Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. I am here thanks to a blog post by Matthew Buckland, a comment left by Mohamed Nanabhay, and the kind invitation of Simon Barber of the International Marketing Council of South Africa. Starting on November 30 I will be part of a ten-day “bloggers roadshow” in which bloggers from [...]

I have listened to this 13 minute segment of audio three different times now. Each time I hear something different - either a detail that I missed or a tone in her voice revealing the emotion that makes audio such a powerful medium.

The excerpt from a recent episode of This American Life is an interview [...]

In the very first scene of the book, when the protagonist Elvis is awoken by a pounding Nigerian rainstorm, we read this:
The book he had fallen asleep reading, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, fell from his side to the floor, the old paperback cracking at the spine, falling neatly into two halves as precisely as if [...]

Today is one of those days: typing as furiously as possible to get through what Things tells me to.
But, then a ray of sun poked out, shining through the orange-tinged chlorophyll of the maple tree right outside my window. A glistening reflection off of a wee spider’s recent creation. Maybe the same spider that I [...]

Remember Taslima from the Nari Jibon project in Dhaka?

Isn’t she sweet? Now she has her own domain, Taslima.net. Go on and visit and say hello.
Yesterday she led a workshop at Nari Jibon to train the other bloggers there how to publish in their native language, Bangla. It’s not so easy.
Jus eeemajin haveeen to tipe owt [...]

I’ve been meaning to watch this video forever. There are worse things to do with 17 and a half minutes of your time.
Now, time for me to go review Graceland at GoodReads.

Este artículo está disponible en español gracias al traducción de Julián Ortega Martínez.
There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama’s universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that binds human beings together, for community and commonality, for what he repeatedly calls ‘the common good.’”
Simon Critchley, The American Void

There is [...]

Itzpapalotl continues to be one of my favorite bloggers. I love her life vignettes. Today’s sorta took the words right out of my brain-fluff:
A nosotros la tierra nos expulsa, cada ciudad es como un trampolín desbalanceado. Vivimos al portal de la semana próxima, con amigos tenues y lugares hermosos, bañados de la luz benéfica de [...]

Guess what? Rising Voices has been as the world’s best weblog. Pretty cool, huh? Thanks to Solana for the amazing post she wrote on Global Voices. Here’s what she wrote:
Global Voices’ citizen media outreach project, Rising Voices has been nominated for a “Best of the Blogs Award” (B.O.B.) in the category “Best Weblog”. More than [...]

I love this:

Via Catherine via Andrew via Jack.