links for 2006-12-30
NAMING NAMES: The tech reporters who flack for Second Life – Valleywag Clay continues to pick at the subscription numbers behind Second Life. Would be… Read More »links for 2006-12-30
NAMING NAMES: The tech reporters who flack for Second Life – Valleywag Clay continues to pick at the subscription numbers behind Second Life. Would be… Read More »links for 2006-12-30
It was bound to happen. I’ve been enjoying finding out all sorts of fun details about friends like danah boyd, Matt Hurst and David Weinberger… Read More »The dreaded “five things” meme
Like many Americans, I am a monolingual idiot. English is the only language I’m comfortable expressing myself in, though I can function in Spanish-speaking countries… Read More »Learning how to hear global hip hop
A recent earthquake off the coast of Taiwan has highlighted the fragility of telecoms cables and served as an interesting reminder that “the death of… Read More »The Taiwan earthquake, and a reminder about network fragility
The headline on Les Neuhaus’s AP article from Mogadishu this morning announces, “Somalia’s PM greeted by cheers“. Reading three paragraphs into the article, the situation… Read More »Ethiopian liberators greeted with cheers and flowers < /sarcasm >
(Apologies that I’ve been absent the past few days. Events in my immediate world have demanded more attention than events in east Africa…) What a… Read More »Ethiopian army seizes Mogadishu. Does anyone outside of the Bush and Zenawi administrations think this was a good idea?