2008–2026
1,403 posts
2026 7
October 2026
August 2026
- My personal contribution to the US/Canada trade war
- The Eyes Have Had It: A (Mental) Health Update from the Summer of Sue
March 2026
January 2026
2025 25
December 2025
November 2025
October 2025
- Govern or Be Governed: Gary Marcus on Shorting Neural Networks
- Cory Doctorow on the weird upside of the Trump presidency
- Govern or Be Governed: Donald Trump Will Seek an Unconstitutional Third Term
- Govern or Be Governed: Chatbots as the new threat to Children Online
- Govern or Be Governed: What are the Threats to Freedom of Speech?
- Govern or Be Governed: Protecting Creativity is Protecting Democracy
- Frank McCourt on the value of personal data at Govern or be Governed
- Govern or Be Governed: Can Anyone Regulate Big Tech?
- Tracking ICE with Media Cloud data
- amac at UMass: How do we regulate AI?
July 2025
- #KeepGVStrong: Global Voices advocates for a connected world at a dark time
- Road trip roundup… preparing for Great Lakes 2025
- Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant… With Data!
April 2025
March 2025
- “Post-post-truth”, or how the SignalGate story is forking reality
- Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen: Can journalism survive Trump? Can democracy?
- Focus on the player, not the puck: Finnish approaches to combatting electoral interference
- Taylor Owen: Canadians now see the US as the most serious disinfo threat
- Freedom Interrupted: Electoral Interference
- He’s not a neoliberal, “He’s a thug” – Stiglitz on Trump, in Montreal
February 2025
January 2025
2024 18
December 2024
October 2024
- Danielle Allen at UMass Amherst on “How to be a Confident Pluralist”
- What if our nation is not built for climate change?
August 2024
- Road trip: The Company Town and the Corn Fields
- Roadtrip: A tale of two cities
- Roadtrip: Utica Starts With You
- Road trip: Peoria to Kankakee
- Roadtrip: Decatur, from corn to soy to cricket city?
- Roadtrip: In search of the “statistically improbable restaurant”
- Roadtrip: Side quest in Northern Ohio
- Roadtrip: Buried, with dignity, in Elmira
- Roadtrip: A Square Deal in Binghamton
- By the numbers: what statistics can and can’t tell you about “undervalued” cities
July 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
2023 12
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
- Lightning Talks at CU Boulder Local Tech Economies
- Local Tech Ecologies: Fernanda Rosa on decolonizing technology
- From Phoenix to Cleveland: why we live where we live and why it’s time to change
July 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
2022 8
October 2022
- Legacy Cities: an extended remix of my talk at PopTech 2022
- Our wedding, October 7-9, 2022
- Five years sober.
September 2022
- Governance, not Moderation: remarks at the Trust and Safety Research Conference
- The Monarchy, the Subaltern and the Public Sphere
August 2022
February 2022
2021 10
October 2021
August 2021
- Microfinance and public shaming in Nigeria
- I read Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report. It’s really strange.
July 2021
June 2021
April 2021
February 2021
January 2021
2020 8
November 2020
- The US, Canada and “long hope”
- Stop Doomscrolling. Hang out with smart folks trying to build better futures online.
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
June 2020
April 2020
January 2020
2019 11
October 2019
August 2019
- On me, and the Media Lab
- Training the next generation of ethical techies
- Philanthropy and the hand-off – what happens if government can’t scale social experiments?
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
January 2019
2018 5
December 2018
June 2018
May 2018
- Six or Seven Things Social Media Can Do For Democracy
- Two Bens and a Mark: a talk at Ben Franklin Hall in Philadelphia
April 2018
2017 12
November 2017
- Who Filters Your News? Why we built gobo.social
- Finding hope… and dissing Lin-Manuel… at the Obama Foundation Summit
October 2017
August 2017
- Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable
- Mistrust, Efficacy and the New Civics – a whitepaper for the Knight Foundation
- The Village of Peace. And Coca. Lots of Coca.
July 2017
February 2017
January 2017
2016 26
December 2016
- Race, Fame and Ability: untangling media coverage of NFL QBs
- Lunch with my friend, the Trump supporter
November 2016
- Trump’s victory and the rise of insurrectionism in America
- Making space for sadness
- What happens when mistrust wins – my speech at the Colombian national journalism prize
- This crazy election: Denial of Service attacks on Democracy
October 2016
September 2016
- Going Solo – On hating and accepting change
- Massive National Prison Strike! Maybe. We don’t know. That’s a problem.
August 2016
- Supporting Feyisa Lilesa, a remarkable athlete and protester
- When attention matters: Ethiopia crushes dissent in Oromia
- The village of peace… and of coca leaves
June 2016
May 2016
- From disastrous decisions to decentralization: a mostly spontaneous talk for Data & Society
- Life, Only Moderately Messed Up, part 2: Getting Help
- Lessons from Letterlocking: a serendipitous academic encounter
- That’s _Professor_ Bozo to you, Pal
April 2016
March 2016
February 2016
- Ben Franklin, the Post Office and the Digital Public Sphere
- T. Greg Doucette on false arrest and police brutality
- I never went looking for a mentor
- Fred Turner: The link from anti-fascist art and the “historical problem” of Facebook
- Why is Verizon letting rural broadband decay?
- Heroin and Hope
January 2016
2015 29
November 2015
October 2015
- Insurrectionist Civics in the Age of Mistrust
- Star Simpson at Freedom to Innovate
- Jonathan Zittrain at Freedom to Innovate
September 2015
August 2015
July 2015
- Harnessing Mistrust for Civic Action
- Who benefits from doubt? Online manipulation and the Russian – and US – internet
- Instaserfs: Precarious Employment in the New – and Old – Economy
June 2015
- Pattern recognition: racism, gun violence and Dylann Roof
- Listening Machines, and the whether, when and how of new technologies
- Mystery Show is the new Serial. Kinda. (But it’s an awesome moment for radio.)
May 2015
- The death of Tidbit and why it matters
- Re:publica Keynote: The System is Broken – That’s the Good News
April 2015
- Introducing FOLD, a new tool (and a new model?) for storytelling
- The Civic Statuary Project
- Paying Attention to Garissa
March 2015
February 2015
January 2015
- Global Voices at 10: Food for Thought
- Global Voices Summit: Do We Feed the Trolls?
- Global Voices Summit: Online Crisis Reporting
- Howard French on the media’s coverage of Boko Haram massacres
- Global Voices Summit: Social Media in the Philippines
- Global Voices Summit: “Our Voices, Ourselves”
- Global Voices Summit: Protecting the Open Internet
- Honor every death: Paying attention to terror in Baga, Nigeria as well as Paris
2014 40
December 2014
- Pronoia, beautiful inefficiency, and an artwork built for one
- Why cameras alone won’t protect black mens’ lives
- Three selfies, and two appreciations of fellow travellers
November 2014
- Pixação, or why São Paulo looks like a death metal album cover
- Partners In Health at the MIT Media Lab – design challenges around Ebola
- “Watching Me Watching You” – Hasan Elahi and Josh Begley on the imagery of surveillance
- Sasha Costanza Chock on Immigrant Rights and Transmedia Organizing
October 2014
- Helen Nissenbaum on Ad Nauseum, resistance through obfuscation, and weapons of the weak
- Coco Fusco’s introduction to the Cuban blogosphere
September 2014
- Williams Convocation Address: “Bibliolarceny and the Size of the Universe”
- A public apology – on screwing up by not questioning assumptions – my talk at #BIF10
August 2014
- Self-segregation on social networks and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story
- News reports on Michael Brown’s death: how do mourners become a “mob”?
