In a recent blog post, my friend and colleague Evgeny Morozov questions the responsibilities of academics who study internet censorship circumvention tools. As one of… Read More »Evaluating censorship circumvention tools and “irresponsibility”
Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly have been documenting an emerging phenomenon they call “the quantified self“. The term refers to a set experiments that people… Read More »Media tracking and the quantified self
Comparing Approaches to Information Filtering for Relevance by @ScepticGeek Useful taxonomy of strategies to determine relevance within different search and serendipity structures. (tags: serendipity search… Read More »links for 2010-09-02
Heather Blanchard, Noel Dickover and Andrew Turner from Crisis Commons visited the Berkman Center Tuesday to discuss the rapidly growing technology and crisis response space.… Read More »Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response
Note: two updates at the end of this post. I’m not very active in local politics. I follow international news more closely than the news… Read More »Media attention and dysfunction – a recipe for political cynicism?