Not once I've seen "respectable" news blogs or media online publications wannabe, just filling the space in order to keep daily posting alive. If you leave the announcement short, without too many insider details, avoiding to be too specific on what you already snatched from another respectable media publication, you avoid also the ridicule. The problem appears when you try to correct the author with a polite comment, and tell him where the fault is. He can check, modify, and thank you after … [Read more...]
About Olive Oil, an Ingredient for Life
I have spent a few important years in Turkey. The rural population consider it an important olive oil producer and exporter. Fortunately, the villagers who own olive trees, have also virgin olive oil. Unfortunately, one cannot find in supermarkets something remotely closer even to that, because what is sold for the rest of Turkey, is obviously refined. Actually a very few know for real, because it can be sometimes a physical impossibility to tell the difference while not having comparison … [Read more...]
4 Basic Rules
One rule is that nobody gives money for free. They have not been discovered overnight, by myself. I'm not original, the "rules" in bold fonts are not even altered. I just saw them in a blog post, in a blog I used to love, now struggling to just publish to keep its ranks high. I read the same thing every day, of how the guy is not actually selling anything with his blog but he inserts Amazon links in the articles to be productive, how he's going to debate this and that and sometimes he'll do … [Read more...]
Sad stories from the last century
I wanted to write about the Latvian documentary called The Soviet Story, inspired by a magazine article I read a few weeks ago. Of course I have searched for the movie and seen it. The critical view I read, was not at all reasonable, on the contrary, speculations were made that the film could be an exaggeration of the truth. I remember having met a lot of opinions in a certain matter discussed in the documentary, and I was intrigued by the lack of data. In time, I completely forgot. It was about … [Read more...]
Brazil, How?
“The monetary system of a people reflects everything that the nation wants, does, suffers, is.” Joseph Schumpeter It's astonishing how a country with a record debt to IMF at a moment in time, quite recent, not a century ago, can become the seventh economy in the world, with the prospect to overtake Britain by becoming the sixth largest economy in the world in 2012. Now, I read in various economy magazines that the established civilized world may be afraid of the exotic emergence of four … [Read more...]
Breaking Rules
I have just found out that I broke the number one rule of professional blogging: "Don't name your blog with a personal name unless you're famous"! I really didn't know that when I started blogging, :). Thing is, I never thought to sell crap on this blog. Adsense on this site is recently functional again, this very blog isn't yet three months old, so even if there are some older posts transferred here from the previous free hosted which had other names all together, this is the one who counts, … [Read more...]