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
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
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
Darfur: Where’s Europe?
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?
If the Jamaicans can bobsled, the Ghanaians can ski
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