PARLEZ-VOUS ‘EMAIL’?

Est-ce que c’est le email ou le courriel? Have you heard that the French government has banned the use of the word “email” (too American) in official documents? Instead, the phrase “courrier electronique” or courriel for short is to be...

Dealing With Myanmar’s Dictators

OK, it's obvious I have a new addiction. First it was email (still is; spend way too much time on it). Now it's blogging. Last post for today… Eammon Fitzgerald writes intelligently on how we (the U.S.) should be dealing with the military dictatorship...

Why Businesses Should Blog

Good interview by Eamonn Fitzgerald with German e-business consultant and blogger Martin Roell that explains it clearly. It's in English. I met Martin at the ClickZ blogging conference. He's very young and very smart. Note the little country flags in the upper...

Um, How Much Is Your E-Book in £‘s

Most useful comment I picked up yesterday at the annual NEPA conference here in Washington DC was from a senior UK publisher of business information. “Americans don't get it when it comes to marketing products online to Europeans,” he said (very...