It might sound eccentric that facebook has established itself as one of the most effective ways of business here in Nepal. From Big brand to news channels everybody is entertaining their fans with activities on facebook, to be precise it has taken a form of a religion where people love to express and be themselves. […]
Russia: Social Networks Mobilise Society
Written by Marina Litvinovich Translated by Siân Sinnott Note: This post is part of RuNet Echo, a Global Voices project to interpret the Russian language internet More than a month has passed since the biggest Russian demonstrationsof the last decade in Bolotnaya Square, Moscow. Here is a selection of accounts [ru] from bloggers who were at the […]
MY POCKET FULL OF NEW GIZMOS
Air Guitar Shirt by CSIRO CSIRO has built a shirt that allows you to play air guitar and actually hear music! Dr Richard Helmer and a team of researchers at CSIRO Textiles and Fibre Technology in Geelong have created a ‘wearable instrument shirt’ (WIS) that consists of a wearable sensor interface that uses custom software […]
Korea: Korean Mata Hari – North Korean Spy Scandal.
While the Beijing Olympics was held, Koreans were excited about news of a series of medals. It even seemed that hot attention to political issues and arguments among the citizens since the inauguration of the new President have slowly diminished. The rate of support for the new President, which drastically decreased started rising slightly. However, […]
Frankly
I have a principle which, for as long as I can remember, I have applied to my creative writing: I do not refer to any living person by their real name. Oh, I impugn the dead mercilessly and draw any number of coelecanths from the fathoms of my own imagination. But the living … if […]