(Notes from a talk by my friend Marc Lynch, in dialog with Mohammed Bazzi from NYU’s journalism school at Open Society Institute, Tuesday night. Not… Read More »Marc Lynch asks us to be realistic about digital activism in the Middle East
On Sunday, April 5th, the governing Communist party won over 50% of the vote in Parliamentary elections. This was decidedly a surprise, as Communists had… Read More »Unpacking “The Twitter Revolution” in Moldova
My friend Evgeny Morozov has ascended to the Pantheon of bloggers writing for Foreign Policy’s excellent website. Foreign Policy’s Passport blog is my first read… Read More »A new blog to read, a useful service on hold
A quick follow on to my post from last week trying to summarize my friend Rebecca MacKinnon’s wide ranging and fascinating talk on Chinese internet… Read More »The grass mud horse, and other legendary Chinese beasts
I’m glad I went to Davos, some years back. I went twice, back in the days when I was running Geekcorps and Davos seemed like… Read More »My conversation with Kofi
It’s a story too strange to be true: a wealthy Bangladeshi film-maker is building a life-sized replica of the Taj Mahal near Dhaka so that… Read More »Bengali bloggers debunk credulous AFP story about Taj Mahal “replica”