Global Culture

About a year ago, Coca-Cola Co. announced it would attempt to take on Starbucks by introducing new technology to deliver single servings of coffee through their own newly designed brewing machines. Last month the first Far Coast Cafe opened its doors in Toronto, Canada.
Since I don’t drink coffee, it is hard [...]

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If you liked the interactive visualization from Gapminder about human development trends you are definitely going to enjoy watching its creator Hans Rosling debunk the myths about the developing world earlier this year at the TED Conference. This global health expert uses the power of statistics to convey his strong message about global trends.

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The winter edition of Reconstruction is now online with a collection of essays about the Theories and Practices of Blogging.
Global Culture is featured in the Why I Blog section, among a fascinating list of peers addressing the fundamental question about our craft. It is difficult to understand how a medium that [...]

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It is not a coincidence that this blog was born a few days after the first Mesh Conference back in May of this year. The fact is that I came back so energized from this conference that I felt it was the right time to get started with an idea that had been dancing [...]

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Adbusters.org is running their now traditional Buy nothing day this Friday November 24, 2006.
When writing about the negative impact that globalization has on global culture, it is easy to believe that all the blame can be assigned to global corporations spreading their influence throughout the world, but the fact is that they are only feeding [...]

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I found a perfect way to convey some of the recent arguments about distribution of income: Gapminder produced a presentation on Human Development Trends in the form of several animated visualizations, including:

World income distribution
Regional income distribution
The distribution of poverty
Regional differences in health and income
Income and health of countries
Same income, different health
Development directions
Differences within countries
Child [...]

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It’s only fair to promote a real debate on the issues that concern us. Through this blog, I’ve always talked about the negative impact of globalization, so to fuel the debate I had to find a voice that cheers loudly for it: George Reisman is a well known economist, author of Capitalism: A Treatise [...]

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