Frontera List is not the most merry of mailing lists. It is administered by New Mexico State University reference librarian Molly Molloy, and aims to facilitate discussion around the violence in Ciudad Juarez that goes beyond the usual daily death count. Still, the weekly tide of homicides are too many to track, too much to [...]

I left Global Voices in May of last year and ever since have been cautiously dipping my toes in the world of philanthropy. For the past seven months I have been working as a full-time consultant for the Information and Latin America programs of Open Society Foundations, the philanthropic foundation of George Soros. I will [...]

I am thrilled for Egypt, and more specifically my Egyptian friends. I have been following political developments in the country ever since Mostafa began covering Egypt on Global Voices back in October of 2005. (If you were watching CNN’s coverage of the protests last week then you might have caught Mostafa on Parker Spitzer as [...]

I’m blown away by the pace of journalism these days – but also, more importantly, the quality. In Mexico I used to surf a lot of news sites to try to get a grasp of what was going on in the country: El Universal, La Jornada, Milenio, Proceso, Nexos, The News and several others. But [...]

Like so many others of my cohort, I too have written a detailed, lengthy review of Evgeny’s The Net Delusion. I’m not sure if I’ll publish it or not. Essentially, it all boils down to this: It’s a useful contrarian intervention that is cursed with inherent contradictions. I agree with Evgeny’s thesis of Internet centrism; [...]