Editorial Good heavens it's 2011 -- Newtron23/11/20106/12/2010Canberra Zimbabwe368

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Date Posted: Tuesday, November 30, 10:05:26pm
Author: Calendar released Friday 26/11/2010
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Editorial Good heavens it's 2011

Advances in technology during the first decade of this millennium can be measured in vowels. The ipod arrived in 2001, the ipad in 2010. And lest it seem we are favouring one type of fruit, we acknowlege there have been blackberries as well as Apples. Laptops got bigger, then smaller, and almost always faster; telephones became sleeker and smarter. Such things have led to profound changes in behaviour. People now reguarly read what used to be called 'printed matter' on screens instead of paper. And when making appointments or checking dates, people tap on keyboards rather than scribbling in diaries. Yet old style diaries still have their disciples, while a kitchen looks bare without a calendar on display-its dates circled and squiggled upon in a manner mysterious to anyone except residents. Devices with screens don't respond well to being doodled on or decorated with stuck on-notes, which is why your more likely to find a Big Issue calendar than an ipad attached to a wall.
The year and dates are different, but this calendarv retians popular features of the one you maybe replacing: cartoons by Andrew Weldon, a contributor to the Big Issue since its first edition in 1996, and also work done by some other talented people you can find in the magazine:
Keith Burt, Michael Streich, Michael Weldon, Catherine Campbell, Ron Monnier and Simon Letch. We should also acknowlege the photographers who took the fine vendor portraits you will find here-James Braund, Ross Swanborough, Andy Rasheed, Ben Davies, Paul Giggle and Arunas Klupas-in addition to messages from the vendors themselves. They are the ones who make the Big Issue unique. The year 2010 saw a heartening boost in official sales and readership figures-not to mention new governments in the UK, Australia and also the Phillipines, among others. A lot can happen in a year. So what lies ahead in 2011? Who knows. But may the Big Issue be part of your journey, untill 2012 and beyond.
Alan Attwood, Editor of the Big Issue.

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