Aden Hashi Ayro, one of the leaders of the al-Shabab insurgency in Somalia, was killed last night in a US airstrike. Seems like a) a… Read More »How to tell the story of the strike against Al-Shabab in Somalia?
Chris Conley leads one of the most difficult research projects we’ve undertaken at the Berkman Center – the surveillance study of the Open Net Initiative.… Read More »How to study surveillance
Sierra Leone: Bio Diesel Wonderful post about making biodiesel from palm kernels in Sierra Leone. Via Afrigadget, Emeka Okafor (tags: africa sierraleone energy green innovation)… Read More »links for 2008-04-29
There’s been a small but fascinating blog conversation going on surrounding the term “homophily”. Journalism and media critic Amy Gahran encountered the term in an… Read More »Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia
Technology Review: Una Laptop por Ni‽o Extremely useful review of OLPC deployment in Peru by David Talbot. It’s both enthusiastic about the ambitions of the… Read More »links for 2008-04-25
Tryangulation: homophily self exam An excellent post on “homophily self exams” by a Texan educator based in Ankara. Very cool to see people exploring the… Read More »links for 2008-04-24