Originally posted on Global Voices: Argentinian native and Spanish citizen Martin Varsavsky writes on his Spanish blog [ES]: “[Technorati founder, David Sifry] showed me what he is really going to do and how he is going to launch it. And I suggested a modification that he liked a lot, but that it will take a [...]

It is a wonderful thing to have a friend as a boss and a boss as a friend. I use the term “boss” loosely, but “friend” is meant with appreciative precision. Checking up on my unread RSS items this morning, the first and second items I read were improbably related. Both by co-managing editors of [...]

Last Tuesday I watched almost the entire Oakland City Council meeting on TV while adding every single country as a category on what will hopefully become a version of Global Voices in Spanish. I started watching the meetings to catch glimpses of Mari. I still do. But in all honesty, I’ve sorta gotten sucked into [...]

I should have been much much smarter than to think that I was the first person to coin the term “Googleganger.” (from Doppelgänger) My own googlegänger (that is, a person with your same name who shows up when you google yourself thus guaranteeing that you both are aware of each other even though you have [...]

“Fewer than a third of all Americans believe the state has a responsibility to reduce income disparities, compared with 82% of Italians.” – David Brooks, NYT Frequently enough I see coffeehouse American philosophers scratching their chins and wondering to one another, “how is it that we were the first ones to embrace modern day democracy [...]

The irony is that just two hours before I saw Andres’ post, I had written an email to the Global Voices Author mailing list encouraging everyone to take part in this five things meme that’s been circling the internets: Lastly, I have another favor to ask, but this one is for my personal blog. I [...]

Reading through my thousands of Latin American RSS feeds for Global Voices, I can’t begin to tell you how many January 1st posts started with the New Year’s resolution to once again start blogging more frequently. I assume the same is true with English-language weblogs. I wouldn’t know, I don’t seem to have the time [...]

Abo goes to Utah for some winter skiing. It’s a favorite destination for white people like myself because we really feel like we blend into the surroundings, if you know what I mean. But then, Abo came up with the idea of jumping over a rope: That turned out to be not such a great [...]