- The biography I’m waiting for: Bambaataa and the parallel universe of hip hop
July 2014
- How do you write a biography about collaboration?
- Free Zone 9 Bloggers
- Egyptian sumo wrestler bests a grand champion. Twice. While fasting for Ramadan.
- Summer Reading: Dan Drezner’s Theories of International Politics and Zombies, Colson Whitehead’s Zone One
- Life, only moderately messed up: understanding (my own) high-functioning depression
- “New media, new civics?” and reactions in Policy & Internet
June 2014
May 2014
- Melodica Music: stepping back in time in downtown Nairobi
- When Being Happy is Political
- Monithon and Monitorial Citizenship in Italy
- Two talks, no waiting
- Brief glimpses of other lives
April 2014
March 2014
- Susan Benesch on dangerous speech and counterspeech
- Imagining Wenzhou – How can we use the Internet to introduce readers to unfamiliar cities?
- 140journos – When Citizen Media filled the reporting gap in Turkey
- Myanmar, no longer closed, still complicated
February 2014
- danah boyd: “It’s Complicated”
- How Trayvon Martin’s death became a national story about race: a new paper
- Hugo Barra and America’s Technology Blind Spot
January 2014
- Sharp suits, warm beer – Guinness, sapeurs and the seduction of Congolese fashion
- Promise Tracker and Monitorial Citizenship
- “Audio Never Goes Viral”… and maybe that’s a good thing
- Data and its Discontents – notes and reflections from a panel at Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium
- Rest in peace, Teresa Peters
2013 54
December 2013
November 2013
- Khalida Brohi: from Balochistan to MIT
- Kate Darling on Robot Ethics
- Paul’s Pit Crew – Center for Civic Media Supports Out of Eden Walk
- An anniversary, a reflection
- Remembering Aaron: activism and the effective citizen
- Members, fans and complementary revenue models for the New York Times
October 2013
- Ta-Nehesi Coates and Hendrik Hertzberg at MIT on opinion journalism
- Zeynep Tufekci on protest movements and capacity problems
- Google cars versus public transit: the US’s problem with public goods
- Jen Pahlka and Clay Shirky at Code for America Summit
September 2013
- Saving the News with Advocacy Journalism: ten minutes with the Nieman Foundation
- Long tail audiobooks – a thought experiment
- What We Watch: a new tool for watching how popular videos spread online
August 2013
- Citizen science versus NIMBY?
- The “good citizen” and the effective citizen
- Charlie DeTar dissertation defense: Intertwinkles and digital tools for consensus decisionmaking
- On MIT’s report on Aaron Swartz’s prosecution
July 2013
- See you in a couple of weeks
- Surveillance, sousveillance and PRISM – an op-ed for Die Zeit
- Facebook, Reddit and what “social media” means
- Me and my metadata – thoughts on online surveillance
- Tracing Brazil’s Guy Fawkes Masks
June 2013
- The price of life on Florida’s Death Row
- The Launch of Rewire
- Linking news and action
- Sumo practice at Oguruma Beya
- WeChat: Learning from the Chinese Internet
- Li Yanhong at Sun Yat Sen University
- Sasha Costanza Chock at Sun Yat Sen University
- Civic Media at Sun Yat Sen U: Jing Wang and NGO 2.0
- Civic Media at Sun Yat Sen U: Chinese social media innovation
- Civic Media at Sun Yat Sen U: Mobiles, ads and games
- Civic Media at Sun Yat Sen University – Hal Abelson
May 2013
- Crowdfunding Checkbook Journalism: Gawker’s “Crackstarter” and its implications
- Big stories and little details: what Charles Mann misses
April 2013
- Cute Cats to the Rescue? Participatory Media and Political Expression
- Bad reviews, better reviews
- What comes after election monitoring? Citizen monitoring of infrastructure.
- Mourning those you never met: Scott Miller
- Bloggers in Bangladesh facing arrest, assault, murder
- Y’en a Marre – music and mobilization in Senegal
- Schneier and Zittrain on digital security and the power of metaphors
- #GetRewired
- Have books, need hashtags
March 2013
- Beyond “The Crisis in Civics” – Notes from my 2013 DML talk
- Harper High School, and finding solutions to complex problems
- Jose Gomez-Marquez, bringing maker culture to medicine
February 2013
- Corporate America and the Harlem Shake: Perfect Together
- Is civics in crisis? Or just changing its shape?
- Who let all those Ghanaians on the Internet? Jenna Burrell on internet exclusion
January 2013
2012 45
December 2012
- Mourn, and take action on guns
- Ghana Decides, 2012 – the story so far
- Paul Salopek: reporting the world at a walking pace
- Good and bad reasons to be worried about WCIT
November 2012
- What Ancient Greek rhetoric might teach us about new civics
- Hey VICE: Your documentary is bad, and you should feel bad
- On hating – and occasionally loving – Mads Brügger’s “The Ambassador”
- Steven Johnson’s Peer to Peer Politics at MIT Media Lab
October 2012
- What to make of Ai Wei Wei’s “Gangnam Style”?
- The ethics of attention: unpacking “Yellow Rain”
- Danielle Allen on equality, education and the Declaration of Independence
September 2012
- The Free Syrian Army deploys kittens, the ultimate Internet PR weapon
- TSA Pre-Check, Fairness and Opaque Algorithms
August 2012
- Understanding digital civics
- “Long Flights” – a somewhat serious business idea
- Now representing @Sweden…
- What would it take to start a gun control debate in the US?
- How do we make civic crowdfunding awesome?
July 2012
- Happy distractions: sumo, South African music, and Islamic hackerfic
- Kenya, power and questioning my assumptions
June 2012
May 2012
- Laamb and sumo – what would happen if Senegalese wrestlers came to Japan?
- An idea worth at least 40 nanoKardashians of your attention
April 2012
- Opening notes from Media Lab spring meeting
- The tweetbomb and the ethics of attention
- Tim O’Reilly at MIT Media Lab
March 2012
- The Passion of Mike Daisey: Journalism, Storytelling and the Ethics of Attention
- Useful reads on Kony 2012
- Teju Cole on American sentimentality towards Africa
- Unpacking Kony 2012
February 2012
- What is Civic Video? A Center for Civic Media brainstorm with Howard Blumenthal
- Linguistic isolation
- Wadah Khanfar, former director general of Al Jazeera, to speak at MIT Media Lab
- The lobbyist and the quilt
- News in the Age of Participatory Media
January 2012
- David Weinberger: Too Big To Know
- Beth Kolko: “Hackademia – Leveraging the conflict between expertise and innovation to create disruptive technologies”
- MIT Media Lab opposes SOPA, PIPA
- More notes from Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium
- Wael Abbas on video and social media in Egypt prior to the revolution
- Some highlights from the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium
- More thoughts on Occupy Nigeria
- Occupy Nigeria – a reactionary occupy movement?
2011 139
December 2011
- Exploring the Chinese internet with WeiboScope
- Usury, the Sioux and the race car driver
- SOPA and our 2010 Circumvention Study
- My new quest – replacing QR codes with tartan
- John Kelly, Morningside Analytics on the fact checking ecosystem
- Lucas Graves on the rise of fact checking
- Book review: Improvisational economies and a globalized building
- Welcoming (?) Al-Shabaab to Twitter
- An open thank you letter to Global Voices, on International Volunteer Day
November 2011
- DARPA director Regina Dugan at MIT: “Just Make It”
- Ziriums and Zeb Ejiro – Can cultural creation hold Nigeria together?
