Lectures

GPF - Measuring Development Impact

July 18, 2007

Rachel Glennerster blew me away here; her work as an economics researcher at MIT focuses on the scientific evidence of development impact. For instance, it turns out that clean water pumps alone don’t fix health—the water will get contaminated elsewhere...Continue reading...

Global Philanthropy Forum 2007

I was fortunate to attend the Global Philanthropy Forum this year, held at Google from April 11-13. I just stumbled upon my notes from it and will be writing them up over the next few days; I’ll archive the links...Continue reading...

LECTURE: Fred Turner, "From Counterculture to Cyberculture"

April 15, 2003

I attended a lecture (video, MS Media Player required) by Fred Turner, Professor of Communications at Stanford University. The lecture, titled "From Counterculture to Cyberculture: How The Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us 'Virtual Community'", narrated the history of the Whole...Continue reading...