Justine Toms’ blog

Nikolay Kolev “Accept the fact that all people make mistakes, learn from your own ones, and try hard not to repeat them.”

“American youth may appear to be up to their eyeballs in new technology, but in terms of Internet access they are surpassed by 12- to 14-year-olds in Britain, Israel, the Czech Republic, Macao and Canada, according to a new report by the Center for the Digital Future. Only 88% of that age group in the U.S. accesses the Internet, compared to 100% in the U.K. and 98% of Israelis, the report found.”

some more info – here

how about Bulgarian kids? no exact data, but for age 15-19 – 70% are online, which is OK, compared with 33% overall penetration

The Economist with “The World in 2009″

“The Economist’s annual collection of predictions for the year ahead—with views from journalists, politicians and business people.”

wonderful!

for a few days I am at Glasgow to work on a European project on web sites evaluation and science and Internet

we come from 7 European countries and everyone deal with science, University and Internet

and it is so so hard to understand each other, to know everyone understand the same under the same word

we talk about “websites” and what is website, should be a blog be considered as website, is a portal site website, is an online tv website? … hard.

wow! happy birthday! I could’t imagine today’s net without Google!

a bit old video from Ted’s talks, but really important – the culture and creativity and the law

I really believe in knowledge sharing and in my opinion the ideas have to be shared to make sence

Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law

BG Site is the Bulgarian Web Awards contest. The idea came up in 1999, I did share it with my web guru Allan (I’ll write more about him and that time soon) and he gave me big support and encouraged me so here we are now 2008 and we do now the 9th edition of the contest.

The story is long and I’ll share it later. Now just to let you know that on www.bgsite.org is the submition of applications and it’s up to 10th of October. The voting will go from 15 to 30th October and the Big Ceremony of BG Site 2008 will take place at Sheraton hotel Sofia on November 3rd.

All good websites are welcome to participate! Main requirement – even a few lines in Bulgarian.

The last 3 years we (people all over the world, Bulgaria incl) celebrate One Web Day – it was Suzan Crawford who did take the iniciative on and the world now celebrate the web on 22th of September (the “opozite” date of the 22th of Aprile, Earth day).

This year Gorry and me ware thinking how and what to make and we have found out that in Bulgaria most of the poeple already use (more or less) computers and Internet, in the last few years almost all kids do use computers and there is one small part of the population, actually not that small, who stay beside, on the other side of the digital barrier – the old people, those 60+. So, we thought – hm, it would be nice if we could do something for them. And here we go – together with the web site dedicated on the old people LudiMladi.bg – we have invided everyone with an old, useless, but still working computer to donate it to some club of pensioners.Up to now abour 4-5 people want to donate. Nice. Thanks!

TIME!

“Show up on time. It doesn’t cost anything to keep your promises when it comes to time. Show up for the meeting when the meeting starts. Have the dry cleaning ready when you promise. Ship on time. Return that phone call. Finish the renovation ahead of schedule.

Boy that’s simple. Apparently, it’s incredibly difficult.

Cherish my time. The second part is closely related. It has to do with respect. You respect my time when you don’t waste it. When you don’t spam me. When you worry about the 100 cars backed up on the road and figure out how to get us moving more quickly. You respect me when you value my time more highly than your own.”

oh Seth, how right are you. please all, read and have in mind Seth #1 most overlooked secret of marketing (I would say of business as all)

read all on Seth’s blog