Today — March August(!) 31 — marks Blog Day. It was initiated 3 years ago by Nir Ofir in an effort to get bloggers all over the world better acquainted with each other, expanding all of our areas of interest. Essentially, bloggers recommend 5 sites to celebrate the diversity of opinions that are [...]

Because yesterday’s post was “picture themed”, I thought today I’d go with the spoken word. Half the world’s languages are on the verge of extinction; with approximately 7,000 languages spoken in the world, it’s estimated that almost every two weeks, one language is lost. The Linguists, a documentary set against the landscapes of [...]

A few months ago, Boston.com began a new feature entitled “The Big Picture“, a photo blog with high resolution photographs — BIG photographs — and minimal accompanying text, letting the picture tell the story.  Boston.com’s Alan Taylor came up with the idea.  As he noted in a blog post, “the long-held tradition of keeping images [...]

Does anyone remember that Absolut Vodka advertising campaign a few months back — the one that spurred on the blogosphere with countless posts and commentaries from American conservatives like Michelle Malkin to non-profit environmental blogs like Goat?
Or, what about this week’s unbelievably(!) offensive example: Spain’s Olympic Basketball team posing in an advertisement for a courier [...]