Is there anybody out there?
When I found a copy of Carl Sagan’s Contact in a secondhand bookstore, and somebody gave me another Sagan book on extraterrestrial life...
All business
If you do business in the Caribbean, or are thinking of doing so, here’s a collection of business-related sites to keep your cash flowing...
Great Shakes: UWI’s Seismic Research Centre
The most powerful earthquake to hit the islands of the Eastern Caribbean in recent times struck in November 2007. It was felt from Antigua...
Alan Emtage: The Codefather
I wrote a piece of code that gave birth to a multi-billion dollar industry. I didn’t make any money off of it, but I wouldn’t change...
Kingston Beta: pitch perfect
Years before she launched Kingston Beta, Jamaican tech entrepreneur Ingrid Riley started hearing about techies holding these things called...
A bank in your pocket, Haitian style
Mobile phones can do such impressive things these days that the ability to talk to another person seems almost secondary. Voice calls?...
A tweet in need
Much like its predecessors in print and broadcast media, the Internet has been derided for a host of apocalyptic shortcomings. But in...
Caribbean memes: meme what you say and say what you meme
Mass media capitalising on topics of discussion in wider society? It’s hardly unprecedented. Take one long-running 1990s advertising...
