Around noon on Saturday, an 18-year old African American teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a local police officer in Ferguson, MO, a… Read More »News reports on Michael Brown’s death: how do mourners become a “mob”?
I wrote a book review, of sorts, last week about Walter Isaacson’s book on Steve Jobs and my concern that biographies, as a genre, celebrate… Read More »The biography I’m waiting for: Bambaataa and the parallel universe of hip hop
A friend recently posted a video on Facebook, a 1997 news story from ABC’s Nightline about Tripod, the social media company I helped build in… Read More »How do you write a biography about collaboration?
Once upon a time, there was a blog. It was written in Amharic, the dominant language in Ethiopia, by a team of young journalists and… Read More »Free Zone 9 Bloggers
My regular readers know that I’m a fan of sumo, and am especially interested in the globalization of the sport. The top three rikishi (wrestlers)… Read More »Egyptian sumo wrestler bests a grand champion. Twice. While fasting for Ramadan.
Much of my summer reading centers on the idea of civics outside of the conventional bounds of the state. I’m interested in understanding reasons why… Read More »Summer Reading: Dan Drezner’s Theories of International Politics and Zombies, Colson Whitehead’s Zone One