Why Europe still doesn’t get the Internet
CNet: “Second, the proposal substitutes an unelected bureaucrat’s judgment about what material is appropriate for a mailing list, a chatroom or a Web log for the judgment of the person… Read more »
Category: living worldwide
French School Food: Not So Good
Jason quotes (apparently approvingly) a site that pontificates over French school menus and how they’re so superior to what’s served to children in America. Well, those menus sure sound impressive,… Read more »
French Customer Service?
Glenn Fleishman: "So what I’ve been told is that it’s considered incredibly bourgeois to offer good service. It’s a lessening of oneself to be subservient in that fashion. This may… Read more »
Germany’s Jobless Racket
Newsweek: "As long as the government is more interested in shuffling the jobless between useless projects and playing with the numbers instead of tackling real labor market reform, it will… Read more »
Why Product Marketing Outsynched Across Geographies Is a Bad Idea
Compare Canon’s web site about digital cameras in the USA and in Europe. We Europeans have to suffer through this long page that makes it almost impossible to tell apart… Read more »
Dialect Survey Maps
"[D]ialect maps, displaying what terms and pronunciations are used, and where they are used." Fascinating for a foreigner like me. Turns out that you can call sneakers "tennis shoes" (like… Read more »
Web sites in Spain go blank to protest new laws
CTV.ca: "The government says the law, which stems from European Union directives, aims to encourage online commerce by making the Internet a safer place to do business. It wants companies… Read more »
Fox News Worldwide distribution (or lack of)
It’s fun to see Fox News is not distributed on the French cable and satellite TV bundles. I guess TV execs here still believe CNN is the only US news… Read more »
The Rush to Send Back-Office Business Overseas
Wharton: "Welcome to the world of global back-office operations, or as it is often called, cross-border business-process outsourcing. While companies have long outsourced manufacturing operations and other tasks such as… Read more »
The American Century
Rick Bruner: "I mean, am I living with cultural blinders on, nationalistic to the point of myopia, or is it not true that the United States did in fact have… Read more »