The Curious Engineer

Ethan Zuckerman

2005–2007

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2007 547

December 2007

  1. 2007 – best of a tough year
  2. links for 2007-12-27
  3. links for 2007-12-24
  4. links for 2007-12-22
  5. Underreported: an odd kind of top ten list
  6. links for 2007-12-20
  7. Social software, serendipity and salad bars. (Mmm. Sybillance…)
  8. links for 2007-12-19
  9. links for 2007-12-15
  10. Somalia spirals out of control. Or it’s completely peaceful. Depends who you ask.
  11. Pokémon and international politics?
  12. links for 2007-12-13
  13. Transforming how we think about fiction… and copyright
  14. links for 2007-12-10
  15. Towards the principles of open government data
  16. links for 2007-12-09
  17. Tools for open government
  18. links for 2007-12-06
  19. links for 2007-12-05
  20. Cute Cat Theory: The China Corollary
  21. links for 2007-12-03
  22. Recidivism and dueling studies

November 2007

  1. links for 2007-11-30
  2. links for 2007-11-29
  3. Global Voices seeks Mr./Ms. Right
  4. links for 2007-11-28
  5. The angry ant farmers, and other stories you might have missed
  6. Michael Anti and the end of the golden age of blogs in China
  7. links for 2007-11-27
  8. The People’s Democratic Republic of Britney
  9. links for 2007-11-24
  10. Lowering the bar for outrage
  11. People change. Principles don’t.
  12. links for 2007-11-23
  13. links for 2007-11-22
  14. What’s in a name?
  15. links for 2007-11-20
  16. The possible resumption of the world’s stupidest war
  17. links for 2007-11-17
  18. links for 2007-11-16
  19. Uncovered stories and attention economics
  20. ICANN takes a very big small step
  21. Introducing the Access Denied Map
  22. Facebook changes the norms for web purchasing and privacy
  23. links for 2007-11-15
  24. links for 2007-11-14
  25. Gary Kebbel on the Knight News Challenge
  26. links for 2007-11-13
  27. Go buy an OLPC XO laptop. Er…, I mean, go buy two OLPC XO laptops…
  28. Vicarious West African Travel
  29. Will eyes in the sky end natural gas flaring?
  30. links for 2007-11-09
  31. links for 2007-11-08
  32. Penny for your thoughts
  33. A voter’s guide for people passionate about international development
  34. Bloggers find ways to speak out in Pakistan
  35. links for 2007-11-06
  36. Debugging
  37. Crash

October 2007

  1. That’s how you get to Carnegie Hall
  2. links for 2007-10-27
  3. links for 2007-10-26
  4. links for 2007-10-25
  5. Stewart Brand and thinking about Megacities
  6. Pop!Tech – And that’s a wrap
  7. Pop!Tech: Green collar jobs
  8. Pop!Tech: Zainab Salbi and Women to Women
  9. Pop!Tech: Swift justice
  10. Pop!Tech – Dialog with/in Islam
  11. Pop!Tech: Jay Keasling and synthesizing the future
  12. Pop!Tech – Victoria Hale and nonprofit drug companies
  13. Pop!Tech – Bill Shannon gets around
  14. Pop!Tech: Elizabeth Streb – “I prefer the crash.”
  15. Pop!Tech: Nina Jablonski – our skin makes us human
  16. links for 2007-10-20
  17. Pop!Tech: Ted Ames and the recovery of Maine’s fisheries
  18. Pop!Tech: Enric Sala and pristine reefs
  19. Pop!Tech: Claire Nouvian and the deep ocean
  20. Pop!Tech – Sustainable and unsustainable cities
  21. Pop!Tech – The Nigerian Space Program
  22. Pop!Tech – Backing up global agriculture
  23. Pop!Tech: Acceleration and managing AIDS
  24. Pop!Tech and carbon neutrality
  25. Pop!Tech: Happiness and Risk
  26. Pop!Tech: Slowing down with Carl Honoré
  27. Pop!Tech: Jonathan Harris and digital storytelling
  28. links for 2007-10-19
  29. Pop!Tech: Shelia Kennedy and light for the developing world
  30. Pop!Tech: John Shearer and wireless power
  31. Pop!Tech: Cellos, Caleb Chung, and cute robots
  32. Pop!Tech: Daniel Pink’s whole new economy
  33. Pop!Tech: Lee Dugatkin and the problem of altruism
  34. Pop!Tech: Louanne Brizendine on male and female brains
  35. Pop!Tech: Steven Pinker and what language tells us about relationships
  36. Pop!Tech: Adrian Bowyer breeds machines.
  37. Pop!Tech: Paul Polak inspires.
  38. Pop!Tech: Jessica Flannery explains Kiva
  39. Pop!Tech: Christian Nold’s Emotional Maps
  40. Pop!Tech: Chris Jordan and Imaging Consumerism
  41. links for 2007-10-18
  42. Generative filtering
  43. links for 2007-10-15
  44. links for 2007-10-14
  45. Detritus and happiness in Ecsari Market
  46. Delivering Ethiopian teff via Czech taxi?
  47. links for 2007-10-10
  48. Berkman: Drew Clark mashes up the FCC and the media
  49. links for 2007-10-09
  50. Somalia: Possibly more complex than Nigeria
  51. Using mobiles to fight pharma fakes
  52. Trends in Badware
  53. Apply for the Knight News Challenge
  54. World in Progress podcast: Myanmar protests, online anonymity, web and development
  55. Berkman: James Vasile and the rationale of GPLv3
  56. links for 2007-10-02
  57. Podcast on Netzpolitik
  58. Downloadable guide to Conference Blogging

September 2007

  1. If they’re speaking Italian…
  2. links for 2007-09-28
  3. Checking in from Picnic
  4. links for 2007-09-25
  5. G1G1 is a good idea. And, for the record, so is OLPC.
  6. Overcommitment and the descent into madness
  7. links for 2007-09-23
  8. MIT: What is civic media?
  9. links for 2007-09-20
  10. Windmills, ethanol, tortillas, Malthus and sinking nations. Oh, and online gambling, too.
  11. links for 2007-09-19
  12. Blogging the fast
  13. links for 2007-09-18
  14. Closing thoughts on Idea Festival
  15. Idea Festival: Woz. Wow.
  16. Idea Festival: Swarmed by Robots
  17. Idea Festival: Barrington Irving, flying solo
  18. Idea Festival: Tiffany Shlain’s web of ideas
  19. Idea Festival: Craig Nevill-Manning and the secrets of Google’s success
  20. Idea festival: Pictures of peace
  21. Idea Festival: Kristof on Darfur
  22. Idea Festival: Dollar bills and epidemeology
  23. links for 2007-09-13
  24. Berkman: Peter Galison and “trading zones”
  25. links for 2007-09-11
  26. links for 2007-09-10
  27. Kamusi, and the challenge of non-profit incubation
  28. Lessons in digital advocacy
  29. Make sure the Best of Africa is in the Best of the Blogs
  30. Genevieve Bell complicates the mobile phone
  31. Adam Greenfield: Culture, and the adaptation of technology
  32. African video worth watching

August 2007

  1. Prison blogging
  2. Can Zimbabwe monitor email? It may not matter.
  3. links for 2007-08-31
  4. Arx Americana
  5. Here and Now (Then and There?)
  6. links for 2007-08-29
  7. Does digital familiarity breed contempt?
  8. links for 2007-08-18
  9. Gone fishin’
  10. The price of maize
  11. links for 2007-08-17
  12. Zimbabwe blacklists Global Voices
  13. A night in Nollywood
  14. Anonymous Blogging – updated!
  15. links for 2007-08-14
  16. Parts tractors
  17. links for 2007-08-11
  18. Robert Putnam, and the complexities of diversity
  19. Another reason 150kg men shouldn’t play football…
  20. links for 2007-08-10
  21. links for 2007-08-09
  22. Games, racism, cross-cultural (mis)communication
  23. Incremental Ideas
  24. links for 2007-08-03
  25. Grossly biased, and still in alpha
  26. Bangladesh, through different eyes
  27. links for 2007-08-02
  28. Something to chew on: TED talks posted online

