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1 | 2 | NextFrom protest to collaboration: Paul Simon?s ?Graceland? and lessons for xenophiles 4 Citations A memetic virus gripped the world of popular music in late 1984 and 1985: the superstar benefit single. The phenomenon of superstar benefits can be traced back through George Harrison?s Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 and The Secret Policeman?s Balls organized by Amnesty International throughout the 1970s. But the epidemic of benefit singles that paralyzed the music scene in 1985 can be traced directly to Bob Geldof and the 1984 Christmas hit ?Do They Know It?s Christmas?. ( Video here . God, technorati.com"At its best, Graceland sounds like Simon is encountering forces to large for him to understand or control. He?s riding on top of them, offering free-form reflections on a world that?s vastly more complicated and colorful than the narrow places he and Art Garfunkel explored in their close harmonies...Simon?s encounter with a cassette by the Boyoyo Boys is a classic proto-xenophile moment. What makes Simon a xenophile was the decision not just to interact with the cultural artifact, but to find a way to make a connection with the people who?d made the music. There are lots of fans of African music - the xenophiles are the ones whose interest transcends collecting records and turns into learning, playing, recording and exploring the music and the people who make it.", delicious.com interesting post on first-world world-music brokers (from mclaren to simon) working with african music/musicians as appropriators and/or xenophiles, providing -- under the guise of the latter -- a bridging function :: wonder what ethan z would think of nu-whirled music and global g-tech bloggaz in that light?, delicious.com
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The importance of being a dork 3 Citations I had coffee recently with Gavin McCormick , a bright young economist who worked with me at Geekcorps some years back. He took a position with a think tank out West and was telling me that, after leaving Boston, he was thinking about going back to Namibia for a vacation, where he?d spent a difficult year as a volunteer teacher. ?I thought you?d been miserable in Namibia?? ?Well, I had trouble connecting with some people there, but I don?t always connect with people in Boston either. And I, technorati.com"Your best chances to connect with people in other cultures are around eating, drinking, playing music, dancing, playing football (soccer) and having sex. My guess is that ?play with kids? belongs on this list as well...Are plane tickets the first ingredient in these equations? Do they need to be? I live just north of Pittsfield, MA, a city of fewer than 50,000 people. For years, the city has held an annual Ethnic Fair...My guess is that there?s an opportunity for me to learn something about Brazilian culture beyond enjoying the two Brazilian restaurants that have opened in town. I suspect it involves losing fifty pounds and playing soccer in a local league. Or putting on my best clubbing clothes and hanging out at Latin Night on Saturday at the Ecuadorian restaurant and dance club. I haven?t done either, and I find myself wondering if part of the equation is that I?m more comfortable looking like a dork in Dakar than in Pittsfield.", delicious.com "So here?s my pressing question: if the internet gives us new spaces in which to find common ground with very different people, what?s holding us back from becoming vastly more global and cosmopolitan than most of us are? Why, as I?ve argued elsewhere, do we seem to keep sorting ourselves into familiar groups? I?m starting to think that there?s something very special about the willingness to look like a dork. And I wonder whether we?d have more luck building bridges in online spaces if it were more socially acceptable to make fools of ourselves, laughing and being laughed at by our new peers.", delicious.com
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2 Citations 13% of Egyptians think they are citizens of the world, 13% think they are citizens of both their county and the world., delicious.comAn international poll on global/national identity reveals that people who travel a lot or know lots of people abroad are more likely to identify as citizens of the world. Chinese and Taiwanese people in particular were likely to identify globally, instead of nationally, delicious.com
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%u2018How do we know what to translate?%u2019 Notes from OTT09, Amsterdam|Meedan Blog 1 Citation Lovely post from George at Meedan about one of the central problems with the polyglot internet - how do we know what we want to read if it hasn't been translated yet?, delicious.com
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EastSouthWestNorth: The Incomprehensible China And Its Difficult Problems 1 Citation A Chinese blogger, translated by Roland Soong, reflects on the complex changes China's gone through and why it's so hard for Westerners to understand Chinese opinions and views on politics and reform, delicious.com
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1 Citation November 9, 2008 I?m totally stealing this post from Xenophilia ? Excerpt ? The Cave of Crystals discovered 1,000ft below a Mexican desert Until you notice the orange-suited men clambering around, it?s hard to grasp the extraordinary scale of this underground crystal forest. Nearly 1,000ft below the Chihuahua Desert in Mexico, this cave was discovered by two brothers drilling in the Naica lead and silver mine. It is an eerie sight. Up to 170 giant, luminous obelisks - the biggest is 37.4ft l, technorati.com
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Bridgeblogger and Xenophile, a tale of two bloggers 1 Citation Erik Hersman and I look a bit alike. We?re both beefy, balding white dudes who spend a lot of our time thinking and talking about Africa. We hang out at many of the same development and technology conferences. He?s someone I always enjoy reading, and someone I?m proud to call a friend. A post from Erik a few weeks back on his (brilliant, must-read) blog, White African, got me thinking a bit about what we have in common and what?s different about our backgrounds, and our roles in the tech and de, technorati.com
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1 Citation Vijaysree Venkatraman of the Christian Science Monitor has a very generous article about my recent thinking on the challenges of finding sufficiently challenging information online, and how media organizations can architect serendipity in a digital age. I come off somewhat more zen-like than I suspect I am in real life, but perhaps that?s not a bad thing. I?ve been (very slowly) putting together a book proposal about serendipity, homophily, xenophilia and cultural bridging, and so the ideas in, technorati.com
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Grassroots translators messengers of the West : BeijingToday 1 Citation BeijingToday article on "grassroots translation" (aka social translation, volunteer translation, distributed human translation) efforts in China, with a focus on yeeyan.com, delicious.com
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Why Has Globalization Led to Bigger Cities? - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com 1 Citation Interesting post from a Harvard economist, who points out that a flattening world hasn't made cities irrelavent - it's made them more important. "Knowledge moves more quickly at close quarters, and as a result, cities are often the gateways between continents and civilizations.", delicious.com
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