorts.
Friends from work
The European Parliament is probably an institution with the biggest numbers of friendships at work. Why? One would say there is no other choice. Other would say there is a very clear choice. At one point Belgians and other friends appeared but lion’s share of my friends were still about to pass by in my work [...]
The history of the world is the world’s court of justice – Friedrich Von Schiller
Moscow and Warsaw have been trading verbal blows over the circumstances of the outbreak of WW II – the opening of which began 70 years ago this week. To anyone who follows the European Parliament it seems that historical disputes are never far from the surface. The arrival of countries from central and Eastern Europe [...]
Stand back and unwind….
Some secrets may best be left dead and buried….but our team kept its nose to the grindstone this year with the election run-up. Now it’s time to unwind pretty much like the string in the arrow after being stretched all along. We have hence decided to recharge our batteries, by breathing deeply in and out and [...]
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