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I think the American higher education system is well-thought. With college taxes, i mean. You have two choices to achieve higher learning: either you are good and receive a scholarship, either your parents save some money. We are not equal. Some are born with chances, others have to fight for them. And, if your parents […]

…is when you realize you will never be more than you are right now!

It’s nice that i still get job offers from Romanian media companies. It’s nice to know that i have not been forgotten.

“People will realize the most important voice on the web is their own, not the people they are following” from Mr. Loren Feldman, of course.

There are 2 major problems with what Mr. Arrington is saying here. It sucks when the news gets out at the same time. 20 major blogs, the same news, nothing news. I like techcrunch for the news they bring, the news nobody else has. I don’t like the papers that are reporting the same news, […]

With the economic chaos waiting to hit Romania, I have made some plans. First is not to keep all my eggs in one basket. Not one source of income. Second is preparing to have my income drop by 50%. Sounds reasonable, I think. And I hope it will not go beyond 50%. After I’ve done […]

I’ve been blogging since 2005, when the blogs were few and people were eager to read something outsite the crappy journalist/pr press. The door was open so me and a few others just walked in. Now that blogs are mainstream, I see a lot of the new bloggers that step up and want to be […]

That people still live in a walled garden. That they are not informed. That they jump head-first in areas they do not know anything about. For example, everybody knows we are facing a crisis, right? Almost! Because if you ask Romanians on the street, chances are that half of them do not know about a […]

I started writing again for blog20.ro (in Romanian about Romanian internet). I hope this phase remains longer than the last one. I flew to Bucharest (12 hours by train, 45 minutes by plane and only 40€ more) and attended NetCamp, a conference organized by Cristi Manafu. Bucharest is a depressing city. Gray and without smiling […]

Urban Iulian, known and fined Romanian spammer, is now a senator in the Parliament of Romania. Great day for democracy, indeed.