In Pakistan, end of amnesty could spark fresh political turmoil

Read both the stories.We are in for another Afghanistan.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – The imminent expiration of a controversial decree that provides amnesty against criminal charges to top Pakistani politicians could further weaken the country’s embattled civilian government, according to analysts here.

The National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) was passed by former President Pervez Musharraf in 2007 as part of a political deal, brokered with the assistance of the United States, that allowed the late Benazir Bhutto back into the country to contest 2008 elections without having to face charges related to money-laundering and kickbacks on government contracts. More than 8,000 individuals, mainly bureaucrats, are currently protected by the decree.

The NRO was ostensibly aimed at putting an end to politically motivated corruption cases that had led to bitter fighting between the two major parties during the 1990s, Pakistan’s so-called “decade of democracy.” But a sustained political campaign led by the main opposition PML-N party and backed by the right-wing media has meant that the NRO “has now become a byword for corruption,” according to Cyril Almeida, assistant editor of Dawn, a leading English daily.

KEY OFFICIALS COULD BE LIABLE TO PROSECUTION

If the Supreme Court allows the NRO’s expiration on Saturday and rules that old cases are automatically reactivated, key officials could be liable to prosecution.

Among the officials who could be affected are Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar, and senior diplomats, including Hussain Haqqani, the ambassador to the United States; and Wajid Shamsul Hassan, the ambassador to Britain.

Presidential immunity means no cases may be brought against President Zardari, even after the NRO’s expiration. The president is now “politically vulnerable, but constitutionally impregnable,” says Mr.Almeida.

Almeida points out that “no civilian government in Pakistan lasts long after the drumroll of corruption begins,” though it is unclear what form the government’s downfall could take.

For the time being, at least, the resignation of the president, as demanded by some of his foes, seems unlikely, as does a parliamentary vote of no confidence. The possibility of a military takeover is also low.

The ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) last month attempted to formalize the decree through parliament, but withdrew it amid fears that its coalition allies would not back the bill.

Ayaz Sadiq, a member of the parliamentary accounts committee for the opposition PML-N, told the Monitor: “All these cases should have been decided by the court, not by the stroke of pen of a dictator who was supported by the West on all issues.” He added that those ministers who are named as beneficiaries of the NRO should resign to clear their names.

Zardari himself should be “held accountable” for alleged misdeeds, he says.

The government, on the other hand, denies the NRO was ever controversial.

“It is understood by the people of Pakistan as a way to bring the leadership back into Pakistan,” says Farahnaz Ispahani, a spokesperson for Zardari. She instead blames “antidemocratic elements” for waging a propaganda campaign aimed undermining the moral authority of Zardari, a thinly-veiled reference to Pakistan’s shadowy intelligence agencies and elements within the Army.

That point of view is partly backed by Almeida, who says that, while levels of corruption haven’t spiked recently, the attention paid to it by the opposition and the media has.

US WATCHING CLOSELY

The United States will be keeping a watchful eye on proceedings. Nawaz Sharif, leader of the PML-N and the country’s most popular politician, according to international polling, is widely seen as the man most likely to emerge as a possible future leader.

His traditional ties to the religious right, as well as his party’s relatively unenthusiastic response in the US-led war on terrorism (he was, for instance, slow to back Pakistan’s recent military offensive in Swat), may signal “a more independent and less subservient stance vis-á-vis the United States,” according to Rifaat Hussain, a defense analyst at the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1127/p06s10-wosc.html
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ISLAMABAD — A powerful opposition leader has called on President Asif Ali Zardari to relinquish wide-ranging powers immediately. Sunday’s statement by Shahbaz Sharif comes a day after the expiration of an amnesty protecting Zardari and several allies from graft prosecution. Zardari enjoys general immunity from prosecution as president, but the Supreme Court could challenge that.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g8-DEMtAE9q4i4ySQ0eV_qZefmRQD9C94MU03

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Heart Diseases- IV-Stroke - ischaemic-BBC.

Stroke caused by blood clots or other obstructions – ischaemic stroke – accounts for 80% of all cases.
A blockage is called a cerebral thrombus or cerebral embolism and can be caused by atherosclerosis – hardening of the arteries.
In both types of stroke – those caused by blood clots and those caused by burst blood vessels – blood supply to the brain is interrupted, depriving the cells of oxygen and other nutrients. The cells are then damaged or die.
Mini-strokes, or transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs), may be a warning sign of an imminent full-blown stroke.
Embolic
In an embolic stroke, a blood clot – or embolus – forms somewhere in the body, usually the heart, and travels through the bloodstream to the brain.
Once in the brain, the clot eventually travels to a blood vessel small enough to block its passage. The clot lodges there, blocking the blood vessel and causing a stroke.
Thrombotic
In the other form of blood-clot stroke, blood flow is impaired because of a blockage to one or more of the arteries supplying blood to the brain – a thrombus.
The process leading to this blockage is known as thrombosis and strokes caused in this way are called thrombotic strokes.
In atrial fibrillation, where the two upper chambers of the heart – the atria – quiver instead of beating properly, blood is not properly pumped out of the heart. As a result it may form clots and if the clot becomes lodged in an artery in the brain, a stroke may result.
The American Heart Association says arond 15% of strokes are caused in this way.
Blood clot strokes can also happen as the result of unhealthy blood vessels clogged with a build up of fatty deposits and cholesterol.
The body regards these build ups as multiple, tiny and repeated injuries to the blood vessel wall and reacts as it would to bleeding from a wound, by forming clots.
The symptoms of stroke:
Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, particularly if it is on one side of the body
Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding. Sudden difficulty with walking, dizziness, loss of balance or co-ordination
Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
Sudden severe headache with no known cause
Anyone identifying themselves or friends or family as having a stroke should call emergency services, not a GP, as any delay reduces the chance of a full recovery.
The speed of treatment after a stroke is extremely important as the longer the brain cells are deprived of oxygen, the more damage they will suffer.
Treatment
Clot-busting drugs can be used in the first minutes or hours – up to a maximum of three hours – after an ischaemic stroke to dissolve the clot.
After this time aspirin, which is not as powerful, may be given.
Survival rates are better for patients in specialist stroke units, because of the expert nature of staff and early use of rehabilitation, but such units are not always available.
Rehabilitation programmes will be given to most stroke patients to help them recover lost mobility and speech.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/medical_notes/g-i/764070.stm