July 2007

  1. Adventures in agriculture
  2. links for 2007-07-31
  3. Happy birthday, Doc!
  4. Face to face
  5. The 5-4-3 double play, or “The Art of Conference Blogging”
  6. People I admire
  7. links for 2007-07-27
  8. Book review. No, not THAT book.
  9. links for 2007-07-26
  10. Finding my family history… on eBay
  11. Summer doctoral program at Berkman
  12. Big ideas and recycled metals
  13. links for 2007-07-25
  14. links for 2007-07-24
  15. Hacked
  16. links for 2007-07-22
  17. The news we share: water in Darfur
  18. The connection between cute cats and web censorship
  19. links for 2007-07-14
  20. Making nice and making laptops
  21. Their cup runneth over…
  22. Borrowed eyes
  23. Lost (and found) in Translation
  24. links for 2007-07-10
  25. Cutting through the brush – and the bullshit – with On The Media
  26. links for 2007-07-07
  27. links for 2007-07-06
  28. links for 2007-07-05
  29. links for 2007-07-04
  30. Fiji water – endlessly fascinating
  31. links for 2007-07-03
  32. Incremental infrastructure, or how mobile phones might wire Africa

June 2007

  1. links for 2007-06-30
  2. links for 2007-06-29
  3. The retro mobile phone?
  4. links for 2007-06-28
  5. Sad news from Radio Open Source
  6. Pushing the hippo out of the frame…
  7. links for 2007-06-27
  8. Fred Turner: the rhetoric of cyberutopianism
  9. links for 2007-06-26
  10. What those crazy kids are doing online…
  11. Visualizing migration
  12. links for 2007-06-23
  13. An update on the “third front”
  14. links for 2007-06-22
  15. links for 2007-06-21
  16. A new wind blowing in Africa
  17. Ghana’s got oil! (Oh no!)
  18. links for 2007-06-19
  19. Judging a magazine by its cover
  20. World Economic Forum: High Points at HippoCon
  21. World Economic Forum: towards an electranet?
  22. Next steps for m-banking in Africa
  23. Big ideas at the World Economic Forum, Cape Town
  24. WEF: Investment Climate Facility for Africa
  25. Telepresence and eGardening…
  26. links for 2007-06-11
  27. Digesting TED Global – I’m still chewing
  28. TED Global 2007 – Goodbye and thanks
  29. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala with the last word on aid
  30. Patrick Awuah’s pre-midlife crisis
  31. Noah Samara and the power of information
  32. Dele Olejede and the stories we choose to tell
  33. Believe, Begin, Become
  34. President Kikwete at TED Global 2007
  35. “My dream is for my daugher to find her future in Africa”
  36. James Shikwati, and crisis as opportunity
  37. Salim Amin, fulfilling his father’s dream
  38. Christmas at TED?
  39. Three voices. Listen.
  40. Turning the camera on Nollywood
  41. Connected? Yes. Connected enough? No.
  42. Towards “working abroad at home”
  43. Hunter and hunted nations
  44. The Victrola and the Microchip
  45. “Treat Our Women With Dignity”
  46. Cornielle Ewango, African Superhero
  47. Health care heroes
  48. Love to all the bloggers…
  49. Focusing on the solutions, not the problems – medical tech off the grid in Africa
  50. Killing flies with bacteria
  51. African innovators, with the women in the lead
  52. Two extraordinary women from Tanzania
  53. Craftskills: Taking Africa offline
  54. Wells’s Journey
  55. Feedelix – speaking in your own language
  56. Building something from nothing – mobile phones in DRC
  57. Building computers in Nigeria
  58. Google in Africa: big goals, small steps
  59. African fractals
  60. Africa’s Balancing Act
  61. Dynamism, cities and waste
  62. “The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.”
  63. The Cheetah Generation faces “the blind leading the clueless”
  64. “Dignity is more important than wealth”
  65. “If you make Africans rich, they’ll be less poor”
  66. Gabre-Madhin’s big bet
  67. links for 2007-06-05
  68. Big emotions, small scales
  69. Ken Vickery drops some history on us
  70. A 3.3 million year old toddler
  71. Bono versus Mwenda
  72. Getting rowdy with Andrew Mwenda
  73. Africa – open for business
  74. A different image of Africa
  75. Euvin Naidoo on bringing light to Africa
  76. TED Africa – introducing Africa 2.0
  77. links for 2007-06-04
  78. links for 2007-06-03
  79. links for 2007-06-01
  80. Six Apart casts “evanesco”. Fanfic authors cast “expelliarmus”.
  81. An update on OLPC from Dr. Negroponte

May 2007

  1. Rest in peace, KweYao.
  2. links for 2007-05-30
  3. Relakks – an interesting option for circumvention and (partial) anonymity
  4. links for 2007-05-29
  5. Thank you, Internet
  6. Mongolia conquers Japan
  7. Support Radio Open Source
  8. Cryptogenic
  9. links for 2007-05-24
  10. When Conde Nast builds Web 2.0
  11. Global Voices wins Knight Foundation News Challenge
  12. links for 2007-05-23
  13. Tell the World Bank what to do
  14. links for 2007-05-22
  15. On being fascinated, locally and globally
  16. Never thought of using it that way…
  17. links for 2007-05-18
  18. links for 2007-05-17
  19. The survival of languages in a digital age
  20. links for 2007-05-15
  21. Spring Fever
  22. links for 2007-05-12
  23. links for 2007-05-11
  24. What I think we’re trying to do…
  25. Over 10,000 malware sites hosted by IPowerWeb
  26. WFMU’s Ken Freedman introduces Free Music Archive
  27. links for 2007-05-08
  28. Reactions to the crash of KQ 507
  29. Lessig wins one: CNN announces remixable debates
  30. links for 2007-05-05
  31. links for 2007-05-04
  32. Everything is Miscellaneous
  33. Appearing (sort of) in London…
  34. links for 2007-05-03
  35. Does The Number have lesson for human rights activists?
  36. links for 2007-05-02
  37. links for 2007-05-01

April 2007

  1. Ooh! Shiny!
  2. Access to Knowledge – Mobilizing Industry
  3. links for 2007-04-28
  4. Geek tracking, African hacking
  5. links for 2007-04-26
  6. A talk at the World Bank, and the meeting I almost (accidently) crashed
  7. links for 2007-04-25
  8. Where’s the international movement to Free Monem?
  9. links for 2007-04-24
  10. Good news for my friends at FON
  11. Marc Levinson’s “The Box”
  12. links for 2007-04-23
  13. links for 2007-04-21
  14. Where I work these days.
  15. links for 2007-04-20
  16. links for 2007-04-19
  17. Twelve great talks to watch, and no excuses for being bored. (Or boring.)
  18. links for 2007-04-18
  19. Advice for travelers to Accra
  20. links for 2007-04-16
  21. A clarification of some comments I made at the New School…
  22. links for 2007-04-15
  23. Me, danah, Trebor at the New School tonight…
  24. links for 2007-04-13
  25. links for 2007-04-12
  26. Our site is prettier than your site.
  27. links for 2007-04-10
  28. Draft paper on mobile phones and activism
  29. African digerati interviews
  30. Milltown
  31. Democrats invent the remix, only three years after the Tunisians
  32. The rise of the African aggregator
  33. links for 2007-04-06
  34. The moving circus, the post-national, the Global Soul and the xenophile
  35. Rest in peace, Edward Chikomba.
  36. Podcast from SXSW
  37. Last post from Doha: Five Stories
  38. Media in the Middle East: bridges or walls, or the need for a cigarette
  39. Al-Jazeera panel on the rights and safety of journalists
  40. Lessig: “Help us in the US to remember these ideals. Help us by living them yourselves.”
  41. Al Jazeera English. I want it.
  42. A new era? Al Jazeera’s cautious embrace of citizen media
  43. links for 2007-04-03
  44. Falling down on the job
  45. “Politics, media and misinformation” – a panel that contained all three…
  46. International news: pack a parachute?
  47. Seymour Hersh kicks things off at the Al Jazeera Forum
  48. links for 2007-04-01

