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Talk Morocco Wins the BOBs!

On a hot summer day in July of 2009, I was sitting at my kitchen table, imagining an idea for a PostGlobal-like forum for Moroccans. Fed up with the existing platforms and lack of cross-blogosphere discussion in my adopted second country, the idea sprung to life. Excited, I asked Hisham Khribchi, my long-time blogger friend […]

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Slippery Sloping

I’ve been horribly busy with travel planning (shameless plug: I’m speaking at the IJF next week in Perugia, Italy; yes that’s an awful photo of me) and non-blog writing that I haven’t updated you since that last post about Facebook (which I’m currently expanding into a more academic piece). So here’s some candy: Check out […]

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On Facebook Deactivations

Update/note: Since writing this a few hours ago, I’ve been flooded by e-mails from Facebook users who have also experienced this. Those users include gay rights activists, Jewish activists, activists for a free Palestine, and activists against the Venezuelan regime (among others). Clearly this is happening to many users across the board. I will follow […]