- #Nollytech – Understanding New Media Nollywood
- Mimi Ito on Otaku culture and cultural soft power
- An open letter to TED organizers on #TEDHighConcept
- Mapping Media Ecosystems at Center for Civic Media
- The rebuttal tweet
October 2011
- Civic Media Lunch: Telling stories about Occupy Wall Street
- Beth Coleman on “Tweeting the Revolution”
- Albert-László Barabási and scale free networks
- Ricardo Hausmann on Economic Complexity
- Joi Ito on Openness and the Media Lab
- César Hidalgo on personbytes and knowledge networks
- Ramesh Srinivasan on Digital Diversity at Center for Civic Media
- Former purveyor of discarded paradigms, at your service.
September 2011
- Why watch Zambia?
- I see what you’re thinking…
- links for 2011-09-16
- A Vast Wasteland, Five Decades Later
- The science of food… and of resetting your expectations
August 2011
July 2011
- links for 2011-07-28
- links for 2011-07-27
- links for 2011-07-25
- links for 2011-07-14
- links for 2011-07-06
June 2011
- Metrics for civic impacts of journalism
- links for 2011-06-29
- Mohamed Nanabhay and Joi Ito at Center for Civic Media
- Visions of civic media, from Chris Csikszentmihalyi and Sasha Constanza Chock
- Closing thoughts at the Knight-Civic Media Conference
- Four Questions about Civic Media
- Baratunde Thurston and civic satire
- Knight News Challenge winners at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference
- (Good) personal news
- links for 2011-06-15
- How diverse is your social network? How diverse should it be?
- Understanding #amina
- Martin Nowak and the mathematics of cooperation
- Charlie Nesson and a new vision of the public domain
- Hubert Burkert – moving beyond the metaphor
- Data, the city and the public object
- Latanya Sweeney and rethinking transparency
- Walls and thresholds – physical metaphors at Hyper-public
- links for 2011-06-03
- Reflections on the 2011 Quantified Self conference
May 2011
- Kevin Kelly on context for the quantified self
- Quantified Self Ignite talks, part two
- Short talks at Quantified Self
- Quantified Self – mood tracking
- New sensors and the Quantified Self
- The business of Quantified Self
- Quantified Self – Location Tracking
- Targeted marketing at Quantified Self?
- Ignite Talks at Quantified Self
- Quantified Self: Attention Tracking
- Seth Roberts on Personal Science, at Quantified Self
- Who freed Eynulla Fatullayev? And what does his release mean for Twitter activism?
- Jonathan Coulton: I’m replicable, dammit!
- links for 2011-05-19
- links for 2011-05-19
- links for 2011-05-19
- links for 2011-05-19
- links for 2011-05-18
- CHI keynote: Desperately Seeking Serendipity
- Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring
- Shirley Hung on control of the Chinese Internet
- Media Cloud, relaunched
- links for 2011-05-02
April 2011
- links for 2011-04-29
- links for 2011-04-26
- Overcoming political polarization… but not through facts
- US National Science Foundation blocks Global Voices Advocacy website
- links for 2011-04-19
- Protocol.by – sharing how you want to be contacted
- links for 2011-04-18
- links for 2011-04-13
- Morozov vs.(?) Tufekci at the US Naval Academy
- links for 2011-04-11
- Those White Plastic Chairs – The Monobloc and the Context-Free Object
- Orange Côte d’Ivoire sets a great example
- links for 2011-04-05
- links for 2011-04-04
- A worthy campaign – free SMS in Ivory Coast during the crisis
March 2011
- links for 2011-03-30
- links for 2011-03-29
- Angry birds, dictatorial pigs, satirical Russians
- links for 2011-03-28
- How restless a searchlight?: Using Media Cloud to measure the change in media cycles
- In Soviet Russia, Google Researches You!
- Facebook friends = regime instability?
- links for 2011-03-14
- links for 2011-03-11
- PJ Crowley at Center for Civic Media: only 75,000 followers fewer than Castro
- links for 2011-03-09
February 2011
- links for 2011-02-28
- links for 2011-02-23
- A world roundup
- Watching Bahrain through a friend’s eyes, heartbroken
- links for 2011-02-16
- A three week old reaction to Secretary Clinton’s internet freedom 2011 speech
- Goodbye, Mubarak: Hope, Fear and Mahir Çağrı
- links for 2011-02-11
- links for 2011-02-10
- Tunisia, Egypt, Gabon? Our responsibility to witness
- links for 2011-02-07
- Interview with Andy Carvin on curating Twitter to watch Tunisia, Egypt
- links for 2011-02-04
- links for 2011-02-03
- Andy Oram on Freeing the Cloud
January 2011
- links for 2011-01-30
- links for 2011-01-28
- Egypt: Too soon to analyze, so here’s my outbox
- links for 2011-01-26
- links for 2011-01-21
- links for 2011-01-17
- Rewire: Rethinking Globalization in an Age of Connection
- A reflection on Tunisia
- Brock’s insights on the Tunisia media attention disparity
- What if Tunisia had a revolution, but nobody watched?
- From Velveteen to Real
- links for 2011-01-08
- links for 2011-01-07
- links for 2011-01-06
- Algorithms, Unbirthdays and Rewiring Facebook
- links for 2011-01-03
- Games that help us wander
2010 186
December 2010
- links for 2010-12-28
- links for 2010-12-24
- links for 2010-12-23
- Wikileaks, analysis and speculative fiction
- Foot fetishes and internet norms
- links for 2010-12-22
- New Berkman Paper on DDoS – silencing speech is easy, protecting it is hard
- Dave Winer’s Techwithoutborders.org
- links for 2010-12-17
- Wayne Marshall on Nu Whirled Music… and my thoughts, too…
- Jon Udell, Calendars and Computational Thinking
- If Amazon has silenced Wikileaks…
- Civic media in Moldova… and Cambridge, MA, too…
November 2010
- Mica Pollock and OneVille: communications to strengthen educational communities
- “Kenya Matters”
- Apply for the Knight News Challenge!
- Backwards, towards serendipity
- links for 2010-11-11
- links for 2010-11-10
- Those ducking yankers who designed T9
- John Palfrey: The Path of Legal Information
- Kim Dulin and David Weinberger: Hacking the Library
- links for 2010-11-04
- David Rand: Social Science experiments with Mechanical Turk
October 2010
- When the best radio isn’t radio
- links for 2010-10-25
- links for 2010-10-22
- The ley lines of globalization
- How many people jump the Great Firewall?
- links for 2010-10-14
- Shortcuts in the social graph
- links for 2010-10-13
- Salzburg: Steve Bratt and the Web Foundation
- links for 2010-10-06
- Nollywood: is better distribution the remedy for piracy?
- Beth Kanter and Allison Fine on the Networked Nonprofit
- links for 2010-10-04
- On being wrong, or prediction versus analysis
- Public Spaces, Private Infrastructure – Open Video Conference
September 2010
- links for 2010-09-30
- links for 2010-09-29
- Cynthia Dwork defines Differential Privacy
- Could Canada help release Hossein Derakhshan?
