The importance of being a dork
I had coffee recently with Gavin McCormick, a bright young economist who worked with me at Geekcorps some years back. He took a position with… Read More »The importance of being a dork
I had coffee recently with Gavin McCormick, a bright young economist who worked with me at Geekcorps some years back. He took a position with… Read More »The importance of being a dork
Yesterday, Yahoo announced that it would be shutting down its free webhosting service, Geocities, later this year. The Geocities website sports a banner announcing that… Read More »An elegy (of sorts) for Geocities
I’ve just ordered Dambisa Moyo’s new book, “Dead Aid“. For the past couple of weeks, Moyo has been on a full-scale media blitz, talking with… Read More »Where Dambisa Moyo’s right, and where she’s wrong
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
A memetic virus gripped the world of popular music in late 1984 and 1985: the superstar benefit single. The phenomenon of superstar benefits can be… Read More »From protest to collaboration: Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and lessons for xenophiles
My colleagues rock. When you give a talk at the Berkman Center these days, one of your rewards is a Berkman lunch apron. I like… Read More »My talk at Berkman: Mapping a connected world