March 2007

  1. Misc. links, half price. Get them before they start to smell.
  2. Things to do in Doha when you’re dead tired
  3. links for 2007-03-30
  4. Not my conference. A good time nevertheless.
  5. links for 2007-03-27
  6. Pittsfield, MA
  7. links for 2007-03-24
  8. Why is Amir Mohamed Meshal in Ethiopia, and why isn’t the US State Department demanding his release?
  9. links for 2007-03-23
  10. links for 2007-03-22
  11. Hacked websites, trojan horses, Russian/Panamanian blackhat hackers – just another day at the Berkman Center
  12. Angola enters the “rent a thug” business
  13. links for 2007-03-20
  14. Ambassador Dell might not have such a hard time flying out of Harare…
  15. links for 2007-03-19
  16. links for 2007-03-17
  17. links for 2007-03-16
  18. Two takes on the Greensboro massacre
  19. Zimbabwe: Sunday’s violence and the aftermath
  20. links for 2007-03-15
  21. Global Voices in State of the Media
  22. Fictional blogging – fascinating, and just a bit terrifying
  23. Slow news week?
  24. links for 2007-03-14
  25. SXSW: Blogging where speech isn’t free
  26. Disconnected at SXSW
  27. links for 2007-03-11
  28. Big news from Cameron Sinclair and Architecture for Humanity
  29. Conference or Auto Show?
  30. 8:30 AM might, indeed, be too early to rock
  31. links for 2007-03-10
  32. Let the women lead!
  33. Considering connections
  34. Remembering Grandpa Charles
  35. Humble Design
  36. The blurry lines of architecture
  37. Reinventing the City
  38. How to evolve towards harmlessness
  39. Painting pictures with science
  40. Will Wright’s Imagination Amplifier
  41. The War Tapes
  42. From billionaire to movie mogul
  43. The mystery box
  44. Building the geosphere
  45. A debunking, whether you wanted it or not…
  46. Daniel Goleman on Emotional Intelligence
  47. Everything you know about AIDS is wrong
  48. Ed de Bono moves laterally off stage…
  49. Jehane’s dream… and Bill’s, too…
  50. E.O. Wilson’s moon shot
  51. TED Prize – James Nachtwey
  52. Michael Pollan gets duped by his lawn. And we get duped by the corn?
  53. Questions and answers on citizen media and the “happy slapping” controversy with Loic Le Meur
  54. Good things come from incomprehension
  55. Seadragon, Photosynth
  56. The world is not what it seems: Alan Kay
  57. John Maeda’s simple talk
  58. Mile wide, inch deep
  59. Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests
  60. The kitchen chemistry of photovoltaics
  61. Jonathan Harris and new constellations
  62. Love makes words real.
  63. Lessig: Sousa, Trespass, Cartels and free culture
  64. Nigeria: Open for Business
  65. Robin Chase – Sharing cars and networks
  66. John Doerr: Going green, making green
  67. Breakfast with last year’s TED prize winners
  68. links for 2007-03-08
  69. Seven feet, two inches deep
  70. Multitouch goes widescreen
  71. Second-order information encoded in DNA
  72. Murray Gell-Mann is a beautiful guy
  73. Bumping into people at TED
  74. The sword-swallowing statistician
  75. Steven Pinker on the decline of violence
  76. In which I largely fail to understand Philippe Starck
  77. The Inner Life of the Cell
  78. TED begins, from somewhere beyond Saturn
  79. Podcast with Kadmus Arts
  80. Global Voices is seeking an Outreach Director
  81. links for 2007-03-06
  82. Going to TED, and thinking about Kingston
  83. Le Monde Parle. Écoutez-vous?
  84. God Bless Ghana
  85. links for 2007-03-03
  86. links for 2007-03-02
  87. Democracy in Dakar
  88. From flying toilets to free methane
  89. links for 2007-03-01

February 2007

  1. How we amuse ourselves in Western Massachusetts
  2. Jewels in the Jungle: Rediscovering the Afrodeutsch
  3. Don’t stop using Tor.
  4. links for 2007-02-27
  5. You just can’t make this stuff up. Well, Orwell could.
  6. links for 2007-02-25
  7. links for 2007-02-24
  8. Who’s happy and why?
  9. Food miles: green good sense, ill-considered hype, or naked protectionism?
  10. Roger Penrose, only 550 years behind Islamic artisans
  11. links for 2007-02-23
  12. Free Kareem, and everyone else illegally imprisoned in Egypt
  13. The good part of yesterday…
  14. Celebrating Grandpa Bob’s Birthday
  15. Reuters’ (and Global Voices’) new Africa coverage
  16. links for 2007-02-21
  17. Pining for the fjords…
  18. links for 2007-02-20
  19. Whitaker evokes Uganda from decades ago. What about now?
  20. links for 2007-02-19
  21. links for 2007-02-17
  22. What you don’t get to see
  23. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
  24. links for 2007-02-15
  25. links for 2007-02-14
  26. Online activism, from Brazzaville to Bahrain…
  27. Loving the imaginary and the real
  28. links for 2007-02-13
  29. Zimbabwe: Where’s the breaking point?
  30. Pitchfork media, Tunisia, Tatooine and me
  31. Coming to you live, from Reykjavik…
  32. 300 foreign correspondents overseas. And 3,000 in Washington DC?
  33. links for 2007-02-05
  34. You’re never gonna survive unless you get a little crazy…
  35. links for 2007-02-04
  36. Packers win! PACKERS WIN!
  37. links for 2007-02-03
  38. Moulin, and the “Library Gap”
  39. links for 2007-02-02
  40. links for 2007-02-01
  41. Tradenet – how mobile phones might revolutionize agriculture in West Africa

January 2007

  1. Ron Deibert on the history and future of Psiphon
  2. links for 2007-01-31
  3. links for 2007-01-30
  4. links for 2007-01-27
  5. Are foreign correspondents going extinct? Or just changing their stripes?
  6. Githongo discovers blogs. Sort of.
  7. Solving big questions through “Ready, Fire, Aim!”
  8. links for 2007-01-25
  9. Remembering Ryszard Kapuściński
  10. links for 2007-01-24
  11. links for 2007-01-23
  12. Avastin versus Lucentis, a controversy you never knew or cared about, or, far too much information about this author’s retinas
  13. One Laptop Per Child: Just what sort of content do you load onto these puppies?
  14. links for 2007-01-22
  15. links for 2007-01-20
  16. The article I didn’t write.
  17. links for 2007-01-19
  18. Looking beyond the US for activist inspiration
  19. links for 2007-01-18
  20. Someone let me know if this interview came out well…
  21. PEJ’s news index – a good day for data junkies
  22. links for 2007-01-16
  23. Ten democracy projects in seventy minutes
  24. Welcome, Zimscoop!
  25. Introducing MAPLight to the Berkman/Sunlight conference
  26. Local online organizing at the Sunlight Foundation meeting
  27. links for 2007-01-15
  28. links for 2007-01-14
  29. links for 2007-01-13
  30. links for 2007-01-12
  31. A quagmire no one wants to be stuck in?
  32. Go Ama!
  33. Susan Crawford, ideas and economic growth
  34. Anthony Bourdain in Accra
  35. links for 2007-01-10
  36. links for 2007-01-09
  37. Unpacking Linden’s “open source” announcement
  38. links for 2007-01-06
  39. Three of five ain’t bad.
  40. links for 2007-01-05
  41. A historic opportunity for what?
  42. 2006. Good riddance.

2006 589

December 2006

  1. links for 2006-12-30
  2. The dreaded “five things” meme
  3. Learning how to hear global hip hop
  4. The Taiwan earthquake, and a reminder about network fragility
  5. Ethiopian liberators greeted with cheers and flowers
  6. Ethiopian army seizes Mogadishu. Does anyone outside of the Bush and Zenawi administrations think this was a good idea?
  7. Time’s person of the year: fat, ignorant and xenophobic?
  8. links for 2006-12-23
  9. links for 2006-12-22
  10. He’s dead. Good.
  11. The Hibiscus Project: How African and Chinese bloggers start to talk to one another
  12. Ken Menkhaus’s insights on Somalia
  13. links for 2006-12-21
  14. My inspiring cousin
  15. “Rebunking” the Lebanese ambulance story
  16. Suggestions for an Africa reading list
  17. I guess we’re not in Cambridge anymore…
  18. Language and translation on Global Voices
  19. GV Annual meeting 2006 – the story so far
  20. My life as a global media juggernaut
  21. Come for the rabbi, stay for the latkes
  22. Doc Searls, live, not in the ceiling
  23. Clay Shirky: Second Life as the “try me” virus
  24. Off to India – light blogging ahead
  25. Charles Nesson’s lunch at Berkman: what does it mean for a university to be “open”?
  26. links for 2006-12-12
  27. Search weblogs on Global Voices
  28. On call
  29. DiCaprio versus De Beers on Blood Diamonds
  30. UN peacekeepers in Somalia – is that a good thing?
  31. links for 2006-12-07
  32. Stop Badware, and a question about where generativity lives…
  33. links for 2006-12-06
  34. links for 2006-12-05
  35. Censorship of citizen media… or lack of interest?
  36. links for 2006-12-02
  37. Software for Human Rights
  38. TED Africa – Apply for a scholarship!

