My friend Andrew Heavens continues to do exemplary photojournalism from his base in Addis Ababa. (I’m working on a proposal for an Africa-wide blogging and… Read More »Photos: Not funny, and at least a little funny
In the picture above (from Hossein Derakshan’s photo blog), the middle figure is Omid Memarian, a young Iranian journalist who, at the time, was one… Read More »Meeting Omid Memarian
Meetings with the board of the Information Program of Open Society Institute generally involve travelling to exotic places around the globe and sitting in a… Read More »We’re off to see the Archivist
William Easterly, an economics professor at NYU, has an excellent column in Monday’s Washington Post titled, “The West Can’t Save Africa”. Easterly points out that… Read More »The West Can’t Save Africa… but maybe some US MBAs can…
My colleague Rebecca MacKinnon is in Washington, DC today trying her best to follow Congressional hearings on the behaviors and possible codes of conduct for… Read More »Congressional hearings on tech in China
An apology in advance to all my regular readers – I’m on the road the next three weeks and my blogging will be highly irregular.… Read More »Apologies in advance