Jan
11
Police Hunt for Suspects in Paris Attack as Nation Mourns
Posted in: UncategorizedAs French citizens mourned their dead, the authorities were carrying out an intense search for the brothers suspected of attacking a Paris newspaper.
Jan
11
Why Press Release Format Still Matters
Posted in: UncategorizedCategory: Up Your Game
Summary: The other day I was perusing my RSS feed reader and came across quite a few articles on writing advice. Bloggers I trust and respect revealed tricks like “Start with short, choppy one-sentence paragraphs to draw readers in,” “Readers are hungry for longform content,” and “Always begin your article with a personal anecdote.” (Do you see what I’m doing here?)
That’s all great writing advice…for a blogger.
Jan
11
Charlie Hebdo Attack Chills Satirists and Prompts a Debate
Posted in: UncategorizedThe killings at the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo have forced cartoonists to reconsider how far to go when skewering a target.
Jan
11
Branding in a World of 7 Billion Opinions
Posted in: UncategorizedCategory: View from the Cheap Seats
Summary: The “conversation” many brands say they want to have with consumers can turn into megaphone-like shouting contests in a flash.
Jan
11
Julio Scherer García, Influential Mexican Journalist and Political Watchdog, Dies at 88
Posted in: UncategorizedMr. Scherer, the founder of the investigative magazine Proceso, created a school of critical journalism that unmasked Mexico’s political corruption and helped lay the groundwork for the country’s democratic transition.
Jan
11
Time to Call it a Career?
Posted in: UncategorizedCategory: Guest Column
Summary: Whether it’s due to retirement or other reasons, sometimes people need to leave their careers on hold without another one to take its place.
What happens now? Perhaps your savings is okay, but what about health insurance?
Jan
11
Why Reams of Intelligence Did Not Thwart the Paris Attacks
Posted in: UncategorizedThe government faced gaping questions over its failure to thwart a brazen assault on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, as well as a double hostage situation two days later.
Jan
11
Best of TZM: Ask These Questions for a Successful Interview
Posted in: UncategorizedCategory: Career Oxygen
Summary: More often than not, how you convey your value and abilities can determine whether you end up at the top of the consideration set of a job interview. If you are prepared, can tell compelling stories of your career, and chemically connect with the hiring managers, more than likely you have struck a resonant tone for a positive outcome.
Jan
11
Days of Sirens, Fear and Blood: ‘France Is Turned Upside Down’
Posted in: UncategorizedFriday was a day, like the previous two, of violence in and around Paris, one that ended with France unsure whether this drama is now truly over or a predictor of more cultural, religious and political violence to come.
Jan
11
Timing: When to Do What in a Job Search
Posted in: UncategorizedCategory: Career Oxygen
Summary: ​Timing may not be everything, but in job hunting, some times are better than others.
Jan
11
Charlie Hebdo Suspects Dead in Raid; Hostage Taker in Paris Is Also Killed
Posted in: UncategorizedThe police killed two brothers who had links to Al Qaeda in Yemen and were suspected in the massacre at a Paris newspaper office. In a nearly simultaneous raid, officers also killed an alleged associate of the brothers who had held hostages in a kosher supermarket.
Jan
11
The Plant Sex Consultancy
Posted in: Uncategorized
PSX has designed a total of six gadgets that meet the specific sexual needs of plants. Some flowers were outfitted with a vanity lace to prevent the spread of STDs, others were given an algae-containing dildo or a vibrator continue
Jan
11
Cobalt 60 Sauce, a barbecue sauce made from ‘supermarket mutants’
Posted in: Uncategorized
Concerned by the lack of research on radiation-bred edible plants and their possible impact on our health and on the environment, the Center for Genomic Gastronomy created a barbecue sauce that contains some of the most common radiation-bred ingredients: Rio Red Grapefruit, Milns Golden Promise Barley, Todd’s Mitcham Peppermint, Calrose 76 Rice and Soy continue
Jan
11
Life, tissue culture and ethical ambiguities. An interview with Svenja Kratz
Posted in: Uncategorized
The artist has worked with media as diverse as fetal calf cells, human blood, maggots, multi-component 3D Human Skin Equivalent models or taxidermied insects. She is currently participating to Experimenta Recharge biennial of media art with an ever-changing face mask that uses Saos-2, a cell line that originally came from the bone cancer lesion of an 11 year old girl who died in 1973 continue
Jan
11
Book review: Come Together. The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design
Posted in: Uncategorized
Alongside visual portfolios of their best work are in-depth interviews addressing each group’s unique motivations, processes, and objectives. What emerges is a shared desire to turn viewers into producers and to use commercial mass-media strategies to challenge prevailing social, political, and cultural power structures continue
Jan
11
Meeting the founder of the EDL (English Disco Lovers)
Posted in: Uncategorized
In September 2012, the English Disco Lovers movement was founded, as a subversive Google-bombing campaign, looking to replace the English Defence League website as the top result when ‘EDL’ was searched on Google continue
Jan
11
Survival Kit Festival in Umeå
Posted in: Uncategorized
Where are we heading? What are the conditions of survival for our region and the world at large? What are the struggles and what kind of strategies do we need for survival?
The Survival Kit festival explored the theme of local and global survival through the lenses of visual art, music, food, discussions and lectures.
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Jan
11
Techno-Ecologies II. Acoustic Space #12
Posted in: Uncategorized
A range of practices which were once subsumed under terms such as media art, digital art, art and technology or art and science, have experienced such growth and diversification that no single term can work as as a label any more. Traditionally separated domains are brought together to become contextual seedbeds for ideas and practices that aim to overcome the crisis of the present and to invent new avenues for future developments continue
Jan
11
Vegetation as a Political Agent
Posted in: Uncategorized
The exhibition seeks to investigate the historical and social implications of the plant world in light of the ever-increasing resurgence of “green” as an agent of change in relation to current economic processes. To place a plant within a historical context means to consider not only its biological constitution, but also the social and political factors which see it already positioned at the centre of the earliest forms of economic globalisation continue
Jan
11
Top 100 Architecture Trends in 2014 – From Floating Farming Systems to Abstractedly Imperfect Homes (TOPLIST)
Posted in: Uncategorized
(TrendHunter.com) Modern and sustainable experimentation make a huge impact on the top 2014 architecture trends, with a fun focus on luxury intermixed throughout. Designers and architects found ways to push the…
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