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Sarkozy’s France: Where innovation goes to die | Frenchonomix
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Viewing the 2012 French presidentials through the bars of the Euro sign. Sarkozy’s France: Where innovation goes to die. Posted on March 25, 2012. Oscar Wilde famously said: good men, when they die, go to Paris. Under Sarkozy, you could say that good companies go to Paris when they want to die. Taxing internet giants an alarming signal to other firms. Not long before he was to meet Dorsey, Sarkozy told Le Point that global internet giants like Twitter, Facebook and Google should be taxed. Google was move...
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Hollande champions growth, but too soon | Frenchonomix
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Viewing the 2012 French presidentials through the bars of the Euro sign. Hollande champions growth, but too soon. Posted on March 20, 2012. Socialist candidate François Hollande has picked a new bad guy that isn’t the world of finance austerity. A great pick, since it is currently Europe’s favourite bad word. Ever since the Greek crisis, European governments have been tightening up their belts to cut down on public debt, with mixed results and a lot of angst to show for it. It is a spoonful of sugar that...
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Why bashing the rich scores points for Hollande but not Sarkozy | Frenchonomix
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Viewing the 2012 French presidentials through the bars of the Euro sign. Why bashing the rich scores points for Hollande but not Sarkozy. Posted on March 8, 2012. Why is Hollande having so much success? Essentially, Hollande would be undoing 29 billion worth of tax breaks on the rich, introduced by his main rival French President Nicolas Sarkozy when he took power in 2007. But this may not even happen, if last August is anything to go by. A group of 16 of the richest people in France signed a petition.
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In France, women’s issues warm the benches | Frenchonomix
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Viewing the 2012 French presidentials through the bars of the Euro sign. In France, women’s issues warm the benches. Posted on March 8, 2012. For the men, it is an obligatory campaign stop. For the women, it is pressure to perform. International Women’s Day drew some pointed looks at France’s presidential candidates for their lack of discourse on women’s rights and gender equality thus far in their campaigning. Women are relatively under-represented in French politics, holding only roughly 19 percent of ...
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Candidates Get Google Bombed – But To No Avail | Geeking the Elysée
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Tech, web and geek culture in the 2012 French presidential elections. By Aurelien Breeden. Candidates Get Google Bombed – But To No Avail. Is one of many online guerilla tactics. For political campaigning but it is much more fearsome in name than it is in action. As French presidential candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande recently discovered. The Wiktionary gives a simple definition of a Google bomb:. An attempt to influence the ranking. To it from many other sources. First, the term ‘b...
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Web campaigning put into perspective | Geeking the Elysée
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Tech, web and geek culture in the 2012 French presidential elections. By Aurelien Breeden. Web campaigning put into perspective. As a blogger that works at the intersection of presidential campaigning and the web, it is easy for me to take the Internet for granted. But taking a step back with this post, I have realized three things:. 1 Not everybody has access to the Internet and uses social media. And aren’t as connected as the rest of the population is. You can find out much more about the. But even th...
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Web gives candidates more leeway against campaign restrictions | Geeking the Elysée
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Tech, web and geek culture in the 2012 French presidential elections. By Aurelien Breeden. Web gives candidates more leeway against campaign restrictions. France has stringent campaign rules. Especially when it comes to media coverage, but the web is disturbing this finely tuned. The Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel. Since last week the ten official candidates. Have to receive equal airtime and equal speaking time. But what about online content. That doesn’t emanate from a traditional media? CSA regula...
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Geeky socialist credentials for the French presidentials | Geeking the Elysée
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Tech, web and geek culture in the 2012 French presidential elections. By Aurelien Breeden. Geeky socialist credentials for the French presidentials. Bored by the never-ending French presidential campaign? Can’t wait for the end of it all? Follow the next three steps:. On you keyboard, type the following sequence: BA. For those of you who weren’t teenagers in the late 1980s and early 1990s and/or have no video game experience whatsoever, you have just unlocked an easter egg. Of course, the web-designers a...
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Web media push for online presidential debate | Geeking the Elysée
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Tech, web and geek culture in the 2012 French presidential elections. By Aurelien Breeden. Web media push for online presidential debate. That’s the number of candidates running for the French presidency, and the problem of finding a way for all of them to debate together may find a solution online. A televised debate on France 2 show “Mots Croisés”. On the 16th of April, but organizing it is harder said than done. Although, amusingly enough, both Newt Gingrich. And getting them to debate in a constructi...