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Archive for October 21st, 2006

International news available at anytime, anywhere from one source ?!

Posted by grmc on October 21, 2006

Let’s talk – let’s analyze and move forward with some decisions.

Would be nice to read the news from Belgium – beautiful country – wherever I will be in the world, without going to 3 – 4 sites or more. Can you imagine if every country will introduce the same laws ?!! No more aggregators to make our life easier, instead let’s complicate it as much as we can.

PLEASE, Let us enjoy the medium.

Web 2.0 as a metaphor for ‘rip-off’ | The News is NowPublic.com

Maybe Google’s spat with the Europeans can serve as a useful starting point for clarifying the discussion of copyright protection in the new cyberage. Lots of issues need to get sorted out. But the longer we keep putting off this discussion, the more we delude ourselves into believing there should be free lunches for some but not others.That’s not amoral. It’s immoral.

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Gift Baskets for your international visitors

Posted by grmc on October 21, 2006

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