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Our Lives Are Filled With Worthless Crap That's Destroying the Earth: Here's What You Can Do

If made durable and repairable, where is the profit?
Story:
The way to lower the quantity of energy required to make and distribute short-lived consumer goods is to make them durable, repairable and upgradeable.
As the middle-class daughter of a refugee mother and a Depression-era father, I grew up straddling two worlds. My parents could afford much more than they were willing to buy. Most things that broke could be and were repaired. My German grandmother’s aphorisms lingered in the air: “Waste not, want not,” “A penny saved is a penny earned,” “A stitch in time saves nine.”

By the time my own children were born, America was flooded with cheap and cheaply made goods. So while my parents continued working at the sturdy antique desks they inherited from my grandparents and sleeping beneath a hand-crocheted bedspread, my children and their friends became the first and last owners of a seemingly endless supply of plastic toys and particle-board furniture.

I was part of the transitional generation. Building blocks were still made of wood. Comforters were still filled with down. I recall the meticulously machined pencil sharpeners with “made in West Germany” stamped on their sides that lasted until I lost them. Even the cheap items—the ones “made in Japan”—tended to hold up pretty well.

Now nearly everything is produced in China and made to be discarded. According to a 2008 report by the Economic Policy Institute, the United States imported $320 billion in Chinese goods in 2007. In that year alone, this country imported $26.3 billion in apparel and accessories, $108.5 billion in computers and electronic products, and $15.3 billion in furniture and fixtures from China.

The manufacture, distribution and disposal of an ever-growing mountain of short-lived consumer goods has taken an enormous environmental toll. Annie Leonard’s website “The Story of Stuff,” which has garnered more than 7 million views in less than two years, has helped spread awareness of that cost far beyond the usual environmentalist circles.

We can’t, however, only blame the quantity and quality of Chinese goods for the environmental and other consequences of this transoceanic factory-to-waste stream. For that we can blame the two horsemen of the modern consumer apocalypse: functional obsolescence and fashion obsolescence.

Functional, or planned obsolescence is the purposeful decision by designers and manufacturers to ensure things don’t last, so that consumers must buy new ones. Fashion obsolescence is the related decision to offer new features and aesthetic changes to entice consumers to discard their old items in favor of updated and supposedly better ones.

Ironically, product obsolescence was once seen as the remedy for what ailed our country. Lizabeth Cohen, chair of the History Department at Harvard University and author of A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Vintage, 2003), traces the origins of mass consumption to the period immediately before and after World War II, when a demand-driven economy was seen as the key to our nation’s recovery and prosperity.

“In the 1940s and ’50s, there was a much closer connection between consumer demand and factories and jobs,” Cohen says. “That was a completed circle more than it is today. When people were buying things, they were buying things that were made by American workers.”

The only way to guarantee continued demand was to ensure that people would keep replacing the things they owned. The literature on planned obsolescence makes frequent reference to statements by industry analysts and strategists of that era. “Our enormously productive economy … demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption,” retailing analyst Victor Lebow said in 1948. “We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate.”

This applied to male as well as female consumers, and to styling lines on cars as well as hemlines on skirts. Allied Stores Corporation’s Chairman B. Earl Puckett, speaking to fashion industry leaders in 1950, said, “Basic utility cannot be the foundation of a prosperous apparel industry. We must accelerate obsolescence.” And General Motors’ design chief Harley Earl said in 1955, “The creation of a desire on the part of millions of car buyers each year to trade in last year’s car on a new one is highly important to the automobile industry.”

Business people and politicians weren’t the only ones pushing this idea, Cohen says. “Labor really bought into this package. Purchasing power was the answer to how people would be employed and have a better life. Consumers would fuel the powers of factories that would provide jobs that would put money in peoples’ pockets.”

http://www.alternet.org/story/144204/our_lives_are_filled_with_worthless_crap_that’s_destroying_the_earth:_here’s_what_you_can_do

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Nobu makes music with a little help from his friends!

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Nobu, a Mayflower student, entrepreneur, and sanshin player, talks about the importance of music in his life!

Hello everyone! My name’s Nobu.

I’m friends with Ted, one of Mayflower’s directors. He and I studied entrepreneurship at business school together. I decided to join Mayflower because I would like to support Ted’s taking a step forward, towards his dream. I also sympathize with Mayflower’s educational policy, one important aspect of which challenges me to study entrepreneurship through English.

Quite simply, I must improve my English, because I am involved in a business which requires me to use English. Through my studies here at Mayflower, I am gradually becoming more interested in English culture. Right now, I cannot say what I feel freely in English, but this is changing slowly.

OK, now let’s get down to business!

Have you seen Michael Jackson’s movie “THIS IS IT”? Well, I did! And I was knocked out by Michael’s performance! So today, I would like to share my fascination of music with you through my own performance. I know what you’re thinking…I may not look like the King of Pop, or even a musician, but actually, I like playing the piano and writing songs, and I always want to share my compositions with others.

Although there are good services such as MySpace, which give amateurs an opportunity to introduce their songs to the world, I thought it was too late in my life for me to make a band, and that I couldn’t make music by myself.

Well, last year, I was asked out of the blue by an old friend from high school to play together (piano and guitar) at a music event in Kanda which took place on a shopping street. Now I’ve already done that kind of performance three times since the end of last year. Amazing!

