Ten years ago, when the internet was young and innocent, four provocateurs posted their manifesto, The Cluetrain Manifesto. It was snarky, it was smart, it… Read More »Cluetrain at Ten – a conversation at Berkman
Beth Kolko manages the Design for Digital Inclusion research group at the University of Washington, a group that includes undergrads, grads and faculty across fields,… Read More »Beth Kolko and Design for Digital Inclusion
My friend and colleague Hal Roberts is one of the internet’s top censorship and filtering researchers. When Chinese authorities announced that a client-based piece of… Read More »How China blocks the letter “F”
Lewis Hyde, poet, critic and intellectual historian, has been hard at work on a book about “the commons”, and specifically the notion that ideas should… Read More »Lewis Hyde and the enclosure of silence
What do you choose to study when you’re a Dutch media scholar of Chinese descent? You could focus on Chinese internet filtering, a rich, provocative… Read More »Lokman Tsui on hospitality, journalism and Global Voices
I gave a talk in Washington DC a few weeks ago, and had a strange realization – with a change of political administration, I know… Read More »Mr. McLaughlin goes to Washington