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BobHarris.com · 2M ago

Voice of America report on microlending and Kiva

I wound up being a big part of this report, and the Friends of Bob Harris get a nice bit of airtime, too:
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BobHarris.com · 7M ago

Best. Birthday. Ever.

Thanks to the 75+ people who came out to the W hotel in Westwood last week for the combination of Kiva's 6th anniversary, a celebration of the million bucks (!) the Friends of Bob Harris team at Kiva.org has raised to lend to small businesses in the developing world, and my own birthday party. The…
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BobHarris.com · 8M ago

Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance

Check out this trippy data visualization Kiva did of more than 5 years and $200 million in microlending: Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva Microfunds on Vimeo.
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BobHarris.com · 9M ago

The Kiva team keeps breaking records — join today, and you can do a $25 loan for free!

Friends of Bob Harris, the Kiva team that sprouted up around my upcoming book, is frankly blowing my mind. Across Kiva, more than 600,000 lenders have organized themselves into nearly 20,000 teams. At right are the fundraising results from July. I wish I had words for how honored I am to be a small
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BobHarris.com · 10M ago

My Jeopardy! memoir on Millionaire: When Worlds Collide

Photo taken from a TV screen and emailed to me, much to my pleasant surprise: Matter meets anti-matter!  It's a miracle we all survived. But this makes it a twofer, since the mothership did this in 2009: If the story collapses on itself much further, a black hole might form.  Best I move on now.
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BobHarris.com · 10M ago

TCoNAheads

The Trivia Championships of North America were held recently at the MGM Grand in Vegas, and a big thanks to Paul Bailey for organizing it and about 100 other people for being such fun to hang out with. On Saturday, I had the honor of hosting a roundtable discussion about IBM's human-crushing Watson
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BobHarris.com · 10M ago

I am Eliza Dushku’s brother (at least in cartoon form)

If you're not watching Torchwood: Miracle Day, you're missing out. It's everything you'd expect from the Russell T. Davies, the genius behind the best years of Doctor Who. I've been a fan of Russell's for years, and lucky enough to call him a friend from the day Tom Tomorrow noticed that Russell's b
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