Databank, run by the very brilliant Ken Ofori-Atta, is reporting that Ghana’s stock exchange had the best returns of any equity market, worldwide, in 2003.… Read More »Ghana – best performing stock exchange, 2003
IRIN, an amazing UN project designed to provide information from conflict areas, has a brilliant set of quotes on media attention in a story today… Read More »Media attention and Sudan
Paolo was kind enough to point me to Gapminder, a brilliant set of tools that help make intuitive sense of complex data, especially international development… Read More »Gapminder
Joi Ito and I are leading a discussion at the upcoming O’Reilly Digital Democracy Teach-In (San Diego, February 9th). In preparation, I’m trying to get… Read More »Thoughts before the Digital Democracy Workshop
I came to Davos this year hoping to talk about entrepreneurship in Africa and media attention. I’ve ended up talking about blogging more or less… Read More »Davos and Blogging
One of my main reasons for attending Davos was to participate in a session on media criticism titled, provocatively, “We’re News, They’re Propaganda”. When it… Read More »Iraq, the Black Hole