This is Africa. Should I be shivering?
(There’s only one building on campus where we have connectivity. It closed at 5. There’s a few of us sitting outside, checking email and shivering.… Read More »This is Africa. Should I be shivering?
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Quick talks and conference debugging
Conferences take debugging. The first time you throw a conference, you’ll find yourself facing problems you never imagined, problems you thought you anticipated and solved,… Read More »Quick talks and conference debugging
Web2.0 at DCI
Vincent Maher, who teaches New Media at Rhodes, leads off the panel on Web2.0 with a beautiful and somewhat spooky slidedeck on “the DNA of… Read More »Web2.0 at DCI
Opening sessions at Digital Citizen Indaba
Well, we won’t be blogging realtime from the Digital Citizen Indaba. Rhodes University has pretty conservative policies on access to their academic network – I… Read More »Opening sessions at Digital Citizen Indaba
South Africa: Locked In
I’ve spent very little time in South Africa – two weeks in the past two years – and feel totally unequipped to offer my impressions… Read More »South Africa: Locked In
I blame the wifi
It’s fun to watch digital natives at a conference where the connectivity isn’t working. They twich. They’re edgy. They’re like smokers in the eighth hour… Read More »I blame the wifi