Africa (older)

Jim Moore has an interesting commentary on the post I made a couple of days back about Ghana’s election. (Jon Lebowsky has picked up the… Read More »Ghana’s election, and hopes for Darfur?

dotFAF reminds us that Ghana’s presidential and parliamentary elections begin today: There’s one country America wont be invading anytime soon. We dont have any oil.… Read More »ICT and the Ghanaian Election

I’m dumb about the Middle East. Despite the ludicrious overfocus of the American media on Israel/Palestine and Iraq, it’s pretty easy as an American to… Read More »Learning about Arabization

Hey gang (by which I mean all four of my regular readers and anyone else who stumbles in…) I’m giving a talk early next week,… Read More »What’s in a name?

ITConversations has put up the audio for my talk at Pop!Tech. They’ve also put online most of the other talks from Pop!Tech, as well as… Read More »Audio of my Pop!Tech talk

All the taxicabs in Cairo are equipped with taxi meters, most of them huge, baroque mechanical devices like the one pictured above. It wasn’t until… Read More »The taxi meter and the red line