November 2006

  1. Cass Sunstein’s “Infotopia”
  2. links for 2006-11-30
  3. Ethiopia Telecoms: Oops, they did it again…
  4. What I REALLY want for Christmas
  5. Nancy Hafkin on Gender and IT
  6. links for 2006-11-28
  7. Media lifespans, or how to make your photos live forever
  8. MamaMikes discovers YouTube
  9. links for 2006-11-26
  10. I’m big in Budapest… I think…
  11. links for 2006-11-22
  12. links for 2006-11-21
  13. Amazed by Overmundo
  14. Finding a Bronx Science for grownups…
  15. I want my CanTV!
  16. links for 2006-11-19
  17. Heavy metal? Weighty brass…
  18. links for 2006-11-17
  19. Al Jazeera International launches…
  20. Congratulations, Sokari…
  21. links for 2006-11-14
  22. Enough about me. Read some of my favorite bloggers.
  23. links for 2006-11-09
  24. Working vacation
  25. Egypt locks, China blocks
  26. Shower time!
  27. links for 2006-11-07
  28. Google fixes my custom search problems
  29. Africa in China: No to Taiwan, Yes to Infrastructure
  30. BondyBlogs – Building bridges from the banlieues to the cities
  31. Spying on Zimbabwe’s cybercafes
  32. Midterm Madness
  33. links for 2006-11-03
  34. Regional integration as a strategy for African development
  35. Remembering those we’d rather forget
  36. links for 2006-11-02
  37. Worldchanging: now on (recycled) dead trees!

October 2006

  1. Ugandan microfinance on PBS
  2. Mapping land distribution in Bahrain
  3. links for 2006-10-31
  4. A picture worth a thousand blogposts…
  5. What Google Coop Search Doesn’t Do Well
  6. links for 2006-10-27
  7. A bitter fight brewing: Ethiopia and Starbucks clash over coffee
  8. Is $5m the cost of good governance in Africa?
  9. links for 2006-10-26
  10. And people wonder why the US doesn’t trust the UN…
  11. Turmoil in the ZheZhe
  12. Jet lag and Donald Crowhurst
  13. links for 2006-10-24
  14. Vote for the BOBs
  15. Pop!Tech 2006 – thank you
  16. Homaro Cantu: A gala dinner catered by Willy Wonka
  17. Clifford Ross is trying to find the longitude
  18. Zinhle Thabethe – We are not the same
  19. Neema Mgana builds a network, which builds a clinic
  20. Dr. Serena Koenig on HIV in Haiti
  21. What’s Pop!Tech? Ask a ninja…
  22. An abundance of Chris Anderson
  23. Tibet in 3D
  24. You had me at “erinaceous”
  25. Kidnap and release in Iraq
  26. “It’s about time we start criticizing faith” – Richard Dawkins
  27. Dr. Marty on Science and Faith
  28. Two hours of Tom Barnett in twenty – thirty? – minutes
  29. Appiah’s Golden Nuggets
  30. Playing Make Believe with the Yes Men
  31. Juan Enriquez, untying America
  32. Alex Steffen’s Bright Green Future
  33. Blaine Brownell’s Material World
  34. Bruce Sterling’s Blogger Blither
  35. Stewart Brand on Green Romanticism
  36. Lester Brown – conservation, not ethanol
  37. Thomas Friedman – Green is the New Red White and Blue
  38. Rest in peace, Kenyan Villager
  39. Keep an eye on Hasan Elahi
  40. The Builders Association
  41. Kevin Kelly on technological determinism
  42. Brian Eno and Will Wright – from the simple to the complex
  43. A very lonely refugee
  44. Quick Somalia Links
  45. links for 2006-10-18
  46. Conference season
  47. Celebrating the small steps
  48. Burt Rutan on Breakthrough Innovation
  49. John Gaeta predicts the future of film
  50. Occupational hazards… not of my occupation
  51. Idea Festival – “The New New Media”
  52. Please take the Global Voices survey
  53. links for 2006-10-14
  54. DJ Spooky’s “Rebirth of a Nation”
  55. links for 2006-10-13
  56. Transcript of ZCTU video
  57. Blogs, Human Rights Video from Zimbabwe
  58. Why tobacco companies shouldn’t make health policy
  59. New estimates on deaths in Iraq
  60. A day/night doubleheader
  61. Neglected conflicts, counterbalanced (?) by more hopeful thoughts
  62. links for 2006-10-07
  63. “We’ve got to adjust some of our threat models”
  64. Weinberger ’08 – Because the Leader of the Free World should be a Mensch
  65. Radio silence and shameless self-promotion
  66. links for 2006-10-05
  67. Anonymous Blogging with WordPress and Tor
  68. Wireless versus wireline in Bamako, Mali
  69. Nakedness and Power
  70. Installation note on Enigmail 0.94.1

September 2006

  1. links for 2006-09-30
  2. links for 2006-09-29
  3. It’s not just where you are, it’s what you know
  4. Zambian elections today
  5. This week’s Somalia update
  6. Sick of reading me?
  7. Eric Osiakwan at Berkman
  8. links for 2006-09-26
  9. Your humble author: less dangerous than African-American trade unionists
  10. Holiday in Harare, part 5: Make a Plan
  11. links for 2006-09-23
  12. Holiday in Harare: part 4 – Zimbabwe’s Internet under threat
  13. links for 2006-09-22
  14. Holiday in Harare, part 3: Reading between the lines
  15. Photos from Zimbabwe
  16. Holiday in Harare, part 2: You might be having a currency crisis if…
  17. My Holiday in Harare: Part 1
  18. I’d like to thank the academy…
  19. Closing thoughts on DCI
  20. Making it big in South Africa
  21. Alaa on Egyptian blogs and activism
  22. Andrew Heavens: If you love your photos, set them free
  23. My slides
  24. Business and marketing at Digital Citizen Indaba
  25. Ory Okolloh on Mzalendo
  26. Sparks fly at the grumpy white guys…
  27. links for 2006-09-15
  28. This is Africa. Should I be shivering?
  29. Quick talks and conference debugging
  30. Web2.0 at DCI
  31. Opening sessions at Digital Citizen Indaba
  32. South Africa: Locked In
  33. I blame the wifi
  34. Checking in from Highway Africa
  35. links for 2006-09-13
  36. links for 2006-09-12
  37. Advance critique of the Indaba
  38. Apartheid Museum
  39. Notes from the Road
  40. Where I am, where I’m not
  41. Understanding the Wonga Coup
  42. links for 2006-09-07
  43. How will China influence Zambia’s elections?
  44. Empty cities, sleeping buildings, art and nostalgia
  45. links for 2006-09-06
  46. Tourists shot in central Amman
  47. links for 2006-09-05

