The images from my home state of New Jersey the days following hurricane Irene featured flooding like few had ever seen before. The images also showed one re-occurring theme: Infrastructure collapse. Chunks of highway collapsing, a struggling power grid, and rivers rising up and swallowing entire communities. Things growing up...
One of the finest and most extensive audio journalism series' I've heard in all the years podcasting has existed, is being produced this summer by Chris Lydon's Radio Open Source. His focus has been Pakistan, past, present, and future. As part of his series, "Another Pakistan," he has spoken...
Half awake having just brushed my teeth, I stumbled back towards my tent, past a few retired green Mig-21 jetfighters when I heard the familiar sound of Portuguese being spoken. I greeted the two gentlemen, and learned they were from a prestigious Portuguese newspaper, attending hacker camp to produce...
It is the second day of violence on the streets of London. Seems like something from a novel or a news report from 1979, but this is going on right now in 2011. I've never been fully in tune with what is happening on the streets there before but...
"Does it have any impact," a friend recently asked me, "giving video training to different groups in Afghanistan for only 1 week?" If by impact he meant does anything get learned that will be useful to the students now and in the future, then my answer is yes. In the...
