May 2011
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WatchThis video sums up what it feels like watching TV in the US
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“I miss America. I miss the openness of the people, the need to debate everything...”
– I agree with @RianVDM although I’ve only been in the US for 2 weeks
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Media24 closing Finweek or combining with new...
2 weeks ago Africa’s biggest magazine publisher announced plans to restructure its leading financial magazine, Finweek. According to BusinessDay weak advertising revenue is blamed for its sluggish growth. Yes there’s that, but there’s also the idea that anything financial won’t survive in a magazine.
Internationally financial magazines are making more business sense in a...
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679 Women at the IMF Protest the New York Times's... →
theatlantic:
On Friday, The New York Times published a scathing report titled “At I.M.F., Men on Prowl and Women on Guard,” depicting the International Monetary Fund as hostile to women and “ruled by alpha male economists.” The article said some women avoid wearing skirts in fear of drawing attention and that “sexual norms” left women “vulnerable to harassment.”
Now, a group of 679 women at...
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“A tribute to Anton Hammerl: From Anton — and from two other photographers I came...”
– Ryan Calder, a sociologist and correspondent for The Atlantic in Libya, pays tribute to slain photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who was killed in early April while on the ground outside Brega. Read the rest at The Atlantic (via theatlantic)
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WatchSouth Park make fun of Schwarzenegger’s love child scandal
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future cape town: ideas outlet: Vote: To... →
futurecapetown:
Much has been documented and written about the Bibao effect and its transformational impact on the small Spanish City, one of Cape Town’s competitors in becoming the 2014 World Design Capital. The article entitled, Building a world-class city: how the Bilbao effect could work in South…
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