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Friday morning humor
This video makes it clear that, one, Newsweek is not so lame a place to work as those old white male columnists might make it seem, and two, that I missed not that much by not watching LOST for the last six years.
Oh, go on, watch. It’s Friday morning, and it’s funny.
H/T @the_hip_hapa
Coming Soon, or, this is a teaser
Things have been quiet here, on and off, for a month or two, and they’re going to stay that way as I finish up some US-based work, and ready for my next trip. Here’s some juicy pieces in the works, though:
* An interview with Billy Kahora, an editor at Kwani? and author of the [...]
"You're totally wrong," or, how I can single-handedly diagnose and save all of journalism
Here’s a description of what one new media guru (who’s actually kind of an old dude, so take hard, Old Guard of a Dying Industry, you too can learn new ways) has to say about teaching young journalists. I share this because it strikes me that for all the buzz of these blingy new [...]
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Sorry, friends and strangers, about the delay on comment posting. First it was a tech problem, and then a problem of my own time, and then my own unwillingness even to touch the blog… You get it. Many excuses.
Keep ‘em coming.
Hold down the ESC key, Mr. Negroponte. Then it will all go away…
Here’s an interesting elegy to the One Laptop Per Child project, the much-lauded initiative of Nicholas Negroponte to bring computers to the world’s poor. Turns out it went bust:
Last week OLPC laid off half of its staff. Sales of its XO Laptop to developing nations are far, far below initial projections in the millions; [...]
And to your left, the rare spotted owl…
“Gender Observatory established in Rwanda”
(It’s actually not that interesting; the government is establishing a department to watch the mainstreaming of gender and the collection of statistics, something that has been part of a long established plan here, where the country takes gender promotion very seriously. But I couldn’t resist.)
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