Jacques René Zammit

  • Personality of the Year (nominations)

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    For the third year running, this blog is selecting the “J’accuse Personality of the Year”. This may not be the TIME magazine but in our own little world we like to see which personality has struck our news critting minds most between January 2010 and December 2010. The rules are like a party political manifesto…

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  • Bażar (A. Olivari)

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    Being so close to Italy and italianate forms of entertainment it is strange that this island of ours has not absorbed more of its more interesting forms of culture. The Italians have that culture of singing poets – cantautori – who entertain and challenge at the same time. Their ballads and music are snapshots of…

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  • Marriage (Behind Closed Doors)

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    Our “President Emeritus” (sic – the Times)  hath spoken: “It is good we are still bound to the principle that marriage is for life and we should be proud of this” – quoth he. Dr Fenech Adami reminded the world that marriage was a contract that bound the individuals for life and this was the…

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  • J'accuse : Ambivalent

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    The latest viral trend in the fishpond that is our corner of social networking has Peppi Azzopardi announcing to the world that “his bed is his toilet” and Ira Losco sharing her deepest thoughts about mating every so often. The viral video in black and white also features John Bundy yelling “I am the king”…

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  • Fishponds and Circuses

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    As far as virals go nothing could be more remotely uninteresting than the bland anti-circus promo that is going around on Facebook. Thank god for creative fellas like Cedric Vella who has breathed some life and humour into the whole thing using good old satyre and a remix. Blogger Markbiwwa alerted us to the alternative…

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  • Information Overload?

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    Image by New Media Days via Flickr Wikileaks. It’s on everyone’s lips and laptops and risks becoming the first real flicker of life in some rudimentary form of global democracy. Or not. Until recently social collaboration and networking had their strongest point in the immediacy of transmission of information. Students rallied in record time and…

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