I’m about to head out to Miami for a week of We Media, which means even more blogging about blogging in the near future.
But first, Revaz and I tried to impress one another with some hidden musical gems. Here’s what we came up with. Enjoy.

History is a thin thread of yarn stretched over a vast ocean of the forgotten.
As soon as I saw it I loved it. Lo que tú quieras oír - “What You Want to Hear” - is a short (and free-to-download) film by Spanish director Guillermo Zapata. It follows the story of Sofía who comes home [...]

You’ve got a staff of about 200. Your task: to create a newsroom for the 21st century. Where do you put your staff? Where do you invest your resources? How many reporters do you need? What about editors, copy-editors, photographers, programmers, web producers, and technical support? How much do you focus on your website and [...]

More than a few of my friends have told me that they have no idea what I do for work anymore. “Wait, so you don’t translate things from Spanish to English anymore?” is how most of them put it.
So, I think I need to be more clear and more repetitive. Before May of last year [...]

Originally published on Idea Lab.
OK, So you’ve got your own blog. You’ve started taking pictures and posting them online. But what’s more, you’ve also trained some of your friends, family, and neighbors how to publish online. And, via the blogosphere, you’ve been able to get to know others in your city who you otherwise never [...]

At the City Council meeting when I stood up in front of all who had gathered and pleaded my case to not allow some jackass corporate developer tear down Miracles Cafe and put up a two-story business complex in its place, said jackass corporate developer assured everyone that the development would still be a community [...]

This week’s video is of the protest against the FARC. For more information about the massive protest, check out Juliana’s post on Global Voices and Sibylla Brodzinsky’s article in the Christian Science Monitor.
Despite what it says at the end of the video, the music is not War on War by Wilco, but rather “No creo [...]

After a 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. day of travel that took me from Medellin to Miami to Atlanta to LAX and finally Santa Monica, I’m now at DIY Video Summit, a well-organized gathering of academics, video-bloggers, and people like me. The first panel provided an overview of the state of academic research regarding online [...]

Today I was listening to the excellent Capleton song, Alms House, when I was visited by a flash of ingenious thought, a sure-fire recipe to resolve the current conflict in Kenya. And, in fact, all future conflicts world-wide.
Human beings have a truly astonishing capacity for stubbornness. The smallest little disturbance can cause two of the [...]