Finding reasons to laugh in Zimbabwe
Jonathan Clayton, blogging and reporting for the Times of London from Johannesburg, has a couple of good anti-Mugabe jokes that are going around on mobile… Read More »Finding reasons to laugh in Zimbabwe
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Alaa is free
We got the good news a couple days back that Alaa would be released soon – Elijah Zarwan has spoken with Alaa and reports that… Read More »Alaa is free
Blogspot still blocked. Newspapers still silent.
When Sergey Brin hinted that Google might reconsider their involvement with Google.cn, their search engine designed to comply with the censorship, the media and web… Read More »Blogspot still blocked. Newspapers still silent.
Zittrain gets me thinking about generativity and aggregation
My colleague Jonathan Zittrain has an important new paper published in the latest issue of the Harvard Law review. While it’s a paper for lawyers… Read More »Zittrain gets me thinking about generativity and aggregation
SMS in Amharic… and near-independent of Ethiopia Telecom
Two quick Timbuktu posts – Timbuktu Chronicles, that is. Emeka Okafor’s brilliant blog is one of my every day reads: it keeps track of engineering,… Read More »SMS in Amharic… and near-independent of Ethiopia Telecom
Don’t speak. Point. My talk about advocacy and citizen journalism at Netsquared
So… I’m getting on stage in about half an hour at the Netsquared conference. If you’re not here – or even if you are –… Read More »Don’t speak. Point. My talk about advocacy and citizen journalism at Netsquared