Twitenomics! The economy according to the people of the Internet.

What's the internet come to...

So what's been going on in the recesses of the Internet this week? With such a monumental time for our world's economy you can guarantee that through the magic of the Internet virtually everyones' opinions, both educated and uneducated, as the case may be for me, can be heard ringing across the pages of websites everywhere.
We began this week on rocky footing with a lot of unrest surrounding the Eurozone crisis and the UK's decision to opt out of the European fiscal. Although lots of time and thought went into this decision on the part of David Cameron and Britain's government it bears thinking about whether if they'd heard Arwynn Hughes' opinion, on Facebook, they'd have come out with the same decision. Ms. Hughes managed to prove the decision wrong with the fair, balanced and reasonable view of "Cameron's decision has left us outside of Europe, I guess we'll just have to stick with sh*tty old Swizerland and Norway... Both countries known for being s**t right?" I can't help but think it's a bit worrying that Arwynn can vote in general elections.
Elsewhere the latest on the ongoing patent war between apple and HTC and Geoffrey Lin picked up on the fact of HTC having both outsold apple in America but also the triviality of the victory, pointing out that "the patent they won is not even major on user interface, anyone can easily work round it." Good to see someone actually researches what they write, before posting.
The news of Russia's joining of the World Trade Organisation prompted another remarkably well thought out post from Hassan Ali Raza saying, among other things, that "access to Russia's markets is a dream come true for the developing countries," as well as offering his approval of the move. A not so insightful approval, however, came from Ferdinand Rosales, "very good Comrade." Isn't the Internet wonderful?
The BBC website was also in rapt discussion about VW's decision, mentioned in today's snapshot, to stop emailing workers, on their balckberrys, in out of work hours. John from Hendon made clear his view with the cry for the employees to " just switch it OFF!" referring to the balckberrys. Whilst the highest rated comment described the situation as an "Orwellian nightmare" as well as also talking about how his wife refuses to buy an Internet connected phone over such concerns.
In the web there have also been updates on opinions from business leaders as to the economy of the world. Lord Sugar took to twitter to show his disapproval of Nick Clegg's proposal to have the members of the House of Lords elected, saying "Clegg's on another loser... Makes no sense whatsoever. We need experts in th H.O.L." entrepreneur Richard Branson also did some tweeting posting out an article in which he expressed his disgust with the British Airways buying BMI. In the article Branson said, "holding a dominant position on London Heathrow BA now wants to tilt the market even further in its favour...the competition authorities ought to step in and stop the deal in its tracks." He described it as an "uncompetitive merger" and mentioned how Labour and the Scottish Nationalist party shared his views. Even more important than these opinions were that of, self proclaimed, business woman Paris Hilton who, whilst holidaying in Italy, a struggling Eurozone country, in the midst of the Eurozone crisis, tweeted out the thought provoking message of "I love being in Europe!" Well done, Paris! Well done!