By Mindy McAdams
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I think everyone knows that what’s happening in Mumbai is on Twitter, being updated live.
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch wrote about it on Wednesday, and he has a nice screenshot in the post to show you what it looked like then. Flickr and Wikipedia also provided frequent updates from the ground. Arrington didn’t mention Global Voices, [...]
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) will send one Linux laptop to a child in a developing country if you pay for two. You’ll get one to keep. That’s mine, above, from December 2007. Click the image to see my complete set of unboxing photos.
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Van Mon: A Forgotten Existence is a multimedia story reported and produced by Ehrin Macksey. I met Ehrin when he visited Florida last year; he lives in Hanoi, Vietnam, and makes his living there as a photographer and multimedia trainer. When I visited Vietnam in June, he was just trying out his new video camera, [...]
Follow how a great online news organization follows a big breaking story, at El País.
Here is an early infographic:
The plane crashed about six hours ago, at 2:45 p.m. local time (GMT +2), while taking off at Madrid’s Barajas airport.
Update (6:40 p.m. EDT): The updated animated graphic makes good use of satellite images.
Update (10:45 p.m. EDT): [...]
Call me optimistic, but I think literacy and education lead to reduced conflict and greater prosperity, and I think access to cheap computer power is the key to education around the world. Paper is too expensive — and too slow. Information is power, and information is available free all over the Internet.
It’s slightly off-topic, but [...]
Some Vietnamese journalists have asked my opinion about the arrest and detention of two of their own.
Nguyen Viet Chien, 56, a reporter for Thanh Nien, and Nguyen Van Hai, 33, reporter for Tuoi Tre, were jailed last month, according to the Vietnam Journalism site. VietNamNet reported that the two will be in “temporary detention [...]
“One time is too many.”
A moving video memoir of the Cambodian photojournalist, from The New York Times.
I remember seeing the film “The Killing Fields” in 1984 and wondering how this could happen. Then it happened in Bosnia-Herzegovina , and in Rwanda, and in Darfur. Maybe more people were killed in Cambodia than in any one [...]
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