bored to death
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under popcult
Or Instead of Manhattan, first we take Brooklyn.
New HBO series is about a writer, not able to write his second novel and left by his girlfriend, so desperate that he posts an ad on Cragislist, advertising himself as a private detective. “I read so many Raymond Chandler novels, that I think I could do this” [...]
Tags: books, bored to death, Brooklyn, films, TV series
dark side of social media
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic
When I considered whether to apply to Glocal conference and what to present, I already finished my thesis, which addressed the web 2.0 phenomena in a critical way, in the context of economy governing this ecosystem. More precisely, I focused on the idea of economic value of user-generated content. Since, I did not want [...]
Tags: glocal09, nationalism, serbia, social media
glocal09 - the rest of the conference
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic
I started writing for a new blog post on the lectures of the second and the third day of Glocal, yet I stopped as the presentations were interested, while during free time, I would rather eat at Skopje’s fantastic restaurants or hang out with my great host. So, here is the summary of the rest.
Day02
Second [...]
Tags: glocal09, skopje, social media
my first conference
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic
Following a really busy Tuesday, I hopped on the bus and by Wednesday morning, I landed in Skopje, Macedonia to attend a Glocal conference at New York University in Skopje. This year’s topic is “Inside Social Media”.
I had to sleep a bit, so I missed introductory speeches, as well as few presentations, apparently the [...]
Tags: glocal, skopje, social media
shame and anger
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under everyday life
If you google Serbia, you are likely to encounter news stories on war criminals or a report on Belgrade, becoming the party central of South Eastern Europe, with bars that work all night, beautiful women all over the place, soundtrack consisting of the weird mix of cutting edge music all the way to the Gypsy [...]
