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(C) "The Pyramid Has a False Bottom?"

An interesting question is: would BOP-theme survive, would there be any takers in the private business world, if poor people are presented as producers? Who in the business world would benefit if I give you a scheme to turn poor people into producers? Who would care?   

Also: While our poor folk are at the bottom of the pyramid, the folks who are in the governance are like mummies in the pyramid (MIP), inured to everything.  So, we have here a case that the barriers to empowering the BOP are the MIP, the Mummies in Pyramid.

(C) "The Era of Networked Journalism Begins"

...Though the response to Ronan's query, and hence to the NADN, is skeptical at best, it is nothing out of the ordinary. Somewhere along the way in this long discussion thread, the basic purpose of NADN got all cluttered, without anybody's fault.

(C) "Introducing NewAssignment.Net"

...For NewAssignment.Net, this specific kind of authentication problem may not exist, I don't think. But a concern is it might lead to a lot of "truthiness" because the responsibility of verifying, authenticating (I am probably not using the journalistic lingo here) and certifying etc., might be a bit tricky. It is an obvious point, but the problem may be much much bigger than most people think.

(C) "The unspoken and the unspeakable"

I think it was Georg Lukacs who thought that realism in arts takes its roots in the culture particularly when the society's middle-class consciousness is on the rise, i.e., coinciding with the social change.