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Medellín 1991

I finished my book, Finding Flow. In a way, I feel like I read it too fast and left behind too many dog-eared pages that need revisiting. But I was ready to move on to something else, so I scanned the bookshelf and decided to dig back into The Heart that Bleeds: Latin...

Medellin, Colombia: From Kidnapping Capital to Renaissance City

Originally posted on Global Voices. In the first Rising Voices podcast we visited Bangladesh, where the Nari Jibon Center is teaching young women in Dhaka to express themselves by participating in online conversation. This week we are changing the format and releasing...

Héctor Aristizábal

I know, I know ... bad, bad blogger. I just haven't been feelin' it. Or at least, I hadn't been feeling it ... until I had an incredibly inspiring conversation with Héctor Aristizábal a couple of days ago. From Pasadena Weekly: In 1982, soldiers took him and his...

The End of Anonymity?

Internet use becomes pathological when it is dissociated from in-person life. It becomes healthy when it is integrated with in-person living. ~ John Suler in The Psychology of Cyberspace When I first started this blog in December of '03, I didn't want to use my real...

Taste and Class

Over the years I've read a lot of brilliant blog posts, essays, and academic papers by miss danah boyd (lower-case branded, just like our very own cad). But none had me nodding along so enthusiastically as her latest. Its title and its focus: 'Viewing American class...

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The day, if you think about it, is the basic measurement of life, the milepost on the highway. We say "How's your day going" or "How was your day." Only if we're spending a ridiculous amount of time with someone do we say, 'How was your afternoon.' And we never say...