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“Please Turn Off the Internet. It Scares Us.”
The “ultimate gothic high tech figure”, Nicolas Sarkozy has put himself at the front of a Lost War: To Civilize the Internet. That’s right. The War on the Internet as we know it. What was it again that Bruce Sterling had said about him? You’re Nicolas Sarkozy, you’re brilliant, you’re poly-ethnic, you have no ideology….
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How to Teach Online Without Selling Your Soul (Book Release Notes and Thanks)
Another phase of intensive work comes to end. That’s right, my new book “How to Teach Online Without Selling Your Soul” is finally done and ready to see the light of the world. The reason for writing this book is simple. When I started working as a language teacher online in January 2009, it was like a…
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Why Microsoft’s Skype Acquisition Is Really Not as Bad as it Seems
Minutes before I started a Skype-call this morning, I heard the news. Microsoft had bought Skype for $8.5 billion dollars. To put it mildly, many people aren’t happy about it My immediate reaction was indifference. I have to add to this, that I use Skype daily. It plays a central role in the way I make…
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“How to Teach Online” – NEW BOOK RELEASE: 23rd of MAY
UPDATE: the book is out, you can get it here. Hello, everyone. This will be a short one. I’ve spoken about it a few times. Now it’s final: My new ebook about Online Teaching, a collection of essays for aspiring online teachers, instructors, coaches or anyone interested in making a living from anywhere in the…
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New Religion Claims: “Copying is Holy”
We all know about Catholicism, Buddhism, Islam and so on plus the major cults and sects like Scientology, etc. But you probably haven’t heard of the “Missionary Church of Copying”, yet, have you? Today is Easter, yesterday was the international day of books and yes – Copyright so – in a weird way – all of…
