"WAVE" No.65
March 2012

Editorial


Topic of the Issue

Importance and potentials of Internet

Surf smart!
Is there are a right way of communicating on Internet? What are the dangers of surfing? How to promote your successes and knowledge or business of your company in the best way? These and many similar questions are answered by a team of bloggers gathered around the organization BITNO ("Important") as a part of BITNO tour in smaller towns in Serbia... >>



On-line communications
Techno-social networks
The Web 2.0 applications represent a set of tools that enable the masses to easily create content on the WWW, in the form of Blogs, social networks, video and photo collections, and simple application creation frameworks. Their development has amplified the importance of relationships between users that are represented in social networks. During this activities, users create a huge amount of data which can be used for the analysis human dynamics on the Web


Online world
History of the web goes offline at LOL gallery
A new gallery exploring the history of the internet is to open at the National Media Museum in Bradford

Politics

Russia election
Vladimir Putin celebrates victory
Vladimir Putin and his supporters are celebrating victory in Russian elections, that will give him a third presidential term after spending the last four years as the country's PM... >>

Society

International Student Week in Belgrade, ISWiB 2012
Youth changing the World!
This year, ISWiB will be held for the sixth time, from 15th to 22th of July, in the capital of Serbia. About 200 participants from the European universities will be able to choose one out of eight workshops, with additional chance to get to know Belgrade, as well as Serbian culture, tradition and nightlife through numerous events that the culture & entertainment program includes... >>


Interview: Miloš Milisavljević, CEO of Strawberry energy
Turning dreams into reality
We would like to continue doing what we are doing now. We would like to introduce clean energy resources into everyday life, so people could use them. Until now we only installed systems in Serbia but we are planning to do it abroad, too. I believe that it is the essence of every generation to improve something on out little planet in order to hand it over to the generations to come... >>

Economics

Interview: Aleksandar Poznanić, Team Leader of the SAMPLE
Leaders of the future create positive changes
One of the recent theories called "Super Leadership" perceives the ability to create new leaders as a main characteristic of every leader. This is exactly crucial for Serbia that doesn't have valuable energy resources, such as sea and the like. Our only resource are people... >>


Research of the Civic Initiatives - "Youth and Entrepreneurship"
Lack of initial capital, knowledge and skills
Young people assess predominantly negative overall atmosphere and conditions for entrepreneurship. More than half of the population aged 15-30 years from 14 towns in Serbia consider the overall atmosphere negative, while 70 percent of young people believe that the risk of doing business in Serbia is high. At the same time, even 74 percent think that starting your own business in Serbia is expensive and complicated... >>

Culture & Arts

Academy Awards 84th Edition
And the winner is - "The Artist"
As expected, this year's Academy Awards had decided its winners, not so different from what previous awards, such as the Golden Globes, successfully stipulated. "The Artist" and "Hugo" took home five awards, with the first winning the most prestigious ones, while some movies were made justice, and some not... >>

Science & Tech

OPERA Project
Who said Einstein was wrong?
Five months after headlines challenged one of the most fundamental laws of Physics and journalists started speculating with the possibility of going back to past times, science remembers that it requires much more than media coverage to validate its findings and results. After three years of hard work in Gran Sasso, Italy, the experiments to test the speed of neutrinos will need to start from scratch... >>


Music copyrights
Should bloggers pay copyrights fees for embedding videos with songs?
In the beginning of March, a topic dominated Brazilian blogosphere: ECAD, an entity responsible for assuring that music copyrights are followed in the country, started to charge bloggers a monthly fee for embedding videos with music in their blogs. After a series of online protests, the entity reversed the decision. But the act exposed the flaws in the outdated copyright laws in Brazil... >>


Solagro Team
We think globally and act locally
As the Earth becomes more populated, it raises the question of sustainability of food supplies and energy. Unconscionable behavior of a small number of people can affect the whole humanity in the future. However, there are more and more people who are aware of this problem, and every day there appears a new solution... >>

Sport

Indian Wells 2012
Fedex still strong, Vika unbeatable
In the final match Federer didn't allow any surprise although the first set was pretty tough. He won 7-6 (7), 6-3. Belarus beauty Victoria Azarenka kept on her winning row, after a short break caused with the injury. She was cruel against her opponents again and didn't let any of her rivals to even think of win... >>

Entertainment

Interview: J.P. Cooper, singer-songwriter
"If it becomes a job, it loses its magic"
He fell in love with music when he was in his teens and he has had a romance with it for the last 10 years. For him, life would not be the same without music. For most of those who see this Mancunian performing once nothing is the same afterwards. JP Cooper's captivating voice is one of those gems that very few people have the fortune to cross paths with in their lifetime. Now, after two years of personal and professional growth, he is nearly ready to release his second EP. WAVE magazine has had a chance to talk to him... >>

and much more in all sections... explore!