Sigh.
That’s how I start out my work day. Then a slight wince. And then I open up my to-do list.
It’s a long, long … long list. It’s what I should be doing right now, not this. But then, this blog is starting to feel more like a repository of stuff from elsewhere than the actual [...]

Cross-posted at Global Voices.
Thanks to the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Global Voices is now starting a new outreach project, Rising Voices, which aims to spread the benefits of citizen media to regions, languages, and communities that are currently underrepresented on the conversational web.
Rising Voices will serve as the [...]

Babel is one of those pre-historic, mythic, biblical references which has been transformed into the title of a movie, countless software programs, and quite a few companies. Still, most of us remain fuzzy about the actual origin. From Wikipedia:
According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a [...]