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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 [...]
Letting creativity in
To witness real creativity is surely also to stop and wonder about oneself and one’s own world, about the place of artistic creation in a life spent in offices, working for institutions, which, however important and genuinely ideal-founded, live a daily routine of office politics, meetings, hierarchies, procedures and rules.
A newcomer in Strasbourg
“So, how was your first Strasbourg ?” I was asked. (You know, the famous Parliament’s once-a-month session week in Strasbourg, invented by the Treaty Something Something? We were there last week.) Beyond expectations. I am an old newcomer – I have been with the webcomm team for almost two months now and in the Parliament for [...]
10 reasons it’s great to be a Brit in Brussels
How often do you hear expats whinging about Brussels? All the time, that’s how often. But, frankly, when I hear my own compatriots complaining, I really don’t understand. It’s great to be a Brit in Brussels. Here are ten reasons why.
Some enchanted evening…
“Like an owl in the dark, the boy has been calling the name of his loved one every few minutes”
A true story, we’re told. Let it not be said you don’t find all of life on this blog. Thanks to Kostas for having the temerity to propose this.
Another way of communicating
What is a 29 year old Romanian post-punk doing in the middle of an African village screaming in the local moré language and rolling about, and why the 200 locals around laugh? The African adventures of two web-editors…
Online editorial models #05 – The Huffington Post case
The Huffington Post, created in May 2005, is the new current star amongst online media. Forget about Slate, Salon and don’t event think about old media venturing into the digital era. HuffPo beats them all.
Open letter to “pillar” Christian
Our web team is something over three years old, and the time has come when some of our number are starting to think about what comes next. All very healthy and right, but some people have carved out a real niche for themselves in the meantime and it’s sometimes hard to imagine anyone stepping into their shoes. Anyway, it’s good sign to miss a colleague, right?, and Sofia speaks for many in an open letter to a real pillar of the team, who’s off to pastures new..
Bruxelles et moi
Another one of those occasional stories about “how I ended up here” – this time from Marko, our most recent arrival. We learn of hitherto unsuspected similarities between Brussels and Tangiers…
I like to move it
Moving is the most stressful experience after death of someone close and divorce. Why on Earth are we doing it?
It’s the ash cloud, stupid! – considerations on an unusual event. (Updated)
Update on Sunday 18 April – 15h Riga Time I was at Riga Airport again this morning because, guess what?, my rebooked flight has been cancelled again. I want to underline how Air Baltic people are professional and nice. The situation, in terms of mess, has positively evolved: line was only 45 minutes long. There [...]
10 truths about babies
Babies are born with an in-depth knowledge of Murphy’s laws
Can it get more personal?
We are editors, we write daily news for the European Parliament. We come across all types of news and activities going on in the EP, which we pass them on to the real people, in an as comprehensible way as possible. This is our main objective of our work. Then we have the blog here, [...]
How much personal data is too much?
I was never a ‘personal data freak’. It’s more the other way round. I am able to give my date of birth even to an cute ice cream seller if he gives me one scoop more for free. But my latest experience made me look at the topic of it from completely new angle and [...]
Finders keepers: the future of our audiovisual culture?
The difference now is that, perhaps, only the best artists – the most inventive, the most persistent and the most tenacious – will survive… and I guess that’s the way it ought to be.
Watching it like an outsider
My out of office automatic email reply has been on for almost three long months. Coming back last week, I felt like home again after a long trip: everything seemed so familiar, and so much different at the same time. (Almost) same faces, same corridors, more or less the same workload, but a different perspective. [...]
Not the 8 o’clock news
The process of the hearings of designated commissionners, which starts today and will go on until Tuesday 19 January, gives me a good opportunity to illustrate some of the biggest difficulties in our job as web-editors for the European Parliament website.
What lies ahead.
I won’t come back on 2009. I am not a nostalgic kind of guy. I’ll just support Steve’s claim on how this particuliar year marked many breakthroughs for us, professionally and online speaking, and I kind of feel things will be different and, possibly, a bit less exciting for us. You can’t have European Elections [...]
2009 in one picture
Fred is our talented designer and a welcome Guest blogger. Before leaving the office, he sent us his own personal view of 2009. We couldn’t resist publishing it. So: this what 2009 looked like in the eyes of our beloved designer.
Flash back memories
Time machine keeps ticking and moving without stopping thus shifting us to different pace mode of life. Another day I found my eyes glued to a calendar, my eye balls alarming my brains that its a short time gap left till Christmas. Well, there are lots of Christmas traditions that are practiced by a number [...]
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