links for 2008-01-25
EveryBlock: A news feed for your block. EveryBlock is live, currently for Chicago, NYC and SF. A huge mashup of data from numerous sources, though… Read More »links for 2008-01-25
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Success. Success? Success.
Global Voices reached a totally arbitrary milestone recently – we broke into the top 100 blogs listed by Technorati. It’s very hard to tell what… Read More »Success. Success? Success.
links for 2008-01-24
AudioMonk.com – Privacy Policy Speech to text service focused on the podcast market, interesting for people who want to create transcripts from podcasts (tags: audio… Read More »links for 2008-01-24
Viktor Bout, the icon for international black markets?
Remember that image of the polar bears trapped on shrinking ice floes? Yeah, that one. Or any of the hundreds of others that have been… Read More »Viktor Bout, the icon for international black markets?
5.4 million dead in Congo. Believe it or not, it could have been worse.
I was pleased to see this story about death tolls in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the first page of Reddit this morning. The… Read More »5.4 million dead in Congo. Believe it or not, it could have been worse.
Fernando Rodrigues: Transparency and corruption in Brazil
Fernando Rodrigues is one of Brazil’s leading journalists, and an innovator in the field of unlocking public information. He writes for Folha de São Paulo,… Read More »Fernando Rodrigues: Transparency and corruption in Brazil