I really enjoyed my time at the Berkman Center/Sunlight Foundation meeting earlier this week, but felt a little out of place. Sunlight’s focus is primarily… Read More »Looking beyond the US for activist inspiration
Like many Americans, I am a monolingual idiot. English is the only language I’m comfortable expressing myself in, though I can function in Spanish-speaking countries… Read More »Learning how to hear global hip hop
Turkmenbashi’s dead. As Blake Hounshell noted on Foreign Policy Passport, “He will be missed by approximately … nobody.” That’s not entirely true. The editors of… Read More »He’s dead. Good.
This year’s Global Voices meeting was a three-day event for many of us. We’d decided it made sense to break the main meeting into two… Read More »The Hibiscus Project: How African and Chinese bloggers start to talk to one another
It’s easy to forget where you are when you travel as much as I do. The hotels, the conference centers, the airports can all blur… Read More »I guess we’re not in Cambridge anymore…
I won’t be rushing to the local movie theatre to see Blood Diamonds when it’s released tomorrow. That’s not because I’m scared off by the… Read More »DiCaprio versus De Beers on Blood Diamonds