The opening of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference on Tuesday, June 2 featured Twitter not quite front-and-center, but on a big screen to stage left. Keynote moderator Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times remarked on the novelty of such a screen, explaining it… Read More
Yesterday morning, at the opening session of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, Susan Crawford of the Obama administration, kicked off the presentations with a striking anecdote. recent article in the Wall Street Journal quoting 37-year-old homeless man Charles Pitts: “You don’t need a TV.… Read More
Today marks the official opening of the 19th annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference. I’ll be live-blogging the next few days thanks to the team behind the conference. The conference is a timely event, as the Obama administration is making frequent news in this arena,… Read More
Who knew a feature length film could successfully tell a story through hidden camera footage, blurry images & reenactments? Not to mention a film in which the central character’s face is never revealed? I might have been skeptical before, but not after watching Burma VJ.… Read More
I love pineapples. When I’m working in Thailand, I find nothing more refreshing than a frothy, cool pineapple shake. But more than pineapples I like the idea of thinking about our food and where it comes from – who picked it? How? How did it… Read More
The New York Times has put an interactive map online visualizing immigration to the United States since 1880. Fascinating. But I’d sure like to see a map from recent years of refugee resettlement.
Home in February
In August ’07, Mark and I spent a series of Sundays heading to Malcolm X park for the weekly drum circle. If you have ever lived in DC you probably know it – the afternoon gatherings of dozens of folks, many of them serious musicians,… Read More
Does anyone else read George Orwell’s blog? I think it’s a brilliant project from The Orwell Prize. They started posting Orwell’s journal entries on Aug. 9, 2008 … exactly 70 years after he began a domestic journal on Aug. 9, 1938. The blog includes both… Read More
My dear friend Kat took me to see Konono no 1 at the Black Cat in April, 2007. I fell head over heels for the home-made thumb pianos (likembé), the creative rhythms and the frenetic whistling. Most of all I fell in love with Mingiedi,… Read More
Emily Jacobi 