“The longlists for the 2009 Orwell Prize for Political Writing were announced today, and for the first time the award includes a category for bloggers. Along with the traditional Book and Journalism submissions, this year the judges received entries in the form of YouTube videos and Twitter tweets. From eighty-three entrants for the Blog Prize [...]
Archive for February 28th, 2009
Write On!: Blogs Now Eligible for Orwell Prize in Political Writing
Posted in Books, Current Events, Europe, Politics, World Wide Web, Writers & Writing on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Porn in the USA, or: Good Christian Fun
Posted in Politics, Popular Culture, Religion, Science & Technology, Sex & Gender, World Wide Web on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography. . . . “‘When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different,’ says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. “However, there are some [...]
Ryanair’s Not So Friendly Skies: “Pay As You ‘Go’” Toilets at 30,000 Feet
Posted in Business, Europe, Foreign Travel on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Ryanair’s chief executive caused howls of protest today when he suggested that the airline may charge passengers £1 to use its toilets. “Michael O’Leary said that the carrier had been investigating fitting coin slots to the doors of aircraft toilets, similar to those installed at train stations. “‘One thing we have looked at in the [...]
