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Call for Guest Bloggers

Published on February 28, 2011 By Nick Taylor

The Two Halves blog is looking for a few good Guest Bloggers! You may recall that in November of last year, the TTH blog added a new “Guest Blogger” feature in the spirit of increasing the plurality of views on offer. The first Guest Blogger post by freelance creative Karmen Špiljak generated quite a bit [...]

WikiLeaks Doing the World a Favor

Published on November 29, 2010 By Nick Taylor

While I realize it’s a somewhat controversial thesis and you are free to disagree by commenting directly on this post, I believe it to be true! By far the biggest breaking story at the moment is WikiLeaks releasing tons of confidential US diplomatic communications to news organizations around the world. The service, founded by secretive [...]

Global Recession Scramble

Published on April 14, 2010 By Nick Taylor

As the global economy advances from sucky to outright fragile, no one can deny that this global recession has got legs. In the US, a definite end date for the recession is something that the National Bureau of Economic Research is in no hurry to declare – and this as of yesterday. Turning to Europe, the best indications [...]

That Dirty Word, Thirty

Published on April 24, 2009 By Nick Taylor

As my generation, by which I mean, where generation X ends and generation Y begins, fast encroaches on that all too dubious benchmark of 30, I am flooded with emotion. Why? Because my perspective has radically changed since those dewy eyed days in junior high school spent idealizing capitalism and hard work and consumer goods [...]