A recent earthquake off the coast of Taiwan has highlighted the fragility of telecoms cables and served as an interesting reminder that “the death of… Read More »The Taiwan earthquake, and a reminder about network fragility
The headline on Les Neuhaus’s AP article from Mogadishu this morning announces, “Somalia’s PM greeted by cheers“. Reading three paragraphs into the article, the situation… Read More »Ethiopian liberators greeted with cheers and flowers < /sarcasm >
(Apologies that I’ve been absent the past few days. Events in my immediate world have demanded more attention than events in east Africa…) What a… Read More »Ethiopian army seizes Mogadishu. Does anyone outside of the Bush and Zenawi administrations think this was a good idea?
Like David Weinberger, I’m very surprised to be named Time’s person of the year (along with you, and you and you). Like Rebecca MacKinnon, I… Read More »Time’s person of the year: fat, ignorant and xenophobic?
Tehelka – The People’s Paper Shivam Vij’s very generous review of the Delhi conference and the global voices project as a whole (tags: globalvoices india)… Read More »links for 2006-12-23
Wired News: Bloggers Shrink the Planet Quinn Norton’s review of our third conference, with a focus on Sami’s Tunisian prison mashup (tags: globalvoices media) Global… Read More »links for 2006-12-22