Since it has now been officially announced, I’d like to throw in my endorsement: Over the next two years I’ll be writing an ongoing series of posts about why Edwards is the best man for the job, but the main reason is quite simple … He isn’t afraid to speak out about poverty and inequality. [...]
I’m happy to announce that DER has made Acting Like a Thief available from Google Video. You can, of course, still download the movie for free from our web site using bittorrent, but for those who want it the easy way you can get a high-quality download from Google Video for $19.95, or a day [...]
Somewhere along the line, as I moved from one blogging platform to another, I lost 15 months worth of blog posts. Because, before I started Keywords I used to post much more frequently (my posts were also shorter and contained little original content), that is over 1200 missing posts. Fortunately, thanks two two very useful [...]
Graduate Student Rashi Jain is running in a marathon to raise money for a program to set up Radio Schools for rural Adivasi communities in India. Please help support her cause! We are brought up to believe that every child has the right to education. Yet there are many children, especially those in the remote [...]
Since their recent upgrade, I’ve switched from using my desktop client, NetNews Wire, to using Google Reader online, something I was never willing to do with any previous online RSS client I’ve tried. It is still in Google Labs, which means it hasn’t even graduated to a proper “beta” software product and so still has [...]
Shashwati asks why I chose to work in one of the most earthquake and typhoon prone regions on the planet. One good reason is that they are much better prepared for these things here than anywhere else. As the following map shows, the East coast of Taiwan is a regular battering ground for just about [...]
Here is a map of where we live. I threw it together pretty quickly after discovering Quikmaps (thank’s Ish!), and will probably add more details to it over time. While Google recently added some new high resolution satellite imagery just to the South of us, our house is still in a blurry patch. Zoom out [...]
We are happy to announce some very exciting news … Today we signed a contract with Documentary Educational Resources (DER) to distribute two of our films: Acting Like A Thief, and Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer. It was Shashwati’s film about Mahasweta Devi that got us involved with these issues, and because of Mahasweta Devi’s [...]
While some of my readers are also regulars over at Savage Minds, I know not everyone is, so I though I should highlight some of my recent writing there in case people want to click over and take a look. 30 Days of Cinétrance Anthro Classics Online: Body Ritual among the Nacirema Traditional Knowledge Digital [...]
Not the first time I’ve been linked to by BoingBoing, so I know from experience that after the link disappears from the front page of BoingBoing few of those readers will come back (few even read anything but the linked post), but it is still quite phenomenal to see the difference a link can make: [...]