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• Mass of Media: Radovan Karadžić

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Radovan Karadžić (Serbian: Радован Караџић, IPA: [râdovaːn kâraʤiʨ]; born 19 June 1945 in Petnjica, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist who was a fugitive from 1995 until 21 July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the [...]

• Mass of Media: Jenna Bush

  Monday, May 12th, 2008

  Jenna Welch Hager, née Bush (born November 25, 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush and the fraternal twin of Barbara Pierce Bush. Jenna and Barbara are known as the First Twins both because they are the children of the U.S. [...]

• Mr. Brooks

  Sunday, February 24th, 2008

  Directed by Bruce A. Evans
  Produced by
  Sam Nazarian
  Adam Rosenfelt
  Marc Schaberg
  Thomas Augsberger
  Producers:
  Jim Wilson
  Kevin Costner
  Raynold Gideon
  Written by
  Bruce A. Evans
  Raynold Gideon
  Starring
  Kevin Costner
  Demi Moore
  William Hurt
  Dane Cook
  Ruben Santiago-Hudson
  Music by Ramin Djawadi
  Cinematography John Lindey
  Editing by Miklos Wright
  Distributed by MGM
  Release date(s) June 1, 2007
  An interesting film. But not enough. The action, not enough logical. Predictable. A cut end.
  Mark: 7/10

• Octavian Bellu, the most succesful coach of the world

  Saturday, February 16th, 2008

  Today was the birthday of Octavian Bellu (known also as Belu), born on February 17, 1951 in Ploieşti, the Romanian gymnastics coach that was head of the national team, with interruptions, between 1988 and 2005.
  World Records Academy designed Octavian Bellu the most successful coach, with 305 medals at World and [...]

• Sarkozy likes pens

  Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

  Nothing wrong. During his visit in Romania, Nicolas Sarkozy liked a lot the pen with which he signed the documents that he wanted it for himself.
  I like myself to collect pens and lighters. Sarkozy has the chance to work with more pens than me.

• Sarkozy in Romania: comparison with Basescu

  Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

  Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Romania for one day, on February 4th, to launch a strategic partnership with Romania, the first such partnership with a Central and East European country.
  The partnership will include a broad range of domain, but it will focus on defense and security.
  “The goal of the visit is to [...]

• Mass of Media: Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni

  Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

  Sarkozy-Bruni make it to the altar
  NDTV.com, India
  Three months after they met and four months after his divorce, Sarkozy married Bruni in a private civil ceremony conducted by the Mayor of the 8th district …
  Sarkozy, Bruni Wed
  EURSOC, UK
  By EURSOC Two Published: 02 February, 2008 The French press has reported [...]

• eBay auction business downgraded

  Thursday, January 24th, 2008

  In my opinion as an user eBay was losing its competitiveness due to its own rules. Too many rules, too restricting rules, a very complicated system for sellers, not a very good search system for buyers, and not a very good integration of all its parts. Now the new CEO, John [...]

• Mass of Media: Heath Ledger

  Thursday, January 24th, 2008

  Tests on Heath Ledger to Take Days
  The Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — To many who saw Heath Ledger in the last months of his life, the actor appeared to be happy, healthy and excited — “in a great place,” in …
  The three sides of Heath Ledger
  The Age, Australia
  A Melbourne [...]

• Carla Bruni denies marriage with Nicolas Sarkozy

  Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

  Very interesting this couple, Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, I think they will keep the first page of the media long time from now on. And I like the power of love of Nicolas Sarkozy that overcome all the protocols. “He wants to show that even presidents live, love and suffer [...]

• The chess Grandmaster Bobby Fisher died today

  Friday, January 18th, 2008

  Robert James Fischer died today at a hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland.
  Fischer became famous as a teenager for his chess-playing ability, and in 1972 he became the official World Chess Champion. In 1975 he refused to defend the title when FIDE, the international chess federation, did not accept all his conditions for [...]

• Mass of Media: Steve Jobs

  Thursday, January 17th, 2008

  Violet Blue: Steve Jobs snubbed me
  CNET News.com, CA
  If you want to look at how the personalities of Apple’s two co-founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, differ, perhaps one way would be to measure their …
  Investors Boo Steve Jobs
  Red Herring, CA
  As has become tradition, Apple CEO Steve Jobs sought [...]

• Google and Yahoo! top search keywords for 2007

  Monday, January 14th, 2008

  Big differences between the two statistics for top search keywords for the last year. It seems that Yahoo! search was used mainly for entertainment, while US people searched with Google for a more diversified terms, especially social networks.
  As specified by MandarinMusing.com:
  Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

  iPhone: a [...]

• Mass of Media: Britney Spears

  Friday, January 11th, 2008

  Dr Phil McGraw versus Britney Spears
  Times Online, UK
  The only calamity that seemed to be missing was the one Britney Spears’s mum might have written. That would have read: Betrayed by a friend? …
  Britney Spears Update
  MTV.uk, UK
  You can trust MTV to give you the latest info on crazed popstars- [...]