An interesting report by EDRI about the slide from “self-regulation” to corporate censorship The website of the Icelandic Modern Media Initative. Simon Head writes in the New York Review of Books about The Grim Threat to British Universities. The man who writes your students’ papers tells his story: The Shadow Scholar There is a Free [...]
Kosmolinks returns with a selection of the best wikileaks/cablegate articles/links. (see my initial reaction on cablegate/wikileaks here and some links to Julian Assange’s writings here). The in aim in this post is not to provide an overview about the mainstream media coverage but to highlight a few interesting articles and links that I found helpful [...]
Richard Corbett (MEP) complains about the depressing state of the press in the UK when it comes to EU topics. Last week we heard two supposedly important EU speeches by Nicolas Sarkozy and David Miliband. Both speeches were rather uninspired and aimed at a home constituency in my opinion. The only interesting fact was that, [...]
Italy and immigration – Disharmony and tension – “The recent hysteria over Romanian immigrants says much about Italy and the fragile state of its politics” says The Economist. Back to the people at TOL Romania It would all be about Nov 25 in Romanian politics if the “Italian hysteria” had not been dominating the political [...]
Russia’s past – The rewriting of history | Economist.com Regular readers of this blog might remember my blog post with almost the same title and similar content (I wonder if the Economist journalists read blogs for inspiration? ) Guardian Abroad: Slow seduction in Belgium After all, living as an xpat in Brussels is apparently not [...]
CER: Sarkonomics – a user’s guide Sarkozy an economic liberal? well…not exactly! Gulf Stream Blues: Sarko Fever: Catch It! Different perceptions about Sarkozy’s visit to the US. Is that the beginning of the end of Belgium as we know it? Belgian crisis deepens after collapse of coalition talks; or more drastically – Belgian Crisis: The [...]
Welcome back (once again…) and welcome to the first issue of “Kosmolinks”, a brand new (well, rather re-labelled) linkroll that aims at bringing you some stories that are worth a read! Hope you find it interesting. (And I hope I get back in a blogging mood ) Romania’s Draft Foreign Policy “Strategy”: Does it really [...]




Some Kosmopolito housekeeping
by Kosmopolit in Digital Public Sphere
January 13, 2009 · 5 Comments
OK, the polls for Best European Blog (Non UK) closed with a suboptimal result for this blog. However, without much campaigning and without any proper blogging during the voting process this is not a big surprise. Due to their innovative format of online democracy which allowed multiple voting, this competition clearly favours blogs with a [...]
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