links for 2009-06-13
Pulitzer Center Pulitzer Center is taking a close look at Somaliland and the stresses that are arising due to an unrecognized government. It's a key… Read More »links for 2009-06-13
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
How China blocks the letter “F”
My friend and colleague Hal Roberts is one of the internet’s top censorship and filtering researchers. When Chinese authorities announced that a client-based piece of… Read More »How China blocks the letter “F”
Invented languages, cosmopolitan dreams
Arika Okrent has a thing for languages. Born in Chicago, she got good enough at Hungarian to teach in Hungary, and learned ASL while getting… Read More »Invented languages, cosmopolitan dreams
links for 2009-06-12
Jonathan Torgovnik's photographs of children born of rape during the Rwandan genocide. – By Mia Fineman – Slate Magazine Powerful article about a photo series,… Read More »links for 2009-06-12
links for 2009-06-11
Foreign Policy: Exclusive Interview with Morgan Tsvangirai Elizabeth Dickinson of Foreign Policy interviews Morgan Tsvangirai on the challenges of coalition government in Zimbabwe (tags: africa… Read More »links for 2009-06-11
Lewis Hyde and the enclosure of silence
Lewis Hyde, poet, critic and intellectual historian, has been hard at work on a book about “the commons”, and specifically the notion that ideas should… Read More »Lewis Hyde and the enclosure of silence