Herkko Hietanen of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology tells his audience at the Berkman Center that “television is really broken.” The medium isn’t rising… Read More »Herkko Hietanen: The social future of television
If you can bomb Africa to enforce good governance, why spare the US Ferocious response to Paul Collier's new book, which suggests that military intervention… Read More »links for 2009-09-29
My friend and former business partner, Bo Peabody, has an op-ed in today’s Washington Post titled “Twitter.org?” He argues that social media is extremely difficult… Read More »Twitter.org? and building models for social media
Not many Afrophiles shed tears when Lansana Conté, Guinea-Conakry’s long-time strongman, died. But the military coup that followed his demise promised to pile more hardship… Read More »Protesters killed by coup government in Guinea
A fascinating story you might have missed. Noam Cohen of the New York Times looks at The Budget, a newspaper in Sugar Creek, Ohio that… Read More »“The Budget” and the Amish Internet
So, you’re the leader of a UN member nation. You’re invited to the UN general assembly in New York. And that can be fun –… Read More »Wanted: legitimation