p. “(extlink)Fair Trade Coffee”:http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ has become a buzzword recently, with the aim of providing a higher portion of proceeds back to coffee farmers, who have been hurt by low coffee prices, due to oversupply on the market. If we increase the price paid for generic coffee, however, won’t that simply encourage more farmers to grow ...
p. “(extlink)Philip Greenspun’s Weblog”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/ discusses the shock that some “(extlink)MIT”:http://www.mit.edu students at a presentation about the implementation of the “(extlink)OpenCourseWare”:http://ocw.mit.edu project, where it was revealed that much of the programming for the project was performed in India.
p. “(extlink)John Dvorak writes in his column”:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1382914,00.asp that blogs are over-hyped, based on a recent study that shows increasing abandonment of even established blogs online, after the novelty wears off. I think though, that he’s missing the point, which is that blogs lower the cost of publishing to a point where all kinds of specialty ...
p. Another Fast Company “(extlink)article”:http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2003/11/14/languishing_language.html talks about the need to modify your writing style, particularly when dealing with the web. I couldn’t agree more. I can’t count the number of problems caused when someone “didn’t read the entire email” or “missed the details at the bottom.” Particularly with so much communication now coming in the ...
p. “(extlink)Lawrence Lessig”:http://lessig.org/blog/ is representing John Hardwicke in a lawsuit against their common alma mater the American Boychoir School in Princeton. As reported in the “(extlink)Star Ledger”:http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-1/106870652649440.xml?starledger?ntr :
Is Fair Trade Coffee Good?
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