Last Friday, I visited with my friends Walter Bender and Jim Gettys at the new headquarters of the One Laptop per Child Project – the past few days have been so busy that I’m just getting the chance to write… Read More »It’s cute. It’s orange. It’s got bunny ears. An update on the One Laptop Per Child project
Ethan Zuckerman ethanz@umass.edu | ethanzuckerman.com Education Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Work towards MFA in Electronic Arts, 1994-5. Withdrew to pursue professional interests. University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. Studied Ethnomusicology under a Fulbright fellowship, 1993-4. Williams College, Williamstown, MA B.A.,… Read More »Curriculum Vitae
FSA Kittens is a tumblr blog dedicated to celebrating the kittens fighting to overcome the Assad regime in Syria. The dozen or so posts range from the documentary to the deeply whimsical: This FSA kitten, Yasmeen, is on sniper-duty. Yasmeen’s… Read More »The Free Syrian Army deploys kittens, the ultimate Internet PR weapon
Wael Abbas himself to the crowd at Microsoft’s Social Media Symposium saying, “I’m just a blogger.” Yeah, and Clay Shirky, who introduces him, is just some bald dude. Here’s my attempt to transcribe Wael’s talk. I want to talk about… Read More »Wael Abbas on video and social media in Egypt prior to the revolution
Scholars of social media spend a lot of time studying Twitter. Twitter’s not the largest social network in the world – Facebook has at least twice as many users – but it’s massive and influential, particularly in the world of… Read More »Exploring the Chinese internet with WeiboScope