Through those musical performances, I gradually began to enjoy having a relationship with people through music.

Of course, my first performance was not quite as sweet as I pictured it would be. I couldn’t keep the tempo, and I forgot to play some parts. In fact, I was really disappointed at my performance. And that’s not all, the atmosphere of audience looked a little too heavy, because I failed to capture their attention with my floundering.

But did I give up? Not on your life! Let me tell you what I did to overcome my problem.

I realized that confidence and relaxation are a must! So I arranged a cover song in a way that was easier than the original, and I composed a simple song of my own using a similar chord progression on the “A section”, and the main phrases. Then, I learned it by heart.

Well, because of my efforts, I believe I had some kind of breakthrough at the second performance, because the organizer told me and my friend that our performance had improved, and some audience even clapped their hands during the performance. That felt great!

At that time, I understood that I feel more relaxed if somebody helps me or supports me. So I invited 10 friends of mine to the third performance, which turned out to be around half of the audience!

Through my performances, I realized that getting some feedback about my compositions from my friends is a really satisfying feeling. They said lots of great, supportive things — that I could make fresh pop songs like YUZU, and that my main phrases were catchy — so because of those comments, I slowly started to have confidence in my skill as a composer.

On top of that, doing more performances meant having more opportunities to have relationship swith people through music. For example, other performers invited us to perform together with them in the future, and my friend invited me to join an event that he was holding featuring sansin performances.

Don’t you think its exciting when what you love creates bigger chances to work with others? In this case, taking a step forward means boldly knocking on a door that you have never opened before.

I encourage all of you to try doing what you want, and try say what you like! Life is all about introducing new worlds, and new experiences to each other! And I think that’s exactly what we are doing together here at Mayflower.

Thank you for your attention!

[After the Q&A session, Nobu gave the Mayflower audience a fun performance on his sanshin! Thanks, Nobu.]

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Redes sociales e identidad digital. Taller Asociacionismo 2.0, 3a sesión

La web 2.0, la web social, ha establecido una nueva forma de comunicarnos entre nosotros. Estar presentes en MySpace es imprescindible para cualquier grupo musical. Tuenti arrasa en España, mientras Facebook crece en todo el mundo. Twitter utiliza sólo 140 caracteres, un SMS, para comunicarse. Y Xing se especializa en seleccionar y conectar sólo a profesionales.

La tercera de las cuatro sesiones del Taller Asociacionismo 2.0 está dedicada a las Redes Sociales y la Identidad Digital.

Windows Messenger está substituyendo a teléfono para todo tipo de conversaciones. Skype ha introducido la videoconferencia en las comunicaciones domésticas. Tuenti causa furor y ya es la página con más tráfico de toda España, por delante de Google. Cada día que pasa, Facebook se hace más y más grande en todo el mundo. Twitter utiliza sólo 140 caracteres para transmitir la actualidad en todo momento. MySpace continúa siendo la red preferida para los amantes de la música. Y tuCAMON aspira a ser la mayor biblioteca de contenidos en la red.

Ponencia invitada

Identidad digital, una perspectiva desde el marketing y la comunicación. A cargo de Rafael Guerra, director de la empresa de marketing, comunicación y diseño Símbolo – Ingenio Creativo.

Article publicat al CAMON.

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Digsby... IM + EMail + Social Network

Al giorno d’oggi abbiamo mille mila account di posta… di instant messaging e chi più chi meno siamo sui vari LinkedIn e Facebook… un gran casino tenere tutto sott’occhio…

Io tra MSN, ICQ, Skype, MSN, YahooMessenger dovrei tenere aperti 5 programmi… per non parlare della mail personale, quella del blog, LinkedIn e Facebook… ‘na faticaccia no?

Ed ecco che l’altro giorno “scopro” Digsby… mi “controlla” le varie mail e funge da IM multiprotocollo per i vari programmi di IM (eccetto Skype… almeno per ora)…

…poi controlla LinkedIn e facebook e un po’ di altre cose che non necessariamente utilizzo…

Comodissimo per i vari popup di avviso dei messaggi ma anche dei cambi di stato di FB o di nuovo foto inserite dai contatti…

La feature mooooolto comoda è che una volta installato su un PC e creato l’account su Digsby (a cui associare tutti gli altri) se per esempio sono in giro con il portatile ed installo Digsby lì… TAAAAAC automaticamente prende tutte le impostazioni che avevo già impostato sul PC di casa… in questo modo uno non si deve nemmeno più preoccupare di ricordarsi 10k password… ne basta una… uella di Digsby!

Personalmente mi son trovato a disabilitare un po’ di funzioni che risultavano “leggermente” invasive durante l’utilizzo normale: ridotto all’osso i popup e gli avvisi sonori in pratica] ma devo dire che sono rimasto piacevolmente impressionato dal programmino… Bhé provatelo anche voi no?

LINK

• Digsby – Sito Ufficiale

• Disgby – The Community

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Enjoy Life.

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.
Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ‘In five years, will this matter?’
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s,we’d grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.”

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Mouse study points to treatment for Down syndrome-Reuters.

A ray of hope for people with Children afflicted with Downs Syndrome.
Story:
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Increasing the levels of a message-carrying chemical in the brain may help prevent some of the memory deficits in Down syndrome that hinder learning and make it hard for the brain to develop normally, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

They said mice with a rodent version of Down syndrome that were injected with drugs to increase levels of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine — which nerve cells use to communicate — showed improvements in their thinking ability.

The finding points to a new way of trying to improve some of the deficits seen in Down syndrome, which affects 5,000 newborns in the United States each year.

“If you intervene early enough, you will be able to help kids with Down syndrome to collect and modulate information,” said Dr Ahmad Salehi of the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, whose study was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

“Theoretically, that could lead to an improvement in cognitive functions in these kids,” Salehi, who worked on the study while at Stanford University School of Medicine, said in a statement.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5AI0EJ20091119?feedType=nl&feedName=ushealth1100

You know it's a recession when...

#uknowitsarecession

…You get pulled over and ask for a warrant instead of ticket

…when people ask for a free glass of water and slices of lemon instead of lemonade

…Rappers be on Twitter beggin niggas to buy their album

…You get a burger with no cheese cuz it’s extra

…People start stealing from the dollar shop

…You go to the gas station and put a dollar on 10

…When your BROKE! That’s it, I’m going to sleep

 

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All's Quiet talks of the bands beginning, the new album "LIKE VULTURES" and cement stop signs!

Tonight I sit down with Vocalist, Mack from All’s Quiet.

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Tyler: What inspired the start of the band and how long have you been together?
Mack: Basically, we started as just four 14 year old kids that just wanted to play in a band. We were all just super into punk music and Nirvana, and we just wanted to play music like that. We have been a band now for about 5 years, its taken us a long time to shape our band into what it is now [laughs]

T: Is there a meaning behind the band name? How did you guys come up with it?

M: [Laughs] I hate when I get this question. This a terrible answer, but basically when I was 15, I was on sparknotes.com reading a summary for some book I had to read for school, and while I was on the site, I decided to go through book titles that could be cool band names. I stumbled across All Quiet on the Western Front. We all thought it had a cool ring to it, like it just seemed to fit for a southern rock infused hardcore band. So we used that name, except we didn’t want to copy it exactly so we made it All’s Quiet on the Western Front. About 4 months ago we made shortened it to just All’s Quiet because that is what everyone called us anyways [laughs]

T: How has the band changed or improved since its beginnings?

M: I can’t even begin to describe how much we have improved since our inception. We were terrible when we started, but then this band wasn’t serious. Since then we have just worked extremely hard to always continue writing better songs, and always making our live performance that much more interesting than the last, so every new thing we do, tops the last thing we did. That is what keeps us constantly improving, if any readers want a good laugh check out: http://www.purevolume.com/theflamingjohnnyproject those are the first recordings that we ever did. This just proves how much better we have gotten since then [laughs again].

T: There’s a Twitter contest going on with you guys right now, if I’m correct. How’s that work?

M: Well the twitter contest ended this past Saturday, but basically anyone who re tweeted a message for us (RT @allsquietmusic LIKE VULTURES EP on iTunes NOV. 17th. New Song “Men of the Forest” and Preorder on www.myspace.com/allsquiet) would be entered in for a chance to win a free copy of our brand new EP “Like Vultures”. We are announcing the winners this week, so everyone keep their eyes peeled!!!

T: The new album “LIKE VULTURES” drops in 9 days. What are your thoughts on the album? How does it differ to any previous releases? What are fans in store for?

M: We are so stoked on this album, we put countless months into a very carefully constructed writing process. These are by the best songs we have written to date, and we are so happy on how they came out. These songs differ quite a bit from our past releases because for once they are actually written with a structure in mind as opposed to our way of writing songs which was just throw a part in if it sounds cool [laughs]. They are also much more aggressive musically and darker lyrically than anything we have put out. Fans are in store for a brand new All’s Quiet, something they didn’t see coming, but will love.

T: How was the album recorded, with whom? Was this self-produced or was their a producer in the studio?

M: We recorded the album at Spider Studios in Cleveland, Ohio (Misery Signals, Walls of Jericho, Drowning Pool, Etc.) with producer Tony Gammalo. We spent each day doing one set of instruments, and then a full day on all vocals. We did majority of the producing for this album, but Tony has a lot of input.

T: How did the writing process pan out and how much time was taken to record it?

M: We spent about 3 months writing and perfecting all the songs for the album. Basically our guitarists get together and throw ideas out until they have a basic song structure, and once that is done we all get together and finalize everything until we think the song is perfect. That usually takes a very long time [laughs]. We recorded the EP in only 4 days due to our horrible financial situation. We saved up for months just to get those 4 days, but the songs came out great, so it really worked out.

T: Are there any plans for a tour in support of the release?

M: Well as of now, we leave in January with our friends from Ohio in The Gunshow, and we have some special secret tour plans for February and March with some friends from down south which we are incredibly stoked about. Hopefully things will just keep getting better as the year continues.

T: How long have you guys been touring for?

M: Well being that we all just graduated from High School last June, we haven’t been touring full time for very long. Only a few months, but we have been touring on weekends and school breaks for the last 2 years. So we have a good amount of experience under our belts for as young as we are.

T: What’s the most fucked up thing to ever happen on the road?

M: On our winter icebreaker tour December of 2008, we were touring with our friends in a band called With Wings of Lead and we were driving to Stevens Point Wisconsin for one of our shows. We had been driving behind them all night. It was about 4 in the morning, cold as fuck outside, and pouring rain, and on the freeway when all of the sudden we smelled something burning. We thought at first it was our van and started getting really freaked out, but then With Wings of Lead’s trailer tire just exploded in front of us and started sparking all over. They pulled over and we pulled next to them to figure out what was going on. They didn’t have a spare, so we decided to drive a few of them up to the nearest Walmart to go buy one being that it was the only store open that early in the morning. Once we arrived in the parking lot of the store we were driving to go park when all of a sudden our guitarist at the time ran into a cemented stop sign and wrapped our brand new $2000.00 trailer with all of our gear around it. Basically think of when a car is driving 90 mph down and road then hits a tree that’s what it looked like. We had to spend the rest of the day prying it off the sign in the freezing pouring rain and trying to find a place that could potentially fix our trailer for cheap. No place could do it, so instead of canceling tour we put all of our equipment in WWoL’s trailer, pawned our trailer at a truck shop for $400.00 even though it was worth 2 grand, and we just continued in our van. We lost over 600 dollars that tour and it put us in a really bad place for long time. It was fucked [laughs]

T: How do you guys keep sane while living out of a van with five sweaty dudes?

