Remember that image of the polar bears trapped on shrinking ice floes? Yeah, that one. Or any of the hundreds of others that have been… Read More »Viktor Bout, the icon for international black markets?
I was pleased to see this story about death tolls in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the first page of Reddit this morning. The… Read More »5.4 million dead in Congo. Believe it or not, it could have been worse.
Fernando Rodrigues is one of Brazil’s leading journalists, and an innovator in the field of unlocking public information. He writes for Folha de São Paulo,… Read More »Fernando Rodrigues: Transparency and corruption in Brazil
My friend and colleague David Sasaki has just published a remarkable guide, “An Introduction to Citizen Media”. The guide is closely related to David’s main… Read More »Rising Voices Introduction to Citizen Media
Firoze Manji from Fahamu and Pambazuka News gave the Fill the Gap conference a thorough overview of the current crisis in Kenya. He was last… Read More »Fill the Gap II, and an update on the Kenyan situation
My 2008 is off to a running start, with my first transatlantic flight in the second week of the new year. I’m in the Netherlands… Read More »Fill the GAP – Netherlands