It’s a story too strange to be true: a wealthy Bangladeshi film-maker is building a life-sized replica of the Taj Mahal near Dhaka so that… Read More »Bengali bloggers debunk credulous AFP story about Taj Mahal “replica”
Understanding Somalia always requires some triangulation. Recent events are more than a little baffling, at least at first glance. At second glance, they make a… Read More »Consensus on Somalia: it’s going to get worse
Vijaysree Venkatraman of the Christian Science Monitor has a very generous article about my recent thinking on the challenges of finding sufficiently challenging information online,… Read More »Shameless self-promotion
Yesterday afternoon, I sat in on a discussion at a Berkman Center conference about the role of YouTube in electoral politics. It was never explicitly… Read More »Citizen video and windows on the world
Our conversation this morning at the Berkman conference on Internet and Politics has ticked off my colleagues Yochai Benkler and Eszter Hargittai. Eszter reminds us… Read More »Open for Questions: Participation, from campaigning to governing
“Would Obama be the President without the Internet? Yes, he would.” That’s Peter Daou, internet strategist for Hillary Clinton. His perspective is more or less… Read More »The changing relationship between internet and politics?