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Digital authority: back to the future?
Is the time of new Facebook friends over? Is the role of social media in the Arab revolutions just the end of an era? Yes, according to a digital media guru that was this week in Brussels. Social media are far from dying, but they are changing their skin. Are we ready for the mutation?
Taking a photo
Sometimes the office routine is broken by people bearing orange juice, photographic equipment and crawling under the table. Another day chez WebComm. All in the interests of art, naturally.
Lessons from America 5: Living in 1996
Professor Sreenivasan has a sense of the passage of internet time. The first thing you find on entering his office in Colombia School of Journalism, on the right as you come through the door, is a small mortuary of defunct gadgets, physical testimony to the faddishness and rapid progress of communications technology.
Lessons from America 4: Why America loves a failure
America is of course famously, notoriously even, the country which loves a winner. So why is everyone so keen on failure?
Lessons from America 3: Life beyond Facebook
Mid-life, it turns out that some of our obsessions are shared. One of these is worrying continually about What It All Means. Facebook, I mean.
The loop of infinite perfection
Ok I will come clean on this. I’m a moderate Mac fan, and have been for a very long time now. I sometimes can’t help lusting after the stuff the boys from Cupertino come up with but, for some reason, sometimes it all leaves me a little cold. In good old days of the Mac [...]
Some web analytics for a change.
Figures and naked truth.
Lessons from America 2: The Panic is Over
“The Panic is Over”; these were the words of David Plotz, gravel-voiced editor of Slate.com and personal (anti?)-hero of mine. It has to be said that, as he leaned back in his chair and sized up the three be-suited euro-dudes who had unaccountably pitched up in his premises (actually the meeting was in Slate’s kitchen), Plotz looked anything but panicked.
Lessons from America 1: possibly surprising things we learned stateside
This was the kind of visit where you envy almost everyone you meet their cutting edge, exciting and oh-so-cool jobs. It was a visit of contrasts: we met people from the administration and Congress, people from the media, people from academia, people who had just done extremely smart things. Meeting all these people, we learned a great many things. This post, and those to follow, will outline a few of them, in no particular order.
About the importance of being “outside”
Yes, I’m an insider, explaining the European Parliament from the inside. And yes, I do believe in the power people outside the institution can have. They may need us but, for sure, we need them as well.
Reportage: a day in the life of EP President Jerzy Buzek.
For a long time the WebCom unit has wanted to do a photo reportage of a day in the life of the President, but we had to wait for a special occasion to get a spot in a delegation for the unit’s photographer. We didn’t really want a visit to or by a Head of State, [...]
This is how they see us
It’s been a while since the Web Studio proposed a post on this blog. This time, Fred just grabbed a photo of the Boss and the Co-ordinator sitting together in their way back to Brussels after last Plenary meeting. This is how they see us: über-connected and lost in our music bubble. Can’t say they’re [...]
The discussion is out there
My conclusions are that we are going in the correct direction, but we should not stop in our efforts to bring Europe even closer to the citizens. We need to better “sell” what we do
How to survive in Brussels being an EP trainee
Alonso’s twenty golden rules for being a trainee in Brussels.
Discovering the cheapest apartment in Brussels
The last week of a traineeship is like a birthday: you think it will be very special but in the end it turns out to be quite similar to other days of the year. On the other hand you have that special “birthday/last week”-feeling. In any case, some reflection (not to use the word evaluation) [...]
The American dream
This is American week in WebComm: our beloved bosses are somewhere between Washington and New York, plotting with the Americans even better online and social media communication for (y)eu and us. Knowing that we all would like to be there with them, between very special benchmark meetings, they’re sending us self-made postcards, photos and tweets [...]
The true twitter revolution
“the web can be killed, it has now been proven, yet the revolution seems to be continuing regardless…”
Hunting the information
Tuesday morning is the moment when I think of what we could possibly write about the next week, and it’s also a moment of slight despair accompanied by helpless anger: BECAUSE I CAN’T FIND WHAT I NEED. And though I might (always) be wrong, I don’t think it’s exactly my fault. Let’s take this morning’s [...]
Half full or half empty glass?
Me, I always go for the half full. I’m a diehard optimist by nature. But in this day, I have to admit, I had a moment of tiredness with the trolls on FB, who made me forget how well the page is going…
Workplace culture of our unit
Work culture is something that exists in every unit, firm, company, government institution or any other place of work. It is part of what the essence of that institution is. Or what a unit is. It works as something that can motivate people to work better or something that can turn your daily work routine [...]
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