Cybersurf

In the last few days, the declining health of Israeli Prime Minister has been one of the top international stories. News junkies have been checking in all the time for progress reports on his health, and also to read speculation about the consequences of his removal from the Middle Eastern political landscape.

You have frequently heard us on AM Live interviewing journalists from the Ha’aretz and the Jerusalem Post newspapers – both of them well known Israeli publications and both having excellent English language online sites.

The Ha’aretz site at www.haaretzdaily.com/ - let me spell that for you H.A.A.R.E.T.Z. D.A.I.L.Y dot com is a highly commercialised portal site that not only gives you up-to-date news but also offers plenty of opinion from news-makers and from online users. There is lots of advertising – especially travel packages to Israel, study options and real estate adverts.

The other English language daily – the Jerusalem Post – has a very similar lay-out to Ha’aretz and the political viewpoint – slightly to the left of centre - is also very close. Check it out for yourself at http://www.jpost.com/

If you are interested in finding out what is happening directly from government – it is best to use the foreign ministry site which is at http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/ - the MFA standing for ministry of foreign Affairs.

I was also curious to find out if there is a kadima site for Sharon’s new political party - and there is at: www.kadimasharon.co.il – but in all likelihood – you won’t be able to read it because it is in Hebrew.

(T) Let us now get a whole lot more frivolous. A young man from Wiltshire in England – Alex Tew is his name – needed a lot of money to be able to pusue his bisiness management studies course at university – so he though of a brialliant way of becoming a millionaire. He is only 21 years old by the way.

His idea was mind numbingly simple and astoundingly successful. He put up a web site and offered to sell off the front page one hundred pixels at a time at a cost of one dollar per pixel.

It is a great publicity stunt and advertisers have bought in big time – and why shouldn’t they. The tiny bit of real estate on http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ allows you to advertise and put up a link to your own site and since his site gets over a million visitors a week – this is a good investment. The last one thousand pixels available Alex has put up for auction and that latest bid was just over one hundred and fifty two thousand dollars – a figure which will comfortably take him past his stated target of one million dollars.

My question now is – if he can earn a million dollars before his twenty second birthday – why does he need to study business management?

That’s it for today. If you need to refer back to some of the web addresses I mentioned, please go to the Cybersurf Blog which you will find at www.cybersurf.blogspot.com one more time.

Thanks for listening and till next week remember to keeeeep on surfing.

Relevant links:

• Ha'aretz newspaper
• Jerusalem Post
• Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Kadima Party in Israel
  
• Million dollar homepage

// posted by Steven Lang @ 12:13 pm