M: [Laughs] that is probably one of the hardest things about being in a touring band. Basically everyone just does things to keep themselves occupied and happy. When you spend all this time in a van, feeling disgusting, sweaty, and sleep deprived, pretty much anything can get on your nerves, so we find it best to just try to keep to ourselves as much as possible during the day and like text, sleep, or listen to our ipods and stuff. Then after shows we just find places to get crazy and party to blow off steam. It seems to work out.

Also, our van has no stereo system and some of the windows don’t close, so that drives us crazy sometimes too [laughs]

T: That’s it for me dudes thanks again.

M: No problem, thanks for taking the time to interview us!!

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This little post is long over due, surely by now many of you are wondering “what exactlly” is Swaggtalk100 well its simple its a blog site about all things SWAGG if it appeals to the masses, has flare, style, basically looks good to those who crave taste then this is for you. Let me introduce the SWAGG TEAM: Swaggtalk100, Webmaster35, Webmistress27 and Webmini18 we will be updating this site regurally, adding domain names so please bare with us while we’re under construction in the following months or weeks (give or take a few) we will continue to add current events, videos, news clips, photos about all things swagg…from the US to the UK and all in between be sure to check us out as much as you also spread the word by adding out link to your social pages such as Myspace, Facebook, Blackplanet and whatever else you would like to.

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1000 amigos en MySpace

Acabamos de alcanzar 1000 amigos en nuestra cuenta oficial de MiEspacioSecreto en MySpace. Quizás algunos pensarán que tampoco es para tanto, pero para nosotros es importante ya que es la tercera cuenta que creamos (las dos anteriores fueron canceladas por MySpace) y nuestros amigos han vuelto a agregarnos una vez más. Así que a todos ellos: gracias por vuestra paciencia .

Además nos encanta tener como amigos en MySpace a algunos de nuestros habitantes VIPs como Silvia Rubi, La China Patino, HangedDoll, Barbara Vamp, Rebecca Saray y a habitantes populares como Le Morbo, Lady Akasha, Gorende y una larga lista más.

Si no conoces aún nuestra cuenta de MySpace, descúbrela aquí y si aún no somos amigos, ¿a qué esperas para agregarnos?

MySpace Scam

There is a MySpace Scam email going around that asks you to update your account information. Do not click on any of the links in the email!

Dear MySpace user!

Please be informed that you are required to update your MySpace account.

Please update your MySpace account by clicking here:

If you’re unable to click on the link above, copy and paste it into your browser’s address bar.

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At MySpace we care about your privacy. This email is never sent unsolicited.

If you think you’ve received this email in error, or if you have any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, please contact us at:

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Pen pals take on a new perspective

As a junior high student, I had pen pals all around the world. Of the ones that remain from that group of two dozen, two are in the U.S. and two are in Canada. I think how different this may have been with a social network that we could access rather than waiting for letters to arrive in the mail, though I have to admit, that was part of the charm of having a pen pal. Two of these don’t have a computer, so we still send letters through the mail.

As the fastest growing online media, social networking or “member communities” have seen a growth rate of twice any other online sector at 5.4% globally, according to Nielsen’s “Global Faces and Networked Places” report issued earlier this year. While one would expect this to come from youth logging on, they are nudged out by the 35-49 age group at 24.1% with 18-34-year-olds a close second at 22.8%, and almost one-third of the Facebook audience is now 50 and older. Maserati in Italy now has a fan page on Facebook. At this point, users access social media primarily through a desktop or laptop computer.

Unlike other media and the World Wide Web as a whole, this is not an open book for advertisers. User-generated content communities experience tremendous push back to the idea of paid messages on their network. MySpace, which has greater global reach and an emphasis on entertainment, along with a greater percentage of youth users, has been able to gain acceptance of advertisers, with most of them coming from the entertainment industry such as Virgin and media companies such as Vodafone.

It is important to recognize that outside of the U.S., there are many domestic networks and in the countries of China and Japan, the top three social network sites are domestic. According to Mielsen, in Brazil, Orkut leads, with Facebook barely a blip on the user radar. It will be interesting to watch how this evolves in a landscape of global connections.

 

It will also be interesting as the youth on these sites mature, to see what happens with regard to diplomatic relations among countries. Each generation has said that the future of the world lies in the hands of the next generation—regardless of implications for marketing, perhaps the greatest impact social networks will have is on how we understand each other from a cultural perspective.

NOTE:  To access the Nielsen report, you can register on Nielsen.com. The registration is free.

Médias Sociaux - 6 grandes tendances en 2010

En 2009 nous avons vue une croissance exponentielle des réseaux sociaux. Selon Nielsen Online aux États Unis, Twitter à lui seul a grandi de 1,382% entre février 2008 et 2009, inscrivant un peu plus de 7 millions de visiteurs uniques (VU) en février 2009. Au Canada il est passé grandi de 1,370% pour atteindre 3.2 millions en septembre selon comScore, 1,300% en un an au Canada Français pour atteindre 368 000. Pendant ces périodes, Facebook a poursuivi sa croissance (+14% au Canada pour atteindre 19,2 millions ou la 6e plus importante propriété Web au pays, +47% au Canada français pour atteindre 3,7 millions, plus importante de MySpace -19% au Canada pour atteindre 3,4 millions, -26% au Canada français pour atteindre 762 000).

Donc qu’auront l’aire les réseaux et médias sociaux en 2010? En 2010, les médias sociaux seront plus populaire (en tant que catégorie), plus mobile et plus exclusifs. Voici quelques tendances à suivre pour les prochains 12 à 24 mois:

1. Les réseaux sociaux auront l’aire moins social
Avec les groupes, les listes et les réseaux nichés qui deviennent de plus en plus populaires, certains pourraient devenir un peu plus exclusifs. C’est pas tout le monde qui peut se retrouver sur chacune de mes nouvelles listes Twitter. Avec le bruit sur chaque réseau qui augmente constamment, il deviendra de plus en plus commun de “masquer” les grands usagers qui monopolisent les conversations. Motre flux de nouvelles Facebook (les mise à jours de votre réseau) va devenir de plus en plus commun. C’est peut-être pas moins social, mais vous ne pourrez participer à tous les filons de discussions – on ne cherchera peut-être plus de retrouver toutes nos connaissances, mais de diminuer le bruit en nous concentrant sur ceux qui comptent le plus pour nous.

