By now you might have seen David Sasaki’s retrospective about Global Voices, or Rebecca MacKinnon’s post about GV, five years in. Maybe you’re aware that GV is celebrating its fifth anniversary. Anyway, now you are! I joined Global Voices in April 2007, about two years and 8 months ago. As I explain in this video […]
Perhaps you’ve wondered about my bit of a blogging hiatus: I spent December 7-13 in Beirut for the second annual Arab Bloggers Workshop. The workshop, sponsored by The Heinrich Böll Foundation and Global Voices Online, with support from HIVOS and the Open Society Institute, brought together about 80 of the most amazing bloggers from around […]
On a night unlike many others, I took a taxi home. I had approached the first cab I saw outside of the bar, but the driver didn’t have a credit card machine and I didn’t have cash. The second cab I approached didn’t want to go to my neighborhood. The third driver agreed to it. […]