I could not live without lists. I make and keep them for all sorts of purposes: to-do lists, lists of items to take along on my travels (I keep three, separated by category), lists of talking points for presentations, fun lists, the occasional top [insert number] list. Umberto Eco, himself an inveterate list-maker, recently described lists [...]
Have spent most of today following the aftermath of yesterday’s 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. A few observations and links: – Many people there, concerned about the continuing aftershocks, will be sleeping outdoors tonight, some in public areas like the Place Jeremie. “We’ll sleep in the driveway,” tweeted Richard Morse, the hotelier and musician (he’s the [...]
My Flickr page has long been a far more accurate record of my life than this blog. This year Flickr was dominated by images of my ongoing house renovation, but from time to time I did manage to point my camera at scenes in which drying mortar wasn’t a central element. Here are a few [...]
The message has already been conveyed to family members and close friends that, given the state of the personal coffers and the fact that most of us have too many material possessions anyway, they should be looking elsewhere this season for Christmas presents of the corporeal kind. A certain development taking place on the Trinidadian [...]
Infographic of the Day: Visualizing Incomes in NYC's Neighborhoods | Design & Innovation | Fast Company Very cool nteractive map of incomes across New York City neighbourhoods. (tags: map, urbanplanning, newyork) Wikipedia's known unknowns | Technology | The Guardian "Wikipedia still has much to do: the map above suggests there are still whole continents that [...]
My Ghanaian blogger friend Mac-Jordan Degadjor, who so graciously showed me around during my visit to Accra in October, has been given the chance to go to Copenhagen to cover the UN climate change talks there this month. He’s received a stipend from Denmark, but it isn’t sufficient to cover the entire cost of the [...]
Breakfast on the Bridge – The Event I'd love to live in a city where the powers that be think of/permit/encourage public events like this (tags: city planning urbanplanning public event) Caribbean Journalism: No Plans to License say CARICOM SG According to Wesley Gibbings, president of the Association of Media Workers, CARICOM has no plans [...]
The Top 28 Must Read Books for Social Entrepreneurs (tags: socialentrepreneurship books readinglist) ICANN | ICANN Bringing the Languages of the World to the Global Internet The official announcement from ICANN. (tags: internet internetgovernance icann)
Internet Addresses Can Use New Scripts – NYTimes.com "By the middle of next year, Internet surfers will be allowed to use Web addresses written completely in Chinese, Arabic, Korean and other languages using non-Latin alphabets, the organization overseeing Internet domain names announced Friday in a decision that could make the Web more accessible." (tags: internet [...]
(L to R) Fashion designer Robert Young of The Cloth with Wendell Manwarren and Roger Roberts of Trinidad and Tobago rapso band 3canal. Wendell and Roger are wearing jackets Robert designed for their upcoming tour of India. Caribbean Free Radio #51 is a command performance of sorts recorded at Little House, home of 2/3 of [...]
Caribbean Free Radio #51 - 3canal: Dreaming of India [ 19:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4645)Nieman Fellowship application season rapidly approaching » Nieman Journalism Lab Doesn't somebody from the Caribbean want to apply for a Nieman Journalism Fellowship at Harvard? (tags: journalism fellowship)
Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program to Assess the Impact of Public Access to ICTs – ( UPF ) Researching–or want to research–the public impact of ICTs on the Caribbean? Apply for an Amy Mahan fellowship today! (tags: caribbean internet development research ICT fellowship ict4d) Nicholas Laughlin's blog etc. | The day they "beautified" Hope "I [...]
A News Literacy Guide from NewsTrust.net – Crap Detection 101 – NewsTrust.net "Unless a great many people learn the basics of online crap detection and begin applying their critical faculties en masse and very soon, I fear for the future of the Internet as a useful source of credible news, medical advice, financial information, educational [...]
As seen on the streets of Accra from Georgia Popplewell on Vimeo. Like most countries in the developing world, my own included, Ghana has a vast informal economy in which street vendors play an important role. According to a 2003 study done by the Natural Resources Institute in collaboration with the Food Research Institute and the [...]
MetropolisTV Netherlands-based MetropolisTV is looking for video journalists to join their global network. (tags: television video journalism) Rain in Africa: No Ibrahim Prize for Kufuor Kajsa Hallberg Adu's take on Mo Ibrahim's decision not to award an African governance prize this year. (tags: africa governance moibrahimprize)
No license, no registration Nikipedia does me one better and outlines the measures contained in CARICOM’s proposed Model Professional Services Bill that could make life very difficult for Caribbean journalists. (tags: caribbean, journalism, government, law, pressfreedom)
Posting this notice circulated this morning on Facebook by the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago (MATT, when are you going to get yourselves a proper, public-facing web site?). A copy of the document in question can be viewed here. I urge others to publicise this matter widely: “Wesley Gibbings, president of the ACM [Association [...]
MediaShift Idea Lab . Mobile Phones Give Africans a Voice, Make Governments Nervous | PBS Important post from Guy Berger about government reactions to more active civic participation in Namibia and Botswana. (via @oso)
It’s hard not to take notice of South African telecoms giant MTN’s presence in Ghana, thanks at least in part to the colours in its logo. Vodafone, the country’s flagship telecoms operator, does a fair amount of this kind of branding as well, but Vodafone red can’t hold a candle to MTN yellow, especially under [...]
Filmed this down and dirty little video yesterday at the National Museum in Accra, Ghana. In it I ask three Africans–two Ghanaians and an Ethiopian–what they think about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win.