Sign of my life: the friend I’ve seen the most over the past few months does’t even live in my country. Georgia and I have been seen liming lately in Miami, Jamaica, Hungary, Austria, and now here in Madagascar.
For the past couple days we’ve been doing some outreach work in Antananarivo and Toamasina:

You can hear [...]

These days I don’t write much on either Global Voices or Rising Voices. Much of that is left to my colleagues Rezwan and Juhie, along with all the amazing coordinators of the Rising Voices projects.
But, thanks to the work of the volunteer translates at Global Voices, what little I do write can now be ready [...]

It’s not very hard to convince people - friends, family, strangers - that Global Voices is amazing and deserving of their support. In fact, not once have I described what I do for a living to anyone and heard the reaction, ‘well, that sounds kinda lame.’ No, it’s always met with boundless enthusiasm.
This is a [...]

Originally published on the Global Voices Summit blog.
While the first session of the 2008 Global Voices Summit focused on how internet censorship works in Belarus, Japan, Egypt, and Pakistan, and how activists have responded to those limitations, the second session was specifically focused on how censorship affects bloggers and citizen media. It was liveblogged by [...]

Now that we’ve gone over the basics of open source software and open content, let’s take a closer look at what brought all of the participants together in Croatia: translation.
I normally flinch at the word ‘movement’, but I’ll make an exception here: the open source software and open content movements are incredibly international. Ubuntu, the [...]

In May I spoke on a small panel at the annual conference of the International Communications Association. Organized by Seeta Peña Gangadharan and chaired by Benjamin de Cleen, the idea was to have the researchers and academics hear directly from those involved in “alternative content production” (alternative to what? I ask.).
The panel went well and [...]

So, what exactly are you doing now for Global Voices?
This is the question that keeps coming up. The one I’ve been meaning to write about since May and have somehow never gotten around to. It is a story that starts in the spring of 2005 while riding my bicycle up San Diego’s coast highway. My [...]

It was social entrepreneur day at Stanford University on two Sundays ago as part of “Entrepreneurship Week” at Stanford. I wanted to go for a number of reasons. Global Voices is in the process of incorporating into its own Non-Governmental Organization. There are lots of NGO’s with weblogs, but I think we’re probably the first [...]