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December 20, 2006

General management

Centipedes of the 21st Century

by Doug Merrill

Bruce Sterling gives the canonical definition of a “centipede,” a new approach to political scandalmongering, probably coming soon to a polity near you. Unless you’re in India, Greece, Poland, Indonesia, South Africa, the UK or the USA, in which they’ve already arrived.
Basically, a centipede is an attempt to drive a politician from power by creating [...]

December 3, 2006

Not Europe

A 21st Century Kind of Question

by Doug Merrill

At his delightful blog, Timothy Burke takes up whether qualitative research about virtual worlds is best served by the methods of anthropology or history.
Douglas Thomas just pointed out that when we talk about qualitative methods in virtual world research, we always tend to define that as ethnography, when there are other kinds of qualitative methods [...]

November 15, 2006

Culture

200 Gigabits a Second

by Alex Harrowell

Todd Underwood of Internet consultants Renesys has an interesting post for the day AMSIX, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, set the world record for Internet traffic through a single facility. At 2110 CET on Monday, the world’s biggest IX saw more than 200 gigabits a second of netty goodness hurtling through its multiple 10GB Ethernet switches. [...]

November 1, 2006

Websites

And speaking of Bulgaria

by Douglas Muir

The Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Ivailo Kalfin, has just started a blog.
What I find interesting here is the “about” section:
With this weblog I would like to enter a discussion about some of the issues that are on the top of the agenda of Bulgaria’s foreign policy, the developments in the European Union, the major challenges [...]

October 30, 2006

Culture

Brown Blair Clash

by Doug Merrill

Should he stay or should he go?
(Thanks, MY.)

October 23, 2006

Life

Dutch Diplomat Dooced

by Doug Merrill

Apparently the Northern European fondness for plain speaking is an art not full appreciated by the genocidal government in Sudan.
Jan Pronk, a Dutch national working for the United Nations in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, was declared persona non grata for writing on his weblog that Sudan’s army had suffered hundreds of casualties in fighting [...]

General management

Sweeping Up

by Doug Merrill

While we’re working on the update, our latest changes to the back end seems to have left us vulnerable to more comment spam than usual. (On the other hand, it’s become much easier to add pictures.) We’re doing our best to take out the trash, but there may be a bit more of it than [...]

October 19, 2006

General management

Working on it

by Doug Merrill

The intrepid Tobias Schwarz is working on an update to A Fistful of Euros. It’s great stuff, from what he’s shown us in previews, and he has been very good not only with the heavy lifting and template tweaking, he’s been very open about incorporating the odd suggestion from the rest of the crew.
It’s scheduled [...]

October 17, 2006

Europe and the world

Radioactive Bloggy Goodness

by Doug Merrill

If you want news about nuclear tests, nonproliferation and other arms control topics from people who actually know their throw weights from a hole in the ground, go and visit the Arms Control Wonk blog. They’re low on heh-indeed, and high on things like “Cooperative Monitoring in Outer Space to Manage Crowding and Build Confidence,” [...]

October 5, 2006

Culture

An Experiment in Globalization: Results

by Doug Merrill

First off, Apple did get back to me within the time frame that they promise. (I was in New York on business part of this week and last, thus the lack of blogging.) So far, so good.
But I can’t say I’m satisfied with the results. Instead of finding a way for me to acquire music [...]

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