Sunday, April 08, 2007

FEER is still around

Just imagine: while writing the previous entry I discovered that the Far Eastern Economic Review or FEER is still around. For those who did not hang around in Asia in the past century, FEER and Asiaweek used to be leading English language weeklies. Asiaweek has been finished off when AOL and its owner Time-Warner "merged" (at the time it was more a take-over by AOL). FEER, owned by Dow Jones, reduced to a monthly publications, but then disappeared from my radar screen as also their journalists lost their jobs.
But they are still there and even more, they not only have a website, but also RSS-feeds. They for sure know how to please the digital vanguard. That is more or less where the good news stops, because most of their articles are - despite the RSS-feed - behind a financial firewall and I would not be able to link to them.
From what I can see, it looks like the academics have taken over most of the writing. And they only take it when you do not publish it elsewhere, for example on your weblog. The issue of a financial compensation is not mentioned.

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