links for 2008-01-24
AudioMonk.com – Privacy Policy Speech to text service focused on the podcast market, interesting for people who want to create transcripts from podcasts (tags: audio… Read More »links for 2008-01-24
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January 2008
Viktor Bout, the icon for international black markets?
Remember that image of the polar bears trapped on shrinking ice floes? Yeah, that one. Or any of the hundreds of others that have been… Read More »Viktor Bout, the icon for international black markets?
5.4 million dead in Congo. Believe it or not, it could have been worse.
I was pleased to see this story about death tolls in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the first page of Reddit this morning. The… Read More »5.4 million dead in Congo. Believe it or not, it could have been worse.
Fernando Rodrigues: Transparency and corruption in Brazil
Fernando Rodrigues is one of Brazil’s leading journalists, and an innovator in the field of unlocking public information. He writes for Folha de São Paulo,… Read More »Fernando Rodrigues: Transparency and corruption in Brazil
links for 2008-01-22
Justin Timberlake – Culture – Hollywood – Idea Lab – New York Times Excellent article on “comparative advantage” – the influence of social behavior in… Read More »links for 2008-01-22
links for 2008-01-20
Sweet Juniper! Truly lovely post about exploring urban ruins, hope, decay and sadness, inspired by photographing a disused book repository in Detroit (tags: blog books… Read More »links for 2008-01-20