The Omidyar Network, DFID and Wired Magazine hosted an event in London last week, titled “Open Up“. It brought together pioneering organizations in the open… Read More »What Ancient Greek rhetoric might teach us about new civics
(Nathan Matias, Matt Stempeck and others at Center for Civic Media have put together an excellent blog post on this event as well – I… Read More »Steven Johnson’s Peer to Peer Politics at MIT Media Lab
Earlier this week, I gave a lecture titled “The Emergence of Digital Civics” at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. I was in South Austalia to… Read More »Understanding digital civics
Ten people each contribute $100 a month into a pool. They meet once a month and discuss possible projects to support. Each month, they give… Read More »How do we make civic crowdfunding awesome?
I am telling you that I do not speak Mandarin, I do not speak Cantonese, I have only a passing familiarity with Chinese culture and… Read More »The Passion of Mike Daisey: Journalism, Storytelling and the Ethics of Attention
Howard Blumenthal knows a few things about TV. His father produced Concentration, a famously long-lived game show on NBC, and Blumenthal grew up, in part,… Read More »What is Civic Video? A Center for Civic Media brainstorm with Howard Blumenthal