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An involuntary hiatus, for some of you

Posted Friday June 6, 2008, 2:39 am, Over one day old
That latest edition of WordPress software has an error in it that caused people who’ve been subscribed to my blog for a long time - or subscribed using LiveJournal and other feedreaders - to get no new posts from me for, oh, a month or so.

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The red dots lead to the Central African Republic?

Posted Wednesday June 4, 2008, 5:53 am, Over one day old
Collier himself visited the country on behalf of the World Bank, attempting to find solutions, and was shocked to hear that the nation’s ambition was to reach the economic status of Burkina Faso within twenty years.

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David Weinberger and the Ninja Gap

Posted Tuesday June 3, 2008, 1:39 am, Over one day old
F5: The more consonant the signal is with the mental image of what one expects to find, the more probable that it will be recorded as worth listening to. … F7: The more a signal has been tuned in to the more likely it will continue to be tuned in to as worth listening to.

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Financial models for ?difficult? journalism

Posted Saturday May 31, 2008, 8:13 am, Over one day old
A major concern is that while advocacy journalism on different sides of a political issue may serve to provide balance and fact-checking, it’s not hard to imagine situations in which a key issue might only be investigated by highly partisan journalists on a single side of an issue.

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Why we pay attention to Darfur

Posted Friday May 30, 2008, 3:39 am, Over one day old
Medicines Sans Frontieres publishes an annual list of stories they feel are underreported, including situations in Somalia, eastern DRC and the Central African Republic. I’ll be very interested to read the POLIS study and see whether they concur with Crilly’s analysis.

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My shiny new retina

Posted Thursday May 29, 2008, 3:12 am, Over one day old
Not only are you trusting somebody to cut holes in your body with the hope of making you well, but you’re confronted with the reality that you’re going to feel worse - for a while, at least - after the surgery than you did before.

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Video interview at Berkman at Ten

Posted Tuesday May 20, 2008, 5:46 am, Over one day old


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Heard, not seen

Posted Monday May 19, 2008, 2:46 am, Over one day old
Since I haven’t been reading very much, I haven’t been posting bookmarks. It’s a huge, complex story, and an hour-long show is exactly the amount of time it takes to get a sense for just how badly broken regulatory mechanisms have been surrounding these financial instruments.

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Expectations

Posted Monday May 19, 2008, 2:46 am, Over one day old
The instruments my surgeon used are so small that it’s possible not to suture the wounds and just let them heal on their own. So when I asked him how long it might take before the cloudiness in my right eye cleared, he didn’t answer. “Two weeks?

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Eyes closed at Berkman at Ten

Posted Thursday May 15, 2008, 1:38 am, Over one day old
His argument - in a nutshell - is that the amazing power of a programmable computer and an open internet, which he refers to as “generativity”, may be in danger of making the internet such a dangerous place that we try to shut off this generative magic.

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