Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A neocon no to Europe
Robert Kuttner, editor of the American Prospect, praises European developments while criticising neocons in the US. Gerard Baker, writing in the current Weekly Standard, the neoconservative journal, criticizes the administration’s olive branch and warns that Europe is seeking to become a counterweight to the United States in world affairs. The real European goal, writes Baker,…
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Why Blogs Are Like Tulips
William Powers in the National Journal writes: The market is in love with a bunch of little start-ups that weren’t even around five years ago. Bloggers, one-person media outlets, are the hot darlings of this feverish moment. Like the New Economy stocks of the 1990s, these newcomers are sharp, energetic, and fearless. Remember all the…
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Slate's 'Today's Blogs'
Just about every magazine or newspaper should have something along these lines, a daily blog roundup, and I think Slate are doing a good job of it. A short but concise roundup of some of the bigger news stories in the blogosphere.
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Rappers and Bloggers
This article by Josh Levin has been making the rounds in the blogosphere…well linked piece though.
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Atlanticist small talk is all that's left
Mark Steyn with another piece in the Telegraph…Kevin Drum is pretty damning.
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Pouring oil on the East China Sea
Some ongoing tensions between Japan and China are detailed here. Japan has begun planning for the worst. A conflict with China over rich gas deposits in the East China Sea has escalated since late January when two Chinese destroyers entered the area, which has been in dispute for decades. Japan warned China that it would…
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The Life Aquatic
I forgot to give some kind of review of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. There’s little I can add to the reviews around the net, besides that I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was full of dark humour, quirky events, and some quite memorable scenes – I think some of the reviews don’t do it…
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NIB, Enron and the Banana Republic
There can only be two reasons for this, either the person involved is incompetent and therefore should lose his job or it was a deliberate act and therefore he will be prosecuted. This was the angry reaction of a federal investigator after it was revealed that some documents had been shredded by an employee of…
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Theft of body parts
I see the PDs are at it again. Mary Harney, (The minister for stopping enquiries) has announced that the Dunne enquiry into post-mortem practices in hospitals is to cease in less than six weeks time whether the final report is ready or not. The scandal involves the taking of childrenâs organs without permission and selling…
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Chief humanising officer
The Economist did a good piece last week on Robert Scoble, his blog, and how companies can use blogging for public relations. Scoble weighs in after the piece is published.
Got any book recommendations?