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March 31, 2010
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March 30, 2010
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Successful decision-making is more limited in aspiration, more modest in its beliefs about its knowledge of the world, more responsive to the reactions of others, more sensitive to the complexity of the systems with which it engages. Complex goals are generally best achieved obliquely.
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March 29, 2010
March 28, 2010
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One LapTop per child in Rwanda - Peter Beaumont
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One LapTop Per CHild programme in Rwanda - Rory Cellan Jones
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SImon Schama on how Obama got the Health Bill through
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these are the phoney debates we're reduced to, when politicians have decided the real ones are too tough.
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March 27, 2010
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"Times readers will be charged £1 for a day’s access – the same price as the weekday newspaper – or £2 for a week’s subscription to two new sites, which will replace the existing Times Online. Print subscribers will gain free access to the Times and Sunday Times sites, while international visitors face charges of $2/€1.50 a day or $4/€3 a week." (NB FT staff appearing on camera need to wear ties or at least tidy their collars up a bit.....doesnt fit with the brand!)
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Carolyn McCall's departure from GMG - and analysis of group performance
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...its newspapers. "In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in controlled circumstances, can actively improve knowledge. Unfortunately, facts are expensive, so to save costs and drive up sales, unscrupulous dealers often "cut" the basic contents with cheaper material, such as wild opinion, bullshit, empty hysteria, reheated press releases, advertorial padding and photographs of Lady Gaga with her bum hanging out."
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March 25, 2010
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CHinese government instructions to web sites on how to report Google's withdrawal (and other issues)
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..it's a closed locked in system
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Nestle and Facebook
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British Airways is winning over consumers with activity rolled out in response to its cabin-crew strike, according to the findings of an exclusive Marketing survey.
Over last weekend's initial three-day strike, BA posted a series of YouTube videos addressing customer concerns and issued a press ad in the form of a letter from its chief executive, Willie Walsh.
AP Photographer David Guttenfelder captures Afghanistan's largest-scale military operation since 2001 using a unique lens - his iPhone camera coupled with a Polaroid film filter app.
In the 21st century, it's time, again for newspapers to learn how to profit with stakeholders — instead of extracting profits from them. The 21st century's great challenge isn't selling the same old "product" better: it's learning to make radically better stuff in the first place.
Marketing case studies with Twitter
Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn't connecting us as much as we think it is. It's largely home to weak, artificial connections,
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March 24, 2010
Under the bonnet at the NYT
The New York Times has launched Timescast - a daily look at their editorial meeting and discussions. It's not raw - it's clearly edited and "produced" but it does give a glimpse at the editorial process behind the paper. There have been previous attempts at this - notably CBS News - which failed because of lack of interest v cost. But any attempt at greater transparency of editorial process and judgements is to be applauded and can only support greater trust...
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Social media has transformed communication, media, and the transmission of information, but it still takes people on the ground to pull people out of the rubble or to fight for freedom.
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John Maxwell Hamilton on changes affecting foreign correspondents
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As journalism evolves, re-invents, whichever action verb you’d like, I think we need to pay more attention to how news gathering is changing — or should be changing.
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March 23, 2010
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Rebecca mackinnon interviews Googles David Drummond on their decision not to censor in China
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". “Research by pest controllers Rentokil shows that, on average, a single train compartment houses a staggering 1,000 cockroaches, 200 bed bugs, 200 fleas, 500 dust mites and 100 carpet beetles,” said the Mail. These figures are very specific, and they do all sound a little bit on the high side. Where did they come from? ... Brands2Life and Rentokil both declined to show me what they sent to journalists, but in any case, contrary to what was said earlier, wherever it came from, these numbers did not come from measurements and counts, they are actually based on a “theoretical model”."
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March 22, 2010
New widgets fighting fact from fiction
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