2. Les entreprises veulent grandir davantage
Peu de compagnies ont entrepris des initiatives de taille sur les réseaux sociaux à part quelques petits projets ici et là. Twelpforce de Best Buy met à contribution des centaines d’employés en soutien technique à la clientèle via Twitter. Le système interne suit et connait les employés qui participent. C’est un indicateur de services qui verront le jour sous peu dans diverses entreprises dans un effort de couper les coûts ET de mieux servir sa clientèle comme ELLE souhaite être servi.
3. Les affaires sociales deviennent un jeux sérieux
Des nouveaux réseaux tels Foursquare rendent l’activité de réseautage local et mobile. Celui-ci se présente quasiment comme un jeu et excite l’esprit compétitif de l’usager. Les participant sont récompensé selon leur taux de participation. Le système vous tiens aussi au courant du niveau de vos amis afin de vous encourager à participer d’avantage. Les entreprises qui cherche à fidéliser leur “fans” via les réseaux sociaux, là où ils sont libre de quitter à leur guise, dans un effort de contrôle vont probablement développer de tels programmes de fidélisation ou récompenses pour garder les gens “pour le jeux”, pour les cadeaux, pour le prestige du classement. Il faudra faire attention de ne pas garder les gens juste pour garder les gens, mais garder ceux qui ont une valeur pour l’entreprise – éviter de retomber dans les comportement du siècle précédent…

4. Votre compagnie aura une politique sur les médias sociaux (elle sera peut-être même appliqué)
Si votre entreprise n’a pas de politique concernant les médias sociaux en place avec des règles claires sur l’engagement des employés au nom de l’entreprise, à travers multiples réseaux, cela ne tardera pas – ce sera pour l’an prochain sans faute. Cela devra couvrir le comportement en tant qu’employé à ce qu’est considéré la concurrence (spécifiquement et généralement). Il faut que cette politique soit claire, qu’elle protège l’entreprise et ses marques tout en encourageant ses employés à participer et faire rayonné l’entreprise et ses marques – elle ne doit forcer personne à participer – la participation forcé se sent et n’est pas bénéfique à l’image de l’entreprise.

5. Le mobile deviendra le point de contact permanent.
Environ 70% des entreprises bloquent l’accès aux réseaux sociaux au bureau. En même temps, les ventes de téléphones intelligents (iPhone, Blackberry et autres) explosent. Étonnez vous pas si les employés persistent dans leur usage des réseaux sociaux sur les heures de bureau, mais sur leur appareil mobile (pas contrôlable par l’entreprise). Ce qui autrefois (pas encore de l’histoire ancienne) était des pauses cigarettes, deviendront maintenant des pauses “réseau social.” Attendez-vous à de bien meilleurs outils pour accédez à vos réseaux sociaux préférés.

6. Partager ne veux plus dire “courriel”
L’application du New York Times pour iPhone a récemment ajouter une fonction “partage” permettant aux usagers de facilement diffuser un article à leur réseau social préféré tel Facebook et Twitter. Plusieurs sites Web ont déjà de type de fonction sur leurs contenus. Nous constaterons une augmentation marqué de l’usage de ces fonctions “partage” l’an prochain alors que les usagers seront tous suffisament à l’aise avec les réseaux sociaux pour trouver cela plus rapide qu’envoyer de quoi par courriel.

Ce sont 6 tendances à suivre l’an prochain. Il y en a beaucoup, beaucoup d’autres, plus précises dans bien des cas. Je les ajouterai ici dans quelques jours.

inspiré entre autre de “Six Social Media Trends for 2010” par David Armano sur le blogue du Harvard Business School le 2 novembre 2009

Social Networking Sites: How Social on Internet we are ?

Social Networking sites are measure of how social on Internet we are? There are a lot of social networking sites which are being used by millions of users, famous ones being: Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Myspace, Orkut, Netlog, Hi5 and more.

Facebook : This is the site, which was made nearly 5 years ago, Most widely used social networking site at this time, 350 million users currently, adding half a million users everyday (500000 users daily sign up for facebook, isn’t it too much ?? ), Main users from developed countries (where almost 70-80 % people have Internet accessibility) and becoming famous in developing countries too. Main power of site is friends updates, like button and ease to access to comment and use the site. Most of Celebrities use this site to keep in touch with their fans and promte their products.

Twitter: This microblogging site was released in 2006, in just 3 years gained so much popularity. Most experts think it to be the future of social networking. Main reason for the success of this microblogging site, I think, is: Everybody wants to express his/her feelings, views and they want to generally let the others know what they feel/think and this site provides the best medium to them. There are a lot of celebrities on twitter tweeting about their personal life, profession life and their visions.

Orkut: This site was launched nearly at the same time as that of Facebook, owned by Google, mostly used in Brazil, India and Pakistan. (In India aorund 7% of total population uses Internet). Main Power of Orkut lies in Community forums, scraps, a long way to go to compete with facebook.

There are other famous social networking sites those are being used, but as far as social networking in current scnerio is concerned, Facebook and Twitter have eaten most of the share of other social networking site. Myspace which used to be rank-1 social networking site some time ago, is now no more rank one. Linkedin is mostly used for professional pusposes (50 million uses currently on it).

This will the scene to see, which one these social networking medium captures others market or any new social networking site emerge as new winner.

