The New York Times ran an article yesterday considering a number of strategies being used to augment measures of national income – notably Gross Domestic… Read More »Bhutan: Not everyone is happy with the Hermit Kingdom
The MV Semlow, hijacked by pirates off the Somali coast, appears to have been released, along with its cargo. Reuters reports that the ship is… Read More »Somali pirates dump rice, keep cement
It’s been a little over a year since I stopped working on Geekcorps, and I’m finally getting to the point where I don’t get introduced… Read More »Geekcorps pride – the kids have done good…
I’ve been meaning to weigh in on recent developments on the sub-$100 laptop project Nicholas Negroponte is spearheading. While I join nearly everyone else in… Read More »Thinking about the sub-$100 laptop
While most of Somalia has been a dangerous, unstable place since the fall of Siad Barre in 1991, Somaliland, the northernmost part of the former… Read More »Somaliland Elections
Tomas Krag thinks he may have the solution to the problem with writing books in a wiki fashion, as discussed in an earlier post. He… Read More »Solving the problems of 10 Things That Will Be Free…