Schedule-at-a-Glance for Xtech, 25-27 May, Amsterdam RAI Centre, Netherlands. Europe.
The best tech conference this year? Probably… Nice mix of XML, browser tech, and open data themes…
March 2005
Monthly Archive
Sat 19 Mar 2005
Sat 19 Mar 2005
Miguel de Icaza in Beirut, on meeting Robert Fisk, and a visit to Sabra and Chatila camps.
Thu 17 Mar 2005
Juan Cole on The Blogging Phenomenon, and speculation from Steven Levy and Jeff Jarvis.
Who knows English in the Middle East? Usually young men from wealthy or at least middle class families. They are disproportionately likely to favor capitalist, unregulated markets, to be secular in their outlook, and to be pro-Western. I.e., the views of many (not all) Western-educated Middle-Easterners are almost the complete opposite of most other Middle Easterners. You have to know something about the Middle East to know something about Middle Eastern bloggers in their own context.
Sat 12 Mar 2005
The practical guide for journalists, 105 page PDF from UNESCO and Reporters Without Borders (2002).
