Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The dogs were yelping. They knew bombs were on the way
Robert Fisk’s report from Baghdad and what appears to be the eve of that cities ‘liberation’.
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The ruin of Russia: Joseph Stiglitz
Supremo economist, Joe Stiglitz has a piece in today’s Guardian. It is essentially a look at Russia’s economy since the fall of communism – worth a look. Joseph Stiglitz is professor of economics at Columbia University, and the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize. He is the author of Globalization and Its Discontents.
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Chemical hypocrites: George Monbiot
George Monbiot argues that the United States is behaving like a hypocrite. He says of the US using tear gas inside Iraq: The deployment of chemicals in Baghdad could be the event which finally destroys the treaties designed to contain them, and this, in turn, would be another step towards the demolition of international law…
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Google in the Crosshairs
The Motley Fool notes this about Google. When you’re so good at what you do that your brand becomes a verb, the competition starts to notice, big time. Uber-search engine Google is in this predicament, as both Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) are trying to cash in on search products of their own.…
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More on Google
The reader’s response on the Reg has been interesting too. You can read them here. Among them are: Why is Google shooting itself in the foot? In providing information, credibility is everything. Any source, whether of raw information or an index of it (like Google), loses mightily as soon as it’s known to be biased.…
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Google press releases posing as news
I’ve been following this story over at the Register about Google. As many of my readers know I have something of an interest in Google as a company, and this latest news has really come as no surprise. I had never thought this might happen, but it has. Google, the world’s favourite search engine, have reconstituted press…
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The Atlantic
I found the Atlantic website on the Internet over a year ago, having never heard of the magazine before. I liked it so much that I immediately subscribed to it. Since then I have looked forward to it arriving in the letterbox each month, for its exhaustive analysis and second to none journalism. I arrived…
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Back on blog
I be back in Ireland. Apologies for the technical difficulties. I will blog on a few of the stories that I have noted over the last week. Some interesting articles, especially some recent Google stuff with regard to Press Releases.
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The US is on the right wavelength
This week Matthew Engel writes about the media in the US, and its plethora of right-wing presenters.
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The palace of the end
Martin Amis writes some thought-provoking stuff today. This is a truly brilliant piece. He is making some claims I have not read anywhere before, here is his claim: We accept that there are legitimate casus belli: acts or situations “provoking or justifying war”. The present debate feels off-centre, and faintly unreal, because the US and the…
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