August 2006

  1. Vacation
  2. links for 2006-08-25
  3. Islamic fundamentalist environmentalists, and other news from Somalia
  4. And you thought it was hard starting a business in your country…
  5. The news from Ethiopia, and why I’m bad at taking vacations
  6. Unpacking the DRC election results
  7. links for 2006-08-19
  8. Some AfroElectro sounds for your weekend
  9. links for 2006-08-18
  10. A video intro to Citizen Journalism
  11. links for 2006-08-17
  12. UIC on the move in Somalia
  13. links for 2006-08-16
  14. Woo hoo! We’re #13!
  15. links for 2006-08-15
  16. Mapping Somalia
  17. It’s official: Africa is trendy
  18. links for 2006-08-12
  19. Somalia Update
  20. links for 2006-08-11
  21. Censorship in China – the Race to the Bottom
  22. links for 2006-08-10
  23. Your language or mine? (Part 2)
  24. Join us in South Africa!
  25. links for 2006-08-08
  26. Falling down on the job
  27. My excuse for missing the rest of Wikimania
  28. Wikimania: Brewster Kahle’s Big Goal
  29. Wikimania: Wikipedia and F/OSS – some challenging comparisons
  30. links for 2006-08-05
  31. Wikimania: Localization of a Global Project
  32. Lessig’s Keynote at Wikimania
  33. Wikimania: Omission and Accuracy?
  34. Jimmy Wales keynote at Wikimania
  35. links for 2006-08-04
  36. Cut Corruption. Pay Debt. Accept Kudos. Get Fired.
  37. links for 2006-08-03
  38. A geeky mystery – and what the heck is gravee?
  39. links for 2006-08-02
  40. The real costs of a tank of gas
  41. DRC: On the other hand…
  42. links for 2006-08-01

July 2006

  1. Elections in the DRC, and the image of the UN
  2. links for 2006-07-29
  3. Atanu Dey’s useful questions on the OLPC in India
  4. Some background on the likely forthcoming conflict in Somalia
  5. Hopes and fears before the DRC elections
  6. links for 2006-07-28
  7. Cool events are afoot!
  8. Derek Bambauer’s last Berkman fellows talk
  9. How Freakonomics explains Hakuho’s non-promotion
  10. Awards are cool. Awards with cash: even cooler.
  11. links for 2006-07-25
  12. Is Israel a problem for the Democratic Republic of Congo?
  13. Indian Bloggers, 1, ISPs, 0
  14. Can Creative Commons and Commercial Aggregators learn to play nice?
  15. links for 2006-07-21
  16. Thoughts and disagreements over India’s blog block
  17. links for 2006-07-20
  18. In an uncertain world, the simple pleasures of sumo
  19. links for 2006-07-19
  20. links for 2006-07-18
  21. India joins an elite club?
  22. links for 2006-07-16
  23. Gary Chapman on Citizen Journalism and the Digital Divide
  24. Japan versus South Korea: Can you export OhmyNews?
  25. More faces of OhmyNews
  26. Scoop and Flix – the offspring of OhmyNews?
  27. Who are citizen journalists?
  28. Tim Lord: from “grammar flamer” to managing editor
  29. Technology Panel at OhmyNews forum
  30. Dan Gillmor – the technology’s not the thing…
  31. Webcast of OhmyNews forum
  32. links for 2006-07-12
  33. MumbaiHelp
  34. Hao Wu is free
  35. links for 2006-07-11
  36. Credit Where Credit’s Due
  37. Ubuntu, and the ongoing difficulty of marketing free beer
  38. Dick Sabot, 1944-2005
  39. links for 2006-07-07
  40. A Korean de Tocqueville, and rediscovering my own back yard
  41. links for 2006-07-06
  42. DR Congo and the Resource Curse
  43. Beyond Broadcast politics: the Dean Dream redux, or a new approach to politics?
  44. links for 2006-07-05
  45. links for 2006-07-04
  46. Public radio and reciprocity – I’ll help you if you help Hao Wu
  47. Why wired telephony in Africa is such a basket case
  48. links for 2006-07-01

June 2006

  1. Book review: “Globalization and its Enemies”
  2. links for 2006-06-30
  3. Just how crazy is Joseph Kony?
  4. links for 2006-06-29
  5. So… who’s your billionaire?
  6. Your chance to watch the best of TED
  7. Law 11
  8. links for 2006-06-26
  9. links for 2006-06-24
  10. A peaceful EASSy feeling
  11. Finding reasons to laugh in Zimbabwe
  12. links for 2006-06-23
  13. Alaa is free
  14. My heart’s in Accra… if only the rest of my body were, too
  15. links for 2006-06-22
  16. 10 trees for $6, or some thoughts on carbon neutrality
  17. More good reasons to stay home…
  18. FlexGo: the repo man on a microchip
  19. Large man vs. Mr. Wiry: 1-0
  20. In which I miss the one match I REALLY wanted to see
  21. Two football stories
  22. links for 2006-06-17
  23. My top secret existence
  24. links for 2006-06-15
  25. Blogspot still blocked. Newspapers still silent.
  26. A picture, because I’m too tired for my usual thousand words
  27. Well, that was humiliating.
  28. Matt’s visualization of Global Voices
  29. Watching Football Improves Your Spanish
  30. Glimpses from Philly
  31. Jay Rosen on moving beyond “the masses”
  32. links for 2006-06-09
  33. Warming up for wars of words
  34. Mark Malloch-Brown speaks the truth, and sets off a diplomatic bomb
  35. links for 2006-06-08
  36. links for 2006-06-07
  37. Zittrain gets me thinking about generativity and aggregation
  38. links for 2006-06-06
  39. Somalia update
  40. Is the US an obstacle in Somalia?
  41. links for 2006-06-02
  42. It’s cute. It’s orange. It’s got bunny ears. An update on the One Laptop Per Child project
  43. SMS in Amharic… and near-independent of Ethiopia Telecom
  44. Satellite Human Rights and the importance of imagery

May 2006

  1. An early morning appearance on Democracy Now!
  2. links for 2006-05-31
  3. Hong Eun Taek at Netsquared
  4. Dan Gillmor at Netsquared
  5. Don’t speak. Point. My talk about advocacy and citizen journalism at Netsquared
  6. Translated voices from Senegal
  7. Spend six months in Accra developing software…
  8. links for 2006-05-29
  9. On being a fast moving homebody
  10. Googlebombs, or Googlebuys?
  11. links for 2006-05-25
  12. Global Voices Podcast. InFREAKINGcredible.
  13. links for 2006-05-24
  14. Blogging anonymously from Ethiopia
  15. DifficultTravel.com. If you build it, I will come.
  16. links for 2006-05-23
  17. Ethiopia “pioneers” cybercensorship in sub-Saharan Africa
  18. links for 2006-05-20
  19. Not my next charitable project…
  20. links for 2006-05-19
  21. Introducing: Mzalendo
  22. An audio tour of Morrisania
  23. links for 2006-05-18
  24. Hao, Alaa and fighting the feeling of hopelessness
  25. Net Neutrality, and the hope the US could learn some lessons from African experience
  26. links for 2006-05-16
  27. Recife, “City of Rhyme”
  28. links for 2006-05-13
  29. A history of digital communities… in seven minutes
  30. Jamie Boyle at Beyond Broadcast
  31. links for 2006-05-12
  32. Photos and history
  33. links for 2006-05-11
  34. Virtual Darfur, and why I don’t get invited to technology conferences anymore
  35. Your language or mine?
  36. A googlebomb for Alaa
  37. links for 2006-05-10
  38. OneWebDay brainstorm in Cambridge
  39. Egyptian Blogger detained for participating in peaceful protest
  40. links for 2006-05-07
  41. They blocked the blog again…
  42. Why not play with Croquet?
  43. A Metaverse Roadmap… or a whole mess of vectors?
  44. American Cancer Society in the Metaverse
  45. links for 2006-05-06
  46. Michael Liebhold on building a tricorder – the geographic web
  47. Opening sessions at the Metaverse Roadmap conference
  48. A problem with Tor… which is really a problem with Java
  49. links for 2006-05-05
  50. They unblocked the blogs!
  51. links for 2006-05-04
  52. A tale of two indexes
  53. Blogging a conference I’m not even attending…
  54. links for 2006-05-03
  55. Jury duty, or how not to take a day off
  56. links for 2006-05-02
  57. A shameless plug for a cool new feature
  58. English blogposts no longer the largest plurality?
  59. That’s what I meant to say…
  60. Way to go, cousin!