Happy social networking,

Tarun

Getting over Facebook

Although I would never claim to be one of the pioneers of blogging, I have been known to vaguely suggest that I was part of the first wave of bloggers – or at least the second. Actually, forget that, I’ll start again…I was a blogger before the terrifying rise of social networking. Admittedly it wasn’t far behind me, but I can confidently say that when I was in my pomp I did not know a single person who used MySpace. In fact, I’m not even sure if it existed in any meaningful form back then.

Like everyone else though, I quickly succumbed. I became an active MySpace user and whittled away many happy hours with my small network of friends. This was also about the time I stopped blogging and, to be perfectly honest, a small part of me always resented this change in my online life. I knew deep down that I’d traded something unique and interesting for something that felt slightly, well, generic.

This resentment was conflicted though. MySpace was an essential factor in the bizarre story of how I met my fiancée, and Facebook has seen me back in contact with friends I always regretted losing touch with. As much I as I didn’t want to like social networking, I was certainly doing bloody well out of it. But now, many years and status updates later, Facebook feels stale and I can sense that old resentment bubbling up again…

It’s important to note that this relates to my personal experiences, and it’s quite possible that the time you spend on Facebook is infinity more fulfilling than mine. I should also mention that no meaningful data supports my feelings either. At the time of writing, this page was claiming over 300 million active Facebook users producing 45 million mildly interesting status updates per day. That’s some seriously big numbers!

But stats aren’t everything when it comes to these things. You wouldn’t try to gage how enjoyable a film is, for example, by simply counting heads in the cinema, you’d have to survey people for that. And so these numbers tell us nothing about the quality of people’s experiences on Facebook, especially mine.

There are rarely any new arrivals on Facebook for me now. The excitement of seeing a long-forgotten friend or co-worker suddenly appear is becoming increasingly rare. All I seem to get these days are requests off people I once knew who seem completely disinclined to communicate, preferring an inflated friend list to any real conversation. There’s also the large percentage of people on my friends list who rarely log on, if ever. I’m finding my interaction on Facebook now revolves around the same, fairly small group of friends. But rather than being a tightly-knit circle of my closer friends, they’re just the handful of people that use Facebook most. Our strongest connection is the combined hours we waste on the site, which I’m sure isn’t really the point of social networking.

I will admit that I spend a lot of time interacting with my girlfriend on Facebook though, time that is highly enjoyable. The honest truth, however, is that we tend to use whatever communication tool is nearest at the time. Google Chat, emails, text messages and old fashioned phone calls are all employed when we’re apart and fancy a chat. If Facebook winked out of existence tomorrow, I don’t think we’d unduly suffer. It might even help our predisposition towards procrastination a little.

Chatting With Britt Savage

Nashville is full of surprises.  You never know who you are going to meet or who is going to inspire you.  It was tax day, April of this year and I decided to go to 12th and Porter at the last minute after being invited by a friend that said I had to catch the Britt Savage show.  In my ignorance I had never seen her show, and as usual I am always up for new experiences so I went for it.

Britt’s show was captivating.  In a town bursting with country music, her music came out of left field.  She features Mod Music – complete with gogo dancers and boots made for walking “all over you”.  The performance showed great attention to detail by orchestrating lights, video, and images to correlate with the live music and dancing.  I think I smiled the whole evening.

In honor of tax day she dawned a self-made dress made entirely of shredded tax forms for her show.  The dress received great applause and cheers from the crowd when she revealed what it was made out of.  It took her a month to create the dress.  A few shredders didn’t make it out alive.   She had never done something like this before.  This tax creation is even making into the next Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Book.  You can see more pictures by going to her website.  She auctioned it off on ebay and was able to raise $306 for Heifer International, an organization working to end hunger.

Some time after the Tax dress and the Mod evening I ran into Britt at the Blue Bird.  After recognizing her I had to introduce myself.  I went on to express my admiration for her vocal talents and her life performance.  She humbly thanked me for my kind words and I was struck by her sincerity.  We have since then kept in touch online and I find that she is highly industrious and creative.  After twisting her arm, she agreed to answering a few questions about herself.  I just love it when I meet people who are talented, humble, ambitious, creative, and giving.  From what I have been able to learn about Britt, she is all of that and then some.  Here is a little background on Britt Savage…

How long have you been here?

I’ve been here about 10 years.  I was working as a singer in NYC and started getting some sessions in Nashville and just fell in live with the town.

Why do you stay?

From the first time I stepped off the airplane, it felt like home.  I’ve owned horses most of my life, although I had to board them, and I love driving past green pastures of grazing horses and cows on the way to a session.  I also LOVE driving.  I just completed my 4th time at driving school because I may enjoy driving too much.  Ha I really love the Nashville music community, such a great supportive bunch of talented friends who have become like family.

If you weren’t doing music, what would you be doing?

I’ve always loved animals and wanted to be a vet but I loved animals much more than studying so I couldn’t get into vet school.  I also wanted to be a jockey but at 5’7, I was really too tall although I worked as a groom and exercise rider at Meadowland Race Track after high school.  I also worked as a Playboy Bunny, radio DJ and a gas station attendant but singing has been the best fit.  It’s something I’d do everyday,even if I wasn’t being paid.

How long did it take you to really get into music full time?

When I was about 20, I started out singing in cover bands in NJ. It was a great time for live music and you could play a different club, six nights a week.  I learned so much about singing, performing and just life in general in those clubs. My band, The Nines, opened up for Scandal and someone from that band caught our show and asked me if I’d like to sing on a jingle.  I had been doing session work for a couple years but this session turned into a national Campbell’s Soup jingle.  I started getting more calls for jingle work and moved into NYC.

Descibe your home demo service- why start it?  How do you accomplish it?

Well, the home recordings really happened out of necessity. When I moved here, I was basically starting over.  For the first year, I’d fly up to NYC for sessions and live gigs but it just wasn’t cost effective.  My husband and favorite drummer, Wes Little, helped me get started recording my vocals from our home studio and sending the files to clients in NY.

