As you can perhaps see from the badge to the lower left of this screen, I will be attending the Global Voices Summit next month in Budapest, Hungary. I’m very excited - not only is the Summit an opportunity to meet (even more) Global Voices folks, but also presents a unique opportunity for the discussion of subjects related to the internet - censorship, citizen media, multilingualism - all subjects near and dear to my heart.

Also, I’ve never been to Hungary!

I couldn’t get this to work as a sidebar, but check it out - Guidespot.com is a project I’ve been working on for a couple of months, covering Boston’s best. Here’s my latest:

The green B line of Boston’s T (MBTA or public transit system, that is) is notoriously crowded, filled with rowdy BC and BU kids and people like myself. In Park Street station, where I get on for my homeward commute, it’s particularly rough, with everyone clamoring for the few available seats. Today, I […]

My Saturday night was capped off by seeing Talib Kweli perform at BC…Now, I’ve seen him three times before, but this was by far the best.  I don’t know if the latest politics have gotten him riled up or what but he was on fire (one of my favorite lines from the night was “my […]

Whatever it is, you can probably figure it out at Guidespot!

I remember being in my early teens and complaining to my father about something I had learned about the American political process (if I remember my 13-year-old self correctly, it was probably the electoral college).  His response?  Your typical American one - that there’s no where better in the world to live.  One friend of […]

Nobody’s perfect, and when it comes to typos, that adage seems even more true (my mother noted a fantastic one I’d made the other day - “he loves with his mother” rather than “he lives with”).  So two young men - one of them local (to me, that is), are doing something about it - […]

Facebook is certainly a news heavyweight as of late; first Fouad Mourtada, now this?  Well, technically this happened first - last August, a Saudi woman was beaten and shot by her own father for chatting with a man on Facebook.  The story was untouched by Western media and only truly emerged this week after preacher […]

Since moving to Boston, Hamza and I have certainly attempted to explore Boston’s vast expanse of eateries.  We’ve hit the South End (most notably, to B&G Oysters), Back Bay, Brookline, Allston (really?), our own Brighton (My favorites being neighbors Tasca and Bamboo).  We had a low-key Valentine’s Day here and got our superbowl Sunday wings […]

I am one of those people who enjoys not having a TV. In fact, I would happily give up my TV right now. Don’t touch my internet, don’t touch my books or trashy magazines, but my TV? I won’t miss it. I’ve only felt differently once in my life; shortly after arriving in […]