Learning, Failing, Tweeting: The Monday Round-Up

Another installment of the Monday Round-Up, a few stories from the past week! 

• Foreign Policy reports on the Chinese social-networking site Weibo's reaction to the news of Kim Jong Il's passing.
• Google released the 2011 Zeitgeist, capturing important moments and events of the year.
• The European Commission announced an open data strategy, with plans to launch a data portal in the spring of 2012.   
• In Kazakhstan, unrest has led to the shutdown of Internet and mobile networks in the west of the country.  
• The Levo League published a list of influential women tweeting about foreign policy issues.
• The New York Times investigates Al Shabab's new twitter account, and what it means for conflict in Somalia.
• Afrinnovator looks at what developers of all sorts can learn from the history of Ushahidi.
• MobileActive gives a review of FailFaire NYC, showing that success comes from understanding both the problem and the solution.
• Twitter got a $300 million investment from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.