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Winner Takes All, Long Tails And The Fractilization Of Culture
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 19 hours ago
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It's a nice theory, with some interesting statistical modelling behind it. And, I've always been interested in "winner takes all" economies, since the guy who taught me Econ 101 literally wrote the book on "winner takes all" economics. That said, I think...
Tags: winner takes, recommendation engines, long tails, San Francisco, Subculture, Culture, The Long Tail
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Berlin :: Germany | 1 day ago
Credibility Post Amsterdam is a network organization with excellent contacts and experience in the worlds of media and culture. The foundation exists since 2006 and its goals are the furthering of journalistic and cultural quality in a European context through organizing...
Tags: Council for European Studies, European Film Academy, Germany, cultures policy, frankfurt books, books fair, europeans film, Frankfurt Book Fair, Berliner Festspiele, Czech Republic, Berlin, Goethe-Institut, Eurozine, Deutsche Welle, Culture, Frankfurt am Main
North Korea: : UN condemns North Korea and Myanmar for human rights violations
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | 1 day ago
Credibility The North Korean deputy ambassador to the UN speaks of attack of political enemies. The motion against the Burmese regime approved by 92 votes in favour, 26 against and 65 abstentions. A UN General Assembly Special Committee has condemned North Korea...
Tags: North Korean, human rights, rights violations, North Korea, Pyŏngyang, Burma, Military dictatorship, Naypyidaw, Politics, Society, United Nations Human Rights Council, Blasphemy, Culture, Social Issues, Religion Belief
Calls for children's commissioner
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Establishing the post would be an "important step" to improving the protection of children's rights, commissioner Cathy Branson QC says. "The right to an adequate standard of living, health care, education, or protection from violence might seem to be...
Tags: New York City, Society, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Children's rights, Human rights, Culture, Politics
NW natives get Land Ownership
The Nisga'as peoples of Northwestern British Columbia, Canada took an unprecedented step today when they instilled "property rights" to their band members. Having finally negociated a land claims settlement with both levels of Government some years...
Tags: land claims, ownership, Nisgas, Canada, resreves, culture, responsibility
Globalization Unchecked: How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture
Gaza :: Palestine | 2 days ago
Credibility A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video channel, MTV.
Tags: Muslim, western cultures, Western, Palestine, Gaza, Postmodernism, Sociocultural evolution, Culture, Anti-globalization movement, Middle East and globalization, World government, Globalization, Cultural geography
Africa: Foreign Aid Not Good for Region
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 2 days ago
Credibility Africa, a resource-rich continent which is depicted as poor by conventional development statistics -- so as to justify foreign aid. Aid has driven Africans to lose confidence in their abilities and opportunities.
Tags: foreign aid, Zimbabwe, Harare, Africa, Culture, Axelle Kabou, James Shikwati, Development, Aid, Social Issues
Not money, not politics; Europeans look to culture in Turkey debate
Brussels :: Belgium | 3 days ago
Credibility Not money, not politics; Europeans look to culture in Turkey debate Europeans widely believe that it is a democratic political system and economic factors that define European identity and want candidate countries to fulfill these two criteria first...
Tags: Turkey, Belgium, Brussels, Politics of Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurds in Syria, Kurdish women, Kurdish people, Fertile Crescent, Ethnic groups in Syria, Politics, Culture, European Union, Federalism, Social Issues
CLIMATE CHANGE: Small Islands Fear Going the Way of Atlantis
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 3 days ago
Credibility The world's small island states, most of which are painfully vulnerable to the ravages of climate change, have put the United Nations on notice. Ambassador Stuart Beck of Palau warns that the 192-nation world body, which progressively kept growing from...
Tags: climate change, Denmark, Copenhagen, Action on climate change, Carbon dioxide, Individual and political action on climate change, Seal the Deal!, Islands First, Global warming, Diplomatic conferences, Environment, Culture, Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, Sustainability, Mitigation of global warming, Carbon finance
Obama's Double Standards
President Obama has spoken out in support of internet freedom in China. I happen to support internet freedom. China happens to not support it. And Obama? Well, he's kind of on the fence when it comes to that issue. He's not exactly in favour of internet...
Tags: culture, law, politics, science and technology, society
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