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iTunes saga 5.0.1
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I went through a painful iTunes experience. Had to. I try to avoid iTunes as much as possible, but since I wanted to update iOS version on my iPad, it was not possible to avoid it. The bottom line is that it sucks as a device management tool. Here's...
The Monti Factor
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Plenty has been written about Monti’s taking charge of Italy. But there is another dimension in his appointment. A wise man will be joining the The European Council. Mario Monti was a member of the Reflection Group on the Future of Europe, also...
Managing the Eurozone
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Reading about Sarkzoy, Merkel to invite Van Rompuy to head Eurozone I must say I liked the idea 18 months ago. From a paper published in European View Volume 9, Number 1, 79-92, DOI: 10.1007/s12290-010-0117-3.Enhance economic coordination. This is a...
The World is Going to Hell and We Call it Magic
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Yesterday, I decided to upgrade my iPhone form iOS 4.1 to iOS 4.2.1. The process nearly bricked it. It would not even restore (Figure 1). It took me some three hours to make it work again. Something to do with the etc/hosts file. The good thing was,...
Assange on Žižek?
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That Slavoj Žižek writes with sympathy about the digital Che Guevara is not a surprise. What is surprising, though, is that Assange had a lucid opinion on philosophers even before he read Žižek:It has often been said that mathemat...
Wishlist for iPAD II
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Now that I got everything I wanted from Santa, let me write down what I want in iPad II.Software Shared file system for (some) apps. This has in fact nothing to do with iPAD. It is an iOS thing. As it stands, iOS is lobotomized. Each app only has acc...
Wikileaks? What Wikileaks?
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Napolen would know how to deal with Wikileaks:“In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.” Its simple. Pretend they do not exist. Here's how the Prime Minister of Slovenia Borut Pahor handled his personal dealin...
Linking in Open Access Publications
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The recent move by LinkedIn - that lets me enter my bibliography - could mark a beginning of a new chapter of Open Access Scientific Publishing and more. It is a small step. Today they do not even allow full texts to be attached. But if they develop...
I Like Ike
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Here are a few paragraphs from Eisenhower's farewell radio address of 1961 (via openmarket.org). Relevant to the general debate on the European Innovation Union and the debate in Slovenia on the Higher Education Program and The Innovation Strategy.To...
Perls from Spain
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I'm in Seville, Spain, at a final review of an EU project. The only other meeting I was at was the kick off. Some three years ago. Also in Spain. In between I did many things. Among others I was Secretary General of the Wise Men Group chaired by Feli...
Slovenian Referendum on Border Agreement with Croatia
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Since independence, the relations between Slovenia and Croatia were essentially very good. We are one of each others’ main trade partners, Slovenes are welcome at Croatian cost and Croats on Slovenian ski slopes. A few issues remain unresolved...
Tag Clouds: Project Europe 2030 and Europe 2020
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Here is a comparison of the tag clouds for the “Project Europe 2030” report of the Reflection Group on the Future of Europe and the Europe 2020 Strategy. In both cases words like “EU”, “Europe” etc. were deleted. F...
Rising from in the Ashes
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There is one lesson coming from Iceland these days. Massive deployment of internet based video conferencing and real time collaboration infrastructure in Brussels.
The End of the Web as We Know It?
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We know it as a platform where: website or other on-line source (any web site or media store like iTunes), media (e.g. MP3), local software or client (e.g. Media Player) and device (PC, Mac, Phone, Flash Drive, Netbook …) are not coupled with e...
Yes we can! Give an award.
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Awarding president Obama the Nobel Prize for peace show how desperate the West is for leadership out of the economic, social and environmental crisis; for leadership in the times when it is worried about its decline. It demonstrates the lack of ideas...
Carbon Tax: Fiscal Exit Strategy of the Crisis
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In the summer of 2008, when the fuel prices were at their highest, I published an op-ed in the European Voice. I supported the idea that president Sarkozy had at the time, namely, to reduce the VAT and excise duties on petrol, to make it cheaper. The...
Fly me to the moon!
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July 20 1969 is one of those dates that many of us remember. I was 7 then. We had a black and white TV with a cherry wood casing and yellowish buttons and dials. There was only one TV channel and most of the time it was airing not Slovenian but Yugos...
Courts Unfit for Digital Society
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France passed a law on digital piracy. FT reports: Internet users who download films and music without paying for them would get three warnings before being cut off for up to a year. Until now action against illegal file sharing has been a matter for...
You can’t stop the game
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Speaking of Global Governance and ideas on how new financial regulation will make future crises impossible, a quote from the movie “Other People’s Money” comes to mind: Kate Sullivan: Someday, we’ll smarten up, change some law...
How the Internet is Changing Government Agendas
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The world is in a transition from industrial and information economy into conceptual economy. Value is in meaning, not in function. The resource of this economy are talents. They are empowered by information and communication technologies. The game i...
