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October 28, 2008
Jose Antonio Vargas has an interesting article in the Washington Post about watching global blogs watch the US election. He focuses on Voices without Votes, an offshoot of Global Voices. Why, did you know that six local candidates in Brazil added “Obama” to their names?
October 4, 2008
September 28, 2008
Ethan Zuckerman is doing his usual raise-the-bar conference blogging, this time from Picnic in Amsterdam. See his roundup of the “Surprising Africa” day at Picnic. And that’s preceded by a post about an African architect, Francis Kéké, Ethan has long admired. Ethan is always an eye-opener.
September 8, 2008
Waveplace is bringing the One Laptop Per Child laptops (AKA “The $100 Laptop”) to poor parts of the world. Here’s a terrific post about teaching kids how to use the EToys program that’s included. For context, there’s this. And you want photos? Yes, you do. Here are some fantastic pictures. (And here’s one of my favorite photos of all time. BTW, the little girl is a double amputee.)
August 26, 2008
Initiated and managed by three Swedes with a background in advertising and PR, Noko Jeans is our attempt to approach and get closer to North Korea, and it is our attempt to answer the question: is it possible to do what no one has ever done before? Is it possible to design, produce and import jeans from North Korea? [link]
The NoKo blog is here. It gives a peak at North Korea from a Swedish, jeans-making perspective.
June 2, 2008
John Yunker telling points out — and documents with screen captures — that global corporations often marked their Chinese home pages with signs of mourning for those lose in the recent earthquake, while their non-Chinese pages remained dressed in their business-as-usual designs. (He has some more screen captures here.)
March 17, 2008
Rebecca on Tibet, China, blogs and tweets
Rebecca MacKinnon has a post that will knock the kneejerk right out of your response to the Chinese repression of Tibet. She points to a post on Global Voices that translates “chatter from Chinese blogs and chatrooms that generally runs along the lines of: those ungrateful minorities, we give them modern conveniences and look how they thank us… ” But there’s lots more in Rebecca’s post… [Tags: china tibet rebecca_mackinnon globalVoices]
January 17, 2008
Global Voices has produced a great intro to citizen’s media, under the guidance of David Sasaki. It’s clear, friendly, and full of heart. And, needless to say, it’s not US-centric. It’s available in English, Spanish, and Bengali, with more on the way.
Well done, David and team. [Tags: gv global_voices citizen_media david_sasaki journalism ]
January 5, 2008
Andy Olmsted was the first American soldier killed in Iraq this year. He blogged at Obsidian Wings as G’Kar. The site has posted a message Andy wanted published if he were killed.
December 19, 2007
My One Laptop Per Child computer arrived overnight, as if delivered by elves. As Drew Barrymore would say, “Magical!”
Other than saying that it’s the cutest thing since otters began holding hands, I feel incompetent to review it. I’ve only used it for a couple of hours, and it’s very different from the usual computers. I can say that it does some things incredibly easily, like take photos. On the other hand, I’m lacking the mental model for doing some more complex things, like downloading an ebook from the Web and reading it offline on the laptop.
But this was not a computer designed for me, so I’m going to give it time to shape my expectations. So far, though, it’s just so cute and cuddly that I want to feed it kibble and take it out for a walk four times a day.
[Anthropological note: The OLPC laptop serves the social function as puppies: When strangers see you with one, they just have to stop you, stroke it, and say “Awwww.”]
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