“It’s either that or find another war”. From a note from Paul Salopek to his editor at National Geographic, proposing a 5 year walk around… Read More »Paul Salopek: reporting the world at a walking pace
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT, pronounced “wicket”) opened Monday in Dubai. If you’re heard about the conference, it’s likely because many articulate and… Read More »Good and bad reasons to be worried about WCIT
The Omidyar Network, DFID and Wired Magazine hosted an event in London last week, titled “Open Up“. It brought together pioneering organizations in the open… Read More »What Ancient Greek rhetoric might teach us about new civics
Shortly after I posted a review of Mads Brügger’s “The Ambassador”, a film that raised some interesting questions about what constitutes ethical and responsible journalism… Read More »Hey VICE: Your documentary is bad, and you should feel bad
Before I traveled to Ghana for the first time in 1993, I attended an orientation in Washington DC for Fulbright scholars who would be working… Read More »On hating – and occasionally loving – Mads Brügger’s “The Ambassador”
(Nathan Matias, Matt Stempeck and others at Center for Civic Media have put together an excellent blog post on this event as well – I… Read More »Steven Johnson’s Peer to Peer Politics at MIT Media Lab