Metlink has been sold a terrible marketing campaign to discourage fare evasion. According to Metlink’s media release: With fare evaders taking more than 225,000 trips each weekday on Victoria’s public transport network, Metlink is stepping up its fight against fare evasion today with the launch of a new advertising campaign. The campaign includes a television [...]
Over at Grist, there is a report that confirms (yet again, as if more proof was needed) that investment in clean-tech is three times more effective than government spending on oil and gas jobs. Cleantech generates 17 jobs for every $1 million spent on it, compared to just 5 for every $1 million we throw [...]
I came across Bill McKibben’s opinion piece in the Washington Post and an associated video of the piece, narrated by Stephen Thomson that are well worth looking at. McKibben (of 350.org fame) takes on the current reluctance of climate activists and action advocates to link specific extreme weather events (floods in QLD, Pakistan and the [...]
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Does the blogosphere have “delusions of grandeur”?
Don Arthur over at Club Troppo reckons the “blogosphere” has delusions of grandeur. His thesis seems to boil down to: most major investigative stories are broken by professional journalists, not bloggers. Most of the commentary by bloggers (even the good stuff) is derivative, either of someone else’s work or as analysis of figures produced by [...]