Category Archives: research
- mapping human rights abuses in the ME
Update: everything is working now – images and all. Took a while though. I finally was able to install ushahidi, a crowdsourcing mapping software. It is fatnastic and makes life easy creating geospatial mapping – however installation took quite a bit of effort because some files were missing and directions are not clear. I also [...]
- mapping the arabic blogosphere
A study at the Berkman Center at Harvard came out in June 09 entitled “Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Culture, Politics and Dissent“. [link to the report] Here are some of the keyfindings: The Arabic blogosphere is organized primarily around countries. We found the primary groupings to be: Egyptian (largest, with distinct sub- and associated clusters, [...]
