Media tracking and the quantified self
Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly have been documenting an emerging phenomenon they call “the quantified self“. The term refers to a set experiments that people… Read More »Media tracking and the quantified self
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
links for 2010-09-02
Comparing Approaches to Information Filtering for Relevance by @ScepticGeek Useful taxonomy of strategies to determine relevance within different search and serendipity structures. (tags: serendipity search… Read More »links for 2010-09-02
Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response
Heather Blanchard, Noel Dickover and Andrew Turner from Crisis Commons visited the Berkman Center Tuesday to discuss the rapidly growing technology and crisis response space.… Read More »Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response
Media attention and dysfunction – a recipe for political cynicism?
Note: two updates at the end of this post. I’m not very active in local politics. I follow international news more closely than the news… Read More »Media attention and dysfunction – a recipe for political cynicism?
Increased US engagement in Somalia – it’s a trap!
This week featured ferocious clashes in Mogadishu between Somalia’s fledgling federal government and Al Shabab, an Islamist militia with ties to Al Qaeda. Al Shabab… Read More »Increased US engagement in Somalia – it’s a trap!
links for 2010-08-25
Trapped in the Anglosphere, we've lost sight of next door | Martin Kettle | Comment is free | The Guardian Powerful essay on "the anglosphere"… Read More »links for 2010-08-25