As the president prepares to name a new NASA head, the agency is using Twitter to shape its reputation with contributions from astronauts and others. Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon was an unprecedented milestone for the United States. But on May 12, NASA once again gave a nod to the future when […]
Madagascar: Behind the Scenes of Foko Ushahidi SMS Alert System
A growing community of bloggers in Madagascar have been helping a global audience understand the political struggle between a former mayor and a president that recently drove their country into national disarray. A new initiative led by Malagasy bloggers captures witness accounts of social unrest via SMS text messages and Google maps using the Kenyan […]
The Future of Bay Area Newspapers in a Digital Age
The Seattle Post-Intellegence is a Web-only newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor is doing the same, the San Francisco Chronicle is cutting staff by as many as 150 and may be looking to its Hearst Corp. breathren in Seattle for guidance in becoming another Web-only paper, and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver has closed completely. […]
`Hidden’ features of Apple iLife `09
`Hidden’ features of Apple iLife `09 Apple recently released upgraded its suite of iLife applications. Apple iLife `09 packs updates to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. The package also includes iWeb ’09 for creating Web sites and iDVD ’09 for creating DVDs. Apple unveiled the iLife upgrade at the Macworld conference in San Francisco last month. […]
Darfur’s Janjaweed Loyalty to Bashir Under Strain
By Abdhalla Tajeldin Adam in Belgium (AR No. 198, 27-Jan-09) The pending indictment of Omar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court, ICC, appears to have eroded critical support for the embattled Sudanese president among his notorious janjaweed militia allies. Often translated as “devils on horseback”, the janjaweed are ethnic-Arab militias who have fought alongside the […]
People have rejected BNP-Jamaat alliance for its misrule: Hasina
Awami League president and prime minister-in-waiting Sheikh Hasina said yesterday that the people of Bangladesh gave a befitting reply and rejected the BNP-Jamaat alliance in the December 29 election for its misrule, torture and repression during their tenure from 2001 to 2006. "They (BNP-led alliance) came to power through a rigged election in 2001 and […]
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