This week featured ferocious clashes in Mogadishu between Somalia’s fledgling federal government and Al Shabab, an Islamist militia with ties to Al Qaeda. Al Shabab… Read More »Increased US engagement in Somalia – it’s a trap!
Trapped in the Anglosphere, we've lost sight of next door | Martin Kettle | Comment is free | The Guardian Powerful essay on "the anglosphere"… Read More »links for 2010-08-25
YProductions Interesting mapping essay, with a good example on constrained urban environments by Chombart de Lauwe, who tracked the movements of a student in 19th… Read More »links for 2010-08-19
Earlier this week, I met with Evan Paul, a smart urban planner just out of a master’s program at MIT. He’s working with colleagues on… Read More »Airplanes, Faith and Latent Networks
You may have noticed that I’ve done some housekeeping on the blog. It was about time – I can’t tell when I last updated my… Read More »Housekeeping and shameless self promotion
Kate Crawford of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, is two years into conducting a massive… Read More »Kate Crawford: mobile media and the art of noise