How to Grocery Shop in Shanghai
Another update from China. Thanks to the Great Firewall, I’m stuck in a Web 1.0 world of email and blogging. Our group spent the day conducting ethnographic interviews of food sellers and consumers in a wide variety of contexts. We [...]
Designing Urban Food Systems in Shanghai
I’ve joined the Media Lab’s Changing Places group for a week in China to design the future of sustainable cities in Shanghai. China presents enormous challenges and huge opportunities, all at a dizzying scale. 300 million Chinese, the population of [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft made something cool: Photosynth
I’ve heard the new Windows phone is awesome, too, but haven’t had a chance to play with it yet. At first, it seemed strange to me that Photosynth, an incredible and free panorama-snapping iOS app, was developed by Microsoft. But [...]
Oh yeah, I have a blog..
Three things I’ve been up to lately: 1. Watching every minute of the playoffs (and yet somehow missing Manny’s walk-off). In the meantime, I’ve come across a pretty solid directory of Red Sox- and Patriots-friendly bars in DC: Red Sox [...]
Make Way for Ridiculous
cross-posted from EchoDitto.com: I wasn’t sure how New Yorkers were going to react to 50+ costumed bicyclists navigating weekend traffic in Manhattan, but it turns out that New York has a good sense of humor. Children looked on in awe, [...]
