It’s official: Africa is trendy
Welcome, trendsetters! Good news for all of us: according to the cover story in the Sunday Style section of the New York Times, Africa is… Read More »It’s official: Africa is trendy
Your language or mine? (Part 2)
Much of the conversation I read online about Wikipedia seems to be focused on the radical, audacious idea that an encyclopedia written by amateurs could… Read More »Your language or mine? (Part 2)
Join us in South Africa!
I’m coming to South Africa in mid-September for the Highway Africa conference, an annual conference on information technology and journalism at Rhodes University in Grahamstown,… Read More »Join us in South Africa!
Falling down on the job
I’m at the Citizen Journalism Unconference today, the Dan Gillmor-hosted event that’s following directly on the heels of the Wikimania conference. I’m not engaged in… Read More »Falling down on the job
Wikimania: Brewster Kahle’s Big Goal
Brewster Kahle starts his talk by declaring his goal: “Universal Access to All Knowledge”. He’s stolen a technique from Minsk – choose a big goal… Read More »Wikimania: Brewster Kahle’s Big Goal
Lessig’s Keynote at Wikimania
Jonathan Zittrain gets the first group “woo!” of the conference, suggesting that this gathering is a Woodstock for the 21st century, speculating about babies being… Read More »Lessig’s Keynote at Wikimania