April 2006

  1. China in Africa – from undercoverage to cliche in under a year?
  2. links for 2006-04-29
  3. Jim Fruchterman for Development Idol!
  4. Blogs before the rally
  5. links for 2006-04-28
  6. links for 2006-04-27
  7. Slides for my OSI talk
  8. Help Wikimedia interview me!
  9. links for 2006-04-26
  10. Jonathan Zittrain on generativity and the future of the Internet
  11. links for 2006-04-25
  12. Oil, power, headlines and curses
  13. links for 2006-04-23
  14. Our talk in Manila
  15. links for 2006-04-21
  16. Hao Wu, in the Washington Post and at the FEAC conference
  17. links for 2006-04-20
  18. Technical approaches to censorship in Asia
  19. Manolo on the rise of Filipino bloggers
  20. Building a backdoor to your WordPress blog
  21. Some different perspectives on censorship around Southeast Asia
  22. links for 2006-04-19
  23. Kunda Dixit on internet publishing in Nepal
  24. Sheila Coronel on blogs and media in the Philippines
  25. Pacific Ocean – Big
  26. links for 2006-04-17
  27. Before I fly to Manila, a theatre review…
  28. links for 2006-04-16
  29. links for 2006-04-15
  30. A petition for Hao Wu’s release… and some uncomfortable thoughts on habeas corpus
  31. links for 2006-04-14
  32. Art, copyright and the beauty of inaccessibility
  33. The News from N’Djamena
  34. links for 2006-04-13
  35. links for 2006-04-12
  36. Overstating AIDS
  37. links for 2006-04-11
  38. Guns, terror and money transfer – Somalia
  39. Tragic news from Lake Volta
  40. links for 2006-04-09
  41. links for 2006-04-08
  42. A chance to speak up – notes for my talk at the Sweet Mother conference
  43. Red’s Top Ten!
  44. links for 2006-04-07
  45. Sumo East and West
  46. Blossom, Tor and touring the Internets
  47. links for 2006-04-06
  48. Some Global Voices geekery
  49. Helmi Noman’s optimism about the Internet in the Arab World… and a pessimistic thought from me
  50. links for 2006-04-04
  51. Web 2.0 and the web serf
  52. links for 2006-04-03
  53. Blurry xeroxes versus blogposts
  54. links for 2006-04-02
  55. links for 2006-04-01

March 2006

  1. Some interesting critiques of Global Voices… and one flat-out offensive one
  2. links for 2006-03-31
  3. Dictators detained and darkness at noon
  4. Wu Na writes about her brother, Hao Wu
  5. Taylor slips away. Again.
  6. links for 2006-03-28
  7. Bombs and Blogs in Addis Ababa
  8. links for 2006-03-25
  9. Censorship is the sincerest form of flattery
  10. Protests in Minsk: Nice while it lasted
  11. links for 2006-03-24
  12. From representing to pointing: some thoughts on the future of advocacy
  13. links for 2006-03-23
  14. The world reacts to Hao Wu’s detention
  15. What should the EU – or the US – do about Belarus?
  16. Assigned reading from Koranteng
  17. Free Hao Wu
  18. Quick notes from the Continent
  19. Three Africa-focused projects
  20. Blogging Al Jazeera – A dilemma? Or a critic’s agenda?
  21. Hearing Kenyan Voices
  22. Soccer doesn’t explain the world. But it can help you fall in love with it.
  23. Kind words for Geekcorps (and a peril of serial entrepreneurship)
  24. Why TED said no to Bono
  25. Ha ha ha America
  26. Maize, fish, ice, oil and AK-47s – reading the news about Africa and trade
  27. Once around the continent, quickly…
  28. Honoring African Women
  29. Watching Invisible Belarus
  30. Boo! Scary open wireless networks! Run! Hide!
  31. Why hope in Africa is not a paradox.
  32. More on Chinese TLDs
  33. Eating my words
  34. Democracy and Technology in DC
  35. So where do I register ethanzuckerman.中国?

February 2006

  1. Other posts from TED
  2. Museveni “wins”
  3. Summarizing TED
  4. Someone buy Vinod Khosla some Ethanol
  5. Al Gore’s standup routine
  6. Green is the New Black
  7. Jamais Cascio fixes the future
  8. Thomas Dolby blinds us all
  9. Gregory Colbert, on behalf of the elephants
  10. Dance, Sir Ken Robinson, dance!
  11. Aubrey de Grey doesn’t want you to die
  12. Ursus Wehrli tidies up art
  13. Nat Irvin and the Thrivals
  14. Helen Fisher , scanning for love
  15. Julia Sweeney is a reasonable woman
  16. Jim Crupi – we are all soldiers
  17. Tony Robbins is an emotional guy
  18. Phil Borges and BRIDGES
  19. Rob Forbes likes cities
  20. Compton with less guns
  21. Bottling Clifford Stoll
  22. David Pogue: “Piss Off”
  23. Video Games make David Perry cry
  24. Saul Griffith’s Self-Assembled Talk
  25. The hyper-rational Prince-Ramus
  26. Dr. Amy Smith and Carbon Macrotubes
  27. Burt Rutan’s new “Space Race”
  28. Larry’s Brilliant Wish
  29. Jehane Noujaim’s wish
  30. Cameron Sinclair’s wish
  31. Last year’s wishes
  32. Daniel Dennett picks a fight.
  33. Rick Warren’s got a purpose
  34. Playing Beethoven in our Bassmobiles
  35. Michael Shermer doesn’t believe you.
  36. Peter Gabriel bears Witness
  37. Dean Ornish – Eat right!
  38. Rip your books
  39. “I’m incredibly narcissistic. I’m a blogger.”
  40. 180 seconds to say whatever you want…
  41. Roger Mandle on Consilient Design
  42. Penny Boston may be a Martian
  43. Neil Gershenfeld is not a grey parrot
  44. Joe Derisi and virus detection
  45. Alan Russell – Regrowing by Thinking Small
  46. Al Gore. Quieter than the Children of Uganda
  47. The words China doesn’t want to hear
  48. Blogging the TED conference
  49. The pitch is “not level”
  50. It’s too late to prevent “The Internets”
  51. Photos: Not funny, and at least a little funny
  52. Meeting Omid Memarian
  53. We’re off to see the Archivist
  54. The West Can’t Save Africa… but maybe some US MBAs can…
  55. Congressional hearings on tech in China
  56. Apologies in advance
  57. An Ethiopian winter medalist? When Addis freezes over…
  58. The Githongo Dossier – Kenya reacts to scandal
  59. Easily worth 56,000 words
  60. Yahoo! helps imprison Chinese dissident
  61. FON, disclosure, ethics, controversy
  62. Top Ten Sources
  63. What I (largely) failed to say at the Al Jazeera conference
  64. Still Sleepless, No Longer in Sudan
  65. FON, and why sharing WiFi’s a cool technology for Africa
  66. Bridge blogging and the challenge of seeing eye to eye
  67. The end of an era
  68. My new career: shill
  69. Saving the young for last: youth panel at Al Jazeera forum
  70. Al Jazeera in the Mirror
  71. Al Jazeera Forum: Media and Power
  72. Mmmm… Kelewele…
  73. Ethiopia notices cyber-dissidents. (Indefinite detention without charges is the sincerest form of flattery.)
  74. Bloggers and Citizen Journalism at the Al Jazeera Forum
  75. Aljazeera Forum: Who defines professional ethics?
  76. Opening Sessions at the Aljazeera Forum

January 2006

  1. Sex and human rights, yes! Falun gong and Xinjiang independence, no!
  2. The road to Doha
  3. Robots invade Jamaica…
  4. Wireless for the Developing World
  5. Understanding how Google.cn filters
  6. Google in China: any cause for hope?
  7. A confession
  8. Some recommended distractions…
  9. Winter in Western Massachusetts
  10. Ethiopia Updates
  11. A modest proposal for Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
  12. Two posts worth your time
  13. Cote d’Ivoire lurches towards civil war
  14. “Blogging” Davos
  15. Elijah on Sudanese refugees in Cairo
  16. How blog comments can eat your morning
  17. Happy Birthday, Ben!
  18. Berkman welcomes Dan Gillmor
  19. Monday Africa Roundup
  20. Berkman in the Spotlight
  21. It’s never to cold to riot in Ulaanbaatar!
  22. My heart is vacationing in Nigeria
  23. Remittance – the big business of sending money home
  24. Pubsub’s “community lists” and thoughts on ranking local blogospheres
  25. What to watch in the Ugandan election
  26. Chinese trade with Africa – good or bad news?
  27. Black Looks on “Five Years for Sex Tourist”
  28. A completely impractical idea for making phone tech support better
  29. Call me tomorrow.
  30. DRC – 3.8 million dead. Darfur?
  31. Sorry about that.
  32. A project to add to your “not to do” list
  33. A Tale of Two Protests: an update on one
  34. Toot. Cool!
  35. Mwandani – drink your beer and watch the match… :-)
  36. Ger, 2005-6
  37. MSN in China and censorship of the Chinese blogosphere

