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“China’s Most Incredible Holdout” from the Bridge Bloggers” for Chinese Content

I found this great picture and a translation of the story behind it, by taking a tip from Virtual China today. I became a member of the chinesecontent space at Wikispaces. While this is a space mainly for a translators, there are many connections to a community of “bridge bloggers.” For example, Rebecca Mackinnon’s blog […]

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Video Tour of One Laptop Per Child

Opera CTO, HÃ¥kon Wium Lie, demos OLPC at Wired, and gives a video tour. The OLPC, often called the $100 laptop project (now $150), initiated by the MIT Media Lab under the leadership of Nicholas Negraponte is a project with tremendous implications for education, literacy, the digital divide, and economic growth across the globe (cheat […]

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Healing Iraq – blogosphere, cell phones and web.

Internet dating in Iraq made the headlines today on Boing Boing with a snip from a Los Angeles Times piece about internet dating, and the online sociology of war zones. Zavis (LAT) notes, “Such virtual relationships offer a refuge of sorts from numbing isolation and fear during a time of staggering violence. But all too […]

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