10 Weekend Reads
Some interesting reads for your weekend reading pleasure:
• The Big Lie At The Heart Of Rupert Murdoch’s Media Empire (Alter Net) see also Fury at Murdoch reflects pent-up anger of intimidated politicians (Washington Post)
• Is “Finance” a Cult? (Umair Haque)
• What the Keynesians learned from the crisis (Washington Post) see also I’m starting to think that the Left might actually be right (Telegraph)
• A handbag away from our debt ceiling (Tim Harford)
• Weather business sizzles in the summer heat (Globe and Mail)
• Google + Start Up Guide (Google)
• How Steve Jobs Does It: The Auteur vs. the Committee (NYT)
• Webs and whirligigs: Marshall McLuhan in his time and ours (Nieman Journalism Lab)
• If Your Website’s Full Of Assholes, It’s Your Fault (Anil Dash)
• The Problem With Memoirs (NYT)
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July 24th, 2011 at 6:01 am
Ed Dumbill talking about the commoditisation of the “social layer” and how Google are in a position to push it.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/google-plus-social-backbone.html
July 24th, 2011 at 6:19 am
Bravo Anil! And bravo BR for running a tight ship. Now, if you could just work on the WaPo. . . . .
July 24th, 2011 at 7:11 am
Whatever you read today, consider this. The writer of the article may be a lazy labelist who abstracts his fuzzy ideas into an emotionally charged word, a label. At that point critical thinking has ceased and your fuzzy idea of what his fuzzy idea is are melded. He did it to deceive you or is just passing along the same from others.
July 24th, 2011 at 9:18 am
Very funny man, John Oliver in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/jul/24/john-oliver-comedian-daily-show-interview
July 24th, 2011 at 10:01 am
India’s Ace Investigative Editor: Survival Secrets
“In any free society, the single greatest challenge remains policing power and money.”
So says Tarun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of the Indian news magazine Tehelka. As the leader of an independent, investigative publication in a country where corruption and inequality abound, Tejpal understands the costs of that challenge better than most.
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2011/07/21/TehelkaMagTalk/
Needless Pain, a Global Scourge
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2011/07/20/GlobalPain/
July 24th, 2011 at 10:13 am
Book apps: A reading revolution, or the end of reading?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/book-apps-a-reading-revolution-or-the-end-of-reading/article2106480/
July 24th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
A weekend reading of milestones:
Alex Steinweiss, Pioneer Of Artistic Album Covers, Dies
http://gothamist.com/2011/07/20/pioneer_of_artistic_album_covers_di.php
Last Vietnam-era draftee is retiring after 40-year career
CNN ran a segment on this yesterday, so I looked up the stories that were first reported earlier in July.
http://www.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/6328874-417/last-vietnam-era-draftee-is-retiring-after-40-year-career.html
July 24th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
A Scene From Our Unshared Sacrifices
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2011/07/scene-from-our-unshared-sacrifices-old.html
July 24th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
MM theory? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/07/scott-sumner-puts-foot-in-mouth-and-chews.html
July 24th, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Peacock Syndrome – America’s Fatal Disease
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=18895