- links for 2010-09-27
- Learning the Lessons of Bell, CA
- Mapping the recession
- Your chance to Gerrymander a congressional district
- Jonathan Zittrain and technology to transform the law school
- No Firewall – free speech resources for Vietnamese speakers
- links for 2010-09-15
- Eric von Hippel and 2.9 million British innovators
- Evaluating censorship circumvention tools and “irresponsibility”
- Media tracking and the quantified self
- links for 2010-09-02
- Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response
- Media attention and dysfunction – a recipe for political cynicism?
August 2010
- Increased US engagement in Somalia – it’s a trap!
- links for 2010-08-25
- links for 2010-08-19
- Airplanes, Faith and Latent Networks
- Housekeeping and shameless self promotion
- Kate Crawford: mobile media and the art of noise
July 2010
- Counting International Connections on Facebook
- links for 2010-07-27
- “Either you make films or make excuses” – ICT and the Nigerian film industry
- Highlights of our workshop on ICT and Elections in Nigeria
- TEDGlobal: Surprises, community spirit, and a goodbye
- TEDGlobal: Dimitar Sasselov and the 100 million earths
- TEDGlobal: Stefan Wolff and learning lessons to stop ethnic conflict
- Ze Frank: To Feel and Be Felt
- TEDGlobal: Rachel Sussman photographs plants from before year zero
- TEDGlobal: Jason Clay and a sustainable future through corporate collusion
- TEDGlobal: Johan Rockström and resilience
- TEDGlobal: Sugata Mitra, beyond Hole in the Wall
- TEDGlobal: Sebastian Seung mapping the connectome
- TEDGlobal: Stefano Mancuso and plant intelligence
- TEDGlobal: Heribert Watzke – We cook therefore we are
- TEDGlobal: Gero Miessenböck wants to control our brains
- TEDGlobal: Peter Eigen and global transparency
- TEDGlobal: Auret Van Heerden and bringing human rights into the global supply chain
- TEDGlobal: Jessica Jackley’s new project, Profounder
- TEDGlobal: Transforming voting, and education
- TEDGlobal: Growing away from styrofoam
- TEDGlobal: Tan Le reads our minds and moves our robots
- TEDGlobal: Neil Gershenfeld promises us a replicator
- TEDGlobal: John Hardy’s Green School
- TEDGlobal: Arthur Potts Dawson and urban sustainable food
- TEDGlobal: Addressing HIV in Southern Africa
- TEDGlobal: Inge Missmahl and the talking cure in Afghanistan
- TEDGlobal: The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour Kills
- TEDGlobal: Lewis Pugh swims for the environment
- TEDGlobal: Laurie Santos, irrationality and our primate financial advisors
- TEDGlobal: Sheena Iyengar and the paradox of choice
- A wider world, a wider web: my TEDGlobal 2010 talk
- TEDGlobal: Peter Molyneux wants you to talk to your TV
- TEDGlobal: Chris Wild wants to show you his time machine
- TEDGlobal: Steve Johnson – Chance favors the connected mind
- TED Global – Matt Ridley on how ideas mate
- TEDGlobal: Patrick Chappatte and global cartooning
- TEDGlobal: Nic Marks and happiness that doesn’t cost the earth
- TEDGlobal: Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa and the 99
- Sheryl WuDunn – empowering women, defending development aid
- TEDGlobal: Joseph Nye on smart power
- links for 2010-07-06
- What if search drove newspapers?
June 2010
- July, at a mean velocity of about 300mph
- links for 2010-06-23
- links for 2010-06-22
- Nancy Baym: Pop music and social exchange
- links for 2010-06-18
- Save the Galvao – the World Cup and good natured global taunting
- links for 2010-06-11
- Who to support? Algorithms for World Cup 2010
- Overcoming apathy through participation? – (not) my talk at Personal Democracy Forum
- Eli Pariser on Filter Bubbles
- Visualizing Twitter, understanding voluntary segregation
- Legendary Leakers at PDF2010
May 2010
- Explaining Erlinder?
- The Partisan Internet and the Wider World
- Democrats, Republicans and Appropriators
- links for 2010-05-19
- Miriam Meckel – Iran, Robert Mackey and information brokers
- Global Voices: Love and money
- Elliot Maxwell on the implications of openness
- How big is Internet Freedom?
- Inaugural Breaking Borders Awards at GV 2010 Summit
- ROFLCon: From Weird to Wide
April 2010
- Eric Rescorla – How paranoid should we be?
- Herbert Lin – the implications of cyberwarfare
- Alec Ross on Internet Freedom at Princeton CITP
- links for 2010-04-24
- The volcano and the virtual
- Lindaba Ziyafika – The News is Coming
- Notes from the papers panel at ISOJ
- Towards Texas Transparency
- Reflections on the cyberdissidents event
- Freedom House at the George W. Bush Institute
- GWBush Institute – opening remarks
- Too complex to report: Magnetar, Goldman Sachs and burning down the financial house
- Blog silence, real-world logorrhea
- links for 2010-04-09
- Abdoulaye Wade: Monumental Ambition
- Is Vietnam conducting surveillance via malware?
March 2010
- links for 2010-03-30
- Michael Slaby – learning from Obama for America
- links for 2010-03-28
- links for 2010-03-24
- Makmende’s so huge, he can’t fit in Wikipedia
- Internet Freedom: Protect, then project
- Everybody wants to rule the world
- links for 2010-03-19
- links for 2010-03-17
- links for 2010-03-12
- links for 2010-03-12
- links for 2010-03-10
- links for 2010-03-09
- John Wilbanks on Science Commons, and generativity in science
- links for 2010-03-08
- links for 2010-03-04
- Jonathan Stray on original reporting: imaginary abundance
- links for 2010-03-03
- Karrie Karahalios – Text and Tie Strength
- ChatRoulette survey (long bookmark)
February 2010
- Snowy journey, with journalism
- Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention
- links for 2010-02-18
- Asashoryu resigns. Will sumo ever globalize?
- Jure Leskovec on Memetracker, quantitative media analysis
- links for 2010-02-16
- Watching Nigeria (even when my eyes hurt)
- links for 2010-02-12
- links for 2010-02-11
- links for 2010-02-08
- Geocaching: Augmenting Reality for Enhanced Serendipity
- Offline… yet again…
- Yahoo!, Moniker: why is Mowjcamp.com still offline 6 weeks after hack attack?
January 2010
- Julie Cohen – Internet policy and human flourishing
- Liberia – shock or insight?
- Reacting to Clinton’s Freedom to Connect speech
- The Ghanaian Earthquake Hoax
- Four possible explanations for Google’s big China move
- Following the Haitian earthquake online
- What happens in Cabinda doesn’t stay in Cabinda
- links for 2010-01-09
- Yemen and the problems of ADD journalism
- Welcome back, Yeeyan
2009 357
December 2009
- Global Voices at age 5 – #GV5
- Could Rick Warren stop Uganda’s anti-gay legislation?
- A simple way to improve Facebook suggestions
- Bye, bye Beacon… and other bad ad ideas
- Stories I’m (not) following this week
- Background on Dickey’s “The Blogfather and the Spy”
November 2009
- Our new joint venture
- links for 2009-11-26
- From compassion to action, from action to knowledge
- Bridging with Brian Lehrer
- Samuel Bowles introduces Kudunomics
- links for 2009-11-16
- What if they stop clicking?
