It’s an unseasonably beautiful day here in Western Massachusetts, roughly 30 degrees farenheight higher than it has any right to be, and I was sitting… Read More »If US government contractors had designed the iPhone
Two weekends ago, I wrote a couple of scripts designed to let me (and anyone else who was interested) study the emergence of memes on… Read More »Flu infects Twitter
Yesterday, Yahoo announced that it would be shutting down its free webhosting service, Geocities, later this year. The Geocities website sports a banner announcing that… Read More »An elegy (of sorts) for Geocities
Tim Hwang is a researcher at the Berkman Center who works closely with Yochai Benkler on his research on cooperation. But he may be best… Read More »Tim Hwang explains net memes at the Berkman Center
During the conflict between Russia and Georgia this past summer, my friend Evgeny Morozov decided to study the dynamics of “cyberwar” by becoming a partisan.… Read More »Install a trojan for Israel? Uh, no thanks.
I’ve been in Dubai for the past three days at a World Economic Forum event. WEF is starting a new project called “Global Agenda Councils”,… Read More »The weekend in Dubai