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Negotiating styles – Report from a Canadian Consultant in Egypt

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

From a Contributor working in Health Care in Egypt:
It is starting make some sense today. It helped when someone said that the metaphor for Egyptian management and leadership styles lies in their driving. It is totally instinctive and improvisational. Everyone goes as fast as they can, ignoring any formal rules but guided by some very [...]

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATIONS

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
ENCLOSURE, EMANCIPATORY COMMUNICATION AND THE GLOBAL CITY:
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATIONS
Hosted by the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
October 25-28, 2007.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2007
The field of culture and communication manifests struggles between contradictory tendencies. On the one hand, pressures from capital and state sometimes promote various forms [...]

indyish and open journal

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

this is one of my state of the union posts i guess where i fill you in on where we’ve been and what i’ve been thinking about behind the scenes of this hydra headed beasty. Indyish launched with joy and much brilliant art, there were 12 music videos made, and 12 unique garments, and a [...]

I met an anime writer online and turns out he is a West Pointer

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Given the odd and seeming incongruity of loving Japanese animated storytelling, and studying things like air assault and other ways to unleash death and boom, I asked him (ever eloquently) “What’s that like??” and he took the time to unpack a response…

Now for a warning – this is really, really, really long. Long as [...]

A Four Part Respose including musings to Michaels Comment on Page 9 of the CVP Workbook

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

here is the comment I’m responding too. when a comment gets long, as mine did, it should become a post. people subscribe to posts, but not necessarily to comments and, as in the sampled words used in a good Kobayashi song, “if you’ve got something to say then say it.”
First thing, regarding a piece on [...]

The Global Mean is Rising

Monday, March 13th, 2006

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