Robert McHenry, former Editor in Chief of Encyclopedia Britannica recently posted an insightful critique of Wikipedia. Titled “The Faith Based Encyclopedia”, McHenry offers a general… Read More »What does Wikipedia Want to Be?
I needed to do a bit of background research for the lecture I’m using to open today’s Digital Democracy class at Harvard. The end result… Read More »Turmeric, pygmies and piracy
The New York Times has an excellent page one story today about the resurgence of the Port of New York. The world’s busiest container port… Read More »International shipping and the falling dollar
The fine folks over at Metafilter are having an interesting discussion about current events in Cote d’Ivoire. MeFi user “kablam” posted an extremely graphic piece… Read More »Cote d’Ivoire discussion on MetaFilter
The fine folks behind Calabash Music – one of the best places on the ‘net to legally download world music – have started a “free… Read More »What’s better than electric kora music? FREE electric kora music.
My current favorite tool on the web is Overture’s Keyword Selector Tool. (Many thanks to Ben Edelman and David Pennock for independently introducing me to… Read More »The Freudian Web