I was pleased to see this story about death tolls in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the first page of Reddit this morning. The… Read More »5.4 million dead in Congo. Believe it or not, it could have been worse.
Fernando Rodrigues is one of Brazil’s leading journalists, and an innovator in the field of unlocking public information. He writes for Folha de São Paulo,… Read More »Fernando Rodrigues: Transparency and corruption in Brazil
Like many of you, I’ve been following the events in Kenya closely the past three weeks. One way to measure the continuing protest and unrest… Read More »Kenya: mapping the dark and the light
The last time I wrote about happiness, I found myself swamped with emails requesting my data set and asking questions about methodologies for measuring happiness.… Read More »The Geography of Bliss
I had dinner with my parents, my sister and her wife Friday night. The topic of conversation, as I suspect it was around many family… Read More »Tribe
I had a post queued up forthe start of 2008. I’d planned to begin the year on an enthusiastic, positive note, suggesting that this might… Read More »Kenya: heartbreak and hope