Mark Hopkins wrote a provocative post on Mashable, a prominent social networking technology blog, last week. Titled, “Forget Kenya, Let’s Talk Scoble-gate!“, the post berates… Read More »Scoble, Kenya and learning to connect
I had dinner with my parents, my sister and her wife Friday night. The topic of conversation, as I suspect it was around many family… Read More »Tribe
I had a post queued up forthe start of 2008. I’d planned to begin the year on an enthusiastic, positive note, suggesting that this might… Read More »Kenya: heartbreak and hope
The situation in Somalia is spiraling out of control, and, as always, it requires some serious digging to understand what’s actually going on. Sheikh Qasim… Read More »Somalia spirals out of control. Or it’s completely peaceful. Depends who you ask.
One of the ugliest and stupidest wars of the past decades was the one fought between Eritrea and Ethiopia over their border. Between May 1998… Read More »The possible resumption of the world’s stupidest war
We’ve fast-forwarded directly from summer to winter here in Western Mass, skipping autumn entirely. Or perhaps I just missed it while on the road. I’ve… Read More »Vicarious West African Travel