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I found this PDF file listing prices for advertising with the Daily News company in Tanzania. I was suprised to see a full-page color advertisement costing almost TSH 3 million! I was recently told it takes about TSH 1.7 million to produce a music video in the market... just to compare. At what cost are advertisements created? Do they transfer the same value to the onlooker that the company being advertised seeks to transfer?

I found this Al Jazeera article from April 12 , which is a solid overview of socio-political disputes across the Sub-Saharan region of Africa. I thought it was a useful move by Al Jazeera to expose these disputes, considering that many of them would not make international media waves (see previous post ).

Cross-posted on Vijana FM | May 25, 2011 Have we ceased to read between the lines? Do opinion pieces in the media conflict with fact-based pieces? This is a short story to explore potential answers to these two questions. A short time ago in human history, three friends from different corners of the world decided to get involved with the printing press. Rashidi was an avid reader, and had loved to read written works of his friends Nur and Nick throughout their days in school. As well as reading everything else, Rashidi was especially interested in reading his two friends’ works because they seemed to compliment eachother well in their perspectives. Nur was also a big reader, but an even bigger writer. She was known for her acute representation of facts. Brought up by parents who both worked for the national archives, Nur knew her history well. She believed that telling stories with fair treatment to all subjects was essential to writing. She was less enthusiastic about o...

A few days ago, SN wrote this on Vijana FM , defending our outlook into the distant future. And just yesterday, I saw this article from an Al Jazeera political analyst , encouraging President Obama to step things up and have a conversation with the integrated news network. Are we becoming skeptical of the media? Or is the media changing and becoming skeptical of its users?

Since Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt's president about 3 months ago, the country still faces difficulties in formulating a government that the people will approve. Most recently, clashes between Muslims and Christians have been recorded. So, has the peoples' revolution in Egypt revolutionized fully yet? It is difficult to tell.

Considering the modern concept of a "nation state", I can understand the different ways in which a government can become upset at its constituents, and vice versa. But what I continue to find puzzling since public protests began in many MENA states is why any government would bomb its own cities ? It makes no logical (economical, especially) sense to me.

"What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence." - LW, Tractatus (1921) More on this later.

Teaching is not the same as learning. While they each fulfill some part of the definition of "education", they are not education on their own. Learning is probably more akin to the first definition of education, because it does not entail an authority from which the learning takes place. It could be from a person, a non-living object or an event involving both. Teaching seems to be more inclusive of an authority which guides what is taught. Even when we say "this experience taught me", we're saying the experience involved something specific that was worth learning. Is it necessary for the process of education to contain both of these; teaching as well as learning? Image source courtesy of Projects Abroad .

The counterpart can be downloaded here . Tracklist: 1. Stardust & Daftpunk: I feel like one more time (Arno Cost rework) 2. Morgan Page: Fight for you (Sultan & Ned Shepard mix) 3. Andy Duguid feat. Leah: Don't belong (Rasmus Farber club mix) Genre: Progressive vocal house Size: 18.1 MB / 19 minutes 47 Seconds

Finally set up some decks again! To get things warmed up, I put together a quick mix of three progressive house tracks: Deja Vu (Mix 1) . Tracklist: 1. 16 Bit Lolitas: In my room without Paris (Original mix) 2. John Dahlback: Kairo (Original mix) 3. Alex Kenji & Bass Kleph: Melocoton (Original mix) Genre: Progressive house Size: 15.6 MB / 17 minutes 07 Seconds

Other headlines: Al Jazeera: Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan BBC: Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden dead - Barack Obama Reuters: Osama bin Laden killed in shootout, Obama says

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