by David Sasaki | Jul 13, 2015 | English
Think about what we’re willing to pay for each month. $10 to Netflix for House of Cards, $10 to Spotify for streaming music, $10 to HBO Go for Game of Thrones and True Detective. Even more important than the $360 per year for access to music, movies and TV...
by David Sasaki | Feb 23, 2011 | English
Frontera List is not the most merry of mailing lists. It is administered by New Mexico State University reference librarian Molly Molloy, and aims to facilitate discussion around the violence in Ciudad Juarez that goes beyond the usual daily death count. Still, the...
by David Sasaki | Aug 27, 2010 | English
We are all overwhelmed by too much information. Either we feel burdened by thousands of unread emails, articles, and blog posts, or we generally feel out of the information loop, as if others have secret access to content that we’re not privy to. If we...
by David Sasaki | Jun 15, 2010 | English
My time off: amazing. Beyond words. Every since: a disaster. It seems that my computer just couldn’t deal with such a lack of attention. And so, mysteriously, while it wasn’t being used at all, the logic board gave out. I spent about three days...
by David Sasaki | Apr 22, 2010 | English
This week I’m in Perugia, a central Italian, pre-Roman village that sits on a high bluff overlooking a sea of impossibly green pasture that is tucked in each evening by a thin blanket of sunset-tinted fog. The surrounding National Geographic-like views are a...
by David Sasaki | Nov 14, 2009 | English
Still playing a lot of catch up. Over at Global Voices I published an interview I did with Caucasus Editor Onnik Krikorian. And over at Idea Lab I published a text version of my talk at Media Camp Kyiv. Teaser: Before movable type, Europeans depended on priests to...
by David Sasaki | Oct 6, 2009 | English
Update: I’ve decided to publish this one over at Idea Lab instead. Below is a teaser. Media development as a field within international development has existed for at least 30 years. Broadly speaking, media development organizations provide financial support,...
by David Sasaki | Dec 11, 2008 | English
My time in South Africa, sadly, came to an end a couple days ago. It was the most fun I’ve had in a long, long while. And I met some new friends on the We Blog the World tour who I hope will soon enough become old friends. Depending on how you count, this was my...
by David Sasaki | Oct 8, 2008 | English
How do you rebuild a country from scratch? First you need a government. Liberia, so far, has that under the leadership of President Ellen “Irony Lady” Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state. Second, especially in the case of a...
by David Sasaki | Mar 16, 2008 | English
From Miami to Ft. Lauderdale to Tampa to Washington D.C., New York, Sao Paulo, Santiago, Quisco, and finally back to Santiago, it’s been such an insane past 10 days that I have no idea where to even start other than the front page of the Sunday paper. Front and...