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Warren Buffett promises ‘hands-off’ policy towards Berkshire newspapers, Omaha.com

“I’ve loved newspapers all of my life — and always will…Berkshire buys for keeps…You should treat public policy issues just as you have in the past,” he has assured publishers and editors of the Media General Inc. daily newspapers due to become part of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. “I have some strong political views, but Berkshire owns the paper — I don’t. And Berkshire will always be non-political.”

Subtext: I won’t be a Rupert Murdoch.

http://omaha.com/article/20120524/MONEY/705249878

http://dataomaha.com/documents/warren-buffetts-letter-to-publishers-and-editors

By NR, on May 25th, 2012

‘The Secret of the Temple: How a god became a billionaire’, Jake Halpern in The New Yorker, April 30, 2012

How the litigation- and controversy-fuelled discovery of treasure ‘worth billions of dollars’ (trust but verify) at the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram is the stuff of dreams worldwide.

Note: The last line in the attached pdf (downloaded from the writer’s website, www.jakehalpern.com) is incomplete; it should read: “No, let it be.”

Slideshow:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/04/chiara-goia-sri-padmanabhaswamy-temple-gold.html

pdf iconThe Secret of the Temple, Jake Halpern in The New Yorker.pdf

By NR, on May 25th, 2012

Advertising (Digital versus Traditional) the 2012 ‘Gush’ versus ‘Bore’ presidential campaign, several links

‘…the motorcades of two largely interchangeable presidential candidates (Gush, Bore)…’ — Salman Rushdie in Fury (2001)

Among other things, here’s a presidential contest between the Digital and the Traditional:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/24/obama-digital-advertising-blitz-romney

Related:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/us/politics/as-tv-viewing-habits-change-political-ads-adapt.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07hughes.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/us/politics/with-youtube-video-obama-looks-to-expand-social-media-reach.html

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/digital-team-rejoins-obama-campaign/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/us/politics/obamas-media-team-has-aggressive-ads-at-the-ready.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/09/us/politics/shift-to-general-election.html

By NR, on May 25th, 2012

Queen Victoria’s private journals are online and freely accessible

Thanks to a collaborative digitisation project, the 141 volumes aggregating more than 43,000 pages of the private journals of Queen Victoria (reign: 1837-1901), ‘the first British monarch to celebrate a diamond jubilee’, can now be read online by anybody:

http://www.queenvictoriasjournals.org/home.do

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/24/queen-victoria-private-journals-online

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9287600/The-intimate-diaries-of-Queen-Victoria-go-online-for-the-first-time.html

By NR, on May 25th, 2012

A tweet too far: ‘boring’ & diplomatic non-tweeter Andrew Strauss explains the limits following the fining of Kevin Pietersen, Cricinfo & Guardian

Kevin Pietersen tweet: “Can somebody PLEASE tell me how Nick Knight has worked his way into the commentary box for Home Tests?? RIDICULOUS!!”

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-west-indies-2012/content/current/story/566080.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/may/25/andrew-strauss-england-twitter

What was Nick Knight’s offence? ‘An inoffensive chap…with a modest Test record…[but] one of the most effective England one-day players of his time’, he had questioned Pietersen’s ‘right to a place in the team when…[his] one-day form was at its lowest’:

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15913.html

By NR, on May 25th, 2012