My friend Onnik Krikorian has become a Facebook evangelist. Onnik, a Brit of Armenian descent, living in Armenia, is the Global Voices editor for the… Read More »Counting International Connections on Facebook
An audio version of danah and my keynote is now available for download online. I recommend a background of lolcats – preferably multilingual ones –… Read More »ROFLCon: From Weird to Wide
“After platinum, albums go Makmende” “They once made a makmende toilet paper, but there was a problem: It wouldn’t take shit from anybody!!!” “Makmende hangs… Read More »Makmende’s so huge, he can’t fit in Wikipedia
Here’s a story I missed while I was out with eye surgery: Asashoryu, one of the greatest sumo wrestlers in history, has retired. And needless… Read More »Asashoryu resigns. Will sumo ever globalize?
Many of the conversations at the Berkman Center orbit the topic of technological determinism. While no one will actually admit to being a technological determinist,… Read More »Building the future of translation, online
Arika Okrent has a thing for languages. Born in Chicago, she got good enough at Hungarian to teach in Hungary, and learned ASL while getting… Read More »Invented languages, cosmopolitan dreams