Articles of Note: November 2009

Here are some interesting bits and pieces found in the past few days, in absolute random order:

• 20 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain as seen in The Big Picture #;

• A collection of Soviet advertising # (via Jason Kottke);

• Bogdana Butnar’s critique of political communication as is beign done here in Romania #;

• Mark Evans’s take on the revenue model Rupert Murdoch has in mind for online journalism #;

• Slow news as a reaction to the limited accuracy and misreporting generated by tweets (via Weblosky) #;

• A text arguing that the recent uprisings in Iran should be analyzed in relation to the thesis advanced in “The Starfish and the Spider” #;

Updated:

• The Times published some fragments from Nabokov’s incomplete final novel, The Original of Laura #;

• Unfriend is Oxford Word of the Year for 2009 #;

• Umberto Eco emphasized the importance of lists in Spiegel (via David Weinberger) #;

• Orange launched the People Projects app targeting Facebookers who otherwise neglect local community initiatives (via DailyBits) #;