August 31 is a special day in the blogosphere. Not only is it Cindylu’s birthday (hence her awesome 31 collection), but it is also International Blog Day. (The idea is that 3108 – 31st of August – sort of looks like “BloG”)
So, for Cindylu’s birthday, I present you with her patented cara de fuchi:

And for [...]

I don’t remember if it was Preetam’s idea or my idea, but at $20 a night, it was definitely worth going for the luxury room at Hotel Cara. Check it out – I have a feeling this is what MTV’s Real World would look like if based in Phnom Penh:

Phatry was the one who hooked [...]

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to keep up this pace, but it’s been fun and rewarding so far.

Seattle – Grameen Technology Center:

Thanks to the kind invitation of George Conard, a few days before leaving Seattle I stopped by the Grameen Technology Center near the University of Washington. The center, which is [...]

Least recommended movie to watch with your grandparents: Superbad
Places I don’t remember seeing advertisements five years ago: menu at the Cheesecake Factory, pre-previews at the movie theater, between rotating flight information on an airplane.
Number of scuba divers seen cleaning the aquarium at Vancouver International Airport: 2
Raddest public library I’ve ever seen: Seattle Public Library
Founder of [...]

My problem with Foucault isn’t his ideas, which are brilliant, no, my problem is 1.) I can’t pronounce his name and 2.) he convulutes beautiful ideas into impossible-to-understand complexity.

Here is what I take away from Foucault (or, more honestly, from what others have written about Foucault): our reactions to the world and to the situations [...]

Each city had its own smell. That’s one way I know that the person I am today has changed from the person I was then. There was a time – let’s call it the end of last millenium – when the first thing I would notice after opening the car door was the city’s unique [...]

We might as well start where we all started (genetically speaking anyway): Africa. Benin Mwangi has an interview with Afrokicks co-founder Tunde Noibi. Afrokicks makes some pretty sweet looking shoes that represent the various countries of Africa. Personally, I’m a fan of the red, yellow, and green Ghana model. And speaking of Ghana, as of [...]

I posted the second Medellin podcast about the HiperBarrio project. It is sincerely amazing what they’ve been able to achieve in such little time. And, they haven’t even received their grant money yet. I hope you all give it a listen.
Equally amazing is that just minutes after I published the post, Claire Ulrich had already [...]

I finished my book, Finding Flow. In a way, I feel like I read it too fast and left behind too many dog-eared pages that need revisiting. But I was ready to move onto something else so I scanned the bookshelf and decided to dig back into The Heart that Bleeds: Latin America Now by [...]

Originally posted on Global Voices.
In the first Rising Voices podcast we visited Bangladesh, where the Nari Jibon center is teaching young women in Dhaka to express themselves by participating in the online conversation. This week we are changing the format and releasing this podcast in two separate parts.
First we become acquainted with Medellín, Colombia; its [...]