Mobile phones can only do so much. A study recently finds: that there are ways in which costs and risks are being reduced and time saved, often by substitution of journeys. But it also finds a continuing need for journeys and physical meetings due to issues of trust, design intensity, physical inspection and exchange, and… Read More »
The 9th edition of the Beatiful Africa Blog Carnival is currently online. It is hosted by Szavanna, and: includes amongst others a solar cooker recipe, writings by three very talented bloggers, you can also spend some time discovering South Africa’s wildlife, get to see the Olive-backed forest robin, a newly spotted bird species from Gabon,… Read More »
From The Economist: Though banking standards have certainly risen a lot in recent years, they still lag behind those of America and the European Union, particularly in terms of transparency. In April, United Bank for Africa, one of the country’s biggest, fell foul of American regulators who served the bank with a $15m fine for… Read More »
Image via Wikipedia Mark MacKinnon knows Saakashvili quite a bit, and he can’t help but wonder what he was thinking when he attacked South Ossetia: He must have known that attacking South Ossetia would provoke a massive, and disproportionate, Russian response. He should have realized that his government might not survive such a confrontation. And… Read More »
I had been thinking about the issue so it was really nice to read it in the current edition of The Economist. The article is here. Just so it is clear, I am on the article’s side of the argument.
Probably the best discovery in a long while: the Nigerian archives has a website. Details, including a list of the holdings, on each of the regional offices are here, here and here. This is really good!
The story is here.
Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome. I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen… Read More »
BBc’s Matt Frei on Senator Obama: And although Obama is really quite down to earth and millions of Americans would love to sit down with him for a drink and a chat, they might be too awestruck and hamstrung to think of anything to say, for fear of sounding crass, offensive or stupid. Policies apart,… Read More »
I just discovered ScribeFire, and I am posting this from it. According to the website: ScribeFire, an extension of Firefox ®, enables users to easily drag and drop formatted text from the Web into their blog(s), post entries, take notes, and optimize their ad inventory, directly through the Firefox browser. You can try it out… Read More »