Archive for October, 2006
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Microfinance, Zidane, and Adam Gopnik
Connie Bruck’s article in the October 30th New Yorker describes the current conflict in the microfinance industry between the old guard of microfinance lenders–typified by the Nobel Prize-winning founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus–whose goal is to lift people out of poverty and a new generation that is focused on making money (and economic [...]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Can the NYT’s glossy-style sections subsidize real news coverage?
Is his Public Editor column in Sunday’s New York Times, Byron Calame addresses the proliferation of magazine-style sections in the Times that have been introduced to increase advertising revenue. Calame concludes that executive editor Bill Keller has the best interests of serious news coverage in mind. Keller says,
Well, the reason why we’re inventing these [...]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
ITVN launches Setanta Sports On Demand
For the past couple months I have been watching soccer matches–primarily the Champions League and Euro 2008 qualifying matches–on Setanta Sports, which I get over my broadband connection using ITVN. The quality is not perfect, but it’s good enough for me. And now, ITVN has just launched Setanta On Demand, which allows you to watch [...]
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Zidane to consult for Canal+
Zinédine Zidane is becoming a consultant to the French television station Canal Plus and will also be a commentator for the soccer matches they air.
“I don’t miss it (soccer) at all,” Zidane said in Thursday’s edition of L’Equipe. “When Real Madrid started the new season, I didn’t feel anything. I have just been jogging [...]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Coliseum Books to close
Coliseum Books in New York will be closing before the end of the year, according to the New York Times. I lived in New York when Coliseum reopened in 2004, and it was my third-favorite store in Manhattan behind Gotham Book Mart and St. Marks Bookshop.
