…random notes on technology, media, and society
April 15, 2007
Make sure to check out this Global Reporting feature from the leading German business daily Handelsblatt. I don’t know when they launched, but I noticed it only recently (the footer bears the date 2005–so it may have been launched even back then!) It’s not perfect, but definitely a small step towards enhancing their [...]
It is disturbing to read another piece of self-denial coming from mainstream media. This time from The Guardian, which, were one to judge from its Comment is Free section, is one newspaper that does understand the true use of blogging and social commentary… The oped that Victor Keegan carried in the newspaper just a few [...]
A recent survey by the Luxury Institute proves that soon we are bound to see some healthy business models built around blogging: Fully 76 percent of U.S. Internet users earning more than $150,000 read weblogs, up from 57 percent two years ago, a survey said.Twenty-four percent are bloggers, up from 18 percent in 2005, the [...]
It’s good to see activists in the developing countries turning to the Web for their advocacy. As The Santiago Times reports, a campaign against the construction of several dams in Northern Chile has turned to YouTube to raise awareness of the issue. You can read more details of the case here. But I am still [...]
It’s not very common that crime gangs seek much publicity. Indeed, why would you want any: to have the police to come down and snatch you? Ok, if you also happen to rap on MTV, you might want some–but in most other cases–probably never. Not so in many developing countries, where gangs are much more powerful [...]
It’s time to kick off this new blog with the first post. It’s not my first blog, and probably not my last one. I used to blog at Sharp&Sound, where I mostly shared my thoughts and observations on global affairs, with a heavy Eurasian focus. As I found out, this is not a very exciting [...]
