A few weeks ago I, among others, were invited to participate in an experimental architectural tour offered by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). The idea was to Twitter as we participated in an architectural tour of the space. I immediately jumped at the opportunity. The tour took place on June 2, 2009, the [...]
An amazing outdoor art project where Kibera is the canvas. The sheer scale is unbelievable. I love that it adds a human component to the ramshackle architecture. Instead of the buildings hiding, warehousing a community often invisible to others, it forces you to look into the faces of its residents. Add to that an elegant [...]
Today The New York Times has an article which explores the intersection of freedom and technology and which raises a fundamental question: are companies responsible to individuals or governments? It is being reported that as Apple introduced its 3G iPhone in Egypt it quietly disabled the handset’s global positioning system at the request of [...]
Fourteen years after the Rwandan genocide we are again reminded about the varied ways in which popular culture and technology can be utilized to spread hatred and violence with the sentencing of Simon Bikindi. As reported:
Presiding Judge Monica Weinberg de Roca said Tuesday that Simon Bikindi used a public address system to tell Hutus [...]
With its oodles of information, the Internet is laden with falsehoods, but, in fact, these recent cases show how critical are amplifying sites like Drudge or Google News or Digg to getting reports from the backwoods before the public.
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