Month: April 2008

  • Inflationary shock + other news

    Inflationary shock Europe faces ‘inflationary shock,’ EU says – International Herald Tribune – it will hit the poorest people hardest. Inflationary shock has been prevented due to the rise of cheaper products available through the rise of globalisation. There are underlying pressures for inflationary shock on the demand side a big factor poor wage growth…

  • Chinese nationalism + more

    Chinese nationalism Talking heads spar over Carrefour boycott  – internal debate on China’s self confidence and identity and how it should be expressed. I think that Wang Xiaodong was one of the authors of China Can Say Now – a groundbreaking collection of essays on Chinese nationalism published in 1996 EastSouthWestNorth: Why Is CNN Patriotic?…

  • Linden Labs + more news

    Linden Labs IBM and Linden Lab to create enterprise-safe virtual worlds – This move by Linden Labs should have happened years ago, I personally think the appeal of SL is more in a b2b scenario for virtual meetings and for times when video conferences are called for but without the weirdness that you get as…