May 29 2008
Peter Gauweiler, member of the German Bundestag has asked the German Bundesverfassungsgericht (the highest legal council in Germany) to review the Lisbon treaty and decide whether it is legal yes or no. Peter Gauweiler thinks the treaty is not in line with German democratic principles. Experts think he has a good chance on success.
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May 18 2008
This week their were two ‘interesting’ items in the Dutch news.
Some top executives warned that they they would move the company headquarter to another country if the upheaval in the Dutch society, the Dutch press and Dutch politics about the level of their salary would continue,
A Dutch cartoonist was picked up by ten men of [...]
May 16 2008
Read this article by Robert Scoble. It is about the import and export of your personal data which you place on ’social’ websites/services like Facebook, Plaxo, Hyves, Google Friend Connect, etc.
Again it shows that US based companies have a very different view on the privacy of information compared with European companies and the European ‘governments’. [...]
May 09 2008
Scoble wrote about “the beautiful noise of Twitter and FeedFriend” in a reaction to a blog entry from David Risley who complains about the noise these systems produce.
I wrote about the Twitter service before. Twitter is like standing in an overcrowded bar where everybody is talking loudly, not listening to anybody but everybody has an [...]