Categories:
BLOGGING
Blogspot
Google's blogging tool.
Wordpress
If you're looking to blog and create webpages with the same tool and framework, Wordpress is your friend.
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BOOKS
Economics Network
Free online text book within an Economics focus-group.
The Power of Unreasonable People
An account of social entrepreneurs around the world who are finding markets in much need.
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CODE
W3Schools
An excellent (and free) resource for those who are looking into learning new programming languages.
JavaScript Source
Free JavaScript resource site. Looking to add a little more jazz to your website? Right here.
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DEVELOPMENT JOBS
Idealist
Volunteer work, consultants' positions, internships, paid jobs, etc. (focussed on the Non-Profit sector).
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Investors Without Borders
For people working with entrepreneurial business plans.
Echoing Green
The Echoing Green fellowship aims to spark positive social change through providing technical assistance and angel funding for two years to seed projects.
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FRIENDS' WORK
The Stand-up Economist
Yoram Bauman: Professor, consultant, and stand-up comedian (see his Facebook Page here).
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NEWS
BBC World News
British Broadcasting Company. Used to listen to this on radio in Tanzania every morning when I'd get dropped to school.
Al Jazeera English
Needless to say, Al Jazeera sees things that happen in the world that other news agencies don't always pick up.
The Wall Street Journal
World news and other topics, but mostly business- and finance-related articles.
The Economist
One of my favorite print-media magazines.
Google News
RSS feeds from other major news providers. Allows you to customize your news alerts by region and topic.
Digg
I call this an open-source version of news-reporting (or reporing anything interesting).
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SCHOOLS
International School of Tanganyika
Where I went to primary and secondary school (1990-2004).
Lafayette College
Where I went to college for my Bachelors' (2004-2008).
SOAS, University of London
The School of Oriental and African Studies.
IIS, The Hague
The Institute of Social Studies.
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TIME-KILLS
Google Trends
Useful for checking how popular topics are in terms of what people are Googling.
YouTube
Everyone knows this one...
Twitter
A microblog that can sync with your mobile phone.
Wikipedia
My first reference point for almost anything I want to learn about. Remember those huge encyclopedias your high school used to store in the library, and you couldn't check them out because they were reference books? Try this site.
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