Clodjee's Safe-House: Summer Press Review (June-July-August)

I swear I'll never work six days in a week anymore: it's too tiring. The good news is that I will have a more stable schedule for fall, so I should be able to completely recover AND be able to blog regularly. I should also be able to catch up a little more on all the articles and reviews that I started but never put online (including the comments on the latest—and past—Montreal World Film Festival !). Here I am sharing with you the last part of the news links that I saved this summer (either because they were quite interesting or to simply bookmark them for myself). I also just realized that The Gazette, on top of not keeping their articles online very long, are now limiting access to their web page at only thirty articles per month! I understand that the full electronic version should be accessible only with a subscription but, since the web version is already only a selection of articles, they should give a full access to it. That's really ridiculous! I guess I'll start reading something else...

Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

Viz Expanding Netflix Streaming Presence (ICv2)
Manga: An industry built on starving artists? (CNN)
Yen Has Most Manga in Top 20 (ICv2)
A Timeline of Josei Manga in the U.S. (Comics Worth Reading)
Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind (The Guardian)
A New Edition of 'Nippon Rails' (ICv2)
Otakuthon 2011 welcomes the wacky and devoted (Gazette)
Borders' demise signals trouble for manga (Washington Post)
'Golden Kids' soccer anime available worldwide via iTunes store (Asahi Shimbun, ANN) [iTunes link]
Anime MMORPG 'Remnant Knights' Hits Beta (ICv2)
Top 25 Manga Properties of Q1 & Q2 2011 (ICv2) [Top 10 Shojo, Top 10 Shonen]
JManga.com Opens Web portal to Japanese comics (Publishers Weekly) [JManga link]

Apple & iPad news

Les plans d'Apple pour iCloud se précisent (Cyberpresse)
Leafsnap: identifiez un arbre avec une photo de ses feuilles (Cyberpresse) [iTunes link]
Must-download apps for iPad owners (Gazette)
Apple unleashes Lion, updates MacBook Air (Gazette)
La part du Lion (Cyberpresse)
Apple offers buyback program for old iPhone, iPad, Macs (Apple Insider)
Boxee now available for iPad (TUAW)
iOS 101: Importing photos from your iPhone (GigaOM)
L'événement Apple le 7 septembre: les démentis surgissent (Cyberpresse)
TouchPad: Transform your iPad into a Multi-Touch Trackpad and more (Apps Store)
Steve Jobs quitte la direction d'Apple (Cyberpresse)
Investors undaunted as Apple's Jobs steps aside (Gazette)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

Libraries adapt to meet demands of Internet age (Gazette)
Icelandic Saga Database (Link)
Apps for Library Idea Challenge (Link)
Le kiosque numérique va-t-il tuer le marchand de journaux? (Cyberpresse)
BD: la bibliothèque idéale (Le Figaro)
Cap sur la bibliothèque du XXIe siècle (BPM)
Gil Courtemanche (1943-2011): de coeur et de convictions (Cyberpresse)
Décès de Jean Tabary, le père d'Iznogoud (Cyberpresse)
Rentrée 2011: la manne littéraire (Cyberpresse)
Digital shift is killing Japan's best English books (CNN)
Library-boosting contest offers lunch with Atwood (CBC)
Obama's Book Club (The Daily Beast)
Bibliothèque Du Boisé: une nouvelle bibliothèque au coeur de vos besoins (VDM)
B&N's Digital Up, bookstores down (ICv2)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

La Journée compte-gouttes pour économiser l'eau potable (Métro Montréal) [Note: et pourtant, dans Saint-Michel, les gens sont des gros fans du boyau d'arrosage: ils l'utilisent pour laver leur voiture, leur tapis, le trottoire, leur entrée de garage, etc., et le laisse trainer des heures avant de fermer l'eau! Quel gaspillage! L'eau potable est une ressource limitée!]
Communauto se branche... à la Leaf (Cyberpresse)
Canada needs a water strategy as part of our national vision (Gazette)
Semaine internationale de l'eau: il faut mieux approvisionner (Cyberpresse)

Health, home & garden