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”
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
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
Wael Abbas himself to the crowd at Microsoft’s Social Media Symposium saying, “I’m just a blogger.” Yeah, and Clay Shirky, who introduces him, is just… Read More »Wael Abbas on video and social media in Egypt prior to the revolution
After weeks of unseasonable temperatures, western MA finally got some snow yesterday morning, just enough to make me miss my train to New York City.… Read More »Some highlights from the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium
A few days back, I wrote a post about the Occupy Nigeria movement. As with many of my posts, my main goal was to research… Read More »More thoughts on Occupy Nigeria