Kony 2012, Part 122 – Beyond Death
April 5, 2022 Yesterday, Invisible Children, the non-profit that became an overnight YouTube sensation a decade ago for its Kony 2012 campaign released another video about Joseph Kony and the Lord’s...
View ArticleRest in Peace, Verghese Kurien
The news this week in India is full of tributes to Verghese Kurien, the father of the “white revolution” there. Thanks to his life’s work of helping form milk cooperatives throughout the country, dairy...
View ArticleActual Headline: “Cows Send Texts to Announce They’re in Heat”
In the previous post, the Jester mentioned, purely hypothetically, ”a wireless udder monitor that sends cattle owners an SMS when their cows are due for a milking.” Just weeks later, life imitates...
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Kooks and MOOCs
[The kind folks at Educational Technology Debate have posted a more sober, unjesterly version of this article.] The other day, someone the Jester will call “Shabnam” mailed him the following question:...
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Internet.org and Why Facebook Is the Matrix
The Jester thanks Ashwani Sharma for requesting jesterly opinion on Mark Zuckerberg’s latest announcement. Last week, Zuckerberg announced vague plans for Internet.org, a collaborative effort involving...
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Internet.org Posts and Ripostes
Over at the TIER mailing list, the Jester’s last post was part of a swarm of fast-flying posts and ripostes about Internet.org. Now that the outbreak appears to have died down, it seems a good time for...
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The Jester is back… sort of!
One problem with having a non-comic-book alter ego is that one doesn’t also have superpowers to genuinely multitask. (Genuine multitasking is when one does N things at once and each gets done as...
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A Technologist in Peopleland
Out of the mouth of graduate students come the most difficult questions. The Jester was recently asked not once, but several times, “So, what are you going to work on?” What these folks were asking...
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Why We’ll Keep Reinventing the Wheel in M4D and Otherwise
The Jester was recently consulted by consultants to provide input on a large upcoming mobile-for-development (M4D) project. At one point, it emerged that the client wanted to solve one of those...
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You Heard It Here First! — ?4D
The Jester had a terrific summer tagging along with his alter ego on a book tour, during which he was met with throngs of readers falling at his feet in adulation. (Editor’s note: The second half of...
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