Five things from 15 19 Global Voices authors. They’re amazing, get to know them. Rezwan – “My first cultural shock going back to Dhaka was that I got bullied by my friends for using tissues to clean my nose. Pocket tissue culture became popular later in Bangladesh.” Tharum Bun – “Starting this year, I set [...]

One of the dozen or so employees at my neighborhood Peet’s coffee is blonde. He is the only blonde employee. Rarely do I see him working, but most mornings he sits outside on one of the two wooden benches and watches people cross the street in front of him. In his left hand is a [...]

The other day I got an email from someone I work with. It included the following clarification: p.s.: the inch/foot comment was meant to have smiley at the end. Like many who call their office their home and vise-versa, email is my main – pretty much my only – means of communication with my co-workers. [...]

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Above all, I found We Media to be absolutely worthwhile. We need more forums in which representatives of traditional, mainstream media and the new batch of independent, online content producers can come together and discuss pro-active solutions that ensure sustainability for both groups. I listened to all of the audio from We Media London and [...]

There was mention in today’s NYT of Jason Kidd, who, as it turns out, grew up only a couple miles from where I’m typing right now. The article says he’s been playing with cracked ribs for the past couple weeks and that, despite the injury, he might be traded to the Lakers before today’s 3 [...]

I finally succumbed to Abogado and Moreno’s bullying and started watching The Office (Uk version). There’s nothing worse than telling those two that they were right, but there you have it. So here’s my question – the theme song reminds me of some song by Phish. It’s on the god damned tip of my tongue. [...]

January ’06, Karen Walrond asked her readers if their weblog gave them power. My response was: I feel like I have the same power as your typical guy atop a soap box in the 1920′s. Not much. Sometimes I walk into the library or even one of those mega-bookstores and I’m just amazed at how [...]

I recently got a new cell phone – the Sony Ericsson W810i. (Really, who comes up with the model numbers for these things? Why can’t it just be the Sony Ericsson 3?) It’s not sleek and sexy like the popular new phones – razr, krazr, masturbatr. But among OS X geeks, the phone has a [...]

It’s hard to believe that it has already been five months since I was sitting in the café courtyard of the Galería de Arte Nacional in Caracas and writing a blog post that I intended to publish that same afternoon. Like so many nearly finished blog posts, however, I never did publish it and it [...]