Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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EU just won't take 'no' for an answer
Mark Steyn, I am somehow inclined to agree, at least in part, with him on this occasion. Following Sunday’s vote in France, on Wednesday Dutch voters get to express their opinion on the proposed ”European Constitution.” Heartening to see democracy in action, notwithstanding the European elite’s hysterical warnings that, without the constitution, the continent will…
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Where business meets geopolitics
So it was finally finished this week, though it will take 6 months for the oil to go from one end to the other. At full capacity the pipeline will provide 1% of the world’s oil needs. The Economist notes the significance: The BTC pipeline, though the most expensive option for exporting Caspian oil, was…
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Big news indeed
Just in case you thought our galaxy was pretty big, it turns out that our neighbour Andromeda is huge… The Andromeda galaxy, the most familiar of all the starry pinwheels in the sky and the Milky Way’s virtual twin, is three times the size astronomers had thought….the disc of the galaxy is actually three times…
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Printer-friendly version Online forums, bloggers become vital media outlets in Bahrain
Mark Glaser writes in the Online Journalism Review on how blogging is a growing phenomenon in the tiny Gulf state of Bahrain. A quick look by myself also reveals a growth of blogging in my regular haunt of Dubai and the UAE as a whole.
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What now for the Constitution?
The IAI website appears to be down, but there was a very interesting document located there, that I have managed to find elsewhere (PDF) . It all boils down to Declaration no. 30 in the annexes which states: Declaration no. 30 annexed to the CT reads: âThe Conference notes that if, two years after the…
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Measuring the Impact of Blogs
Carl Bialik writing in the Wall Street Journal discusses the number of visitors weblogs in the US are getting. He points out that: The total number of active blogs — those with a post in the past 30 days — was 3.5 million on May 1, according to BlogPulse. That was up just 30% from…
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The case for Europe
Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, wrote a piece in the IHT the other day. He gives two reasons why we should accept the Constitution. First, the constitution offers a massive improvement in our ability to tackle old and new security threats. Think of the solidarity clause which…
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French voters reject EU charter
So the French have said Non. It reminds of the day the news came out that Ireland voted No – I remember at the time some French commentators slating us for our ‘anti-European’ stance. Looks like we weren’t the only ones to have reservations about the deepending of powers in the EU. Chirac’s comments are…
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Journalists must stop being in denial: bloggers are here to stay
John Naughton gets the balance right here: What’s happening is a small but significant change in our media ecology. All journalists worth their salt have always known that out there are readers, listeners or viewers who know more about a story than they do. But until recently, there was no effective way for this erudition…
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Death by a Thousand Blogs
Nick Kristoff’s piece about China and blogging has been making the rounds on the blogosphere – it is a good piece, and well worth a read. To save you clicking the link, here’s the whole thing: The Chinese Communist Party survived a brutal civil war with the Nationalists, battles with American forces in Korea and…
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