About this blog

In 2006, I traveled to India, China, and Tibet to explore how technology is changing the lives of Tibetans -- both inside and outside of their homeland. I traveled with my father, Dr. M. Quetzalkanbalam, who is researching indigenous culture in different parts of the world. He'd been planning a trip to Tibet this year for some time, so when I heard about a group of hackers and engineers building a wireless mesh network in Dharamshala, India, the home-in-exile of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government -- everything clicked. We decided to go together. Along the way, both of us learned and witnessed more than we could ever have imagined before we left.

On this blog, I'll be posting links to each of the radio, print, video, and online reports I'm filing from the trip. I'll continue following these stories here after the reports from my trip have all aired. But I'll also post the scribbled footnotes that didn't make it in. You'll see video, snapshots, hear audio snippets, video, and branches of these stories you just can't cram into 7 on-air minutes. The little daily details that comprise life on the road -- including HOWTO production info, and reviews of the production hardware and software I tested out on the road from Apple, Canon, and other tech gear providers.

Image: (c) 2006, Xeni Jardin. Long Life Buddha, presented with a feast of peaches, inside Tsepak Lakhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet. This photo and all others along the trip were shot with a Canon 5D, and a 24-70 2.8L USM, and the 70-300 4.5-5.6 DO IS USM lenses. Images were later processed with Apple's terrific photo content management app, Aperture. More on that later!

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