A quick follow on to my post from last week trying to summarize my friend Rebecca MacKinnon’s wide ranging and fascinating talk on Chinese internet… Read More »The grass mud horse, and other legendary Chinese beasts
A journalist recently asked me what had surprised me most about the success of Global Voices. There have been a lot of surprises with this… Read More »Rising Voices, TED, Pop!Tech and the challenges of innovating… everywhere
I wrote about the pricing disparities between print and online media a few weeks ago, curious why my local newspaper was able to charge a… Read More »WSJ on online ad efficiency – more bad news for newspapers
Reports from friends in Zimbabwe suggest that the country is now largely disconnected from the internet. Utande Internet Service has a useful update dated March… Read More »Zimbabwe is – mostly – offline. Opposition – mostly – online.
In early March, we all go a little crazy here in western Massachusetts. It’s been snowing since November, and there’s no guarantee that it will… Read More »Stumbling into history in South Troy, NY
Apologies for lighter than usual blogging the past couple of weeks. I’ve been wrestling with recurring eye problems, and since the TED conference I’ve had… Read More »Hip-hop and electoral politics: Democracy in Dakar