TED embraces social translation
My friends at TED have launched an exciting new project today, the TED Open Translation Project. It’s a powerful system to allow the “social translation”… Read More »TED embraces social translation
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Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
David Bollier on the principles of the commons
Drive around Boston in the wintertime and you might see an unusual sight – a shoveled-out parking space occupied by a lawn chair or a… Read More »David Bollier on the principles of the commons
Visualizing swine flu versus tuberculosis
Hans Rosling, the brilliant Swedish statistician and doctor, has been on a tear lately, publishing a lovely series of short videos on Gapminder.org. The videos… Read More »Visualizing swine flu versus tuberculosis
Twitter and social graph analysis
One of the best things about being an academic (or even, like me, a psuedo-academic) is how easy it’s become to collaborate with people you… Read More »Twitter and social graph analysis
links for 2009-05-07
Facebook%u2019s E-mail Censorship is Legally Dubious, Experts Say | Epicenter Facebook blocking links to Pirate Bay-hosted torrents in internal messaging system, i.e., email. Interesting questions… Read More »links for 2009-05-07
Slingshot Hip-hop, and the power of digital Palestine
Monday night, Rachel and I went to our local movie theatre to watch “Slingshot Hip-Hop“, a documentary on Palestinian hiphop by Palestinian/Syrian/American filmmaker Jackie Reem… Read More »Slingshot Hip-hop, and the power of digital Palestine