Gary Chapman, professor at UT Austin and director of the 21st Century Project, closes the conference with a speech on “Citizen Journalism and the Digital… Read More »Gary Chapman on Citizen Journalism and the Digital Divide
Dear readers, I could use your help. Every so often, someone asks me to nominate smart people to speak at a conference, win a prize,… Read More »Credit Where Credit’s Due
My friend Jimmy Wales has a history of taking on impossible tasks. As he admits, the idea behind Wikipedia is pretty crazy, and despite the… Read More »Beyond Broadcast politics: the Dean Dream redux, or a new approach to politics?
How could someone who’s passionate about connectivity in the developing world be opposed to a fiber-optic cable designed to make bandwidth cheaper in East Africa?… Read More »A peaceful EASSy feeling
I’m a big fan of Matt Hurst, even if he’s rooting for the Czech Republic over the US in today’s match. (We had a long… Read More »Matt’s visualization of Global Voices
My colleague Jonathan Zittrain has an important new paper published in the latest issue of the Harvard Law review. While it’s a paper for lawyers… Read More »Zittrain gets me thinking about generativity and aggregation