Month: May 2009


We Already Knew This, but….

From the BBC: “‘Glass hold’ reveals personality“

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Kindle Improving

I still use my first generation Kindle (not everyday, but frequently), but am looking forward to the new larger Kindle DX for newspaper reading. (I compared my older Kindle —…

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Planned Creative Destruction

I recently took part in a colloquium on the future of journalism and read and discussed a lot of interesting essays, studies, and papers on the economics of news provision…

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“a sect, not a religion….”

Scientology is on trial in France. Whatever you think of its doctrines, and you can imagine what I think, this is like suing the Roman Catholic Church if a visit…

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Gadgets

Sometimes when I’m traveling and giving lectures or making presentations, the projector doesn’t work, or there was a mixup about who asked for it, etc. The 3M Micro Professional Projector…

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The Zimbabwe Papers: A Positive Agenda for Zimbabwean Renewal

A new document, released by nine African think tanks, proposes a new course for that suffering country: The Zimbabwe Papers (available in English and in French). The papers have been…

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“Myths About Markets” AfricanLiberty.org edition

It was just reviewed in Nigerian Compass. My thanks to Adedayo Thomas for working to bring the ideas of freedom, limited government, and free exchange to African readers.

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Back in the US and A

Landed this afternoon after long flights from Oslo to Paris and Paris to DC. Whew. The Oslo Freedom Forum was a great success, and a wonderful program of the Human…

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Worth Savoring….

I used this clip during my introduction at the Oslo Freedom Forum of former Romanian president Emil Constantinescu. It is worth remembering the last moments of a dictatorship, when the…

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Oslo Freedom Forum

I’m at the Oslo Freedom Forum, where I have met some of the most amazing, brave, and admirable people. I wish that others whom I admire could be here. Some…

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