Spotlights On Our Global Village As A New Society
He stands for achieving peace by way of peace, and since Gandhi and Martin Luther King aren’t around, he’s a placeholder for that kind of position. China’s military has warned the United States to “speak and act cautiously” to avoid further straining relations between the two countries, Huang Xueping, a defence ministry spokesman, was quoted…
The Story the New York Times Won’t Touch A little more than a year ago, when the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim increased his stake in the New York Times Company (NYT), I wrote “I pity the Times Mexico bureau chief who has to tiptoe through who is and isn’t out of favor with the paper’s…
Here’s what’s well-known about Hulu and ads. 1) It supports itself with the stuff. 2) Sometimes it stars in its own ads. Less known: Hulu creates advertisements for its own advertisers. ING Direct, the personal investment arm of financial giant ING, began a monthlong ad deal with Hulu this week. There are many moving pieces…
On the Internet,” one dog tells another in a classic New Yorker cartoon, “nobody knows you’re a dog.” The internet is notorious for its digital dens of deception. But on Facebook, what you see tends to be what you get — at least in one study of tailless, two-legged young adults. College-age users of Facebook…
The super-rich lost a great deal in 2009, with hundreds of unfortunates losing their billionaire status. A Swiss private banker talks about the ugly consequences of the crisis for his elite clientele and the discreet services he is sometimes asked to perform, such as buying secret apartments for clients’ mistresses. When he speaks, Heinrich Weber…
How Freelance Writers Can Use Digg The worst thing a new writer can do is set up a Digg account and immediately begin “digging” his own articles. Remember, Digg is to share truly interesting content, and Digg members do not look kindly on self-promotion. Profiting from Digg requires patience, but a few minutes each day…
The Facebook games that millions love (and hate) By Doug Gross, // –> — Early each morning, millions of farmers around the world rise to toil in their fields. By night, gangs of mobsters scheme and legions of poker players shuffle up and deal. Sure, none of it’s real. But the overwhelming popularity of so-called…
Brangelina’s very public affair Last Updated: February 2010