JBlog Roundup: Love and Marriage and Hate and Divorce and Blintzes - The Jewish Press (blog)16 May 2012

JBlog Roundup: Love and Marriage and Hate and Divorce and BlintzesThe Jewish Press (blog)This guy is SO cute!'” But then… “A month later at midnight he dumped me.” To find out how Tanya managed that one and what she's doing every day to stay sane and not slip behind in her YU work, visit her blog and say hi from Tibbi.

Five Books on China - New Yorker (blog)15 May 2012

New Yorker (blog)Five Books on ChinaNew Yorker (blog)The new Page-Turner blog is a perfect occasion to cite the reasons why we're having a flush season in the China-book business. The following are all by deeply knowledgeable writers with original observations (rather than a pastiche of the conventional ...

For Japanese media, Yu Darvish's first loss brings disappointment, but not despair - Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog)15 May 2012

For Japanese media, Yu Darvish's first loss brings disappointment, but not despairDallas Morning News (subscription) (blog)Japanese media support for Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish didn't wane in the wake of his first loss against the Indians. Most articles noted that Darvish was cool under pressure even as the pitch count went up. In his blog, Darvish commented that he felt ...and more »

Missing Pieces: China's Challenges, Africa's Mixed Picture, and More - Council on Foreign Relations (blog)14 May 2012

Council on Foreign Relations (blog)Missing Pieces: China's Challenges, Africa's Mixed Picture, and MoreCouncil on Foreign Relations (blog)A Guardian blog post chronicles growing investment and prosperity, and an IMF magazine article last December profiles the continent's middle class. But a report last week from the Africa Progress Panel, a group of dignitaries, writes that “there is ...

Time for content providers to relook biz model - ZDNet Asia (blog)14 May 2012

Time for content providers to relook biz modelZDNet Asia (blog)By Eileen Yu on May 14, 2012 (18 hours ago) Over lunch earlier today at the launch of Internet Society's regional office in Singapore, president and CEO Lynn St. Amour reiterated the need for a paradigm shift in the way content providers operate.and more »