More than a billion people a month visit YouTube to watch videos. Sometimes, those billion people watch the same video. More often, they don’t. YouTube… Read More »What We Watch: a new tool for watching how popular videos spread online
There are ten graduate students associated with the Center for Civic Media, half a dozen staff and a terrific set of MIT professors who mentor,… Read More »Citizen science versus NIMBY?
With Rewire out in the world, I’ve had some time this August to think about some of the big questions behind our work at Center… Read More »The “good citizen” and the effective citizen
Charlie DeTar defended his doctoral dissertation this afternoon at the MIT Media Lab. Charlie is a student in Chris Schmandt’s Mobility and Speech group, but… Read More »Charlie DeTar dissertation defense: Intertwinkles and digital tools for consensus decisionmaking
Hal Abelson’s report on MIT’s actions around Aaron Swartz’s prosecution was released last week. I was on vacation and offline – I returned home Sunday… Read More »On MIT’s report on Aaron Swartz’s prosecution
I’m on vacation for the next two weeks, taking a break from a long stretch of writing and talking about Rewire and related issues. I… Read More »See you in a couple of weeks