Christopher Dickey posted an interesting, though somewhat odd, story on Newsweek’s web site yesterday. Odd, because there’s nothing in the story that’s new since he… Read More »Background on Dickey’s “The Blogfather and the Spy”
What do you know about Fiji? Before getting involved with Global Voices, I knew that it was an island paradise somewhere in the South Pacific… Read More »Fiji: Reality, brand, mirage
My friend and colleage Sami Ben Gharbia just launched a fascinating and useful new site: Threatened Voices. It’s an interactive map of bloggers under arrest… Read More »Threatened Voices
One of the first thing Bektour Iskender, co-founder of Kyrgyz blogging community Kloop.kg, said when we met was, “I read your book.” That surprised me,… Read More »Kloop, and the next generation of citizen media
A couple of years back, Technorati dropped out of my life. It was a sudden break, though I didn’t notice it at first. I blog… Read More »The new Technorati: advertiser-friendly, foreigner-free?
I’m reading Paul Collier’s controversial new “Wars, Guns and Votes” (NYTimes review), where the brilliant development economist addresses the uncomfortable question, “What if democracy doesn’t… Read More »Babtounes, “democrazy” and the Tunisian elections