Gal Beckerman of the Columbia Journalism Review takes a swing at Vanity Fair’s Africa issue, alongside dozens of African and Afrophile bloggers, including yours truly.… Read More »Pushing the hippo out of the frame…
In working at the intersection of the Internet and international affairs, I meet a lot of people who believe that the connections we’re able to… Read More »Fred Turner: the rhetoric of cyberutopianism
My friend danah boyd graced the Berkman Center with her presence last Tuesday and fans of her research on American youth culture and social networking… Read More »What those crazy kids are doing online…
Bono wants the world to care more about Africa. So do I. After that, it gets a bit harder to see eye to eye. Bono… Read More »Judging a magazine by its cover
I’ve followed the work of Noah Samara with Worldspace satellite radio for almost a decade. I’d heard he was a passionate man, but I hadn’t… Read More »Noah Samara and the power of information
This week, LiveJournal began suspending the journals of a few hundred users whose self-identified “interests” in their online profiles suggested that they might be soliciting… Read More »Six Apart casts “evanesco”. Fanfic authors cast “expelliarmus”.