Some Thoughts on the Wikileaks
When the massive data dump that was the Wikileaks Afghan War Logs showed up on my screen three weeks ago, I did what–apparently–no one else had yet done: read the whole thing. At the time, this seemed...
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Introducing Public Business
As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been swamped with a very exciting new project, and it’s now ready to introduce to you. Along with a Columbia classmate and BBC journalist, Damian Kahya, I’m launching a...
View ArticleThe Stiff Upper Lip and Its Discontents
I’ve just written the longest blog post ever at Foreign Exchange. It filled about 6 pages in Microsoft Word as I was working on it. I don’t think bloggers are actually allowed to be so verbose, but I...
View ArticleMore About Grizzlies
I’ve got a post about GOP women up at Forbes right now: basically, I took a look at how GOP candidates fared with women voters. And interestingly, in this so-called year of the GOP woman, it was GOP...
View ArticleI Fixed the Deficit
What do econo-wonks do for fun on the weekends? We play interactive deficit-fixing games online. Really. Felix Salmon has a good post explaining why some of the options the game provides–especially the...
View ArticleToo Little Too Late
Regulators in the US, UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Canada and the European Commission are finally getting serious about privacy. First, there’s the bevy of cases and crackdowns recently introduced...
View ArticleCovering the Wikileaks
The latest at Foreign Exchange on the way news organizations are handling the Wikileaks: as we come to see Wikileaks as just a source, news organizations are having to decide whether to cover them at...
View ArticlePatrick Ball on the Perils of Misusing Human Rights Data
Belated post at Foreign Exchange on a talk I attended last week about problems in human rights data collection. A snippet: In his lecture, Ball presented a number of cases like this, from Kosovo,...
View ArticleSome Recent Things Wot I Wrote
I try to keep this blog up to date with what links to things I write elsewhere, but (as those who follow me on Twitter will know), this site’s been experiencing some downtime of late, and for much of...
View ArticleAn Announcement
As you may have noticed, blogging has been light-to-non-existent for a while around here. That’s because I’ve been preparing to make a big life change. Beginning next week, I’ll be working towards a...
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