This year is the first in decades where I’ve been beneficiary and victim of the academic schedule. While I spent almost a decade at the… Read More »Happy distractions: sumo, South African music, and Islamic hackerfic
I’m discovering that one of my special joys in life is having my presumptions proved wrong. I’ve just returned from a ten day trip to… Read More »Kenya, power and questioning my assumptions
I spent Tuesday on the crowded roads of the northern suburbs of Accra, catching up with old friends and marveling at transitions and transformations: those… Read More »Ghanaian Ambitions
In 2005, Matt Harding posted a video on the internet. It’s a compilation of clips of him dancing – badly – in locations around the… Read More »When the world is your dance teacher
Friend and fellow Berkmanite Doc Searls is presenting his new book, The Intention Economy, at Harvard this evening. That I’m hosting the event doesn’t stop… Read More »Doc Searls on “The Intention Economy”
The New York Times had a great article yesterday on laamb, a style of wrestling popular in Senegal. Laamb, sometimes called “Lutte Senegalese” is enjoying… Read More »Laamb and sumo – what would happen if Senegalese wrestlers came to Japan?