Posts tagged with:news

Let’s say your combined fortune ranks in about 2 billion Euros. You have several businesses that are doing ok. You are 59 years old and made all this fortune in Romania, a second world country. What would you do? Slow down? Enjoy life? Retire?  I asked this question on my primary blog (in Romanian) and […]

Because they are slow. On Sunday, I was on a bus from Danube Delta to Bucharest. I got a tip about a hot video. I managed to post the news a few hours ahead of the newspaper boys, who were sleeping or did not have the news. While I was on a bus, mind you. […]

This is a popular topic these days. Everybody seems to have an idea about it, except the newspaper managers. One I hear on a daily basis is “newspapers need to reinvent themselves”. No, they do not. They need to look at what they are not doing anymore, but used to do 2-3-5 years ago. Reporting. […]

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, […]

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 […]

Why not fire a minister of the government? Because they did not want to ruin his wedding!