Reports from friends in Zimbabwe suggest that the country is now largely disconnected from the internet. Utande Internet Service has a useful update dated March… Read More »Zimbabwe is – mostly – offline. Opposition – mostly – online.
In early March, we all go a little crazy here in western Massachusetts. It’s been snowing since November, and there’s no guarantee that it will… Read More »Stumbling into history in South Troy, NY
Apologies for lighter than usual blogging the past couple of weeks. I’ve been wrestling with recurring eye problems, and since the TED conference I’ve had… Read More »Hip-hop and electoral politics: Democracy in Dakar
The Chinese internet is lots more complicated than you think. That’s the core message of Rebecca MacKinnon’s talk at the Berkman Center on the Chinese… Read More »China’s complicated internet culture
Ideas Project I muse about the future of mobile communications in Africa for friends at Nokia. Video clips of me talking about mobile money, mobile… Read More »links for 2009-03-03
The Economist is an unusual publication. In a world where print newspapers and magazines are facing extreme hardship, the Economist has seen its circulation more… Read More »The Economist, in Chinese. Just add 240 citizen translators.