Megalomania Burned Borders Books
Borders stores were huge — much bigger than their competitors and apparently unassailable — and…More
Tagged: Media and Culture
Arriverdeci Il Cavaliere?
NM’s polyglot European media correspondent Charles McPhedran has been following media in French, German, Spanish,…More
You Can't Copyright This
In the struggle for online survival, publishers in Australia and the UK have resorted to…More
The Company Of Whistleblowers
There’s nothing new in the the US Justice Department attempting to indict Julian Assange for…More
Content Strategies For Emotional Vampires
The Huffington Post is the 58th acquisition by internet service provider, and now content producer,…More
The View From Elsewhere
Put a German language newspaper article through a translation site and see if what comes…More
'All Hell Was Breaking Loose'
Thomson and his cameraman spent four days in the Egyptian capital before being pulled out…More
Secrets And Leaks
As they say in the classics, will we take the red pill, or the blue…More
Who's Afraid Of Wikileaks?
As The Guardian’s John Naughton has pointed out, there is a delicious irony to the…More
Wikileaks: Democracy 101
Like most of the rest of the world, I’ve been fascinated by the recent developments…More