links for 2011-02-10
BACKWARD GLANCES | More Intelligent Life Henry Tricks, Tokyo bureau chief for The Economist, wonders whether Japan is entering another period of isolation from the… Read More »links for 2011-02-10
BACKWARD GLANCES | More Intelligent Life Henry Tricks, Tokyo bureau chief for The Economist, wonders whether Japan is entering another period of isolation from the… Read More »links for 2011-02-10
BBC – Newsnight: Paul Mason: Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere Paul Mason draws a line from protests in Europe to those in MENA.… Read More »links for 2011-02-07
Grassroutes : Road-trips for Social Change Fascinating internship program, designed to send young Indians, educated and from urban settings, to work in rural India to… Read More »links for 2011-02-04
US viewers seek Al Jazeera coverage – Opinion – Al Jazeera English Wadah Khanfar on AlJ's struggle to get on the air in US. Includes… Read More »links for 2011-02-03
How Diverse is Facebook? | overstated Interesting paper on how Facebook estimates racial diversity of users by correlating surnames to US census data. (tags: facebook… Read More »links for 2011-01-30
Issue 1: Welcome to the City Beautiful webcomic about post WWII/pre-independence Kenya (tags: africa kenya comic graphicnovel webcomic history colonialism) Re: Connectivity status for Egypt… Read More »links for 2011-01-28