Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is always looking for ways to improve itself. This year they have awarded a Wikimedia Fellowship to one of their senior editors, Steven Zhang, to study dispute resolution. The efforts to reform this troubled aspect of their otherwise amazingly effective model cannot come too […]
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY #101: EXPOSURE – Manipulating the Physics of Light
Part 1: The Physics of Light Section A: Propagation of Waves Section B: Color Signature Frequencies Section C: Combining Energy Signatures for Exposure, Kelvin Temperature Scale Part 2: Dynamic Range, 18% Grey Card, EV (Exposure Value) Part 3: Synchronization, The Light Meter Part 4: Metering for Exposure Section A: Direct Light and Reflected […]
Conservative Truth for Youth Pundit fights back, but Spreaker TOS still has him bridled
Cowger back on air? Teen claims radio show is back 14 year old "Truth for Youth" conservative is learning that civic spirit must comply with a bit of finesse: Spreaker has cited the teen talk-radio host for failure to comply with Community Guidelines in its Terms of Service After Huffington Post picked up this author’s […]
Zambia: Netizens Question Judges’ Suspensions
Written by Gershom Ndhlovu When Zambian president Michael Sata suspended [1] a Supreme Court judge and two high court judges and set up a tribunal to probe their alleged misconduct, he probably did not count on the political backlash that the whole matter would engender, even threatening [2] the tenure of his Director of Public […]
Why Firms Win by Phin Upham
Why are some organizations better suited to handling problems than others? Why do some firms seem much more adaptive than others? Phin Upham examines scholarship on these questions and provides some answers. There are many views in organizational theory which can explain why some firms are better at doing certain things than others, why […]
Russia: Demographic Crisis Means “No One Left To Draft”
Russia: Demographic Crisis Means “No One Left To Draft” By Donna Welles, Global Voices Russia is endowed with some of the greatest stores of natural resources in the world, and yet the demographic crisis that has plagued the country since the fall of the Soviet Union may leave Russia with no youth to defend their […]