techmanCruisin' The Net
February 8th 2008 01:45
cruisin' the net
Spin Magazine is now online, free....
A new site, called Reporterist, is trying to match freelance journalists with editors to publish their work.
USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review has a report on the new site:
“So the idea behind the Reporterist is a news exchange where freelancers and editors can connect. As a journalist, you can upload your work and submit it to a specific publication – say an article about hiking to an outdoor magazine – and give them two weeks to view the story and decide to publish it.
But you can also line up the publiscations that can have access to it after two weeks. Alternatively -- and we're still working on this – you can submit it to the “marketplace.”
Time Warner is in the news again because of the AOL division.
Maybe (financially) bloggers just aren't in the right arena....TW says it will save $50 million dollars by cutting 100 jobs...New York Times
and far away from 50 million dollars for one hundred jobs...Muhammad Unus is the founder of Grameen Bank. To date his business has loaned over five billion dollars to people in Banglandesh.
He was also instrumental in the creation of GrameenPhone
and Grameen Telecom.
Both these companies combine to provide a Village Phone to a subscriber, who pays back the loan, hopefully through cheap billing rates available to an entire village, whom the subscriber allows to buy time on the phone.
For the micro loans in Bangladesh, borrowers use money borrowed to buy items which they sell. With the money earned the loan is repaid and the borrower has money of their own.
Mr. Yunus and the bank received the nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
He has co-written a book I've not read yet, Creating A World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism Somewhat surprisingly the book is number 166 on Amazon's bestseller sales rank.
The authors ask, and attempt to answer, questions that arise in many of our conversations.
Here's a brief excerpt:
“Governments can do much to address social problems. They are large and powerful, with access to almost every corner of socieity, and through taxes they can mobilize vast resources. Even the governments of poor countries, where tax revenues are modes, can get international funds in the form of grants and low-interest loans. So it is tempting to simply dump our world's social problems int the lap of goverrnment and say,, “here, fix this.”
“But if this approach were effective, the problems would have been solved long ago. Their persistence makes is clear that governement alone does not provide the answer, Why not?”
Fortunately, there are used copies on sale at Amazon which I can look at, and I'll take a look at ebay to see what they have. I haven't bought a new book in some time
We have several charities in town that run stores to hellp finance their work. I contribute to them as I can, and in return, I, like all their customers, can pick up a book for 25 cents. Despite the price stamped on the dustcover of $27.05. Thank Heavens!
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