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Ghana may be less corrupt than many African countries, but it's hardly free of corruption allegations. An overview of accusations of corruption against both major parties, including a rumor that the 2008 elections were financed in part by a Nigerian governor.
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Pretty good video piece on Berkshares, the complementary currency introduced in southern Berkshire county to encourage local business connections. A bit too focused on the fed and US economic policy when it's really a community project, but a nice overview of my hippy neighbors
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Sham trials in Iran appear to be trying to put responsibility for the election protests on the shoulders of journalists and bloggers. Mohammed Ali Abtahi is on trial, and Hossein Derakshan seems to be cited extensively in a forced confession.
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Steven Johnson offers the "web's got serendipity to spare" response to recent Times op-ed. Glad to see him acknowledge the danger that our serendiipity engines are subject to personal biases.
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Romatic, but well-meant oped on newspapers and serendipity. Resonates with some of the themes in my Architecting Serendipity piece.
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Interesting take on technological solutions to architecting serendipity. Does a nice job of warning that some of our existing serendipity engines are subject to groupthink and flocking
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Have you heard about these new malaria findings released today? Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe has been doing research on Malaria in Cameroon, and some pretty interesting details have emerged from his work. He and his research team say chimps are the origins of malaria. He’ll be talking about all of this on CNN’s AC360 tonight. Check out –
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/03/researcher-says-he-found-malarias-origin-in-chimps/
August 12th, 2009 at 2:36 am
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