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Nov
25th
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What’s wrong with Groupon?

It seems to be time to put the boot in on Groupon. The share price is tanking. Businesses have had bad experiences with the online daily-deals service (though this is hardly new news). …
Nov
18th
Fri
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The price of ethics

It sounds a bit cavalier, I know, but I just turned down a free phone. RRP around £450. The timing was perfect: I’m about to buy a new handset, having got frustrated with my old Nexus One and…
Jun
23rd
Thu
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http://pdsmith.tumblr.com/post/6789170560

pdsmith:

Kowloon Walled City, West Side Street, 1989, by Greg Girard. More images of Kowloon Walled City as it once was. Today it has been turned into a park (read more).

Read a blog about Girard’s work by James Bradley.
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The SmartPhone App-o-graphic

the smartphone app-o-graphic

Smartphone App-o-graphic by[x]cubeLABS
Jun
22nd
Wed
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What travel bloggers spend their time on

  • The survey: "Drag & drop the following activities in order of how much time you spend during an average week." [c/o TBEX]
  • The results ("Score is a weighted calculation. Items ranked first are valued higher than the following ranks, the score is the sum of all weighted rank counts.")
  • Total Respondents: 339
  • Writing travel blog posts 1842 Rank 1
  • Social media engagement 1609 Rank 2
  • Story research 1287 Rank 3
  • Photo or video editing 1266 Rank 4
  • Reading / answering email 1261 Rank 5
  • Reading other blogs 1234 Rank 6
  • Commenting on other blogs 784 Rank 7
  • Source: http://appv3.sgizmo.com/reportsview/?key=87621-696402-35ea66c19346614ffed8e982c20a79dd
May
27th
Fri
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Some Spring features, and the new guidebook

I spent part of March and most of April on the road, in Tuscany, researching an update to a major guidebook (about which more soon), but while I was away one or two things have appeared on- and…
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If ‘Arry joins #cfc (PLEASE LET IT BE TRUE), any chance he’ll take Joe Cole back you think? #lfc

May
26th
Thu
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Asking on Quora: Why is “soda water” so much more expensive than sparkling mineral water? What’s the magic ingredient? http://qr.ae/Qanw

May
25th
Wed
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Old Chinese proverb: “To find some hay in your box of strawberries is reassuring. To find a tarantula with your bananas is just scary.”

May
24th
Tue
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Interesting summer exhibition, near Turin

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BEAUTIFUL ITALY: Art and identity of the capital cities

Scuderie Juvarriane at the Reggia di Venaria

Until 11 September 2011

Within the impressive setting of the Scuderie Juvarriane at the Reggia di Venaria, more than 300 Italian

masterpieces reveal the progress of art from the medieval period to the eve of 1861 by means of the

pre-Unification capitals: Turin, Florence, Rome, Milan, Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Naples and Palermo.

The exhibition shows the image of the various cities – their culture, traditions and historic-artistic

heritage – as seen by the major historical artists: Giotto, Beato Angelico, Donatello, Raphael,

Leonardo, Botticelli, Bronzino, Titian, Veronese, Correggio, Caravaggio, Rubens, Tiepolo, Canova,

Hayez and many more. A path that reveals the profile of Italian art and style.

May
23rd
Mon
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US homicide rate since 1700 (c/o @jamescrabtree)

US homicide rate since 1700 (c/o @jamescrabtree)

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Seriously good mod track #kentishtown

Jul
8th
Thu
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Birdsong in Dalston

Listen!

Apr
2nd
Fri
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Good Friday procession, Volterra, Tuscany

Listen!

Mar
21st
Sun
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Indeed. RT @MissExpatria: WiFi, WiFI. FREE WiFi, that is. RT @SofitelMontreal: What is the most important thing when booking a #hotel?