- Help us find some language data
- Criticism corrected, and corrections criticized
- links for 2009-11-11
- David Weinberger: what information was
- Why we fall for fast news
- CFCM: Crossing Borders
- CFCM: Subjective Mapping
- CFCM: Rethinking News
- CFCM show and tell: Making Change
- Show and tell at Center for Future Civic Media
- Fiji: Reality, brand, mirage
- Threatened Voices
- Hossein Derakhshan, now detained for over a year
October 2009
- links for 2009-10-30
- links for 2009-10-29
- Beware the sound bite
- Jonah Lehrer: Outsider Intelligence
- Neri Oxman: Design is truly alive
- Esther Duflo: Experiments against poverty
- Will Allen and the urban farming revolution
- Anthony Doerr: Am I Still Here?
- Kyna Leski on creativity
- Alec Ross – technology that empowers, not overpowers
- Michael Wesch and taking YouTube seriously
- Paul Van Zyl: Why America needs a TRC
- Rinku Sen – towards racial justice
- A mobile microscope without lenses
- Zach Lieberman and the technology that lets us breathe
- Jay Rogers – Make Cool Cars
- Massoud Amin on fixing the whole system
- Josh Nesbit networking community health workers
- John Forté walks a new path
- Ashley Merryman: Stop praising kids, and put them to bed
- Steve Barr: Outlaw private school!
- Luis von Ahn: CAPTCHAs? My fault…
- Tony Hey and Citizen Science
- Electric cello and shared mobile phones
- Kloop, and the next generation of citizen media
- The new Technorati: advertiser-friendly, foreigner-free?
- Between Mobutu and Mandela
- Mapping Main Street
- links for 2009-10-20
- links for 2009-10-19
- Wu Tang and a wider world
- Towards hackable architecture
- Robert Gaskell models faraway worlds
- Tom Shannon, floating above New York City
- William Uricchio and the object/subject in participatory media
- What I’m not writing about
- links for 2009-10-13
- On connecting the dots – a response to Lessig on transparency
- links for 2009-10-10
- Babtounes, “democrazy” and the Tunisian elections
- Fighting the four-year myth
- Stop creating “jargon spewing economic vandals”
- Neri Oxman – form-finding, not form-making
- Nell Merlino – not anti-man, but pro-girl
- Don Tapscott and learning from our kids
- John Rogers and a dream of a new auto industry
- Leading off at BIF’s storytelling festival
- links for 2009-10-06
- links for 2009-10-02
September 2009
- Herkko Hietanen: The social future of television
- links for 2009-09-29
- Twitter.org? and building models for social media
- Protesters killed by coup government in Guinea
- “The Budget” and the Amish Internet
- Wanted: legitimation
- Harvard Forum: Focus and Faith
- Harvard Forum – what do we need to know?
- Harvard Forum: ICT4D and, and, and…
- Harvard Forum – are we settling for too little?
- Harvard Forum: ICT and gender
- Harvard Forum: Mobiles, Markets and making culture
- Notes from the Harvard Forum on ICT4D
- Camille Utterback: Tripod intern makes good
- Clay Shirky and accountability journalism
- Google Books and big data
- Amanda Michel on Distributed Reporting
- DocumentCloud – improving search for journalists
- Sunlight Foundation’s Ellen Miller at Transparent Text
- Open Government: Beth Noveck at Transparent Text
- Building the future of translation, online
- links for 2009-09-18
- links for 2009-09-17
- Calestous Juma and the future of African communications
- Ai Weiwei, censorship and sacred facts
- links for 2009-09-11
- links for 2009-09-10
- Ars Electronica: A few of my favorite things
- Stephen Downes, Anders Sandberg on Cloud Intelligence
- Gay sex scams – and community responses – in Ghana
- The Cloud, and useful illusions
- Juliana Rotich on the Cloud and environmental change
- Education and the cloud at Ars Electronica
- Teddy Ruge and the online African diaspora
- Kristen Taylor, food pornographer
- Xiao Qiang and Evgeny Morozov with dueling views of digital activism
- Hamid Tehrani and a nuanced view of social media in Iran
- David Sasaki maps the brave new world of the cloud
- Interactive art in blackface
- links for 2009-09-03
- Off to Austria
- When coverage outpaces interest – can statistics show us when the press is trying to lead readers to a story?
- links for 2009-09-02
- Craigslist and the customer service-led business
August 2009
July 2009
- links for 2009-07-31
- Getting my Mac to read to me
- links for 2009-07-30
- Fun and games with human misery
- links for 2009-07-25
- When the Times reports rumors
- Alex MacGillivray explains the Google Books settlement
- Buying Fabric in Accra
- Accra, fifteen years later
- After Obama in Ghana
- links for 2009-07-19
- Bowling in Abuja
- Michael Best on Liberian storytelling
- Afternoon sessions at the Digital Bridge Initiative, Abuja, Nigeria
- Notes from Digital Bridge Institute, Abuja, Nigeria
- Evgeny and me on BloggingHeads.TV
- Ignoring the Omens
- links for 2009-07-10
- Wrestling with Jefferson’s Moose
- Activist media and selective amplifiers
- links for 2009-07-07
- The real life update
- Daniel Gilbert on why it’s so hard to know what makes us happy
- Jonathan Lyons on the Islamic resolution of science and monotheism
- Jason Clay and measuring the environmental impact of agriculture
- links for 2009-07-04
- John Hagel on serendipity
- Aspen Ideas Festival: Immigration Reform
- Tim O’Reilly on Government 2.0
- Aspen Ideas Festival: Surveillance society
- Aspen Ideas Festival: Digital Natives
- Three secretaries, no waiting
- Elizabeth Alexander – Not Britney Spears
- Property rights: so easy an Indonesian dog could do it.
- George Dyson and critics of Darwin
- Israeli Ambassador to the US at Aspen Ideas Festival 2009
- Which coups count?
June 2009
- The Open Translation Manual
- links for 2009-06-30
- links for 2009-06-29
- links for 2009-06-27
- Notes and reflections from the Open Translation Tools Summit 2009
- links for 2009-06-26
- Twitter and the news cycle, perfect together
- links for 2009-06-23
- Chris Csikszentmihayli and a complex vision of citizen media
- Iran, citizen media and media attention
- Business models and the future of media – MITKNC
- links for 2009-06-17
- Cluetrain at Ten – a conversation at Berkman
- Beth Kolko and Design for Digital Inclusion
- links for 2009-06-16
- links for 2009-06-13
- How China blocks the letter “F”
- Invented languages, cosmopolitan dreams
- links for 2009-06-12
- links for 2009-06-11
- Lewis Hyde and the enclosure of silence
- links for 2009-06-09
- Goodbye to Bongo
- Beyond Broadcast 2009. Beyond overwhelmed.
- Local Perspectives at Beyond Broadcast 2009
- Beyond Broadcast ’09 – Sandra Ball-Rokeach on Ethnic Media
- links for 2009-06-04
- Henry Jenkins on civic media at Beyond Broadcast 2009
- Lokman Tsui on hospitality, journalism and Global Voices
- Watching the police
- links for 2009-06-02
- What percentage of the Internet is in English? In Chinese?
