Archive for August, 2009
Afghanistan
Friday, August 28th, 2009Having just completed Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, the news of bombing in Kandahar arrives with even more pain than it might otherwise provoke. Hosseini captures the dislocation and deeply human struggle of life in Afghanistan through the fall of the Soviet-backed government, the Taliban years and the early days of the Karzai [...]
Health Care is About How we Care for Each Other
Friday, August 21st, 2009Despite all the talk about costs, the health care debate is about more than money. It’s about how we care for each other. It’s about connection and community. By connection, I mean our recognition that we are connected as a human family and in a social network. We are no stronger than our concern for [...]
About That Free Content
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009I’m thinking a lot these days about how to generate revenue for content. Even non-profits have to do that in this climate. Our organization creates content and gives it away free because we are supported by the generosity of people in the pew. Others take that content, re-package it and sell it. The gratis model [...]
Halting Malawi’s Nursing Brain Drain
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009I was pleased to get an email from Christine Gorman telling of the posting of her story on nurses in Malawi and pointing to a video she produced. Christine is a Nieman Fellow in Global Health at Harvard. She also writes for TIME and is an adjunct professor in journalism at NYU.
Malawi is attempting to [...]