Berkman fellow Dave Rand conducts social science experiments online, using labor markets like Mechanical Turk. His lunch presentation, titled “The Online Laboratory: Taking Experimental Social… Read More »David Rand: Social Science experiments with Mechanical Turk
Bill McKibben has an excellent essay – “All Programs Considered” – in the forthcoming New York Review of Books where he asks why radio doesn’t… Read More »When the best radio isn’t radio
traffic-map-wp-1600.jpg (16001200) TeleGeography's 2010 map of telephone traffic. Fascinating to look at telephone routes coming into the UK. (tags: telephony maps cartography internet phone globalization… Read More »links for 2010-10-25
Why restrict immigration at all? / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com Pro-immigration op-ed includes an excellent history of US efforts to restrict migration through… Read More »links for 2010-10-22
Six years ago, early in my tenure at Berkman, I wrote a blog post that tried to calculate the cost of shipping water from a… Read More »The ley lines of globalization
My colleague Hal Roberts, I and friends at Berkman released a paper today that attempts to estimate usage of circumvention tools, tools used to evade… Read More »How many people jump the Great Firewall?