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Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [7 June 2012]

7 June 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Spain: Simmering Anger In Seville

Paul Mason | BBC | 6 June 2012

Trouble with banks and a real estate bust is only the beginning. Mason takes the temperature of Spain, a country now in the grip of a complex political-economic crisis with the potential to shatter the eurozone Comments

The Curious Case Of Internet Privacy

Cory Doctorow | MIT Tech Review | 6 June 2012

"The users and the analytics people are in a shooting war, but only the analytics people are armed. There's a business opportunity for a company that wants to supply arms to the rebels instead of the empire" Comments

The Hard Truth About Political Compromise

Joshua Rothman | Boston Globe | 3 June 2012

"A vote against compromise might feel like a vote for purity, for boldness—but it’s a vote for the status quo. In a democracy where people disagree on fundamental questions, no-compromise politicians create logjams, not progress" Comments

Interrogating The Makers And Stars Of The Wire

David Simon, Ed Burns et al | Maxim | 30 May 2012

In the mid-1980s David Simon, a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun, met Ed Burns, a homicide detective in the midst of a case involving a local drug kingpin and folk hero. A seed was planted and an unlikely project was born Comments

Alan Rusbridger: The Quiet Evangelist

Peter Wilby | New Statesman | 30 May 2012

Huge feature on The Guardian newspaper, and its editor Alan Rusbridger. Traditional advertising revenues have collapsed, losses now exceed £30m. The pressure is on. Can Rusbridger turn it around? Comments

How Silence Works

Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston | Awl | 1 June 2012

Surpisingly open email conversation with four trappist monks. Turns out they don't take a vow of silence, can talk when necessary. "Cultivating silence in a group is hard and a discipline we have to commit to over and over again" Comments

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