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Cool idea from danah – the “social externalities” of inventions – when the American South gets air conditioned, there’s less social interaction from people gathering in public spaces to seek cool air…
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Interesting (and sympathetic) story on Hossein Derakshan and how his profile in the expatriate Iranian blogosphere has changed as he’s begun condemning US threats to Iran and changed his stance on online critique of Iran
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22% of Canadians are on Facebook. So are 6.5% of Americans. That insane valuation starts to make some sense.
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Not the Daily Show, but very, very funny. A Daily Show writer offers a Daily Show-esque feature from the picket lines, accusing Viacom of being disingenuous in claiming that there’s no value to digital rights to media
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CGD report on the US military and international development – the Pentagon is now responsible for 20% of US development aid
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Belgium, which has no common language and not much common culture, may not make much sense as a nation… but if it ceases to be a nation, it’s a very bad sign for post-national ambitions in the European Union
Couldn’t one draw the opposite conclusion from the Belgium example – that the EU makes the trouble of negotiating over national identity unnecessary. EU language policies, and the declining importance of national languages under the EU have made it possible for numerous local languages to flourish. In Belgium there has never been a strong “national” language, and so it make sense that the country would split along linguistic lines…
Yo Ethan, thanks for that “heads up” on the new report from the CGD re: the Pentagon’s changing role in US development and aid policies. FYI there is a red hot debate about AFRICOM going on over at the African Loft website this month. As you can imagine I’m losing and losing bad re: my position of being in favor of the standup of this new command on the African continent. After reading the report summary it looks as if this Center for Global Development brief won’t be any help in re-inforcing my arguments for AFRICOM. Schei–e!
BTW: what’s this about GVO looking for a new Executive Director? This doesn’t mean that you and Rebecca MacKinnon are walking away from your incredibly successful baby, does it? Hopefully not.
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