After lunch, the Sunlight/Berkman conference moved to a format that I usually find pretty painful – the Speed Geek session. In these sessions, people give… Read More »Ten democracy projects in seventy minutes
One of the brave activists I was privleged to meet when I visited Harare a few months ago was Frank Chikowore, an independent journalist who’d… Read More »Welcome, Zimscoop!
Dan Newman, the executive director of MAPLight, shows off some of the work he’s done, linking voting and funding information in California. MAPLight brings together… Read More »Introducing MAPLight to the Berkman/Sunlight conference
I’m spending a cold, rainy Martin Luther King’s day at Harvard Law School with a room full of geeks and political activists. It’s a day-long… Read More »Local online organizing at the Sunlight Foundation meeting
Like David Weinberger, I’m very surprised to be named Time’s person of the year (along with you, and you and you). Like Rebecca MacKinnon, I… Read More »Time’s person of the year: fat, ignorant and xenophobic?
This year’s Global Voices meeting was a three-day event for many of us. We’d decided it made sense to break the main meeting into two… Read More »The Hibiscus Project: How African and Chinese bloggers start to talk to one another