... all, Our next e-seminar will run between 17 November – 1 December. Please find the e-seminar abstract of Rajagopalan working paper “Not just spooky: the collaborative aesthetics of Supernatural fandom on Runet” online at: The paper will but up on the web site shortly. All the best, Sigurjon. EASA Media Anthropology Network

Russian new media investment group Profmedia is raising equity to buy a bigger stake in Rambler.ru, the Russian content and search business it owns a 54.4 percent stake in. (via Yakov). Profmedia announced on Wednesday it’s launching an accelerated bookbuild—where a company quickly raises finance by offering existing investors new shares—to buy out minority shareholders in ...

... question “what do popular bloggers care about?” Similar rankings already exist on different sites of RuNet. We hope that the usage of data from Yandex Blog Search will create many similar services and will ... -user kukutz or 12,5 percent of the total monthly visitors of Yandex.ru. Many RuNet users strongly disagree with this statistics and claim that the blog ranking was much more popular ...

... June 2009. In August, when she came tenth version of the browser, the technology had found a million people. In Opera 10, it was not included, but the developers have promised to finalize Unite as soon as possible. Opera is one of the most popular browsers in RuNet. Ninth and tenth versions of Opera, according to LiveInternet, in November 2009 used 12.6 percent of visitors and 10,8 sites Runet.

... Sajmir Strata made a mosaic (10 by 2.6 meters) of Michael Jackson from 250 thousand brushes.       And finally, already known Runet, participating in Johannesburg trying to beat the record for the largest parade in bikinis.             ...