Many Jordanian bloggers, inside and outside the country, have registered their blogs with Jordan Planet, which aggregates their posts. The main page of the site… Read More »Early roundup from the Jordanian blogosphere
Three separate suicide bombings have attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan. The death tolls just seem to keep climbing as I scan the news feeds,… Read More »The Bombings in Amman
Telecommunications consultant Roland Alden has an excellent essay on EASSy, the fiberoptic submarine cable proposed to link East Africa to the Internet, connecting a number… Read More »Feeling unEASSy about telecom cartels
Global Voices has been trying to follow both the violent suppression of street protests in Addis Ababa and the ongoing rioting in Paris suburbs. A… Read More »Who’s Watching in Addis?
Ten years ago, I used to get pissed off when other companies implemented ideas before we had a chance to build them at Tripod. I’ve… Read More »Amazon Embraces Human Filtering
Two weekends ago, I wrote about a great session at Pop!Tech, a two hour conversation where African attendees at the conference got to talk about… Read More »Missed the Africa panel at Pop!Tech? Listen in.