Yesterday, a reader reminded me that Ethiopia is not the only country in East Africa cracking down on the press in ways that are inappropriate… Read More »“Sedition” in Uganda – more attacks on press freedom in East Africa
My friend Jean-Claude Guedon pointed me to an interesting new company, Talkr, a few days back. It’s a service that uses a text to speech… Read More »Thinking about Talkr
Foreign Policy’s most recent issue features a Failed States Index, a listing and map of the sixty nations they believe are most likely to collapse,… Read More »The Failing States Index, and the question of why some states that should fail, don’t
Update: as of midday on August 18th, Tensae.com is back online. A banner on their site currently reads: “Thanks to your untire effort and our… Read More »Zenawi sues Ethiopian radio station in US, website disappears
Via MetaFilter, I discovered an interesting new blog today: Blogoriented. It appears to be the blog of a pair of American entrepreneurs starting a “blog… Read More »The outsourcing of blogging… and everything else?
I came to Ghana for the first time in September 1993, attending the University of Ghana at Legon as an “occasional student” (their term, not… Read More »David Mends figures out why we blog, but still won’t send me chicken.