Unemployment is a major problem in Kenya, especially in informal settlements. A creative solution, called Kazi560, is having great success matching blue-collar workers with jobs… Read More »Kazi560 – Jobsearching via mobile phone
I’m at MIT this week at the Center for Future Civic Media Conference, a conference that’s bringing together two years of winners of the Knight… Read More »Future Civic Media at MIT. Shiny!
Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers are protesting Pervez Musharraf’s attacks on the judiciary – and the failure of Pakistan’s new government to overturn Musharraf’s actions –… Read More »Citizen Media and Pakistan’s Long March
Law professors Cass Sunstein and Eugene Volokh brightened my drive to Harvard last week with a dialog about “the architecture of serendipity”. Sunstein is well-known… Read More »The architecture of serendipity
A few days ago, media critic and comic Jon Stewart interviewed Hillary Clinton campaign chair Terry McAuliffe on the Daily Show. After McAuliffe announced that… Read More »“If we act deranged enough, maybe they’ll just give us the country.”
Right. Sorry about that. A large number of my readers haven’t been getting updates from this blog for a month or so. I upgraded my… Read More »An involuntary hiatus, for some of you