Gmail down
Ouch. GMail is down, giving 502 server errors to users around the world. It’s somewhat reassuring to log onto Twitter and find lots of friends… Read More »Gmail down
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Social lions, fiscally-literate mobile phones
One of the best parts of this gathering at Microsoft is not the cool new toys coming from Microsoft research, but the ideas presented by… Read More »Social lions, fiscally-literate mobile phones
Incremental ideas: solar-powered GSM towers
I wrote a bit last year about the idea of “incremental infrastructure“. Basically, the idea is that there might be a future for infrastructure projects… Read More »Incremental ideas: solar-powered GSM towers
Kristen Taylor and options for videoblogging
Kristen Taylor, the online community manager for the Knight Foundation, is a seasoned videoblogger with a focus on foodblogging. (Here she is, telling you what… Read More »Kristen Taylor and options for videoblogging
Egypt: Lots of bloggers, fewer wikipedians
My friend Kevin Donovan has an interesting post today, wondering about the size of the Arabic-language wikipedia. As he observes, it’s smaller than the Esperanto… Read More »Egypt: Lots of bloggers, fewer wikipedians
Future Civic Media at MIT. Shiny!
I’m at MIT this week at the Center for Future Civic Media Conference, a conference that’s bringing together two years of winners of the Knight… Read More »Future Civic Media at MIT. Shiny!