Are Bloggers Journalists?

Last week, the intrepid Jason Chen of gadget blog Gizmodo wrote a post on the next iPhone which brought the comments system on other blogs in the Gawker network juddering to a halt as eager Apple fans flooded to the site to get inside information on the next version of what some disparaging commenters call [...]

How Far Should Bosses Accommodate the Religious Beliefs of their Employees?

I’m not sure when, but I must have outed myself as a dirty atheist at some point on this blog, as there have been comments telling me that I am mistaken. Nevertheless, despite the example set by Richard Dawkins, I don’t condemn believers outright, and I do believe that they are entitled to a modicum [...]

Jobs for the Non-Gold-Digging Woman

Yesterday was Equal Pay Day in the US, marking the point at which women would have had to work into 2010 to earn the same as men in 2009. An extra four months? Seems a little unfair. Given the discrimination they face in the corporate world, is it any wonder that quite a few young [...]

Population Growth Could Destroy Africa

Via my Kenya Imagine colleague Daniel Waweru, I came across a blog post by World Bank economist Wolfgang Fengler arguing that population growth in Africa might actually aid development. Essentially, he notes that economic growth is tied to urbanisation, which is tied to population growth. So as long as the population continues to increase everything [...]

Do Information Sources Matter?

I don’t know if you spend any time reading political websites, but they do have a bit of a jones on for where a story comes from and its subsequent credibility. The websites on the left won’t countenance anything from right of centre as having any merit, while the websites on the right will regard [...]