Today the number of visitors to www.newspaperindex.com is nearly 10 times higher than usual. I have no idea why and my stats show no new links, so www.newspaperindex.com must have been displayed in a newspaper, on TV or maybe mentioned in a radio show?
Please help me solve this, how did you end up here?
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Google is developing its own mobile phone, according to industry insiders and analysts, while a Google official in Spain last week acknowledged the company is ‘investigating’ such a project. Google isn’t commenting directly on leaks from Europe and the United States which describe a low-cost, internet-connected phone with a colour, wide-screen design. Richard Windsor, a phone analyst in London, said late last week that unspecified Google representatives at a major European conference in Germany had confirmed the company is working on its own phone device. ‘Google has come out of the closet at the CeBIT trade fair admitting that it is working on a mobile phone of its own,’ Windsor said in a note entitled ‘Google Phone: From myth to reality.’ Lending further clues, Isabel Aguilera, head of Google’s Iberian operations, was quoted last week in Spanish news site Noticias.com as acknowledging the existence of a part-time project by some Google engineers to develop a mobile phone. (Reuters,March 19, 2007)
The Romanian villagers used to portray fictional peasants in the hit Borat movie are suing producers for USD 30m (EUR 23m), the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. Attorneys representing the villagers are set to sue in New York, Florida and Germany asking for more than USD 30m in damages and are seeking to stop further screening of the controversial comedy if scenes making fun of the villagers are not cut or changed. The villagers claim that they were manipulated by the crew and lied to about the true nature of the film, and that unlike others in the movie, they did not sign release forms, a claim disputed by a spokesman for 20th Century Fox, which is distributing the film. The villagers also contend in the suit that the film ridicules them on ethnic grounds. The report said that the suits seek USD 5m (EUR 4m) to improve infrastructure in the impoverished village, an additional USD 25m (EUR 19.5m) dollars for humanitarian aid and an unspecified amount for fair compensation for the villagers, who were paid roughly USD 4 (EUR 3) a day for participating in the film, writes DPA, Expatica Germany.
Tonight I am working late to finish an article for Louis Poulsen and tomorrow I’ll get up early, pack the bike (like last year) and head for Sweden. First stop is Miklas and Åsk in Malmö. They have bought a nice two-floor apartement right in the center of town, but for some unknown reason there is no stairway between the floors and thats why I am coming. Me and Miklas will spend some days designing and building the stairway.
Then I’ll go about 300 km north to a small island near the border to Norway. The ride along the coast should be awesome. Here is a very butifull place called Gullnäsgården where I will meet my meditation group. We are going to spend a week in meditation there and I am looking so much forward to it.
This means you will not hear much from me. If something dramatic happens I can reach this blog by smartphone, but don’t expect it :-) See you all again in the middle of Juli. Untill then - have a nice summer.
I am working on a project that will serve you a range of popular tv-channels free to watch online. Work is still in progress, but you are wellcome to take preview here:
http://www.newspaperindex.com/tv.php
Do not hesistate to contact me with any suggestions or ideas.
One of France’s most popular rappers will appear in court on Monday charged with offending public decency with a song in which he referred to France as a ’slut’ and vowed to ‘piss’ on Napoleon and Charles de Gaulle. Monsieur R, whose real name is Richard Makela, could face three years in prison or a EUR 75,000 fine after an MP from the ruling UMP party launched legal action against him over his album Politikment Incorrekt. When Daniel Mach, MP for Pyrénées-Orientales, heard the album last year, he proposed a law making it a criminal offence to insult the dignity of France and the French state. In November, when riots broke out in France’s run-down suburbs, another UMP deputy, Fran?ois Grosdidier, won the support of 152 MPs and 49 senators who demanded that parliament act against Makela’s lyrics. But by then Mach had taken a personal action against Makela for making and disseminating ‘violent and pornographic messages’ to which minors could get access. The case is the latest in a series of stand-offs between conservative MPs and rappers. In 2003, Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister and presidential hopeful, brought a criminal case against the rap band Sniper, saying their music was anti-semitic, racist and insulting. Makela, who was born in Belgium and came to France aged 14, said he did not target any particular group but rapped against ‘the system’. (The Guardian, May 29, 2006)
Gerhard Schroeder, German chancellor for the past seven years until this week, is to join Switzerland’s leading newspaper group, Ringier, as a political consultant and lobbyist, working at its offices in Zurich one or two days a week. The ex-chancellor, who resigned his seat in the German Bundestag after handing over to successor Angela Merkel on Tuesday, would take up the post on January 1, the company said Thursday. Two thirds of Ringier’s business is in central and eastern Europe, where it has acquired many major publications. The media group, which publishes both newspapers and magazines, has a workforce of 6,081. One of Ringier’s main Swiss newspapers is the mass-circulation, left-of-centre Blick. It publishes a Swiss business magazine, Cash, and a German political magazine, Cicero, as well as more than 40 titles in Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Proprietor Michael Ringier said on Germany’s N24 news television channel that Schroeder would ‘open doors’ for the group. Schroeder’s title will be ‘personal adviser to Michael Ringier on international politics issues’. (DPA, Expatica Germany)
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Across the Middle East and North Africa, the Internet is spreading rapidly as a means of accessing information, exchanging ideas and expressing opinions, particularly in countries where the press is tightly controlled by governments.
However, governments are moving to stop the spread of ideas and opinions by blocking websites and jailing Internet users, a new report by Human Rights Watch finds.
“False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa” documents online censorship in Tunisia, Iran, Syria and Egypt. It finds that governments in these countries have pursued contradictory Internet policies, writes IFEX.
