Day: July 20, 2007

Bolstering the blogosphere

Good News™: More people noticing that blogging is no longer a phenomenon: The blogosphere, as media expert Dr. Mark Lynch points out, is able to ‘escape the state driven red lines which even the most independent of Arab media is forced to acknowledge’. As such, they fit in with the EU’s agenda, enshrined in the …

Bee to the Caper

Bee to the Caper, originally uploaded by malyousif. We must have 3 or 4 different kinds of bees in the garden and each seems to specialise in a kind of flower. I have no idea where they are nesting, nor did I actually look. I leave them alone and give them the freedom of the …

Fishing, in numbers

People can’t really measure the impact of the fishing industry’s destruction in this country because they don’t particularly know the numbers, nor – most probably – do they have a direct contact with those affected to actually know the levels involved. Enter a report released today by the Oxford Business Group to put things in …