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FEMA finally figures out how to avoid bungling a press conference – don’t invite the press. Seriously – call a press conference with 15 minutes notice and let your PR staff pretend to be reporters…
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A great reflection on Pop!Tech, inspired, in part, by my absurd blogging – a defense from Michele Bowman of the idea of slow blogging, digesting ideas instead of just reporting them
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The murder of Lucky Dube is sparking South Africans to reflect on the violence that has become such a serious problem for residents of that nation, and especially of that nation’s cities.
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The US government rails against al-Jazeera. So do the Saudis. And now, because it aired a bin Laden tape critical of Iraqi insurgents, so do some Iraqi insurgents. They must be doing something right…
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What does it mean to patent a humanitarian relief product? Investigative blog looks at Plumpy’nut and the patent protection its creators have sought for it.
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My neighbors have stopped selling Coors products for the duration of the World Series, not wanting to provide any comfort to the Colorado Rockies who play, of course, at Coors Field. Think people take basball seriously out here?
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Plans for an April 2008 conference at Harvard, bringing together the instigators of great internet memes like LOLCats, All Your Base, etc. The first conference I’ve been excited to see launched in a very long time.