The tsunami and Burma
It’s becoming clear that we won’t know the full scale of the disaster caused by the recent earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean for… Read More »The tsunami and Burma
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
The Tsunami in South Asia
As most folks have already heard, a tsunami caused by an 8.9-richter earthquake has killed at least 20,000 people, many in Sri Lanka, but throughout… Read More »The Tsunami in South Asia
Translation and Information Flow
I was researching a piece for WorldChanging when I found myself wondering how many texts are translated from Arabic into English in any given year.… Read More »Translation and Information Flow
Catching up with Global Voices
If you missed the Global Voices conference we had at Harvard two weekends ago, there’s a great chance for you to catch up on the… Read More »Catching up with Global Voices
The people versus John Perry Barlow, or, as we like to say, “Barlow versus The Man”
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”
14 hours from good news to bad news in Somalia
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