May 2009
- Mr. McLaughlin goes to Washington
- links for 2009-05-30
- CIRC09 – Mapping, Circumventing, Translating, Sharing
- CIRC09 – Censorship and surveillance on the Chinese Internet
- links for 2009-05-27
- CIRC09 – The Global Network Initiative
- 2009 Chinese Internet Research Conference
- The Natsu Basho – the good, the bad and the cosmopolitan
- links for 2009-05-22
- Sriracha Caramels
- links for 2009-05-20
- links for 2009-05-18
- New York Times on Social Translation
- The assassinated lawyer, the arrested Twitterer – corruption, whistleblowing and protest in Guatemala
- links for 2009-05-14
- TED embraces social translation
- David Bollier on the principles of the commons
- Visualizing swine flu versus tuberculosis
- Twitter and social graph analysis
- links for 2009-05-07
- Slingshot Hip-hop, and the power of digital Palestine
- For the agrarian insane
- links for 2009-05-04
- Free Razily
April 2009
- The importance of being a dork
- Twitter – trends and incidence
- links for 2009-04-30
- links for 2009-04-28
- If US government contractors had designed the iPhone
- Marc Lynch asks us to be realistic about digital activism in the Middle East
- Flu infects Twitter
- An elegy (of sorts) for Geocities
- Madagascar: new government, old tensions
- Saberi and Derakshan, and support from an unlikely quarter?
- links for 2009-04-21
- LinkedIn briefly blocks Syria, more confusion over trade/commerce regulations
- Deliver us from Twitter…
- Catching up on politics and social media via Global Voices
- links for 2009-04-16
- Studying Twitter and the Moldovan protests
- links for 2009-04-11
- Where Dambisa Moyo’s right, and where she’s wrong
- Unpacking “The Twitter Revolution” in Moldova
- Tim Hwang explains net memes at the Berkman Center
- A new blog to read, a useful service on hold
- links for 2009-04-03
- From protest to collaboration: Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and lessons for xenophiles
- links for 2009-04-02
March 2009
- Argentine economics and maker culture
- Ada Lovelace Day
- Media Cloud code release
- On vacation
- Lova Rakatomalala on Twitter and Madagascar. And the US State Department.
- links for 2009-03-18
- David Post, Jefferson and a moose
- Jeff Howe on Crowdsourcing
- links for 2009-03-17
- links for 2009-03-16
- links for 2009-03-14
- Countries for rent, and the Malagasy crisis
- links for 2009-03-13
- links for 2009-03-12
- Politics and new media, or “Should I really tweetspam Congress?”
- Al Gidari – Mobile phones and surveillance
- Introducing MediaCloud
- links for 2009-03-10
- The grass mud horse, and other legendary Chinese beasts
- Rising Voices, TED, Pop!Tech and the challenges of innovating… everywhere
- WSJ on online ad efficiency – more bad news for newspapers
- Zimbabwe is – mostly – offline. Opposition – mostly – online.
- Stumbling into history in South Troy, NY
- Hip-hop and electoral politics: Democracy in Dakar
- China’s complicated internet culture
- links for 2009-03-03
- The Economist, in Chinese. Just add 240 citizen translators.
February 2009
- Rest in Peace, Rocky Mountain News
- links for 2009-02-27
- Rolcats and recursive humor
- Pippa Norris on globalization and communication
- Iranian blogs also at threat at Bluehost
- Join the herd!
- links for 2009-02-23
- The final word on the death of newspapers?
- links for 2009-02-20
- Watching Madagascar, via Twitter
- links for 2009-02-16
- Why arrest Bennett?
- Bluehost censors Zimbabwean bloggers
- Tendai Biti’s tough job
- links for 2009-02-12
- links for 2009-02-10
- Andriankoto’s hat
- The end of TED 2009
- Liz Coleman reinvents liberal arts education
- Barry Schwartz on practical wisdom
- English, piano and tinkering – a new curiculum?
- Painful questions from Dan Ariely
- A One Laptop Per Child update from Nicholas Negroponte
- Bruce Bueno De Mesquita predicts the future of Iran
- Alex Tabbarok is a radical optimist.
- Nate Silver explains racism and elections with statistics
- In which expectations get defied: Lena Maria Klingvall
- TED gets physical. And more than a little explicit.
- Willie Smits is saving Borneo, one orangutan at a time
- Siftables rock the conference
- Dickson Despommier and Vertical Farms
- Rosamund Zander and human virtuosity
- Up Wake, Zero… and Twitter
- Nathan Wolfe and viral forecasting
- Bonnie Bassler and bacterial communication
- Nalini Nadkari climbs trees
- Jennifer Mather and octopus personality
- Thelma Golden – freestyle, frequency, flow
- TED U, take 2
- TED University
- Pinch-hitting
- Big pictures of the world, above, below and on the dance floor
- Introducing the TED Fellows
- Seth Godin, and movements worth starting
- Carpeting a green world
- Pattie Maes invents a sixth sense
- Nandan Nilekani explains India… in ideas
- Tim Berners-Lee: Raw Data Now
- Design for a living world
- Rebooting: Bill Gates
- links for 2009-02-03
- TED versus Davos. Screwdrivers versus herring?
January 2009
- links for 2009-01-31
- links for 2009-01-30
- My conversation with Kofi
- links for 2009-01-29
- Web meme two, why I blog about Africa
- Paying attention to Madagascar
- My talk at Berkman: Mapping a connected world
- links for 2009-01-27
- links for 2009-01-26
- Internet meme #1: Seven things you might not know
- links for 2009-01-24
- More map lust: global populations in 1890
- My Publius essay on the polyglot internet
- On starting well
- links for 2009-01-22
- BugLabs and open-source hardware innovation
- links for 2009-01-20
- The Onion’s predictions for the Bush presidency
- links for 2009-01-17
- Is ad-supported journalism viable in a pay-for-performance age?
- links for 2009-01-16
- links for 2009-01-15
- Seduced by BBC’s maps of British infrastructure
- Good and bad news from Zimbabwe
- links for 2009-01-14
- links for 2009-01-13
- Zimbabwe authorities holding eight activists – and a two-year old child – in prison
- links for 2009-01-12
- links for 2009-01-09
- Great volunteer gig in Ghana for experienced web developer
- Install a trojan for Israel? Uh, no thanks.
- Towards an Atlas of Globalization
- links for 2009-01-08
- Celebrating the inauguration
- links for 2009-01-07
- Interview on CBC
- China, porn and unintended consequences
- links for 2009-01-06
- Voting again… and again… in Ghana
2008 411
December 2008
- links for 2008-12-27
- Mapping: Infrastructure and flow
- Hal Roberts: Should we worry that Google is watching?
- links for 2008-12-23
- MSF’s top ten – how disconnection affects public health
- Finding hope, even in the hardest stories
- Bribery is a two-way street
- If you can, please help us out
- links for 2008-12-19
- Chris Salzberg on Global Voices, and the challenges and potential of community translation
- Media Re:public – the future of news in a digital age
- Maura Marx, Open Knowledge Commons and the digital library
- Bengali bloggers debunk credulous AFP story about Taj Mahal “replica”
- Consensus on Somalia: it’s going to get worse
- Shameless self-promotion
- Citizen video and windows on the world
- Open for Questions: Participation, from campaigning to governing
- The changing relationship between internet and politics?
- A divided government in Ghana?
- links for 2008-12-09
- Censoring a little is hard. Censoring a lot is easy.
- Good news is no news?
- links for 2008-12-06
- Bridgeblogger and Xenophile, a tale of two bloggers
- links for 2008-12-05
- Watching the 2008 Ghanaian presidential election
- links for 2008-12-02
November 2008
- Old friends, old tires
- links for 2008-11-30
- Citizen voices and the Mumbai attacks
- links for 2008-11-28
- links for 2008-11-27
- Harumafuji: still Mongolian, still badass.
