The lobbyist and the quilt
I try to keep an eye on stories about PR and lobbying firms that work on behalf of dictatorial governments, like our oil-rich friends in… Read More »The lobbyist and the quilt
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
News in the Age of Participatory Media
I’m teaching my first class at MIT this spring, a “special topics” class at the Media Lab. (This is evidently how new classes get launched… Read More »News in the Age of Participatory Media
David Weinberger: Too Big To Know
David Weinberger‘s new book “Too Big To Know” (#2B2K – be sure to pick book titles that make good hash tags…) launched last night at… Read More »David Weinberger: Too Big To Know
Beth Kolko: “Hackademia – Leveraging the conflict between expertise and innovation to create disruptive technologies”
Beth Kolko is the sort of academic who follows her muse from one fascinating topic to another. Colin Maclay traces some of her past work… Read More »Beth Kolko: “Hackademia – Leveraging the conflict between expertise and innovation to create disruptive technologies”
MIT Media Lab opposes SOPA, PIPA
I’ve been working with friend (and boss) Joi Ito to help the Media Lab put up a statement about our collective opposition to SOPA and… Read More »MIT Media Lab opposes SOPA, PIPA
More notes from Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium
Some notes from day 2 of the Microsoft Research Social Media Symposium: My attempts to transcribe Wael Abbas’s talk about media and protest in Egypt… Read More »More notes from Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium