Marina is a Russian who moved to the USA in pursuit of furthering her education in the English language and to improve on it. She wanted to earn a Ph.D. in Philology. Back in Russia she was a high-school teacher who taught English and World History. Her story of rising to the superstardom on the Web is amazing. Watch this video to learn more about how this 27 yo managed to make learning so cool yet not-boring. Marina has been voted a Wired.com’s Sexiest Geeks!
In what seemed a rash attempt at pulling the iron curtain down onto the poor, innocent surfers of YouTube by the government of Pakistan, turned out to be an honest attempt at alerting the web service of a Terms of Service (ToS) violation by the uploading party. Bloggers in Pakistan were furious about this decision citing this had been done since videos of malpractice in the recent electoral polls had also surfaced and been posted on the famous web video website.
