The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs announced today that they had settled their complaint with the developers of “Tidbit”, a prototype piece of software… Read More »The death of Tidbit and why it matters
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”