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[Review] The Savage Detectives

I'm writing this, sadly, not while sitting atop floatwood scribbling into the salty breeze of some nameless sea, but rather staring into my computer screen at a metrosexual Budapest café with expensive lamps and wi-fi. It's exactly the type of café that...

A critique of Global Voices

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...

Fragments of Wakefulness II

You're right, absolutely right, this is said about so many things, but if you really, and I mean really, think about it, then this, this must be humankind's very first technology. That's what I was thinking. I cupped my hands underneath the bathroom faucet, the four...

[Translation] Listen to the world in order to improve it

Before I attempt my own thoughts and reflections about this year's Global Voices Summit in Budapest, let me first start by translating a beautiful article by the dauntingly prolific Rosa Jiménez Cano, a great journalist, but even a better blogger. Listen to the...

Fragments of Wakefulness I

20 days. It had already been twenty days. Twenty days in Medellín. Twenty days surrounded by the fungus-covered lime green walls of my private room at the back of the Black Sheep hostel. Twenty days of backpackers shuffling in, shuffling out, flirting,...

[Podast] Música del Mayo

It's been a while without a podcast from Sparky and Oso. With much pleasure, and a little pride, we present you with 10 songs to start the month of June out right. As always, I sent Sparsh five tracks that I've been digging recently and he chose the other five and...