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Rising Voices

Yesterday’s discussion at Berkman was on Rising Voices, a project which I am acquainted with of course because of Global Voices. David Sasaki, back (sort of) from a whirlwind trip around the globe, was present to share his experiences of the past 18 months with the project. I’m guessing my readers are all familiar with [...]

29.10.2008

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Hyperlocal Blogging: The Coffee in Berkman’s Kitchen

I wish this had been my idea: Tim Hwang is blogging the Berkman Center’s coffee selection.  Will it be French Roast or Italian Roast?  Tully’s or Van Houtte? We have one of those obnoxiously un-green, would-make-Al-Gore-weep Keurig thingamabobs.  It’s fantastic in some ways; you choose your own flavor (rather than getting stuck with the same [...]

28.10.2008

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Free Speech Ends Here

A West Hollywood homeowner has hung an effigy of VP candidate Sarah Palin from his home in time for Halloween.  Local officials have already spoken to say that the homeowner is covered by free speech rights. As you may know, I believe in free speech in its entirety (so long as such speech is not [...]

27.10.2008

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Blogs 4 Evr

Writing for Wired, Paul Boutin made the outlandish statement this week that “Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004,” stirring up blogs and Twitter and leaving a trail of Paul Butin haters. Very little digging, however, shows why Boutin made such a statement: his blog is a piece of shit. Although the blog has [...]

22.10.2008

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This is what we did today.  In my home state.  I wish I could say that we were super-effective, but the truth is, out of 45 houses, we maybe secured an Obama vote from one person.  But that’s huge, given the multitude of people doing what we did for just a few hours, every single [...]

12.10.2008

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Filtering in the News

Popular torrent sharing site The Pirate Bay is the victor in a recent legal battle against Italian anti-piracy group IFPI.  Following a court order, the site was blocked in July, but the block resulted in an inadvertant traffic increase.  You may recall that I’m a big fan of Peter Sunde (mostly because he replies to [...]

10.10.2008

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I’m #30!

Apparently, my current blog ranks #30 in the top 30 Moroccan blogs…this is cool, given the fact that I’m a) not Moroccan and b) don’t write about Morocco very often.  According to blogger Agharass [fr], who founded the fantastic new North Africa search engine Berberus, the rankings are based on incoming and outgoing links within [...]

10.10.2008

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I had this creative piece I was working on but decided to go with this instead. Credit goes to Pundit Kitchen

08.10.2008

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You don’t have to be John Mayer…

Two days ago I declared throughout my workplace that “Steve Jobs and I are in a fight.” The premise, you ask? Not too long ago I purchased the brand new iPod Touch. I’d had my original 20GB iPod for nearly four years, and its battery had kicked it…twice. I wanted an iPhone but not the [...]

05.10.2008

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WTF

“The two-eyed look remains too seductive for Sheikh Habadan” Apparently another ridiculous Sheikh has made his way into the international news.  This time it’s a Saudi, and he would like women to go around without depth perception and looking like pirates. The Sheikh’s feeling is that allowing women to go around exposing themselves by showing [...]

03.10.2008

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An Hour on American TV

I own a TV, ok?  I own it, and it has cable, and I think I’m wasting my money, but the only things I care about watching are on Comedy Central and they don’t allow you to pay for just one channel.  But tonight I’m tired, and flipping channels, and I’m fascinated. There’s a program [...]

02.10.2008

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