by David Sasaki | Oct 17, 2009 | English
This news item – that thumbdrive-toting carrier pigeons transfer data faster than ADSL cable in South Africa – has already gotten lots of attention around the web. It was everyone’s favorite anecdote of this year’s Internet Hungary conference....
by David Sasaki | Feb 3, 2009 | English, Rising Voices
I am interested in the capacity of citizen media to capitalize our best intentions by creating a community of good will among individuals who would otherwise likely never meet. Marinade on this: a Trinidadian, Puerto Rican living in NYC, Argentinian living in Canada,...
by David Sasaki | Jan 5, 2009 | English, South Africa 2008, Video
Another video from our bloggers’ trip to South Africa. In March 1886, nearly forty years after the California Gold Rush, legend has it that Australian gold miner George Harrison stumbled across a rocky outcrop of gold in what was then the Zuid Afrikaanse...
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 | Dec 10, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008
Hector Pieterson in the arms of Mbuyisa Nkita Makhubu, his sister, Antoinette Musi, running alongside. Photo by Sam Nzima, 1976. My good friend Sameer at WITNESS is leading an online conversation in commemoration of today’s 60th anniversary of the Universal...
by David Sasaki | Dec 9, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008
For thousands and thousands of years the Nama people of Southern Africa maintained a nomadic pastoral way of life, tending their flocks of goats and sheep, gathering firewood, and collecting wild honey. Driving along the dirt roads surrounding Richtersveld National...
by David Sasaki | Dec 7, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008
An article in this morning’s Times, cleverly positioned next to a marketing blurb about an increase in traffic to their website, says that South African bloggers are thriving in cyberspace. A new study released this week by World Wide Worx claims that 4.5...
by David Sasaki | Dec 5, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008
The surprise highlight of this trip for me so far hasn’t been a helicopter flight, luxury resort, or journey down three and half kilometers to the world’s deepest mine. No, what has impressed me the most was a lunch-time visit to !Khwa ttu, a culture and...
by David Sasaki | Dec 5, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008
Optimal Energy CEO Kobus Meiring Presenting the Joule Electric Car Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary which shows the roles of American automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, and the US government in stopping production of electric cars in the US,...
by David Sasaki | Dec 2, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008
Yesterday morning we visited the Darling Wind Farm. In addition to the three windmills in the photo, there is a fourth behind me. Those four generate enough electricity to fulfill 80% of Darling’s current energy needs. Of course, not every community is windy...