2005 338

December 2005

  1. What do you know about Africa?
  2. It’s official – there’s now a sumo category on the blog.
  3. Four stories from around the continent…
  4. 12 Good Reasons to Learn Chinese
  5. The Economist on “comparative poverty”
  6. Short day, short posts
  7. Time for Weah to leave the pitch
  8. 419, Chicken and Cambodian textiles – or “Fair Trade is Hard”
  9. Learning to Count
  10. Third Weblogging Ecosystem Workshop – Edingburgh, May 2006
  11. MSM and big bloggers react to the Global Voices conference
  12. On being retroactively thrilled
  13. The good word from Canary Wharf
  14. Global Voices on the BBC
  15. Chris Tenove responds!
  16. Citizen’s Lab on Filtering, and the opening of Global Voices
  17. Follow the discussion in London
  18. Silver’s view of E-stonia
  19. Sztripkviz!
  20. Maidan and the Revolutionary Internet in Ukraine
  21. From Paris to Oxford
  22. Kurt Shaw from Recife
  23. Ben Hammersley’s Standup Routine
  24. Notes from Les Blogs
  25. Walking in Paris
  26. Casaleggio on Beppe Grillo
  27. Martin Varsavsky and FON
  28. Checking in from Les Blogs
  29. Global Voices: We’re hiring!
  30. A million air miles in 60 days
  31. And now, a rant from our listeners…
  32. Changing the station: media and propaganda in Iraq

November 2005

  1. The Berkman Center meets Second Life
  2. Ethiopia deserves better than “better than Mengistu”
  3. Sitting still and meditating on travel addiction
  4. A Mongolian and a Bulgarian walk into a basho…
  5. Thanksgiving… and my recipe for Turkey a la Pompeii
  6. Bridging across Central Europe
  7. GV wins a BOB!
  8. Heck of a Blog
  9. Great summary of our session on Friday
  10. Two very different nights in Tunisia
  11. Alan Kay at WSIS
  12. Leaving WSIS
  13. GV on Best of the Blogs
  14. Hossein Derakshan at Expression Under Repression
  15. Nart Villeneuve at Expression Under Repression
  16. Isaac Mao at Expression Under Repression
  17. Berkman Center on our WSIS workshop
  18. Taurai Maduna at Expression Under Repression
  19. Opening Remarks at Expression Under Repression
  20. WSIS – The Citizen’s Summit
  21. WSIS, first reflections
  22. Is George Weah a good sport at politics?
  23. Enroute to WSIS
  24. The good and bad from Budapest
  25. My bad…
  26. Globeshakers Interview on ITConversations
  27. BlogAfrica’s back…
  28. Encouraging thoughts from Amman
  29. Early roundup from the Jordanian blogosphere
  30. The Bombings in Amman
  31. Feeling unEASSy about telecom cartels
  32. Who’s Watching in Addis?
  33. Amazon Embraces Human Filtering
  34. Missed the Africa panel at Pop!Tech? Listen in.
  35. How big’s Wikipedia? Around 23 meters, near as I can tell.
  36. Eid Mubarak!
  37. One Laptop Per Child – a preview, and a request for help
  38. Eyewitness accounts of violence in Addis Ababa

October 2005

  1. A Tale of Two Protests
  2. Say it Loud…
  3. Côte d’Ivoire – You can go your own way?
  4. Lakoff speaks at Williams
  5. The Medical Brain Drain from Africa… to rural America
  6. Blogging makes it big
  7. October Snow
  8. Looking at Africa, from Camden, Maine
  9. “Backwards and in High Heels” – Ndesanjo Macha blogs Pop!Tech in Kiswahili
  10. Leading the Flock
  11. Negroponte and the $100 Laptop
  12. Moving on to serious stuff, like Grand Theft Auto
  13. Ivan Marovic: A Force More Powerful
  14. Ed Castronova: Making Gold out of Thin Air
  15. Rebecca MacKinnon: What will China do to the Internet?
  16. Oded Shenker – Are We Toast?
  17. A visit to the “City of Gold” with Suketu Mehta
  18. Mark Lynas on Climate Change: Code Blue or Code Red?
  19. Sea. The final frontier.
  20. How to Build a Better Bionic Man
  21. Our Windpowered Robot Overlords
  22. Norman Packard’s handmade cells
  23. Bob Hanner on DNA Barcodes
  24. Really big photos at Pop!Tech
  25. Preparing for Pop!Tech
  26. TorPark. Pretty Darned Cool.
  27. Why I Spent Monday Night in a Shack
  28. Get a Life
  29. Come to a Blue State, Have a Bowl of Chili on Me
  30. Lu Banglie lives, story dies?
  31. Indian Bloggers put IIPM’s Feet to the Fire
  32. Blogging live and on stage
  33. Playing rhythym guitar in Kingston, Jamaica
  34. Are things getting better? Or are they getting worse?
  35. Who’s writing about Lu Banglie?
  36. Taishi – The Whole World is Watching. Or should be…
  37. Why Football Matters in Liberia
  38. I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke
  39. Bhutan: Not everyone is happy with the Hermit Kingdom
  40. Somali pirates dump rice, keep cement
  41. Geekcorps pride – the kids have done good…
  42. Thinking about the sub-$100 laptop
  43. Somaliland Elections
  44. Solving the problems of 10 Things That Will Be Free…

September 2005

  1. Never have coffee alone again…
  2. Jimmy Wales on a dozen things that WILL be free
  3. An internet “press” conference
  4. IRC chat
  5. Boston, Toronto Win!
  6. Enjoy the (comparative) silence
  7. More on the RSF guide for Bloggers
  8. Four stories, briefly noted
  9. Technology Review’s 35 innovators under 35
  10. RSF Guide to Anonymous Blogging… and some thoughts on reactions…
  11. It’s all fun and games until somebody loses some rice.
  12. Jay Rosen on Political Journalism, Blogs and Truth-telling
  13. Cass Sunstein previews his new book
  14. Eszter Hargittai on blogger insularity
  15. Mitt said it, not me.
  16. Belgian Priest may face death penalty for “role” in Rwandan genocide
  17. Peak Oil and the Rising Cost of Cordwood
  18. Recovery 0.2.1 – more on geeky attempts to help out with Katrina relief
  19. Blessed are the Peacemakers
  20. From Mali to Paris: Migration, Remittance and Cotton
  21. Talking Bridgeblogs at the Center for Global Development
  22. Recovery 2.0 – thoughts on what worked and failed on PeopleFinder so far
  23. Katrina PeopleFinder
  24. Update on Katrina Data Entry
  25. Need help with volunteer data entry
  26. Voicemail and databases for Hurricane Survivors
  27. Relief Efforts
  28. New Orleans Mayor Interview
  29. Doc, Michael on New Orleans
  30. Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night.
  31. Road Trip! Tales from the road in Ghana and DRC

August 2005

  1. Slingshot: Meet the Palestine Lyrical Front
  2. What if Tanja got it right?
  3. ¡Felíz Blog Day!
  4. Happy 3108!
  5. The Benefits of a Berkshire Summer, Preserved in Vinegar
  6. Iraq and the Death Toll for Journalists
  7. Time for a switch
  8. Posting from the Puget Sound
  9. The plight of the bilingual blogger…
  10. Out of gas in Darfur…
  11. Akamai and Global News Consumers
  12. Weekend fun with reBlog
  13. Travel Writing
  14. We’ve secretly replaced these Fijians with Brazilians to see if anyone in Suva would notice…
  15. Bad Software Is Good For You
  16. Stupid Steganography Tricks
  17. This is not an ad.
  18. “Sedition” in Uganda – more attacks on press freedom in East Africa
  19. Thinking about Talkr
  20. The Failing States Index, and the question of why some states that should fail, don’t
  21. Zenawi sues Ethiopian radio station in US, website disappears
  22. The outsourcing of blogging… and everything else?
  23. David Mends figures out why we blog, but still won’t send me chicken.
  24. Blown Away by Blogpulse
  25. Global Voices: World Domination Dead Ahead
  26. Yahoo! gets it…
  27. When is a famine not a famine?
  28. Famine, $0.45 per click and rising. Genocide, down $0.03 per click to $0.28
  29. The BBC sponsors African blogs
  30. Constanttrek stops for a brief rest
  31. Linux on the Silver Screen in Amman
  32. danah on gender and links
  33. Badly overdue note on my trip to Amman
  34. Back to Africa
  35. Football where you least expect it
  36. Responding to Famine in Niger

