Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Blogroll renovation
I have been going through my blogroll and removing defunct links, and adding some new ones. If your blog is not listed please do leave a comment.
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Orange County Register outsources production to India
A salutary tale from the US. Outsource to India, says the deputy editor of the Orange County Register, California’s fifth-largest newspaper. On a one-month trial basis, Mindworks Global Media, an India-based company, will copy-edit some of the Register’s stories and lay out pages for a community newspaper at the same company that owns the Register.…
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Why 20%?
Barry Ritholtz poses the question. It’s a good one. What is the magic about 20%? What makes this the “official” onset of a bear market? There isn’t any NBER-like group that declares an “official” bear market. Best as I can figure, the 20% number is a not-quite-a-random number — more than a 10% correction, less…
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Adverts
I have switched off Google Ads for the time being. While the income justified their use, I can no longer justify their placement directly in individual posts. I may alter the theme in order to make them more amenable to readers, probably by placing them alongside posts rather than inside them
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Outsourcing your coursework
The FP blog has a good story in US and British students outsourcing their “studies” to people in India. Work is being contracted out for as little as £5 on contract coding websites usually used by businesses. Students are outsourcing everything from simple coursework to full blown final year dissertations. It’s causing a major headache…
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Wolfowitz on Mugabe
Paul Wolfowitz, “who knows a thing or two about overthrowing tyrants”, tells Foreign Policy that the secret to ousting Zimbabwe’s president is showing his people how much better off they’ll be without him. “FP: What do you think will be the tipping point when Zimbabweans are strong enough to take matters into their own hands?…
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Beds and Blowjobs
Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary. Um nothing more to add.
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Cat update
Mr Puds has been up to his usual tricks. Here I caught him just prior to him sleeping for the night. Mr Puds was taught from a very early age that he was never allowed on the worktops, even when no one was home. He has stuck rigidly to that rule, as evidenced by a…
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Why Newspapers Must Embrace RSS
As an aside to my post on Jeff Jarvis, Felix Salmon has a good post over at Portfolio.com. Salmon is referring to a recent report from Forrester. The main thing I’d try to communicate to the newspaper-industry readers of the Forrester report is that RSS and blogs are not unfortunate necessities, they’re one of your…
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Bush made Americans safer?
So claimed Powerline last month. Hm. I’m just catching up with some feeds! 2002 October: Diplomat Laurence Foley murdered in Jordan, in an operation planned, directed and financed by Zarqawi in Iraq, perhaps with the complicity of Saddam’s government. 2003 May: Suicide bombers killed 10 Americans, and killed and wounded many others, at housing compounds…
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