by David Sasaki | Jan 9, 2008 | English
Via Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age: At age 27: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. dropped out from his job at General Electric to become a full-time writer. Henry David Thoreau went off for two years to live alone in a cabin at Walden Pond. Cosmonaut Yuri...
by David Sasaki | Jan 5, 2008 | Citizen Media, English, Rising Voices, Technology
Originally published on PBS MediaShift on January 5, 2008. The impact of the digital divide (or at least the bandwidth imbalance) is most pronounced when it comes to online video. In regions where lightening-fast internet connections are taken for granted, such as...
by David Sasaki | Jan 4, 2008 | English
Hace 26 años mi papá corrió emocionado por las calles de Miraflores comprando arreglos florales y diciéndole a cualquier persona que se le acercara : “¡son dos! ¡Son dos niñas!”, mientras levantaba sus dedos...
by David Sasaki | Jan 1, 2008 | English
I’ve been meaning to write about a recent episode of the World Technology Podcast on the so-called death of foreign correspondance and Paul Steiger’s recent front page reflection on the history and future of the newspaper industry in the Wall Street...
by David Sasaki | Nov 28, 2007 | English, Travel
I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve found myself walking around some foreign city, knowing neither the language nor the currency, and staring into the coupled conversations of comfortable coffeehouse confines. How’s that for alliteration?...
by David Sasaki | Nov 16, 2007 | English, Podcast (English)
Following weeks of feverish media speculation, Sparky and Oso Productions, makers of the wildly successful Sparky and Oso Podcast, have made it known to high-level investors that they are in the process of re-branding. The podcasting, dancing, shit-talking, and...