Who to support? Algorithms for World Cup 2010
The 2010 FIFA World Cup starts on Friday, which means that football fans across the world have a difficult task this week: determining who to… Read More »Who to support? Algorithms for World Cup 2010
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Overcoming apathy through participation? – (not) my talk at Personal Democracy Forum
Micah Sifry, one of the founders of the Personal Democracy Forum conference, asked me to focus my speech at his conference on some of the… Read More »Overcoming apathy through participation? – (not) my talk at Personal Democracy Forum
Eli Pariser on Filter Bubbles
Eli Pariser offers the idea of a personalized conference. What if we came to an event like Personal Democracy Forum, and sorted ourselves by gender,… Read More »Eli Pariser on Filter Bubbles
Visualizing Twitter, understanding voluntary segregation
I’m a total Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas fanboy. I loved their stuff at the Media Lab, at IBM and now at Flowing Media, their… Read More »Visualizing Twitter, understanding voluntary segregation
Legendary Leakers at PDF2010
Micah Sifry hosts a conversation between two legendary leakers: Daniel Ellsberg, best known for leaking the Pentagon papers, and Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman… Read More »Legendary Leakers at PDF2010
Explaining Erlinder?
On Friday, American lawyer and law professor Peter Erlinder was arrested in Rwanda. His alleged crime is “genocide denial”, one of a set of offenses… Read More »Explaining Erlinder?