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Blogs from the Ugandan Life in Africa project
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Great oped from Dan Drezner on football’s power to unite… and to divide
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Excellent overview of press and blogger freedom issues in Ethiopia
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Excellent overview of the current situation in Mogadishu
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How do NPR producers share their values with Mongolian Public Radio, which is struggling to move from being a state broadcaster to an independent national broadcaster
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Kenyan Pundit offers her portfolio of Kenyan stocks… some pretty good investment advice in there
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Great set of figures on internet usage in India from Dina - useful in getting a picture of the nation that will have the second-most internet users in the near future
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Universal software radio peripheral sales page - if there were 40 hours in a day, I’d be having a lot of fun turning a linux box into a universal radio receiver
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Excellent piece by Quinn on the possibilities of software radio, including some interesting surveillance applications
June 7th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
[...] New ex-Chicagoan Daniel Drezner (alas) had this post and a piece in the Sunday Post (thanks, Ethan) on the hype of the Cup. From the blog, which unlike the newspaper column, has links to his research: The punchline: Soccer will never bring about peace on its own. The flip side is also true — by itself, soccer cannot start a war. The World Cup, like the Olympics, suffers from a case of overblown rhetoric. Bono's assurances to the contrary, the passions inspired by the World Cup embody both the best and worst forms of nationalism. Soccer will never bring about peace on its own. The flip side is also true — by itself, soccer cannot start a war. The World Cup, like the Olympics, suffers from a case of overblown rhetoric. Bono's assurances to the contrary, the passions inspired by the World Cup embody both the best and worst forms of nationalism. Here's a link to the Edmans, Garcia, and Norli paper demonstrating the correlation between international soccer losses and poor stock market performance…For more on the World Cup and international relations, check out Michael Moran's useful and link-rich summary at cfr.org, and Pablo Halkyard's linkfest at PSDblog…And let me once again praise Foer's How Soccer Explains the World as a good read regardless of whether you like watching soccer. [...]