BBC World Have Your Say: Has this week changed France?
From Google+: “BBC World Have Your Say – 14:21 – Public Has this week changed France? It been a dramatic few days in France, culminating in the death of the gunman suspected of killing seven […]
BBC World Have Your Say: What are the competing claims over the Falklands?
BBC: What are the competing claims over the Falklands? and discussion on G+ Why would the Falklands suddenly become a priority for Argentina? Does it have anything to do with the government trying to distract its citizens from […]
FT: on BBC project Barcelona
Financial Times: BBC to expand in paid digital video fray BBC Director General Mark Thompson on the offering: “The BBC’s iPlayer is the most successful and most intensively used catch-up service in the world but […]
An investigation in Poland opens after 71 years
A story in the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza by Agnieszka Domanowska: “They were 15 to 30 years old. Jewish women from the ghetto in Szczuczyn. In August 1941 the locals “borrowed” them for gardening work. […]
El Pais: Luz sobre el misterio de los papas
A show in Rome, at the Capitol museum, with 100 documents from the Vatican archives never shown previously in public Luz sobre el misterio de los papas. It’s a drop in the Ocean, considering that […]
Forbes on Apple’s Tim Cook handling of tough question
In my previous occupation, I’ve often found myself advising partners on media relations and communication principles, stressing the importance of truthfulness and openness in difficult situations. This is a good example of how to handle […]
ADSL speed – update
A bit better, after upgrade to ADSL2+, but still not great:
El Pais: Las víctimas desconocidas del Holocausto
Unos 350 soldados de EE UU estuvieron presos en los campos de concentración nazis, según una investigación del Museo del Holocausto de Washington. El Pais: Las víctimas desconocidas del Holocausto. You have to read the […]
The Telegraph – Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society
The Telegraph: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society Franzen may be a good writer, it doesn’t mean that everything he says should be cast in bronze… I think that the 3′ serial interviews granted to […]
Can you remember the name of the first spreadsheet? Browser?
Talking to a friend recently during a walk in the mountains, none of us could remember the name of the first spreadsheet – sic transit gloria mundi.
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
I find it difficult to summarise Stiglitz’s piece in Vanity Fair, May 2011, simply because I think that he makes his point so clearly, in as few words as possible, that I couldn’t put it […]