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.

In 1976 Jimmy Carter ran against Gerald Ford for the presidency of the United States. In that election 26.8 percent of voters lived in a landslide county.

By 2004 that percentage almost doubled. About six of every 10 counties in the 2004 election were won by landslide margins.

In California, right now, 13 counties are becoming [...]

Here’s the bad news. As of a couple days ago Chicago garnered the dubious distinction as murder capital of the United States.

Now the good news: some very smart and dedicated individuals are thinking seriously about how to reverse the trend. Dr. Gary Slutkin asks us if it is possible to put an end to violence? [...]

Sure, almost all of the presentations here at Pop!Tech have been given in some form elsewhere. The information is out there, available mostly for free. There are websites, blogs, articles, videos and books which have all discussed the ideas that are being presented today.
The magic of Pop!Tech is that, unlike most conferences, it brings together [...]

Josh Groban is a pop star. The type of pop star with teenage girls screaming and fainting at every concert and young women waiting in his hotel lobby wherever he travels. These worshipping fans even have a name: Grobanites.
In 2002 the Grobanites decided that they wanted to buy him a birthday present. Here is a [...]