In a city often under fire from Gaza, playing outdoors is unsafe, so a Jewish fund builds a recreation center in a bunker....

I'm writing a column from the game tonight, following up on Ira's blog entry about how the Heat survives the minutes that Dwyane Wade is on the bench. (I'm sitting close to Jeremy Shockey, and just watched security come over and tell him to sit down). I'll post the column at 11...

I lectured in my friend Jonathan Zittrain’s class at Harvard Law about ten days ago. I shared the stage with Nicco Mele, internet strategist for Howard Dean and co-founder of tech consultancy EchoDitto. I gave a typically long-winded talk on citizen media in Kenya and Madagascar… and the...

We’re launching a very cool new project at Berkman today, Media Cloud. Basically, Media Cloud is a platform to help researchers find quantitative answers to questions like: - What type of stories are covered more heavily in blogs than in newspapers? - How does coverage of a topic like Iran dif...

A journalist recently asked me what had surprised me most about the success of Global Voices. There have been a lot of surprises with this project - the passion with which our volunteer community has embraced the effort, the emergence of translation as central to our mission - but I think Rising Voi...

The most remarkable sight after Dwyane Wade's miracle steal-and-shot to beat the Bulls in double overtime? Eric Reid jumping out of his chair, hands raised (and sort of left hangin')? Erik Spoelstra backpedaling in disbelief, with the I-can't-believe-I-get-to-coach-this-guy express...

A quick follow on to my post from last week trying to summarize my friend Rebecca MacKinnon’s wide ranging and fascinating talk on Chinese internet culture. OxfamUnwrapped.com: Alpaca One of the commenters on my blog - Tumshie - was kind enough to point out that the video used by Chinese activ...

A journalist recently asked me what had surprised me most about the success of Global Voices. There have been a lot of surprises with this project - the passion with which our volunteer community has embraced the effort, the emergence of translation as central to our mission - but I think Rising Voi...

Reports from friends in Zimbabwe suggest that the country is now largely disconnected from the internet. Utande Internet Service has a useful update dated March 5, 2009 - I reproduce it here in full so you don’t have to visit their site and further stress their servers: Most of Zimbabwe relies...

I have always been a voracious reader, since I was a child. If you go to my parents house, my mom recently organized all the books and there are at least two copies of nearly every one. Hard back and paperback, or multiple paperbacks. Why? I destroyed the originals, or often we lost them and had to ...