links for 2009-04-28
Foreign Policy: 68 Million Congolese Can't Be Wrong Another response to the FP article on breaking up the Congo: "Congo, in short, exists because 68… Read More »links for 2009-04-28
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
If US government contractors had designed the iPhone
It’s an unseasonably beautiful day here in Western Massachusetts, roughly 30 degrees farenheight higher than it has any right to be, and I was sitting… Read More »If US government contractors had designed the iPhone
Marc Lynch asks us to be realistic about digital activism in the Middle East
(Notes from a talk by my friend Marc Lynch, in dialog with Mohammed Bazzi from NYU’s journalism school at Open Society Institute, Tuesday night. Not… Read More »Marc Lynch asks us to be realistic about digital activism in the Middle East
Flu infects Twitter
Two weekends ago, I wrote a couple of scripts designed to let me (and anyone else who was interested) study the emergence of memes on… Read More »Flu infects Twitter
An elegy (of sorts) for Geocities
Yesterday, Yahoo announced that it would be shutting down its free webhosting service, Geocities, later this year. The Geocities website sports a banner announcing that… Read More »An elegy (of sorts) for Geocities
Madagascar: new government, old tensions
I’m once again locked onto the #Madagascar tag on Twitter, trying to get a sense for what’s going on in the wake of the March… Read More »Madagascar: new government, old tensions