links for 2009-01-16
Reuters AlertNet – CAR: Why such poverty in a land of gold and diamonds? Excellent piece on the long-term conflicts that destabilize CAR and questions… Read More »links for 2009-01-16
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
links for 2009-01-15
Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown – NYTimes.com My colleagues at Berkman release a scholarly report that argues that there's far less stranger danger… Read More »links for 2009-01-15
Seduced by BBC’s maps of British infrastructure
I’m in love. I’ve been blogging these past few weeks about infrastructure and how we understand and misunderstand it. My motives are a bit oblique… Read More »Seduced by BBC’s maps of British infrastructure
Good and bad news from Zimbabwe
I mentioned two days ago that Zimbabwean authorities were holding a two-year old child prisoner, along with his activist parents. Denford Magora drew my attention… Read More »Good and bad news from Zimbabwe
links for 2009-01-14
ABC News: Dirty Bomb Concerns Remain; Security Gaps Still Exist GAO determines that US has no long-term plan to deter smuggling of nuclear material and… Read More »links for 2009-01-14
links for 2009-01-13
LRB Mahmood Mamdani: Lessons of Zimbabwe Extremely thorough, well-researched piece on the factors – aside from Mugabe – that have led to current economic crisis… Read More »links for 2009-01-13