We have some very exciting announcements to make regarding our documentary film, Please Don’t Beat Me, Sir! But before I get to that, I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to our Summer fundraising campaign. We raised just over $5,000 through the generous donations of over fifty people. Thank you all so much! And thanks [...]
We are very happy to announce that our film, Please Don’t Beat Me, Sir!, has been officially selected to have its world premiere at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in October! The Independent listed BIFF (“Asia’s largest film festival”) as one of the top twelve film festivals of 2011. In order to make [...]
I wanted to announce two projects which I think should be useful for English speaking residents of the Taiwanese interweb: First is a Yahoo! Pipes feed which aggregates Michael, David, and Bent’s roundups of the English language blogsphere in Taiwan. That’s one RSS feed just for their link roundup posts. You can view it on [...]
One of our main goals for the film is to create awareness about the plight of India’s Denotified Tribes, but we also want to turn that awareness into direct action. To this end we’ve been working hard to set up a US-based 501c3 nonprofit which can collect donations on the behalf of the communities we [...]
If you don’t know Cursor or the Center for Media Transparency, you should. Cursor is the premier alternative news aggregation site. Since the start of the Iraq war they have been playing an important role aggregating the best of the blogsphere, making it easy for the rest of us to know what’s out there. Similarly, [...]
As of now I will stop posting tweets to this blog. Once again this blog will become a space reserved for long-form blogging. You can continue to read my tweets in the sidebar on the right, or over at my Twitter page. At the same time, I’ve stopped using Twitter as a feed aggregator to [...]
Job Announcement College of Indigenous Studies at National Dong Hwa University [Taiwan] http://www.ndhu.edu.tw/ POSITION DESCRIPTION AND DUTIES: The Department of Indigenous Cultures and the Graduate Institute of Ethnic Relations and Culture invite applicants for three (3) open-rank faculty positions in the humanities and social sciences, beginning February 1, 2008. We are seeking applicants who do [...]
A long overdue complete overhaul of my homepage. I think the new version is cleaner and easier to navigate, while at the same time actually containing more dynamic content. I also try to do a better job of advertising my other projects, such as Savage Minds and the film. Altogether I’m fairly pleased with the [...]
Vanity is having a dashboard widget (Mac OS X only) for all of your own web feeds. I doubt anyone out there, except perhaps my mother, will want to install this, but I had some fun making it so I thought I’d share it anyway. It was very simple actually. I used Dashcode to make [...]
I’ll be offline for much of the next two weeks, and with limited access for the third week. Till then, here is a picture of a camel we passed as we drove out of Chharanagar yesterday.