I’m at the wonderful Re:publica conference for a single day, racing home to teach tomorrow… and thus far I’ve given a keynote and done over… Read More »Re:publica Keynote: The System is Broken – That’s the Good News
This morning, Center for Civic Media at MIT is releasing a new publishing platform, FOLD. Alexis Hope (a Masters student in my lab) and Kevin… Read More »Introducing FOLD, a new tool (and a new model?) for storytelling
The University of Cape Town removed a controversial statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes last week, after a month of student protests. Rhodes, who build… Read More »The Civic Statuary Project
On Thursday morning, heavily armed attackers, believed to be members of al-Shabaab, invaded Garissa University and killed 147 students. Mohamed Kuno, a high-ranking al-Shabaab official,… Read More »Paying Attention to Garissa
What’s a “holy shit visualization”? It’s a way of looking at data that makes turns a statistic you might have flipped past in a book… Read More »“It’s scary when we can do this out of love and there’s nothing you can threaten us with”
This morning, I’m at the Ford Foundation in New York City as part of the launch event for NetGain. NetGain is a new effort launched… Read More »Helping Launch the NetGain Challenge