- Putting that extra life to good use
- links for 2008-11-25
- OSI – Social media in closed societies
- links for 2008-11-21
- Ozeki Ama. I like the sound of that.
- links for 2008-11-20
- Free Hoder?
- Piracy – a great excuse to write about Somalia
- Michael Heller and the gridlock economy
- links for 2008-11-15
- Sniffing out the future in Morogoro, Tanzania
- Obama for vice-president… of Ghana?!
- links for 2008-11-11
- Slow News Day
- Spot.us launches
- The weekend in Dubai
- Innovation from Constraint (the extended dance mix)
- Ushahidi documents violence in the DRC
- links for 2008-11-07
- links for 2008-11-06
- The sort, the election, the hope
- Twittering the election… and wondering if this is the right tool
- links for 2008-11-03
- The polyglot internet
- links for 2008-11-01
October 2008
- The Congo War, take three?
- CSMonitor and the future of international news
- GV gets love in the press. Obama gets love in Ghana.
- links for 2008-10-28
- Viral videos in blue and red
- links for 2008-10-27
- links for 2008-10-25
- links for 2008-10-24
- Jennifer Bussell on eGovernment, corruption and governance
- Woices, and weird windows on the world
- A closer look at a deep blue world
- links for 2008-10-22
- Geeks love librarians
- Crowdsourcing, humor, participation
- On doing the right thing
- Innovating from constraint
- If it’s Wednesday… Barcelona
- links for 2008-10-14
- If it’s Monday, this must be Tihany.
- Fathers, sons, museums
- links for 2008-10-10
- My turn on the soapbox
- links for 2008-10-07
- Chaz Davies doesn’t mince images.
- The mines of Ilakaka, and reporting from the edge of the world
- Cultural appropriation of the kick-ass kind
- links for 2008-10-04
- Putting a face on XDR-TB
- links for 2008-10-02
- links for 2008-10-01
September 2008
- links for 2008-09-30
- Mastermundo, and the challenge of breaking rules
- Lost in translation?
- PICNIC08 – Surprising Africa
- Inspiration: Francis Kéré
- More talking, less writing at PICNIC08
- My afternoon at PICNIC08
- Picnic08: Connected rabbits, running shoes and cable providers…
- Picnic08 – Genevieve Bell on secrets and lies.
- Itay Talgam conducts PICNIC08
- Picnic08 – The future of social networks
- Picnic 08: Aaron Koblin visualizes the world
- Picnic ’08 – Charles Leadbeater, Creativity and Collaboration
- Assaulted by designers
- CC+Flickr+Keynote = my Monday
- links for 2008-09-20
- A24 – An online marketplace for African video content
- Sumo and the cycle of nature
- Playing the Internet with PMOG
- Media Re:public – what’s broken in journalism, and can citizen media help fix it?
- Help me surprise my Dutch friends with “Surprising Africa”
- links for 2008-09-14
- links for 2008-09-13
- MSM love for the bridgebloggers
- links for 2008-09-12
- Taking a Broader View
- Mapping a connected world
- links for 2008-09-08
- Parochialism and cultural export… or why Titanic is France’s best-grossing film
- links for 2008-09-05
- Infowar and Measuring Authenticity
- links for 2008-09-03
August 2008
- links for 2008-08-30
- “Plakado”, Journey and cultural disconnects
- No barbecue for Al Jazeera. Plenty of death metal, though.
- Blogger “failures” in the Georgian war, and the rise of citizen propaganda
- Memories of Arcade Dreams
- Mugabe heckled: a new day for Parliament in Zimbabwe?
- WE Magazine
- links for 2008-08-23
- links for 2008-08-22
- You go to war with the data you have
- The Economist visits with three digital nomads
- links for 2008-08-19
- links for 2008-08-16
- Misunderstanding cyberwar
- The joy of reading the footnotes
- Bridges to Saudi Arabia
- Who wants what? Google Insight on spam, pirated software and other fun stuff
- links for 2008-08-13 [delicious.com]
- Who seeks what, where – Google’s Search Insight
- links for 2008-08-12 [delicious.com]
- Gmail down
- GVO’s coverage of South Ossetia
- AP’s ethnography of news consumption
- “How do I help?” – Introducing Nabuur
- Polymeme and distributed agenda-setting
- links for 2008-08-04 [delicious.com]
- Biomass charcoal in eastern DRC
July 2008
- links for 2008-07-31
- Internet Censorship and Nose-Thumbing
- Brother, can you spare a billion?
- Social lions, fiscally-literate mobile phones
- Visualizing Social Networks… in Excel
- Unusual collaborations at Creative Capital
- Artists and superheroes
- Incremental ideas: solar-powered GSM towers
- Provocative, political… and very funny
- Creative Capital: Same stories, different models?
- links for 2008-07-24
- Saving sections of the daily newspaper
- links for 2008-07-23
- Looking at the US as a “patchwork nation”
- Kristen Taylor and options for videoblogging
- The ongoing debate on the digital future of journalism
- links for 2008-07-22
- The changing newsroom: good, bad and ugly
- links for 2008-07-21
- Egypt: Lots of bloggers, fewer wikipedians
- Global Voices hires Ivan Sigal. I celebrate.
- Sumo leads me to the dark side
- The complexity of sharing scientific databases
- Moldova, bridges and storytelling
- Modding and the “brutal economics” of video games
- Media, reality, representation: what are we paying attention to when we pay attention to Darfur?
- The Fallacy of Examples, and the problems of extrapolating from media
- A goofy dance, a sweet lullaby
- Polymeme: Architecting the way out of echo chambers?
June 2008
- Global Voices and collective decisionmaking
- China, bias, misunderstanding
- GV Summit: Elections and citizen media
- Rising Voices at the Budapest Summit
- A quick update from the GV summit
- Global Voices Summit: The Open Net Initiative and internet censorship
- PDF: Citizen Media – left, right, left, right…
- PDF: Visualizing the political blogosphere
- PDF: Rebooting the System
- Tsvangarai pulls out of Zimbabwe elections
- Kenya: Citizen Media in a time of crisis
- Chartock Radio, and the challenge of public broadcasting
- Zimbabwe: small reasons to hope?
- Chris Kelty: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
- The lengths some guys will go to for a blog post…
- Simple examples of cool ideas – last post from MIT conference
- Cellphones, civic media and conversations with winged carnivores
- Activism, art and future civic media
- New Media, New Voices
- Dyson on King, and different words for different audiences
- Kazi560 – Jobsearching via mobile phone
- Future Civic Media at MIT. Shiny!
- Citizen Media and Pakistan’s Long March
- The architecture of serendipity
- “If we act deranged enough, maybe they’ll just give us the country.”
- An involuntary hiatus, for some of you
- The red dots lead to the Central African Republic…
- David Weinberger and the Ninja Gap
May 2008
- Financial models for “difficult” journalism
- Why we pay attention to Darfur
- My shiny new retina
- Video interview at Berkman at Ten
- Heard, not seen
- Expectations
- Eyes closed at Berkman at Ten
- Reality by Rothko
- Why I’ll be ignoring you for the month of May
- Korb Eynon and tribal fame
- Talking homophily with Brooke Gladstone and On The Media
- links for 2008-05-03
- links for 2008-05-02
- How to tell the story of the strike against Al-Shabab in Somalia?