I really started loving recording from home.  I still do regular sessions in studios but I love the flexibility of home recording – I can record the lead and do the harmonies when I get home from a movie.  Ha!

I usually record more takes and background vocals than anyone would ever need and post them to an ftp site.  The songwriter or jingle producer rarely asks for any re-sings but I’m happy to do it.  The reality is there’s nothing like being able to direct someone through through their live session but I find I can usually get what someone has in mind from talking to them on the phone or an email. Most people paypal me or send me a check.  It’s pretty easy.

Did you ever have professional training or does music come naturally?

I’ve taken voice lessons from Marty and Don Lawrence (Bon Jovi, Billy Joel) and Katie Agresta (Steven Tyler, Annie Lennox) but singing came pretty naturally for me. I’ve always just loved music and sang non stop.  I learned a lot about harmony from listening to records.

If you could sing a duet with anyone who would it be and why?

Paul McCartney.  I know the jingle says Cotton is the fabric of our lives but The Beatles have been the aural fabric of mine.  I wore those vinyl records out – but the strange thing is where most of the artists I’ve loved for a certain time remain stuck in that time, even if I still love to listen to them, The Beatles recordings seem to reveal new things to me all the time. It’s like they’ve grown as I have.

What is your worst way to ruin your chances in this town?

I’m no expert but it all comes down to integrity with me.  Treat people well. You might be singing the world’s worst song demo but remember you’re singing someone’s dream.

What 3 things would you say to someone in Nashville who wants to throw in the towel?

That’s a tough one because a life in music isn’t for everyone.  I like to say that the best part about it is also the worst part about it-  you don’t know what you’ll be doing next month. Currently, the thrill of not knowing is greater than my fear of not knowing so it works for me.

I also think it’s ok for dreams to evolve.  You might have thought you’d be the next  Alan Jackson but maybe teaching music would feed your soul even more.  The drummer in my old cover band, Mick Gormaley, is now a sound editor for lots of major films and he loves it.

If you’re dead set on making it in music, I’d say keep out there, keep learning, keep networking. There are plenty of  “ I almost gave up and then my big break happened’ stories.

I know I didn’t give you 3 things to do when you’re ready to throw in the towel… I guess I’m thinking sometimes you can use that towel as a parachute and land somewhere even better.

Random, yet fascinating facts about Britt Savage

• Recently started writing songs for a greeting card company
• Currently making another charity dress out of Christmas wrapping paper for her appearance at Billy Block’s on Dec 15th
• Won $100,000 on Star Search
• Was a contestant on VH1’s Rock & Roll Jeopardy
• Won a trip to LA from a Howard Stern Song Parody contest
• Sang jingles for Coke, Loreal, Ponds, Lays, Wendys, Burger King, Woolite, San Pellegrino, Bounce, Tyco, Campbells, etc…
• Worked with live or in the studio – Tony Bennett, Noel Redding, Garth Brooks, Angie Stone, Trisha Yearwood, Dave Von Ronk, Larry Coryell, Linda Davis, Billy Dean, Brooks & Dunn, Natalie Cole, Ru Paul, David Sandborn, Rupert Homes, Denice William, Oran Juice Jones, Bebe Winans, Andy Griggs, Peter Wolf, Jason Michael Carrol, Donna Summer, The Skatalites, Robert Cray, Billy Squire, Nona Hendrix, Waylon Jennings, Phoebe Snow, Joe Lynn Turner, Southside Johnny, Ron Wood, Patty Smyth, Walk Wilkins, Billy Gilman, Cory Glover, Marshall Crenshaw, Crystal Gayle, Darlene Love, Nastasia Kinski.

If you ever have the chance to catch Britt’s show, you should go.  When you meet her around town – ask her how one woman manages to accomplish this much in life!  You can also check out her video on youtube for her song Looking Like I’m Gonna. It is hard-working people like this that make Nashville such a successfully talented town.

MySpace Oficial de Wonder Girls ¡REDISEÑADO!

El tiempo de rediseñar todo a llegado. Hace unas semanas el sitio web oficial de Wonder Girls fue rediseñado, al agrado de muchos. Su Twitter ahora esta muy en epoca con el pavo y las calabazas. Y hoy le tocó el turno al MySpace Oficial de las Chicas.

Algo que me llama la atención es quien estuvo a cargo el rediseño del MySpace.

Cuando las Wonder Girls fueron a EE. UU. para el JYP Tour 2009, JYP se unió a Ningin, y estos tuvieron cierta cobertura especial de los conciertos más tuvieron premios para los fans, bitácoras escritas por las Wonder Girls, etc. Aparte de esto Ningin fue el responsable de diseñar el MySpace de las Wonder Girls el cual fue abierto un poco antes del JYP Tour 2009, lugar donde se reveló que las Wonder Girls harían su debut en EE. UU.

Todo parecía indicar que JYP ya se había olvidado de la existencia de Ningin, ya que las Wonder Girls dejaron de escribir en la página y no había ningun tipo de exclusivas u otras cosas parecidas. Pero estabamos equivocados ya que el MySpace ha sido rediseñado por W. J. Kim y cuando presionas el enlace provisto te dirige a la página de Ningin.com.

Cuando el trabajo de diseñar el MySpace fue asignado a Ningin ellos estaban algo “preocupados” por el look ya que era su primera vez diseñando un MySpace y porque le habían pedido ROSA por todos lados.
Parece ser que aunque Ningin no cuenta con ninguna exclusiva al momento, el diseño del MySpace se quedo en sus manos y se salieron con la suya y cambiaron el rosa.

En lo personal me gusta el rediseño, creo que antes tenía demasiado rosa… ¿Y a ustedes que les parece?

¡Visiten el MySpace Oficial de Wonder Girls!

[Crédito: followWG]