Hurricane Sandy Coverage on Storify: An Inflection Point?

Major news outlets use Storify to aggregate & make sense of social media flow about Hurricane Sandy In the last two days, as we’ve all been inundated (pardon the lame water-related pun) with near-constant TV, radio, web & social media updates on the...

Growing Pains: Daredevil Construction and the Future of Ethiopia

Africa’s fastest-growing economy balances between dreams of the future and the shackles of the past For those libertarians who feel that OSHA and any and all regulations on workplace safety are the very essence of neo-Stalinism, I submit the construction...

US Consumers = Monkeys on Crack

I saw this comment over at a political blog today: We are likely to see a weak GOP and a democratic party beset by infighting. Get ready for a decade of political chaos on top of economic chaos. There is no way to take even an educated guess of what will arise from...