And Shuttering One Channel of American Public Diplomacy Paul Sonne and Steve Stecklow at the Wall Street Journal have an eye-opening feature today, and the headline says it all: “U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web.” Sonne and Stecklow document how the governments of Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, among others, have been acquiring […]
Alive In Benghazi
Posted March 23rd, 2011 at 2:48 pm (UTC-4)
Libyans Sharing Stories From The Front Lines The video is as direct as its story is powerful. A young Libyan, Ali Salem Ali Milad Shaoud, looks directly into the camera – and, by extension, into the eyes of everyone watching him online. He’s wearing a kafiya, a black t-shirt, a green flak vest…and a bandage […]
Transcending Man
Posted March 18th, 2011 at 7:03 pm (UTC-4)
The Works and Ideas of Futurist Ray Kurzweil There’s a moment near the end of “Transcendent Man,” a new documentary about futurist Ray Kurzweil. The camera follows Kurzweil to the lip of a seashore as he silently watches the waves churning in and out. “What are you thinking about?” an off-camera voice asks. “I’m thinking […]
Helping Japan Online
Posted March 12th, 2011 at 5:10 pm (UTC-4)
Spreading News & Offering Help Via the Internet As quickly as the news filtering out of Japan has become more grim, millions of concerned people have taken to the Internet to learn about the unfolding tragedy. And, like Haiti’s earthquake last year, governments, organizations and humanitarian activists are using the web as a tool to […]
The Web Reacts to a Tsunami
Posted March 11th, 2011 at 2:14 pm (UTC-4)
Reporting and Responding to a Massive Earthquake & Tsunami Friday morning’s historic 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan, and the resulting tsunami that tore into the Japanese coastline, set the Internet into overdrive across the entire Pacific basin. Even more than the 2004 Indian Ocean or “Boxing Day” tsunami, the first fierce […]
Virtually Ousting a Dictator
Posted March 10th, 2011 at 1:35 pm (UTC-4)
Video Games Being Used to Teach Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Deborah Block Washington Popular social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, played a significant role in organizing the non-violent protests that led to the resignation last month of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Some in Egypt and other parts of the world have also been using other […]
