4/07/2010

Personal "business" cards are for everybody

Cards for personal use, for students, moms with kids, for travelers etc. Technically, they shouldn't be called Business Card but rather personal cards. In Czech, we call them "osobní vizitky", but in English, the name varies.
I Czech, vizitka means "business card", but is derived from "visiting card", so it actually has personal meaning embedded in it. Visiting card has actually quite an interesting history, I will get to that some other time.

11/28/2009

Neil Postman in The Daily Show

It's not that I don't like Rob Corddry and his ridiculously ridiculous ideas that make us laugh hard. But I really wished they payed more attention to my favorite scholar, Professor Neil Postman, author of the book Technopoly. His ideas are great warning and are worth spreading.

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I am glad that they showed both sides, but I'd still be happier if Jon Stewart would have done that interview. Well, there are other interviews with Neil Postman out there...




8/06/2009

Chipms or Orangutanes?

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"When humans lost all these hair, did we retain a single stripe of the hair on the top of the head?"

7/09/2009

US media crazy about Twitter

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"This new technology sounds adorable! Here is how Twitter works: I have no f***ing idea!" As Samantha Bee says: "Young people love it, according to reports about young people made by middle-aged people."

"Because we're rotting corpses grabbing for any glimmer of relevance,” eplains Sam why all the politics and media truckle towards young people with facebooks, tweets and similar gimick.