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chaosMonster (The Mind of Bob 2.0) (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Celebrities lead charge against Scientology | World news | The Observer Blogged with the Flock Browser Robert Hooker supports these messages. Kind of.
rssblogstory.com Music (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
When Janis Joplin spoke about performing, she described "getting into the feeling" of the music and getting turned on by all the energy surrounding her.
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
No need to try and spot The Observer in this week's Fringe: He's front and centre!
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The underlying problem is a collective political failure to agree – or even to discuss – what constitutes work of genuine public good, Now that will be an interesting debate to have. What’s our opening bid? That only 50% of what government currently does is work of genuine public good? 20%?
Media Week (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
LONDON - Guardian Media Group's embattled Sunday newspaper The Observer has posted the biggest annual circulation fall in its sector in October ABCs published today (13 November).
Dallas Observer | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Well-mannered: Well, that was awkward—one of those embarrassing breach-of-etiquette moments, like when some guy on the bus asks to borrow your comb. You want to be generous, do the polite thing, etc. but geez... In our case, the uncomfortable moment involved U.S. District Jud...
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A core editorial staff will continue to work solely for the Observer. Other Observer journalists will be integrated into the editorial teams that work across the Sunday paper, GNM’s other title, the Guardian, and its website network, guardian.co.uk, which includes MediaGuardian.co.uk. There’s been a plan for years to close the Observer entirely and make the Guardian [...]
Brand Strategy Magazine Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The Observer has announced that it is ditching three of its monthly magazines – Observer Sport Monthly, Observer Music Monthly and Observer Woman. It will be retaining its Observer Food Monthly magazine and redesigning the paper to incorporate business and finance coverage into three main sections of the paper (news, sport and review); travel will [...]
ACHOCKABLOG (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Top Anglican children's author converts to Rome from The Observer: A bestselling author and Anglican priest has launched an outspoken attack on the Church of England and revealed that he is converting to Catholicism. GP Taylor, whose children's book Shadowmancer...
Jon Worth (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
It’s not just the Daily Mail at fault for utterly lazy, shit and f**king crap journalism about European Politics. Henry Porter in today’s Observer is horribly, dreadfully, shockingly awful: When the European Court of Human Rights announces a ban on crucifixes in Italian schools, you can either celebrate the liberal march of secularism or deplore the illiberal [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I agree with the government for sacking Professor David Nutt, who is telling people that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes (" Ministers face rebellion on drug chief's sacking ", News). I have manic depression, diagnosed after I had my first breakdown, aged 15. Twenty four years on and I am still suffering. Cannabis has been instrumental in my affliction. I smoked my first...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Longtime Observer editor Peter Kaplan, fresh from an appearance on The Charlie Rose Show, gathered with outgoing editor Tom McGeveran, newly anointed hire Kyle Pope, owner Jared Kushner and staffers at an event for The Kingdom Of New York, a chronicle of the paper's two-decades-plus history just published by HarperCollins. Proceeds from the event benefited the KiptonArt Foundation.
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Kyle Pope, formerly the number two editor at Conde Nast Portfolio , has been announced as the next editor of The New York Observer . Observer publisher Jared Kushner announced the appointment today. Editor Tom McGeveran, who announced last week that he will be leaving the paper at the end of the year, introduced Mr. Pope to the editorial staff at a meeting this afternoon. Mr. Pope started his career...
Monkeymagic (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A mob fighting a good cause is still a mob. To fight back, you need to remember that although the internet age is hugely expanding the number of complaints, the old rules still apply. Whether you are the owner of a tiny blog or the editor of a national newspaper, if someone points out an [...]
Anthropology.net (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Ciarán Brewster, a.k.a. adhominin, just tweeted about three book reviews. The reviews, written by Robin McKie of The Observer, cover recent books on cooking and human evolution which were written by some pretty big names in anthropology: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham Wrangham’s thesis is that the advent of cooking reduced [...]
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