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...

At the dawn of our then-budding romance HP asked me for some help with his website. “Dawg, I am on top of PHP and coding,” he wanted to clarify, “but this WordPress template shit doesn’t make no sense to this ESL-educated mo-fo.” And so, he wanted to pay me money to ins...

At the dawn of our then-budding romance HP asked me for some help with his website. “Dawg, I am on top of PHP and coding,” he wanted to clarify, “but this WordPress template shit doesn’t make no sense to this ESL-educated mo-fo.” And so, he wanted to pay me money to ins...

The year before I left Trinidad for university in the USA, I spent hours on end at the United States Information Service (now called the Public Affairs Section) library on Marli Street, boning up on Dreiser and Faulkner, Updike and Bellow, Welles and Cassavetes, filling in the gaps left by a British...

President Obama says he intends to listen to others as he formulates U.S. foreign policy. I've proposed that as part of his China policy,  the Obama administration should use the Internet to engage in conversation with the Chinese people, not just its leaders and elites.  What do you...

I’ve noted in the past that it’s hard to pay attention to news stories in other parts of the world when you don’t have a personal connection to them. If you don’t know any Moldovans and can’t find Moldova on a map, you’re likely to ignore news about that country. ...

China's edgiest blogging platform, Bullog.cn, was shut down this afternoon. Authorities launched an anti-Internet smut crackdown on Monday. Bullog was not among the websites cited for failure to control "low and vulgar" content. A line about today's shutdown has already been posted on the Chinese Wi...

If you’re like me, there’s been no shortage of appeals for donations landing in your inbox this month. And now I’d like to add another: please support Global Voices. As many of you know, I’ve been involved with Global Voices since 2005, and now work for the organisation full-...

I realize that, at the end of a year when nearly everyone has faced economic hard times, all sorts of worthy organizations are asking for your help. Well, we are too. Global Voices is launching an online giving campaign today. We’re asking folks to lend their support to all our activities - th...

The last two major projects I’ve worked on - Geekcorps and Global Voices - share an interesting trait. Both ended up becoming research projects for academics studying the changing nature of organizations in a digital age. Dr. Leo Hsu of New York University wrote an excellent dissertation, R...