WTF? a link to encyclopedia britannica (that gives you a preview of 75 words of a 234 word article) with a higher page rank than the wikipedia article? guess googles algorithm does not work well in combination with bissextile days… Technorati Tags: technology

been in Seville for a two day workshop on socioeconomic impacts of social computing at the IPTS and have blogged some observations on the Knowledgeland blog (will probably start writing a bit more over there in the future). Technorati Tags: ipr, work

since about a year i have been coming across reports of sub-saharan migrants getting shot by egyptian border police when attempting to enter Israel from egypt. So far i have refrained from listing them as part of the noborder.org dead count because Israel is not really Europe (although they participate in the UEFA cup and […]

geoff at BLDGBLOG has a post about elevators, which reminds me of the first and only time i have been inside the empire state building: in 2000 during metropoloco one of the checkpoints of during the main race was suite 6172 (or something like that) in the Empire State Building. Never having been in a […]

conni points to a photo set by the french photographer Anaïs Pachabézian showing the daily lives of sub-saharan migrants in morocco and mauritania. The pictures were taken in october 2007 in and near Oujda (morocco) and on the mauritanian coast: Plage de Cansado, Nouadhibou, Mauritanie, novembre 2007 Technorati Tags: africa, desire, europe, migration, photos

a couple of years ago when we were busy with a number of campaigns against airlines who allowed forced deportations from europe on their flights i did a spoof website targeting the KLM (‘KLM – uw uitzettingsagent‘) that was part of a campaign with the same name of the now defunct autonoom centrum in amsterdam. […]

Will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas brought together a bunch of american musicians and actors to record a video clip (song) based on the ‘yes we can’ thank-you speech held by Obama on january 8th in Nashua, New Hampshire. The whole clip (‘yes we can song‘) is extremely well done (you might want to call […]

Leila points to a pretty intresting article by Darryl Li written after a recent visit to the Gaza strip. In his article ‘From Prison to Zoo: Israel’s “Humanitarian” Control of Gaza‘ (watch out, this is a link to a .doc file, what the fuck are they thinking at adalah.org?) he examines the policy of essentail […]