Category: Europe

  • Tech-challenged Europeans who don’t read blogs

    Reuters reports on a survey that says about 37% of people living in the 25 European Union countries have no computer skills, with Scandinavians being the most computer-literate and Greeks the least. The survey results – “How skilled are Europeans…

  • The comedy podcast from Number Ten

    Just been listening to comedian Eddie Izzard’s European podcast, an account of his two-day visit to Brussels last week in the company of Prime Minister Tony Blair for a meeting of the European Council. Izzard’s concluding remark is that he hopes…

  • European expansion for MySpace

    MySpace.com, the online social network, is often a topic I include in presentations and workshops about social media and social computing. The context is on the growth of cybercommunities and, in the case of MySpace.com, its rapid and growing appeal…

  • Why no one trusts politicians and CEOs

    I can think of no better example of why politicians and business make for a poisonous and untrustworthy mix than the unfolding disaster at EADS, the parent company of Airbus, and the delays in bringing to market the new A380…

  • Podcastday in Cologne

    Heading off to Cologne soon via the ICE train for Podcastday 2006, the first international conference in Germany about podcasting that takes place tomorrow. I’m on a panel discussing the topic of “corporate communication: new ways with podcasts and blogs.”…