July 2005

  1. Update from Amman
  2. African Hospitality. And Food Poisoning
  3. Blogger dinner tomorrow
  4. Sleepless in Sudan – the View from Darfur
  5. Blogger Dinner Update
  6. Everday trivia…
  7. The next billion talk back…
  8. Dick Sabot, 1944 – 2005
  9. Deciphering the G-8 on Africa
  10. Deja vu at the BBC
  11. African bloggers cover the G-8!
  12. Africa stories around the MSM
  13. Haier, Huawei and the new Scramble for Africa
  14. Africa’s a continent. Not a crisis.
  15. Plagarism is the sincerest form of flattery
  16. What concertgoers know about Africa… and Africans know about Live 8

June 2005

  1. “Bono and Brad Pitt Need Your Help!”
  2. Catching up with my aggregator
  3. Let me buy you dinner…
  4. My heart’s on vacation
  5. Stories about Sand in Sri Lanka
  6. Wondering about the word “wiki”
  7. The trouble with “globophilia”
  8. Hossein, writing from home
  9. Push Singh at PUSH 2005
  10. Loretta Hidalgo at PUSH 2005
  11. Jerry Michalski at PUSH 2005
  12. Matt Laar at PUSH 2005
  13. Ingo Gunther at PUSH
  14. Iqbal Quadir at PUSH 2005
  15. The first bit of PUSH 2005
  16. Skypecast interview with Alaa Adb El Fateh, crossposted from Global Voices
  17. Andrew Heavens blogs the violence in Ethiopia
  18. Scavenger hunts, ugly Americans, and other options
  19. Porn x 2 = Politics
  20. SkypeOut. Cheap. Not Free.
  21. Brain Drain and a Cross-Continent Debate
  22. Corporate Social Responsibility means, amongst other things, not arming militias

May 2005

  1. Experiments in Skypecasting
  2. Free Speech, Humanitarian Aid and Rape in Darfur
  3. Image blogging, the solution for the linguistically disabled
  4. Neglect me, abuse me, treat me as I were your spaniel, but I will not leave you, Macintosh…
  5. “Media Fast” for Mojtaba
  6. Mongolia, land of Sumo
  7. English-language blogs in Jordan
  8. Different regions, different bridgebloggers
  9. Reading blogs, and staying home. Sort of.
  10. Two Indias
  11. Geekcorps, and the economics of USAID
  12. On hold with Chris Lydon…
  13. The Ghanaian Success Story
  14. More talks at the weblog workshop
  15. An update from the Weblog Workshop
  16. LpkC, according to Blogpulse
  17. “Simple statistics” and the blogging of humanitarian disasters
  18. Global Voices Gains Momentum
  19. More on Eziba and Tedeschi’s article
  20. Far too many Flickr photos

April 2005

  1. Children’s Drawings from Darfur
  2. I lied. LpkC lives.
  3. The last LpcK post for the forseeable future
  4. The Continuing Saga of El Pixie
  5. Amy Gahran runs with the idea… and gets feedback from CSM…
  6. More on The Monitor
  7. End of the week roundup
  8. Is Christian Science Monitor the Word’s Bloggiest Newspaper?
  9. Tedeschi and the New York Times Get it Wrong
  10. Tor – Onion Routing and the modern dissident
  11. Tor – Onion routing and the modern dissident
  12. Waterbottle WiFi and Geekcorps Mali
  13. Long Live Unitarian Jihad!
  14. Anonymity and Usability: Beyond Oil and Water
  15. Anonymity and Usability – beyond oil and water
  16. Food porn for Gridskippers
  17. Shaun Attwood, Prison Blogger
  18. Signal/Noise conference at Harvard
  19. The Subtle Business of Software Localization
  20. Come visit the new place…!
  21. Welcome!
  22. “I didn’t spend five years in evil medical school to be called Mr. Evil”
  23. A bad day for the Bennetts
  24. I NEED YOUR HUMBLE ASSISTANCE

March 2005

  1. More on Kyrgyzstan and Zimbabwe
  2. A bit more on Kyrgyzstan and Zimbabwe
  3. Immigration, Vigilantes and Robots
  4. The pastel floral revolution
  5. Mike Best with evidence that ICT4D works…
  6. Mike Best with evidence that ICT4D works…
  7. Eric Osiakwan at Berkman
  8. The New World Bank
  9. Internet filtering – it cuts both ways
  10. Internet filtering – it cuts both ways
  11. Journalism, transparency and triangulation
  12. Journalism, transparency and triangulation
  13. Bush names Wolfowitz to head World Bank
  14. Remembering a cyber-dissident
  15. Ghostly rodents and journalistic detention
  16. The Asian Tsunami and Media Attention
  17. African Welding, African Weblogs
  18. danah explains Brazil
  19. Ghostly rodents and journalistic detentions
  20. Review of Pietra Rivoli’s “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy”
  21. CAR elections, and credit to African nations when they get it right
  22. Review of Pietra Rivoli’s “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy”
  23. Why Lesotho cares about China – and why you might, as well
  24. Why Lesotho Cares about China – and why you might, as well
  25. In which I attempt to cover Kofi Annan’s speech
  26. Telecoms crisis in Kenya
  27. Working on the “safe democracy” recommendations
  28. Hard questions at Club de Madrid
  29. British American Tobacco, Warner Brothers and Weak Spots
  30. Giving the UN a little credit
  31. President Bush, “Hotel Rwanda”, bridgeblogs and terrorism
  32. Africa – Even more complicated than it looks
  33. Rebecca gets blunt…
  34. Moldovan spam – “Red Terror Comes to Europe!!!”
  35. Ashok’s back in Kenya!
  36. On a personal note – finding me on and offline…
  37. When visiting Turkmenistan, do try not to get ill…
  38. The view from FESPACO
  39. Yet more fun with failed states
  40. US corporate bribery, with t-shirts

February 2005

  1. Jeff Ooi questioned in Malaysia
  2. No press censorship here. Nothing to see. Move along now.
  3. The unequal distribution of global generosity
  4. A rare bit of good news from Togo
  5. Africa roundup
  6. Cool free blogging platform
  7. Travel without filters
  8. Bangalore and the American Imagination
  9. Eyadema is dead. Long live Eyadema
  10. How did that happen?
  11. Greetings from Asia Source

January 2005

  1. An American geek, a Saudi bridgeblogger and an Egyptian reporter walk into a coffee shop…
  2. Saudi Jeans translates my interview with Dar-al-Hayat
  3. “Better Bad News” asserts that my credibility is shot
  4. What Bloggers Amplify from the BBC
  5. A brief gearhead post – my podcasting setup
  6. Keywords, folksonomies and Ghanaian barber shop signs
  7. Daoud Kuttab talk at Berkman
  8. Podcast on… podcasting…
  9. Abraham McLaughlin videblogs from Southern Sudan… and some thoughts on the Webcred conference
  10. Dr. Weinberger, standup philosopher
  11. Phoneblogging from Harvard
  12. Ghana on the web – a slice of life
  13. Disgraced International Mercenaries Wanted to Help US in Iraq. Please apply to Deparment of Defense.
  14. Nauru – the future of rogue states?
  15. Media Attention Animations
  16. Ethan versus Manilla
  17. Sufficiently clever enough to get myself into trouble
  18. Kenyan Pundit, Live from Nairobi
  19. Death and Damage in Myanmar Are Now Believed to Be Relatively Light, U.N. Study Says
  20. Tsunami relief? No, thanks.
  21. A shameless plug for a friend’s new book
  22. IT Assistance in Aceh
  23. The Tsunami and Burma – More Information
  24. More news on Ammannet

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