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Cairo and onward

I’m currently in Cairo, giving a training on Internet policy to a group of (mostly young) journalists. As always, I am humbled…having 10 hours to fill, I started off day one on international governance (probably a bad idea, given that it’s by and large the most boring topic of them all), and within 20 minutes […]

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Writing count 2012

I counted my words last year (though I can’t find the post), and I will this year as well. When I think about the fact that, in addition to those counted below, I also tweet like a crazy person and write a few dozen emails a day, I thank the powers that be that I […]

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On the art of travel spending

I am in an epically bad mood this morning, owing mostly to the ineptitude of both KLM (the airline) and Chase (the bank). I have spent hours on the phone with both this week over what boils down to the same issue: The fact that the American banking system is light years behind the European […]