David Weinberger has an intriguing post up today about the “Fallacy of Examples“. He’s reacting to a column from Nick Kristof in the New York… Read More »The Fallacy of Examples, and the problems of extrapolating from media
There’s this guy, Matt Harding. He describes himself as “a 31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do… Read More »A goofy dance, a sweet lullaby
My friend Evgeny Morozov is one of the most insightful technology journalists working today, writing for The Economist, BusinessWeek and Le Monde. (That’s what I… Read More »Polymeme: Architecting the way out of echo chambers?
How do 70 opinionated people from around the world make up their collective minds? Easy. They use an opinion spectrometer. After a day-long brainstorming meeting… Read More »Global Voices and collective decisionmaking
In putting together the Global Voices summit, the program sometimes ends up changing to reflect recent events. We added a panel a few weeks ago… Read More »China, bias, misunderstanding
If you’re not with us here in Budapest, please join us on the video stream. All the coverage is archived, which means that if you’ve… Read More »GV Summit: Elections and citizen media