At a time when tra­di­tional and online media-outlets are bla­tantly par­ti­san and sen­sa­tion­al­is­tic along with focus­ing on quan­tity rather than qual­ity, Con­sid­er­a­tions aims to be a throw­back to a more so-called “old-fashioned” time. Con­sid­er­a­tions does not pub­lish trite, short arti­cles every few min­utes in an attempt to fool search-engines into deliv­er­ing traf­fic, and this web­site does not adhere to any over­all polit­i­cal viewpoint.

Instead, Con­sid­er­a­tions aims to pro­vide lengthy, thought­ful analy­ses on a wide vari­ety of top­ics rang­ing from pol­i­tics to eco­nom­ics to cul­ture to sports. Our writ­ers take the time to research and pub­lish ana­lyt­i­cal pieces that encour­age read­ers to “con­sider” the topic at hand at length rather than rein­force or change anyone’s exist­ing beliefs. Of course, every reg­u­lar and guest writer will have his own opin­ions, and Con­sid­er­a­tions pub­lishes essays from any­where along the polit­i­cal spec­trum (within rea­son) as long as they are researched, thought-out, and well-written. We aim to pub­lish qual­ity, not quantity.

Our Writ­ers and Contributors

Samuel J. Scott is the founder, pub­lisher, and edi­tor of Con­sid­er­a­tions as well as My SEO Soft­ware. He is a for­mer Boston jour­nal­ist and news­pa­per edi­tor who is cur­rently liv­ing in Israel. Scott is fin­ish­ing his Inter­na­tional M.B.A. who offered SEO-consultant ser­vices before becom­ing Man­ager of Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions for The Cline Group. He was also a co-blogger on Mid­dle East­ern and Euro­pean eco­nom­ics at the Return of the Great Depres­sion web­site in sup­port of this book. Scott’s LinkedIn page is here. He also has a hobby site at Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer Online.

In Boston, Scott was Editor-in-Chief and Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Spare Change News, an alter­na­tive news­pa­per and non-profit orga­ni­za­tion. Prior to work­ing at SCN, he wrote for Mass­a­chu­setts news­pa­pers includ­ing The Boston Globe, The Patriot Ledger, The Boston Courant, and The Bea­con Hill Times, as well as TNT mag­a­zine in Lon­don. Prior to work­ing in jour­nal­ism, Scott was a Staff Assis­tant at the Bea­con Hill Insti­tute, an eco­nomic think-tank at Suf­folk University.

Scott has a B.S. in jour­nal­ism from Boston Uni­ver­sity. He is study­ing in the Inter­na­tional M.B.A. pro­gram at Bar-Ilan Uni­ver­sity after pur­su­ing prior stud­ies in the Exec­u­tive M.B.A. pro­gram at Suf­folk Uni­ver­sity in Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts. Scott has lived, trav­eled, or stud­ied in Britain, Canada, Egypt, India, and Israel, as well as in var­i­ous parts of the United States. He was born in St. Louis, Mis­souri, and raised in Belleville, Illi­nois, before mov­ing to Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts. He cur­rently lives in Israel.

Scott can be con­tacted at sjsc­world­wide (at) gmail.com (with­out the spaces). His opin­ions are his own and not nec­es­sar­ily reflec­tive of any employer, client, or uni­ver­sity. Scott’s mother tongue is Eng­lish, and he is pro­fi­cient in Hebrew and French as well. The name of this blog — “Con­sid­er­a­tions” — is that of his reg­u­lar col­umn while he was Editor-in-Chief of Spare Change News in Boston.

Devan Daniel Kalathil Palankandi grad­u­ated with a degree in media and jour­nal­ism from the Uni­ver­sity of Flo­rence in Italy. He has taken part in social events includ­ing the Anti-Racist Tour­na­ment and Mon­di­al­ito (the mini-World Cup) in Flo­rence for the past four years as orga­nizer, coach, and player for the Ital­ian non-professional team. The event is spon­sored by the UISP and funded by the munic­i­pal­ity of Florence.

Palankandi was born in Man­ali, at the foothills of the Himalayan Moun­tains in India. He spent his youth at the Lawrence School Sanawar board­ing school. Palankandi has showed a major ded­i­ca­tion to sports and has mas­tered activ­i­ties includ­ing cricket, hockey, soc­cer, and swim­ming. His father is orig­i­nally from Ker­ala, and his mother is from Italy. Although Palankandi is an Ital­ian cit­i­zen, he is a Hindu as well as proud of his Indian ori­gins. He is flu­ent in Hindi, Eng­lish, and Italian.

He also writes for firenzelodging.com and devan-knowitall.blogspot.com. The opin­ions expressed by Palankandi are his own and do not rep­re­sent the thoughts or ideas of his school or employ­ees from the past or future.

Writer Emer­i­tus

Jeff Guevin is an aspir­ing poly­math cur­rently study­ing law in an idyl­lic New Eng­land small town. He has worked for Boston Uni­ver­sity and Mas­sacusetts’ state wel­fare depart­ment, and most recently was a U.S. Peace Corps Vol­un­teer in Benin, West Africa. Guevin has also writ­ten and taken pho­tographs for Spare Change News, taught sail­ing at Piers Park Sail­ing Cen­ter in East Boston, and writ­ten two blogs, Bon­jour Benin and Polit­i­gal­lus. Jeff is also a co-owner and lead writer for the Law School Ref­er­ence website.

Guevin holds a bachelor’s degree in inter­na­tional rela­tions and a Mas­ter of Urban Affairs from Boston Uni­ver­sity. As an under­grad­u­ate, he con­cen­trated his stud­ies, which included a minor in reli­gion, on the Mid­dle East and Islam. He also stud­ied abroad at the Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity in Cairo. Guevin is pro­fi­cient in French and Span­ish and has a basic knowl­edge of Ara­bic. He has trav­eled on four con­ti­nents, includ­ing every country/territory in the Lev­ant, save Iraq (but he’s got­ten close).

Guevin was born and raised in Ari­zona to par­ents whose fam­i­lies have, in large part, been in North Amer­ica since before the United States was a coun­try. He is proud of his roots but, like much of Gen­er­a­tion X, feels dera­ci­nated; on the other hand, he is con­tent to be where he is most of the time.

The thoughts and opin­ions expressed by Guevin on this blog are his and his alone and in no way rep­re­sent the thoughts and opin­ions of his school or any employ­ers past or present. Guevin is on LinkedIn, for what it’s worth, and he encour­ages com­ments on his posts.

Con­tact

Con­sid­er­a­tions can be e-mailed at sjsc­world­wide (at) gmail.com. We encour­age feed­back, com­ments, and reac­tions to our essays. We reserve the write to pub­lish or oth­er­wise use any e-mailed com­mu­ni­ca­tion unless the sender explic­itly states that the e-mail is private.

Essay Sub­mis­sions

Con­sid­er­a­tions wel­comes sub­mit­ted essays and guest posts. How­ever, we have high stan­dards. If you want to sub­mit a sim­ple, trite blog post merely in the hope of gain­ing a back­link to your web­site, do not bother. We delete those. How­ever, if you want to sub­mit a thought­ful, lengthy, researched essay in the hopes of con­tribut­ing qual­ity con­tent to the Inter­net, then we will review your post. Any­thing that is pub­lished will con­tain one back­link of the contributor’s choice at the end of the arti­cle. Peo­ple who agree to sub­mit one essay a week will have an offi­cial contributor-profile in the above mast­head on this page. Unfor­tu­nately, Con­sid­er­a­tions can­not pay for con­tent at this time.