Sunday, May 02, 2010

Friday, April 02, 2010

Israel - "Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December" - The Guardian

"Le maire de Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat perd contre Facebook" - nicematin.com

"Villefranche-sur-Mer près de Nice : M comme Méditerranée au Café des Sciences"

I attended this fascinating presentation.

Among other things, the speaker predicted that in hundreds of thousands of years, the Mediterranean will close at Girbraltar, the western part from Tunisia/Italy west will become a giant salt lake and eventually salt flats. The eastern part will be a separate lake with mountains arising on the northern coast of Libya and Egypt.

Friday, March 26, 2010

"Journée des Médias et de la Communication" - Cité des Métiers de Marseille et de PACA

"Practical Traveler - Members-Only Web Sites Offer Discounts on Luxury Hotels" - NYTimes.com

A perfect AgePays service!

I think there is a core human desire to be on the inside, to be a member of something that seems to offer value for "membership", whether paid or free and on top of that - to be "invited" is, well, brilliant!

Tunisia - "Tunisia blocks journalists from press conferences" - Committee to Protect Journalists

Friday, March 05, 2010

IHT - "Pinch suffering from Parisian labor pains" - NYPOST.com

Greece - "La Grèce paralysée par une journée de mobilisation" - LeMonde.fr

It seemed to me that this was inevitable and I was surprised that none of the coverage of the austerity measures seemed to include this at the high probability level that it merited in my view. I fear that this will get worse before it is resolved in part because it is hard to imagine the exit road from the situation in which Greece finds itself. Austerity measures cannot solve most of the problems and become tiny band-aids on very serious illnesses.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Greece - "Greece Expected to Release New Austerity Plan" - NYTimes.com

We need to see more analysis of the impact of all of this on the Mediterranean region.

Monday, March 01, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Egypt - "The Blog of Samia Serageldin :: Taxis and Television: the unwitting interview"

I think the real moral here is that you shouldn't say anything to anyone that you aren't prepared to share on a municipal billboard. It's not such a bad idea, actually.

It's a little naive to expect confidentiality in a mode of public transportation anywhere.

Unless this broke local taxi rules - if this happened in the US, you'd be equally out of luck.

Here's - apparently - a link to the program but perhaps not the latest episode.

"Spain's Prisa suspended after report of imminent stake buy" - Reuters

Italy - "Italian Court Finds Google Violated Privacy" - NYTimes.com

Monday, February 08, 2010

"Freelance Connect"

This appears to be about two months old and there are very few listings. I wonder if anyone has started anything like this for the Mediterranean?

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Tunisia - "TUNISIA, ORGANIC FARMING IN THE GOVERNMENT'S AGENDA" - Green Med Journal

Malta - "Malta is full of delicious delights" - News.com.au

Food continues to provide one of the greatest attractions of the Mediterranean region. We need to spend more time looking at all the ways that the media of the region can be more creative in the way that they cover food.

"The trouble with tuna" - Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/05/2010

We need to collect all of the coverage given to this issue from the Mediterranean and distill it into a Wiki-type entry.

Spain - "Chef to close 'world's best' eatery in search for inspiration" - CNN.com