When we’re not doing more serious work like documenting geographic and gender biases in media, or helping provide information to domestic workers about their rights,… Read More »Corporate America and the Harlem Shake: Perfect Together
In late January of 2012, Austin Oberbillig and Evan Ricks, students at Olympia High School in Olympia, Washington made a video called “Lunch Scholars“. The… Read More »Is civics in crisis? Or just changing its shape?
Jenna Burrell, assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, is speaking today at the Berkman Center on her research on internet usage… Read More »Who let all those Ghanaians on the Internet? Jenna Burrell on internet exclusion
Microsoft’s Social Computing Symposium is one of my favorite conferences of the year. It’s small, invitation only, curated by some of the smartest people in… Read More »The Globalization of Sumo – My talk at MSR SCS 2013
So we’re in the Home Depot, which we’ve visited almost every day since Colin’s been staying with me. That’s because we’re building a cabin, and… Read More »The flywheel in the farmer’s field, or why innovating around infrastructure is so hard
My son is failing to nap in the bedroom where Aaron Swartz spent a week as houseguest about four years back. I’m reading reactions to… Read More »Goodbye, Aaron.