Rachman vs. Toynbee on Globalisation, "Today"
Toynbee: "Gloablisation is good in that it has raised the poor out of poverty, for example in China. But the benefits
I hand over front page duties to Kanishk next week, then David, then Susan, then Rosemary then back to me. Anthony will join in when the Convention is over.
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Today was pretty Gaza-dominated on the site again. Over in the forums, Gaza-related threads are getting very long and heated. Just asn an example, Iron Mike posted this
Denis Dutton at Arts & Letters Daily featured Theo Hobson's very interesting Milton piece and we got the spike in readership that comes from Denis' selection. I
I added the Polymeme feed to the front page the other day. Polymeme was created by openDemocracy author Evgeny Morozov. It is Evgeny's own semi-automated news aggregator,
I'm doing front page duty this week -- essentially, I look at what articles we have either coming up or published in different areas on the site and chair
We are so aware of the Depression and the possible parallels with this moment that the critical economic actors may not feel the fear that allowed Roosevelt to push through deep change 75 years ago.
TechCrunch reports on the continuing decline of revenues in US newspapers – down $5bn since the start of 2008 compared to 2007. Even online revenues are falling. The “Rusbridger Cross” that was meant to see online revenues rise to compensate for print declines, is looking compromised in the US mar
<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/28/when-everyone-is-a-blogger-nothing-you-say-is-off-the-record/">Belgian defense minister</a> lashes out at blogosphere after having his juncket reported.