New website for teens!

A new website designed by the British Council for teenagers...

Have a look!

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org

Future of the European Union

A Financial Times Special Report

on the impact of the economic crisis on the future of the EU

link to the page

http://media.ft.com/cms/62041770-98b4-11e1-ad3e-00144feabdc0.pdf

Europe's elites feel the backlash

Ian Traynor, The Guardian, Uk

That's the major problem of the European system. It's too inflexible.

In elections in France on Sunday, in the Royal Palace in The Hague on Monday, and on Wenceslas Square in Prague on Saturday, a democratic backlash appeared to be gathering critical mass as the economic prescriptions of the governing class collided with the street and the ballot box. The collision looks likely to bring down three European governments.

Read the article on the Guardian's website

http://gu.com/p/374am

Occupy this album, music for the movement

 

99 tracks by 99 artists in favour of 99% of the people

 http://musicforoccupy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/MFO-Poster-195x300.jpg

How companies learn your secrets, Charles Duhigg

The New York Times Magazine, February 16 2012

 

Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that? ” [...]

Specifically, the marketers said they wanted to send specially designed ads to women in their second trimester, which is when most expectant mothers begin buying all sorts of new things [...]

the company’s primary goals is convincing customers that the only store they need is Target. [...]

Read the article on The New York Times Magazine website, and see how companies study your habits (recording what, when, where you buy) and use the data in their marketing strategies. The case of Target, a retailer company.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html