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The Economist

March 7, 2005 by Michael Boyle

The Economist

has a good short summary of the state of capital punishment in the US and globally following last week’s US Supreme Court decision: An end to killing kids.

Tags: US Politics

The World Economy will ROCK:

March 7, 2005 by Michael Boyle

The World Economy will ROCK:

Will Bono’s next gig be World Bank president? I seriously doubt it, but this story is getting some serious press at the moment.

Tags: International Affairs

Rebecca McKinnon:

March 4, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Rebecca McKinnon:

Media Center (at API) Conference data dump. Very pithy quote: “The question of whether ‘mainstream media’ will survive, or whether it should survive, or in what form, or how, is irrelevant. I don’t care. I’m sick of arguments about that.
What I care about is whether journalism – the process of hunting down factual information and verifying it – survives and thrives somewhere, somehow.”

Tags: Media

Cam Barrett isn’t very keen

March 3, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Cam Barrett isn’t very keen

about podcasting. I have to say I share his concerns. In the past week or so I’ve been looking into podcasting and I’ve listened to a bunch of podcasts, and I just don’t get it. I see it as a novelty – fun, but ultimately not as useful or interesting as blogging. Plus, the content is invisible to search engines, doesn’t allow for hyperlinks, and frankly I don’t get any heightened sense of “personality” or immediacy than I do from people’s written blog entries.

Tags: Blogging, Podcasting

Blork has posted a wrap-up

March 3, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Blork has posted a wrap-up

of the insanity last night at the regular YULBlog gathering at La Cabane: Media madness…

Tags: Blogging, Montreal

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