Jackfruity
A blog by jackfruity
Blog description:
Jackfruity is the blog of Rebekah Heacock, a digital media habitué who writes about technology, aid & development, and how to deflect the romantic attentions of Ugandan public transit employees.
Blog Rank:
Jackfruity ranks 146 in Africa and 2 in Uganda. According to site visitors it ranks 521, and 575 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 97 and 121 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
New York is dangerous.
Just arrived in the inbox (emphasis mine): To: SIPA Student Groups While on patrol this morning Post 15 PSO Patterson noticed three animals in front of Lewisohn Hall. Sgt. Galan responded and spotted one animal and identified it as a coyote. Sgt. Gillis contacted 911 and NYPD responded.
Government-sponsored Skullduggery
Cliff Stoll (who helped catch a ring of computer hackers/Soviet spies in the 1980s) and Jonathan Zittrain (principle investigator at the OpenNet Initiative) are speaking at Harvard’s Berkman Center tonight. Subject: When Countries Collide Online: Internet Spies, Cyberwar, and Government-sponsored Skullduggery. I’ll be sequestered in the industrial-sized kitchen
A Song for Kansas Day
Wandering children of Kansas away, By mountain, by desert, or sea, Feasting or fasting, at prayer or at play, Whatever your fortunes may be, Open the doors of your hearts to the breeze,
Live from DC: “21st Century Statecraft”
I’m liveblogging Secretary Clinton’s speech on Internet freedom at The Morningside Post. You can follow along over there or below: 21st Century Statecraft
Global Voices: So much more than a blog.
I am proud to share a birthday with Global Voices Online (December 11 — mark it in your calendars, ladies and gentlemen). I celebrated my 25th with friends and ungodly amounts of cheese, while GV celebrated its fifth with a series of wonderful retrospectives. Me? I’ve been holding off
The Other Eight
Uganda’s proposed anti-gay legislation has gotten a lot of press since its contents were made public in October. I think this is fantastic, especially as the coverage becomes increasingly focused on how this bill is partly a proxy for American culture wars, in terms of both American evangelical
Celebrating the new year with GayUganda
How to celebrate the new year, from GayUganda: I looked at the trans guy, and I decided that, even if dancing with him outs me fully, his feelings do matter. He wants to dress, flamboyant, flashy in Uganda. That is an expression of what he is, of what he
GV Uganda: President Says He Will Block Anti-Gay Bill
My next piece is up at Global Voices Online: Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 still awaits a final decision by the country’s Parliament, but the country’s Daily Monitor newspaper reported Wednesday that President Yoweri Museveni has “assured the US State Department of his willingness to block the Bill”: President
Policy Making in the Digital Age: February 2010 Conference at Col
My biggest frustration with grad school so far has been how difficult it is to bring what’s happening in the real world of ICT and development — mobile phones for health, Ushahidi, debates over what online privacy means for activists — into the classroom. With the exception of
Uganda takes death penalty out of anti-gay bill
Bloomberg is reporting that the Ugandan anti-gay bill will no longer include the death penalty or life imprisonment. The revision is an attempt “to attract the support of religious leaders who are opposed to these penalties,” according to ethics and integrity minister James Nsaba Buturo.
