(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
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
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
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
I’m glad that American and international media have been paying close attention to reporter Roxana Saberi’s detention. NPR, in particular, has been producing a steady… Read More »Saberi and Derakshan, and support from an unlikely quarter?
The Salon: Fighting Congopessimism… A ferocious and smart response to the FP "There is no Congo" piece from Congolese blogger and commentator Ali Mamina. He… Read More »links for 2009-04-21