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The Long Tail: Social Networking is a feature, not a destination - 0 views

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  • I'm sure huge and generic social networking destinations will continue to do well, but I'm placing my bet on the biggest impact coming when social networking becomes a standard feature on all good sites, bringing community to the granular level where it always works best.
  • social networking as a feature, not a destination.
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BBC NEWS | Business | Costa Rica supports US trade deal - 0 views

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  • With 89% of votes counted, 51.7% backed the treaty.
  • Five other Central American countries have already ratified the agreement. Costa Rica is the only country to hold a referendum on the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which will also cover Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.
  • Correspondents say its adoption by Costa Rica will be welcomed by Washington, which is keen to maintain its influence in Latin America to counter that of socialist leaders in Venezuela and Cuba.
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  • Costa Ricans have for many years enjoyed more stability and a higher standard of living and public services than their neighbours in Central America. Earlier Mr Arias said a "No" vote would undermine that position. "Costa Rica would be saying 'no' to a market of 300 million inhabitants, and that would be a grave error," he said. The issue has provoked repeated protests in Costa Rica, including a two-day strike by public workers last year.
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Che: The icon and the ad - 0 views

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  • "Che Guevara has become a brand. And the brand's logo is the image, which represents change. It has becomes the icon of the outside thinker, at whatever level - whether it is anti-war, pro-green or anti-globalisation," she says. Its presence - everywhere from walls in the Palestinian territories to Parisian boutiques - makes it an image that is "out of control", she adds. "It has become a corporation, an empire, at this point."
  • "There is a theory that an image can only exist for a certain amount of time before capitalism appropriates it. But capitalism only wants to appropriate images if they retain some sense of danger," Ms Ziff says.
  • But in Latin America, she points out, Che Guevara's face remains a symbol of armed revolution and indigenous struggle.
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Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones - New York Times - 0 views

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    I bet Dr. Prins would like to use this for his lectures... or at least send it to the anthro listserv!
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World Bank accused of razing Congo forests | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • · An area of 600,000 square kilometres (232,000 square miles) of forest was earmarked for logging companies.· The bank failed to address critical social and environmental issues.
  • The World Bank encouraged foreign companies to destructively log the world's second largest forest, endangering the lives of thousands of Congolese Pygmies, according to a report on an internal investigation by senior bank staff and outside experts. The report by the independent inspection panel, seen by the Guardian, also accuses the bank of misleading Congo's government about the value of its forests and of breaking its own rules.
  • It ignored between 250,000 and 600,000 Pygmies believed to be living in the Congolese forests, even though their presence was well known and documented.
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  • Criticism is made of the forestry reforms that the bank imposed in return for loans of more than $450m. Initially, said the panel, "the bank provided [to the government] estimates of export revenue from logging concessions that turned out to be far too high. This encouraged a focus on reform of the forestry system at the expense of pursuing sustainable uses of forests, the potential for community forests and for conservation.
  • In a scathing analysis of the bank's economic reasoning, the panel said the bank had "distorted the real economic value of the country's forests" by looking solely at the tax and revenue that increased industrial logging might generate. "There seems to have been little action to support alternative uses of the forest resources," it said.
  • The panel travelled deep into the forest to take evidence from the Pygmy communities, who told it they were not consulted before the bank launched its wide-ranging forestry reforms.

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