April 2008
- How to study surveillance
- links for 2008-04-29
- Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia
- links for 2008-04-25
- links for 2008-04-24
- Zimbabweans on next steps in the electoral crisis
- links for 2008-04-23
- links for 2008-04-22
- Why did the chicken cross the road? It was running from the minister of health…
- Bolivian Voices
- links for 2008-04-19
- Watching, waiting (part 2)
- Watching, waiting
- links for 2008-04-18
- Zimbabwe: the endless endgame
- (Dark) humor about Zimbabwe
- Video Night at the Berkman Center
- Why it’s good to wander…
- On stage in Perugia
- The US Elections as seen from Italy
- Berstein: The best obtainable version of the truth
- 24 hour news and nationalism
- Political spin (and lost in Perugia)
- links for 2008-04-10
- Live from Umbria
- links for 2008-04-08
- Time’s blog index
- Njei Moses Timah fights dog fraud in Cameroon
- links for 2008-04-05
- Dave Marash leaves Al-Jazeera English
- links for 2008-04-04
- My eyes
- Still waiting in Zimbabwe
- Tunisian video activists on BoingBoing
March 2008
- Guessing at election outcomes in Zimbabwe
- Journalism in 2013
- John Kelly and mapping blogosphere links
- David Weinberger, reframing media around abundance
- Roberto Suro, looking backwards to understand the future of media
- Manuel Castells on media and power
- BBC’s Richard Sambrook at Media Re:public
- Mapping electoral fraud in Zimbabwe
- Bridgeblogging Chinese anger over perceived media bias
- links for 2008-03-25
- Media attention cartograms
- You could listen to me… or to pro-Obama reggae
- Give the people what they want (?)
- links for 2008-03-21
- LOLVoices
- links for 2008-03-20
- Mashups for social change
- Become Pop!Tech’s official blogger
- links for 2008-03-18
- The battle against international news clichés
- DigiActive documents digital activism
- The World, and bloggers from all around the…
- links for 2008-03-15
- links for 2008-03-14
- Book review: “The Bottom Billion” by Paul Collier
- links for 2008-03-13
- What does it cost to close down a narcostate?
- Roaming with Fellow Globalists
- links for 2008-03-09
- The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech
- links for 2008-03-08
- links for 2008-03-07
- Violet Blue at ETech
- ETech2008: Will social networks stabilize Iraq?
- ETech2008: Paul Torens and modeling crowds
- ETech2008: Why Sun wants to host your games
- ETech2008: Saul Griffith and personal power footprints
- Post-conference kerfuffle
- From TED to BIL
- TED2008: Geldolf asks for help
- TED2008: Liberals, conservatives and moral humility
- TED2008: John Francis walks the walk
- TED2008: Al Gore with solutions
- TED2008: Paul Collier – Compassion and enlightened self-interest
- TED2008: Innovation in the morning
- TED2008: Chris Abani – Forgetting their names
- TED2008: Ben Zander and one buttock playing
- TED2008: The flashbulb moment
- TED2008: Helen Fisher and the origins of love
- TED2008: Narratives and questions
- TED2008: The future of the car
- TED2008: Sue Goldie and the cost of health
February 2008
- TED2008: Peter Schwartz – Everything’s gonna be alright
- TED2008: Don’t be a turkey
- TED2008: Richard Preston – Go Climb a Tree
- TED2008: Very smart crows.
- TED2008: Paul Stamets: If all you have is a mushroom everything looks like a mycelium
- TED2008: Robert Ballard wants you to look down
- TED2008: Bringing the forces together
- TED2008: Tod Machover, and finding yourself through music
- TED2008: Amy Tan and her muse
- TED2008: Robert Lang, folding the future
- TED2008: Yves Behar – Design from the inside out
- TED2008: Delighting the Eyes
- TED2008: Karen Armstrong and religions for peace
- TED2008: Neil Turok, finding the African Einstein
- TED2008: Dave Eggers wants you to go to school
- TED2008: Samantha Power on stopping genocide
- TED2008: Pangea Day
- TED 2008: Duck and cover
- TED2008: Lucifer or hero?
- TED2008: Garrett Lisi looks for balance
- TED2008: Leonardo’s face
- TED2008: Reconcilliation
- TED2008: Thomas Krens and the remedy for boredom
- TED2008: Beauty is survival, boredom is style
- TED2008: Doris Kearns Goodwin and the balanced life
- TED2008: Memes and Temes
- TED 2008: Molecular programming and controlling our destiny
- TED 2008: Craig Venter’s Modest Hope
- Ted2008: Alisa Miller on Media Attention
- Ted2008: Debating the Role of the Media
- TED2008 – Breathe.
- TED 2008: An argument about aliens
- TED2008: Pat Burchart explained the 96% of the universe we can’t see
- TED2008: Jill Bolte Taylor finds an amazing lesson in a terrible experience
- TED2008: Stephen Hawking answers the big questions
- TED2008: Chris Jordan’s images of our world
- TED2008: Wade Davis – Cultural destruction or cultural survival?
- Louise Leakey leads off at TED 2008
- links for 2008-02-26
- How a Pakistani ISP briefly shut down YouTube
- links for 2008-02-24
- Trying to make sense of arcane financial issues
- Don’t stop believing
- links for 2008-02-23
- Distressed properties, on and offline
- Lewis Hyde: Throwing Down Encroachments
- links for 2008-02-19
- Steve Bloomfield breaks new ground in Somalia reporting
- Teju Cole: Every Day is for The Thief
- links for 2008-02-17
- links for 2008-02-16
- links for 2008-02-15
- links for 2008-02-14
- The Kenyan middle class… or is that the digital activist class?
- links for 2008-02-13
- Anthology Records and the resurrection of dead media
- links for 2008-02-12
- Pros and Cons of Facebook activism
- Ken Banks on Frontline SMS
- Sami ben Gharbia and video activism
- links for 2008-02-07
- Five cables cut? Just what is going on?
- Judith Donath: When do we care if you are human?
- links for 2008-02-06
- links for 2008-02-05
- Hoping for Obama
- Searching for common ground with Andrew Keen
- Beth Kolko at Berkman
- links for 2008-02-02
- Oh, Canada.
- Electric hooliganism at the African Cup of Nations
January 2008
- Help, I’m surrounded by librarians. :-)
- links for 2008-01-29
- Parag Khanna’s New World Order
- BIL and TED, an excellent adventure
- links for 2008-01-25
- Success. Success? Success.
- links for 2008-01-24
- Viktor Bout, the icon for international black markets?
- 5.4 million dead in Congo. Believe it or not, it could have been worse.
- Fernando Rodrigues: Transparency and corruption in Brazil
- links for 2008-01-22
- links for 2008-01-20
- links for 2008-01-19
- Kenya: mapping the dark and the light
- Mugabe makes more Zim millionaires
- Cute Cat Theory at ETech
- Rising Voices Introduction to Citizen Media
- Vinyl ethics
- The Geography of Bliss
- links for 2008-01-15
- Fill the Gap II, and an update on the Kenyan situation
- Fill the GAP – Netherlands
- links for 2008-01-10
- Digital activists find ways to help Kenya
- links for 2008-01-09
- Scoble, Kenya and learning to connect
- Putting your family under surveillance… for science!
- links for 2008-01-08
- Tribe
- Blog silence for Fouad
- links for 2008-01-06
- How the Internet says happy birthday
- It’s my party, and I’ll fry if I want to
- links for 2008-01-05
- links for 2008-01-04
- Kenya: heartbreak and hope