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The Olive Ream remains one of the greatest mysteries of the 21st century. Don’t look for the hows, the whys and the wherefore-art-thous about its inception and existance. There are no answers to any of those questions here. What can be revealed is that this blog originated on a warm, sunny afternoon in April of 2005. The birth pangs were excruciatingly painful but in the end I was able to slap the little bastard into life for all to see. In the days, months, and years that followed, this shy little web log grew into a handsome, strapping, young web site, with a devoted fan following of two.
Due to the unrelenting procrastination of its owner and the resulting writer’s block, the blog suffered heavy stress, high blood pressure which inturn resulted in a massive coronary to ultimately bring this blog to an abrupt end on December 4th, 2006. There was much mourning, wailing and gnashing of teeth by the blogging community. Vigils were kept next to the hospital bed and prayers sessions were held outside the ICU, praying for a quick and miraculous recovery. Thanks to the nudging, pushing, kicking and screaming of teeth maestro, this blog was revived back into a form that is far better in appearance than its former self. With its own domain name and a new palatial residence, the olive ream re-emerges to annoy the hell out the effing globalists and the minions of the anti-christ.
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This site has twice won the Oscar. Once for the Best Actor in a Leading Role in a blog drama and another for the Best Original Screenplay Adapted from the Greek tragedy of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. Additionally, this site has won two Golden Globes, a Bafta, a Tony and 8 Grammys for the triangle rendition Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita.
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Welcome back dude and I agree to the part “nudging, pushing, kicking and screaming of teeth maestro” damn you were stubborn, but I’m happy as long as I can see you safely crossing the bridge
Welcome to the real world, NEO
About time!!
And thanks to the good doctor - the Teeth Maestro, for his successful attempts at resuscitation!
Congratulations!
This is a ‘cool’ site and quite well-considered. Looking forward to your incisive wit and powerful writings!
Raza
I’m rather fond of that picture of Cooco’s (I’ve always been confused between the spelling and the phoenetics of that restaurant) you have as your blog header. Very nice.
Great Efforts, Will be visiting your site regularly.
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Demotix- The Citizen Wire
Dear Olive Ream,
You’re site is fantastic. We hope you might see a cross over with what we’re launching!
Demotix is a website for user-generated news, and a citizen ‘wire’ service. Think of it like Flickr or YouTube, but only for original photo/video news. You tell us what is going on, we tell the worldwide web and the world’s mainstream media. As of now, http://www.demotix.com is live.
Why are we doing it?
We believe citizen journalism – well-managed – can be a tremendous force in political participation, civil society, and freedom of speech around the world. And we believe the media needs rescuing.
• Only four US newspapers have foreign news desks (the NY Times, LA Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal), and there are only 141 US foreign correspondents currently working today (in print and broadcast media)
• In the UK, a 2006 study of the broadsheets showed that more than 50% of the news was directly attributable to press releases
• The world’s media (over 90%) relies on the wire services – the Associated Press and Reuters – for their news. But some 80 countries, or 40% of the world’s nations, have no bureau from either agency.
The news is shrinking daily. We hope Demotix can plug that gap, and more.
We hope to be giving a megaphone to the man and woman in the street with a story to tell. We hope to be able to change the news map – bringing real, raw, original information from countries and about issues the mainstream media haven’t touched in years.
Eventually we hope that Demotix will be THE place where anyone in the world can go, in safety, to upload news – major, minor, local, cultural, political, social… We already have agreements with the Daily Telegraph, Newsweek, La Repubblica, Prospect and others – and will now supply them with a daily wire and picture feed of ‘citizen’ news. We have also built partnerships with Amnesty, Reporters Sans Frontieres, Witness and many others.
But we need your help. We want to do in pictures/video what you do for text. If you think there is a cross-over and you like us, please write about us, link to us, spread the news. We’re nothing without contributors, and your readers are exactly whom we want to be reaching out to. We can get their news out to the world, and in the process change what news is reported. And we’ll charge the mainstream media for anything they use, splitting the fees 50:50 with our contributors.
Please be in touch! Are there other ways we might collaborate?
With all thanks
Turi
Turi Munthe
http://www.demotix.com