Category: Politics

  • You can try and stop it but the Jinn is out

    With the TV news full of images and sounds of serious civil unrest in Egypt, it’s fascinating to see how social media tools and channels – especially Twitter and social networking sites such as Facebook – have been enabling Egyptian…

  • Comparing the economic state of the states

    Is the USA the world’s richest country, as many believe? I guess much depends on how you measure that. What about individual states? I’ve sometimes pondered that question myself, either in terms of outright wealth or economic measures like gross…

  • Chaos theory

    All this weekend, I’ve been experiencing an increasing sense of disbelief when watching TV news reports of the utter chaos in the UK transportation network as a consequence of the severe weather conditions the country has been enduring. Last night,…

  • The role of media in the WikiLeaks revelations

    Among the many news events vying for our attention in today’s media – mainstream and social – arguably the revelations from WikiLeaks about confidential communications between US embassies around the world and Washington will capture a majority of that attention…

  • The huge potential of India

    Swedish internet monitoring and analytics firm Royal Pingdom posted some great metrics today on which countries are the largest in terms of internet users and speculates on what the future might hold. While the primary chart in Royal Pingdom’s post…