Cass Sunstein previews his new book
Cass Sunstein offered us a preview of his new book, tentatively titled “Mobs, Markets and Blogs”. As with Republic.com, it sounds like he’s asking tough… Read More »Cass Sunstein previews his new book
Eszter Hargittai on blogger insularity
Henry Farrell and Daniel Drezner have invited a handful of academics who focus on blogs to a meeting in Chicago to present papers that are… Read More »Eszter Hargittai on blogger insularity
Recovery 0.2.1 – more on geeky attempts to help out with Katrina relief
The Katrina PeopleFinder project is still hard at work. There are a few hundreds sets of data still available for entry on the PeopleFinder wiki,… Read More »Recovery 0.2.1 – more on geeky attempts to help out with Katrina relief
Recovery 2.0 – thoughts on what worked and failed on PeopleFinder so far
Update: The interface to search the PeopleFinder database is up. According to our friends at Salesforce.com, there are now 87,000 records in the database, all… Read More »Recovery 2.0 – thoughts on what worked and failed on PeopleFinder so far
Need help with volunteer data entry
UPDATE: Lots and lots of folks were good enough to volunteer – enough that it brought down the database for a few hours. We’re back… Read More »Need help with volunteer data entry
Voicemail and databases for Hurricane Survivors
Dozens of efforts are taking place – online and offline – to make it possible for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina to contact one another.… Read More »Voicemail and databases for Hurricane Survivors