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Facebook: 4 reasons to hope and 7 reasons to keep going
Last Tuesday, we had a very interesting meeting with Richard Allan, the Facebook European boss for what is related to politics. I picked up some facts and statistics to give an overview of where we stand in the Facebook-galaxy.
The second creation
Up to now, there was only one Creation. From now on there are two
Do you check Facebook during your “intimate moments”?
Everyone’s talking about social media (including us). We are generally keen of course, but, as we all know, there are dangers too. So it was high time for Raffaella to look at the latest research into social media obsession. Her research took her in surprising directions.
How many MEPs use social media? A tentative update
Some rough ‘n’ ready figures on how many MEPs are using social media. Thanks to our doughty trainees for an arduous online trawl to produce these. Main finding: a qualified majority of MEPs are Facebook users!
They live
In this age of measurement, where everything measurable is measured and everything immeasurable is sent to business schools for measures to be devised, measuring everything is a must, for anyone who’s business is taking measures and the EU is nothing if not a measure-taking organisation. It is therefore reasonable that it should have its own [...]
The 7% moment
One of the benefits of western capitalism is the high degree of personal freedom it affords us, they say. People have choice they say. They can do this, that or the other without fear of censure (well, more or less) and go here or there at will. It is actually true – to a certain [...]
Young, dynamic, creative? It’s time to join!
The rumours were louder and louder in the last weeks… And now it’s official. The new competition to enter the European institutions has been launched this week. I was in this situation about two years ago, I know how it is, how people feel… Let’s hope the competition will reach its aims: recruiting specialists and opening its door to people from all over Europe.
So who’s social now?
“social media isn’t dominated by the youngest, often most tech-savvy generations, but rather by what has to be referred to as middle-aged people”
Statistics – a quick look on the backstage
Let’s have a (critical) view on our production on this blog… Is it enough? Is it equally distributed? Here are some statistics to help you make your own opinion.
Yes! Superpower, baby…
Some people really believe in superpowers. Ok, maybe not believe, but at least secretly wish to have one and take advantage of it every once and a while. But what if we pretend for a minute that we are actually super heroes, with all those powers seen in movies or cartoons? What if the entire [...]
Being a Mac, being a PC
Hunch is a website “which uses multiple-choice questions to help people make decisions, whether it’s what kind of camera to buy, where to go on vacation, or more than 5,000 other topics.” They came up with a study on “Mac vs PC People: Personality Traits & Aesthetic/Media Choices”. I feel this will become a meme on [...]
The dangers of targeted online advertising
Congratulations to Bálint Szlankó, who today won the European Parliament’s Prize for Journalism in the internet category. (We will publish an interview with him on Parliament’s website on Friday, 16 October.) I went to check one of Bálint’s blogs, this one on foreign affairs, which is really interesting – though unfortunately I cannot read the content [...]
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, [...]
The Box, the Garden and the Waffle
The hectic travel of one Choice box as well as an explanation of what exactly a Choice Box is. This post contains waffles.
Ten most wanted stories of March
Hand-crafted as always, surprising as ever, interesting for everyone and coming straight from Alpha Centauri’s closest neighborhood, please meet our monthly editorial top 10.
Pop vote
Our designers strike again with a nice tribute to Andy Warhol in this visual post. Fred and Sophie have adapted the official logo of the Election campaign in more than 200 versions (sizes, languages, national claims, national dates of elections). They dream about it, if you want to know.
A New Baby in the House
Suddenly, as happens in many families, the youngest sibling is not the youngest any more. The Web Communications unit has long traded on its image as the youngest and hippest unit in the DG Communication family. Maybe, just now and then, we have been able to get away with things our older brethren couldn’t have [...]
A penny or a farthing for “Headlines”
“Headlines” comes to you for free but you may be surprised what a lot of selling, commercialisation, advertising, negotiation goes behind the screen. The editor-in- charge of the article follows the news and when an interesting story comes up his way he defines the angle to make it appeal to the readers. Proving that is [...]
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