Usury, the Sioux and the race car driver
It’s a few days after Christmas, and if you overextended yourself in buying gifts for your family and friends, you may be thinking about options… Read More »Usury, the Sioux and the race car driver
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
SOPA and our 2010 Circumvention Study
Daniel Castro of The Information Technology & Innovation Fund recently published a paper supporting the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) currently being debated in congress.… Read More »SOPA and our 2010 Circumvention Study
My new quest – replacing QR codes with tartan
Center for Civic Media meetings start with an icebreaker question: you introduce yourself, and tell us whether you prefer pirates or ninjas, homemade or canned… Read More »My new quest – replacing QR codes with tartan
John Kelly, Morningside Analytics on the fact checking ecosystem
John Kelly, chief scientist of Morningside Analytics, makes pretty diagrams that feature multicolored dots. The pretty dots frequently tell complicated and subtle stories about the… Read More »John Kelly, Morningside Analytics on the fact checking ecosystem
Lucas Graves on the rise of fact checking
Lucas Graves, a doctoral student at Columbia and a research fellow at the New America Foundation, frames a discussion on fact checking by offering a… Read More »Lucas Graves on the rise of fact checking
Book review: Improvisational economies and a globalized building
Robert Neuwirth is bringing new insights to familiar (for him, unfamiliar for most of us) territory in his book, “Stealth of Nations“. His previous work,… Read More »Book review: Improvisational economies and a globalized building