Posts tagged with:news

NYT reports. There are two explanations, both of them simple as pie: As I have said before, people need stuff to consume, that is why all sorts of people buy all kinds of newspapers, in an attempt to keep them afloat. All of them remember the time the internet was dry of information: no Wikipedia, […]

The CEO of Central Media Enterprises, Adrian Sârbu, a Romanian, has quit today. He will stay on board until the end of 2013 and then make his next move. He made waves a few years ago when he was named CEO, being the highest position a Romanian entrepreneur has ever occupied The smart money is […]

I got a lot of questions about this: what happened last year, how do you see things. where do we go from here? There are a few things that happened in the last 12 months worth mentioning: Some bloggers realized I am not a fool who wishes death on them (as the song goes), but […]

I watch CES news like everybody else. Not so much to report, really. A lot of big tvs, a lot of stupid photo cameras, a lot of hd camcorders. Nikon D5100 is a good example of what the tech world has become by using a Toshiba sensor. Other camera manufacturers use Sony sensors. Even Apple […]

I’m half-way through “Trust Me, I’m Lying” by Ryan Holiday and I could not help myself notice the similarities of blogs like Gawker and Business Insider to Romanian news sites in the domain of shocking titles and fake articles. The question is when or how will it end.

Some time ago i found myself talking with heads of a investment fund looking for opportunities to invest in the Romanian internet. Aside my legendary gloom and discomfort with the way things are going in this industry, we tried to find unconquered niches to exploit (please remember this was a 2010 discussion, some things may […]

After upgrading to WordPress 3.1.3 i get this error when I post news articles via Windows Live Writer: “Invalid Server Response – The response to the metaWeblog.newPost method received from the weblog server was invalid: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server.” .

Bogdana Butnar, new business manager for a local advertising agency, says on her twitter account: interesting, a comment seems to say that SEO belongs to copywriters and not to specially trained SEO staff Good Search Engine Optimization can be done easily with good and unique content. Shoving the same news in Google’s throat is hard […]

Bogdan Gavrila, well known stain on Romanian internet, had a problem a few months ago. While he was the dark force behind the World Blogging Forum, none of the respected bloggers from his native country gave him and WBF any love. Some of them questioned the line up, which was inexistent at the time of […]

I was on the toilet, reading one of the few magazines i still buy on a regular basis. And realized why people are buying fewer and fewer newspapers. The web did not kill the press. Press killed itself. It was a combination of lack of professional journalism and news overload. Almost all of Romanian economic […]