The big tech news this week (aside from Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel win, which is not really tech news but I needed some way to shamelessly self-promote!) is the deactivation of sex-positive domain name shortener VB.ly, so named for founder Violet Blue, a SF-based sex educator. The site was launched last year to accolades and existed […]
Month: October 2010
When Nichane launched in September of 2006, it should have started a media revolution. As Morocco’s first-ever magazine published in the local Arabic dialect, darija, Nichane–a sister magazine to long-running French weekly TelQuel–quickly captured the attention of a generation with its taboo-tackling stories and often humorous approach. But just as the magazine was gaining traction, […]
This is a liveblog post of the keynote speech at the International Conference on Crisis Mapping. Kurt Jean-Charles is the founder of Solutions, a tech company based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, founded in 2001. Jean-Charles was instrumental in linking together groups and setting up crisis response models after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Jean-Charles begins by […]