Today’s New York Times reports on Ushahidi–Swahili for testimony–an open-source platform for user-generated content. Or, to put it less generically, Ushahidi is social networking for humanitarian relief, a disaster-witness wiki.
Ushahidi was developed in Kenya to respond to the violence that followed the 2007 election. Kenyan lawyer and blogger Ory Okolloh
posted online the idea of an [...]
The court handling the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy directed the court-appointed examiner to “file a statement of . . . any fact ascertained pertaining to fraud, dishonesty, incompetence, misconduct, mismanagement, or irregularity in the management of the affairs of the debtor, or to a cause of action available to the estate.” Yesterday the examiner, Jenner & [...]
Displaying breathtaking self-importance Lindsay Lohan has sued eTrade for commercial misappropriation of her name and personality in a television ad. In the ad the e-Trade talking baby (I preferred the earlier baby’s personality–this one acts like one of Vince Vaughn’s and Jon Favreau’s pals in “Swingers”) explains that he didn’t call his girlfriend the night [...]
Taken with an iPhone and of middling quality, this shot still captures our Florida view.
Back to Boston early tomorrow morning.
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I’ve eaten more bagels in the past three days than I have since–well, since last spring break, which was the last time I visited my father-in-law and his wife in south Florida. Behind me surf crashes on the sand fourteen floors below; looking west through the condo dusky orange and purple bands mark the sun’s [...]
Spring break begins officially on Saturday. It begins for me when I leave school today at 4 pm. Most students have at least one mid-term exam this week, many have more. My real estate law exam was at 9:30 and my Internet exam is happening while I write. (It’s a tough morning for the handful [...]
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