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Entries from February 2007

Help with a dissertation

February 16th, 2007 · No Comments

A friend asked me to fill out a survey about psychotherapy and dealing with career issues for a dissertation. I filled it out myself, and I’m passing along a link in hopes that other people can help out as well. The survey takes maybe 15 minutes to complete.

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The problem of “rogue aid”

February 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Countries like China and Venezuela are offering foreign aid to other countries with no strings attached in hopes of buying influence. Moisés Naím describes the practice in a New York Times op-ed:

In recent years, wealthy nondemocratic regimes have begun to undermine development policy through their own activist aid programs. Call it rogue aid. [...]

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The 2006 Slate 60

February 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Slate once again lists the 60 largest philanthropic gifts of the previous year. I always link to the list because what rich moguls really yearn for is recognition from a blog, especially those who donated by way of bequest.

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Your permanent record

February 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments

By way of Rebecca Blood, I found Reid Scott’s post about the political blogosphere, concerning the two bloggers working for John Edwards’ Presidential campaign who came under fire and eventually resigned because of controversial remarks they had made prior to working for the campaign.

It’s like the phenomenon of someone who was “fired for [...]

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SCO is trying to find the blogger behind Groklaw

February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Is there a real Pamela Jones? SCO can’t seem to track her down so that she can be served with a subpoena. As far as I’m concerned, SCO’s problems are its meritless legal claims, not Groklaw’s comprehensive coverage of their shenanigans.

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REST support to be added to the Java class library

February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Wow. The enterprisey folks are coming to accept the inevitable, I guess. Dave Johnson has the details.

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Spinning Iran

February 13th, 2007 · 5 Comments

James Governor made a great observation in his del.icio.us feed about how we’re getting spun on Iran. Take a look at this Newsweek photo gallery, Modern Life in Iran. It consists of black and white shots of old women in hijabs, anti-American slogans, and people who look like they face a dreary existence. Our cold-eyed [...]

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Salon is profitable

February 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Believe it or not, Salon magazine has turned a quarterly profit. I thought for sure that their day pass strategy would be the end of them, but I’m happy to be wrong.

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Run a Web server in your browser

February 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Gnucitizen explains how to do so and why you’d want to.

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RU Sirius interviews Cory Doctorow

February 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Lots of good stuff about making money by giving stuff away:

O’Reilly publishes books that get really widely pirated on the internet, because, they publish techie books, right? If there’s a form that’s well-suited to being published digitally, this is it. You get it digitally, and then you can scan it and search it [...]

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