Matthew Crawford writing in The New Atlantis on why I should have paid more attention in wood- and metal-work class.
In the age of think tanks, consulting firms, and IKEA, craftsmanship seems to be in decline. Shop class is becoming rarer, and our children are told that college is the ticket to an “open future” as [...]
Craftsman Versus World
Is the Digital Indaba the Internet Berlin Conference of 2006?
(This post is a follow-on to a previous one on next week’s Digital Indaba on Blogging and the resulting comments that included accusations of my being racist and illegitimate)
Does the African blog-space – if there is such a thing – need codification, a coming together, a corralling under the auspices of a code of conduct [...]
Comments on “(White?) African Blogger Conference in a Week”
Below are some comments on the last post I had on the upcoming African bloggers indaba. It turned out that AB&H is racist and illegitimate. I will be back to talk more about the attempt to codify the African blog space and make it part of a kind of NGO-ish, funded civil society [...]
(White?) African Blogger Conference in a Week
Word on the street, the Khartoum one where I am for the week, is that there is a Digital Citizen Indaba on Blogging conference being held in Grahamstown, South Africa. It is a shock that there should be this kind of meeting without AB&H being told about it. From the list of speakers, listed [...]