The Curious Engineer

Ethan Zuckerman

2003–2004

162 posts

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2004 154

December 2004

  1. Send lawyers, guns and money…
  2. The tsunami and Burma
  3. The Tsunami in South Asia
  4. Translation and Information Flow
  5. Catching up with Global Voices
  6. The people versus John Perry Barlow, or, as we like to say, “Barlow versus The Man”
  7. 14 hours from good news to bad news in Somalia
  8. Darfur: Where’s Europe?
  9. If the Jamaicans can bobsled, the Ghanaians can ski
  10. Great new African music blog
  11. Global Voices
  12. Ghana’s election, and hopes for Darfur?
  13. Hoder’s talk at Berkman
  14. ICT and the Ghanaian Election
  15. Blogs from Egypt and Jordan
  16. Ammannet and the Future of Radio
  17. Learning about Arabization
  18. Jesus didn’t turn people away. But CBS does.
  19. What’s in a name?
  20. Audio of my Pop!Tech talk
  21. The taxi meter and the red line

November 2004

  1. What Does Wikipedia Want to Be?
  2. Great Pop!Tech talks at ITConversations
  3. Turmeric, pygmies and piracy
  4. International shipping and the falling dollar
  5. Cote d’Ivoire discussion on MetaFilter
  6. What’s better than electric kora music? FREE electric kora music.
  7. The Freudian Web
  8. Cote d’Ivoire and the Future of Peacekeeping
  9. Foreign Policy magazine discovers blogs, Rebecca Mackinnon
  10. Come to a Blue State, Have a Beer on Me
  11. Your Presence Here is Very Offensive
  12. A very sad affair
  13. Kerry has a 46-point lead… amongst Ghanaians living in America
  14. A view from Kenya
  15. Why Africa Supports Kerry

October 2004

  1. Peter Durand and Graphic Facilitation
  2. My talk at Pop!Tech
  3. The Dangers of Talk Radio…
  4. Thomas Barnett at the Pop!Tech Conference
  5. Egoblogging
  6. eRamadan
  7. Post removed
  8. KSG Forum on Darfur
  9. Around the world for $0.10 per kilo
  10. Childhood corruption in India?
  11. A message from St. Dave?
  12. de-TRO-it
  13. USAID versus the UN – Just How Bad a Tragedy is Darfur?
  14. Gang Violence in the Favelas of Rio
  15. Fun with Google AdWords – or “Why Genocide’s Worth at Least a Buck a Click”

September 2004

  1. Systemic Biases in Wikipedia?
  2. How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories
  3. The Media Sucks, And It’s Your Fault
  4. From crazy talk to Business Week in four short years
  5. Creative Commons Developing Nations License
  6. CNN’s creative new map of Europe
  7. Notes from FOO
  8. Chemical weapons in Darfur?
  9. More Mbube
  10. Zimbabwe: We’ve got both kinds of mercenaries – journalists, and soldiers of fortune
  11. How blogs selectively amplify the New York Times
  12. Powell declares genocide has been committed in Sudan
  13. Jim Fruchterman’s Talk at Berkman
  14. Top Ten Worst Dictators
  15. Global competitions

August 2004

  1. Interview with Worldchanging.com
  2. Sudan: Day of Conscience
  3. Radio, translation and intercultural communication
  4. Sudan: Marching Towards Anarchy
  5. How to Subvert a Democracy
  6. Outfoxed
  7. Sudan and the Second Superpower
  8. The View from Asuncion
  9. Interview with John Prendergast on Darfur
  10. Tripod, and the very early days of blogging?
  11. Obama, and the Kenyan – and American – Imagination
  12. Talk to US

July 2004

  1. African Union monitors report civilians burned alive in Darfur
  2. The Whitest Black Man in America
  3. Internet Enabled Radio in Mali
  4. Studies Show 86% of Americans Have Their Heads Up Their Asses
  5. Telemarketing in Senegal
  6. The New York Post Gets One Right
  7. The lazyweb approach to media research?
  8. Weblogs and “selective uptake”
  9. It’s alive…it’s ALIVE!
  10. Jan Egeland on Darfur
  11. The Lion Sues Tonight
  12. Jim Moore on Darfur
  13. Fiber in East Africa
  14. Anti-corruption efforts pay off in Kenya

June 2004

  1. Wrong, but funny…
  2. LA Times on Darfur – Already too late.
  3. Jambo! Welcome to Microsoft.
  4. He’s baaaack… one of the world’s scarier mercenaries, working for the US govnerment in Iraq
  5. Ghana’s forthcoming Internet Exchange Point
  6. Guido Sohne at WOS3
  7. Rape as a weapon of war in Darfur
  8. The news from Central Africa
  9. Those big, spooky telcos
  10. Open Access Publishing at Wizards of OS
  11. SchoolNet Namibia
  12. Comments from Jeff Sharlet of The Revealer
  13. Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About

May 2004

  1. Sudan in Pictures
  2. Paying Attention to Sudan
  3. Land Reform in Nairobi
  4. Reason #137 why failed states are a dangerous thing
  5. USAID predicts at least 100,000 deaths in Darfur
  6. It’s Friday, and I’m reduced to critiquing cartoons…
  7. US government announces Millenium Challenge Account countries
  8. From Journalist to Activist

April 2004

  1. A quick fix for our Ghanaphile readers…
  2. Sudanese, Chadian armies clash
  3. USAID administrator speaks about ethnic cleansing in Darfur
  4. Passion of the Present
  5. Nuke the mosquitoes!
  6. UN Mission to Sudan
  7. Darfur update
  8. Signe on Darfur
  9. Mapping International News in the Blogosphere
  10. The Onion, on Zambia
  11. Using Blogs to Hack the Media
  12. Rwanda, Sudan and “the G-word”
  13. Ory’s response
  14. Alas, not an April Fool’s post

March 2004

  1. Donated Clothing as an Economic Force
  2. The Zimbabwe/Equatorial Guinea saga continues
  3. Africa as Usual?
  4. South African mercenaries in Zimbabwe, enroute to Equatorial Guinea?
  5. Why C.A.R.?
  6. It’s all about the Benjamin

February 2004

  1. Making Room for the Third World in the Second Superpower
  2. Planting weeds to eliminate mines
  3. Outsourcing and “Benedict Arnold”
  4. Reactions to the Digital Democracy presentation
  5. A more positive emergent democracy post
  6. Ghana – best performing stock exchange, 2003
  7. Media attention and Sudan
  8. Gapminder
  9. Thoughts before the Digital Democracy Workshop

January 2004

  1. Davos and Blogging
  2. Iraq, the Black Hole
  3. Talking about Africa in Switzerland
  4. The Curse of the Over-Full Life
  5. Reconciliation
  6. Ghanabuys
  7. Ama and the Jewelry Store
  8. Ghanaian politics and the (wo)man on the street
  9. Artistry, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality
  10. Travel surprises, the good kind
  11. The victory of “weight”, and travels to Ghana
  12. Behold the Power of String

2003 8

December 2003

  1. Amazon, the developing world, diet books and fun with data
  2. A consumerist post for the holidays
  3. Africa, and the Interest Gap

November 2003

  1. Media Attention, the UN, Sean MacBride and “ancient” media history
  2. BlogAfrica
  3. Quote of the day
  4. Worse than Iraq
  5. Reformatting My Blog

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