Last week I was in Vegas for Blogworld and was struck by the inability of my fellow new media peers to see the collapsing city around them. While the practictioners of new media and citizen journalism were...
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One of the UK's "golden age" piers was destroyed by a fire in the early hours of this morning. The pier in Lancashire was one of the first to be built in the golden age of pier building in Britain, which lasted...
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Trevor Boddy looks at a condo development in Vancouver that takes a different approach to density: "In the worlds of real estate and architecture, it is nearly always mistaken to extrapolate the future from...
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gCaptain brings us news of the Crane Ship Zhen Hua Beached Near Rotterdam:"Today we have a very special report at Ship of the Day.
In the night between friday and saturday, the heavy load carrier Zhen
Hua 10...
"Surge in public executions is a push to silence political activists, say critics
Robert Tait in Tehran
Sunday August 19, 2007
The Observer
Nikoubazl/Reuters
Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month...
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"The shipyard cranes famous for mapping the skyline along the River Tyne in Newcastle are being dismantled and sent to India.
The owner of the Swan Hunter yard, Jaap Kroese, has sold off the heavy equipment to an...
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Dave Barry cracks me up. I read this post he wrote to the coming crowds for the SuperBowl... A great look into the world of Miami, as comedy is usually more telling than head on reporting. Now, I...
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"Hurricane-force winds from "Kyrill," Europe's most severe winter storm since 1999, ripped off part of the roof at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, toppled trucks on European highways, and ripped down a two-ton...
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"A hotel has collapsed in Pakistan's popular hill resort of Murree with more than a dozen people believed trapped in the rubble, police said.
Army teams with heavy cranes have joined police and the local administration in the rescue operation, and none of the victims have...
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