You’re More Powerful as a Customer than as a Citizen (and that’s bad)
If you’re an early adopter, you likely sign up for a wide range of new products and services. A number of these startups inevitably fold, and then you receive their closing-shop emails. The correspondence making up this genre tends to [...]
Technology to Improve the Speaker-Audience Relationship
Liveblog of Drew Harry‘s (@drewwww) MIT Media Lab thesis defense (with readers Wanda Orlikowski, Judith Donath, and Chris Schmandt). Drew’s thesis presentation covers a range of projects that tell a broader story about complementary communications systems and how people use [...]
I’m at the GlobalVoices Citizen Media Summit in Kenya
I’m in Nairobi for a few weeks, primarily for the GlobalVoices Citizen Media Summit, a biannual conference with many of the network’s top bloggers, translators, and editors, who hail from all over the planet. Here are a few liveblog posts [...]
The Internet Exposes Tensions and Opportunity Between Nations and their Diasporas
Liveblog from the Global Voices Summit (#gv2012) here in Nairobi. Diasporic communities can now take virtually full part in national political and civic life in their countries of origin, thanks to new media. From the academic and activist perspectives, what [...]
When you meet a giraffe
I went to the Giraffe Center in Nairobi today. They’ve successfully brought an endangered species of giraffe back from the edge of extinction. But also, they let you feed the giraffes. This is what that looks like:
