Idea Festival: Dollar bills and epidemeology
I’m here at the Idea Festival in Louisville, Kentucky for the next couple of days. Idea Festival was good enough to invite me to speak… Read More »Idea Festival: Dollar bills and epidemeology
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Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
links for 2007-09-13
RConversation: Eating “River Crab” at the Harmonious Forum ï¼ åƒæ²³èŸ¹å¼€å’Œè°ä¼š Rebecca explains why keyword filtering in China is causing Chinese bloggers to use puns, visual… Read More »links for 2007-09-13
Berkman: Peter Galison and “trading zones”
Peter Galison is a pretty bright guy. He’s Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard, and a Macarthur Fellowship recipient, a scholar of the history of… Read More »Berkman: Peter Galison and “trading zones”
links for 2007-09-11
For China’s Censors, Electronic Offenders Are the New Frontier – washingtonpost.com Interesting piece with concrete examples of citizen media that have gotten Chinese citizens into… Read More »links for 2007-09-11
links for 2007-09-10
Computer crime is slicker than you think – Security – CRN Australia Useful article on the criminal computing market. Buying credit card numbers or a… Read More »links for 2007-09-10
Kamusi, and the challenge of non-profit incubation
I’ve written in the past about the Kamusi project, an online Swahili-English dictionary built by experts and by volunteer contributors. When I last checked in… Read More »Kamusi, and the challenge of non-profit incubation