Another video from our bloggers’ trip to South Africa.
In March 1886, nearly forty years after the California Gold Rush, legend has it that Australian gold miner George Harrison stumbled across a rocky outcrop of gold in what was then the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek. Says Wikipedia: “Ironically, Harrison is believed to have sold his claim for [...]

“Look at them. We’re trying to save the world and they’re still arguing about technology.” It’s the kind of statement you hear routinely at wi-fi enabled hipster coffee houses in San Francisco and Brooklyn, but here we are in New Delhi, at one of the hundreds of Cafe Coffee Days, a Starbucks-like chain that over [...]

My Saturday lunch with Amit, Ashish, Abhishkek, and Ajay was postponed until Sunday. So I decided to get on Delhi’s new(ish) metro and get off at a random stop. I took the blue line to the eastern end, to Indraprastha, once the capital of the Pandava Kingdom in the Mahabharata epic, and today just another [...]

First of all, let me emphasize that the super gringo accent is not mine. That belongs to none other than Mr. Steven Mansour. My yankee voice only makes the occasional brief cameo after the 5 minute mark.
Steve did a great job producing the video, which documents the successes of the Kangaroo Program (New York Times [...]

This will have to be an English-only post until I get the video of Nicholas up on dotSUB and add Spanish subtitles. I’m currently at the Calabash International Literary Festival with Georgia, Nicholas, Annie, Kei, Peter, Jonathan, JJ, and company.
Here’s a video interview I recorded with Nicholas Laughlin, editor of the Caribbean Review of Books, [...]

Inspired by Nathan Gibbs who was inspired by Ross Ching:

Featured in order are Steven Mansour, Catalina Restrepo, Yuliana Paniagua, Dnabier Xady, Juliana Rincón, Jorge Montoya, and Diana Grajales (still no blog?!).

English captions, Spanish sub-titles, and relevant links coming tomorrow.

Pronto escribiré algo más ’serio’ sobre mi experiencia en el quinto encuentro nacional de BiblioRedes que se realizó la semana pasada en Quisco, pero por ahora quiero dejarles con este video de algunos bibliotecarios Chilenos (y un Vasco!) mandando sus saludos a Gabriel Venegas, bibliotecario de la Biblioteca Publica Piloto de San Javier La Loma [...]