The New York Times recently ran an excellent piece on the middle class in Kenya, and the affects of post-election violence on this group. Economist… Read More »The Kenyan middle class… or is that the digital activist class?
Your presidential candidate: Hot or not? | Salon Books A useful overview of some of the flaws in common voting methods, and a plug for… Read More »links for 2008-02-13
I wrote a post a few weeks ago about “vinyl ethics”, basically asking whether it was ethical to start digitizing some of the rarest records… Read More »Anthology Records and the resurrection of dead media
In 2020, 1 in 7 People in U.S. May Be Foreign-Born – New York Times US population was 15% foreign born in late 19th century… Read More »links for 2008-02-12
Imran Jamal is at the Berkman meeting in Istanbul as the “unofficial UK representative” of the Burma Global Action Network, a group that advocates for… Read More »Pros and Cons of Facebook activism
Another update from the Berkman internet and democracy meeting in Istanbul: Ken Banks, the creator of FrontlineSMS, offers a presentation on the strengths and weaknesses… Read More »Ken Banks on Frontline SMS