My friend John Perry Barlow was arrested a last September at SFO. He was flying from San Francisco to New York and was removed from… Read More »The people versus John Perry Barlow, or, as we like to say, “Barlow versus The Man”
Well, that could have been really good news. Yesterday, BBC ran a story celebrating the arrival of a ship at Mogadishu’s main port for the… Read More »14 hours from good news to bad news in Somalia
There are some points I’m happy to concede to Dr. Thomas Barnett – that disconnection from the global economy and media leads to danger, for… Read More »Darfur: Where’s Europe?
I was driving home from the Albany train station last night at 2am, feeling grateful that our local NPR station becomes (for all practical purposes)… Read More »If the Jamaicans can bobsled, the Ghanaians can ski
Matt Yanchyshyn is a Canadian reporter for the Associated Press, living in Dakar, Senegal and, apparently, having the time of his life in a town… Read More »Great new African music blog
The Global Voices meeting was an amazing success – it’s hard to explain just how cool it was to meet blogging pioneers from all around… Read More »Global Voices