Can you name the director of your local public radio station? This isn’t one of those tests where you’re supposed to feel guilty if you… Read More »Chartock Radio, and the challenge of public broadcasting
If you’ve been following recent news out of Zimbabwe, you know that the leadup to the June 27th run-off election has featured shockingly violent intimidation,… Read More »Zimbabwe: small reasons to hope?
Anthropologist Christopher Kelty is visiting Harvard from Rice, discussing his book “Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software” at the Berkman Center today. The… Read More »Chris Kelty: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
The lengths that some guys will go to so they have something to blog about! You thought it was bad when I had retinal surgery… Read More »The lengths some guys will go to for a blog post…
Part of the fun of having an academic life based in Cambridge, MA, is that you’ve gotten to see a great deal of the most… Read More »Simple examples of cool ideas – last post from MIT conference
It’s the third day of MIT’s Future of Civic Media Conference, and I’m still finding that I can’t get the phrase “civic media” to come… Read More »Cellphones, civic media and conversations with winged carnivores