The rebuttal tweet
There’s a great blogpost from Nancy Scola about the rise of Twitter hashtags as form of political discourse, specifically focusing on the #WeCantWait tag, which… Read More »The rebuttal tweet
Former purveyor of discarded paradigms, at your service.
Designer Richard Vijgen has posted a lovely and ambitious visualization of a data set that has special personal meaning for me: 650 gigabytes which represent… Read More »Former purveyor of discarded paradigms, at your service.
I see what you’re thinking…
“Dreams seen by a man-made machine How does it seem, how does it seem That we can see each others dreams” – CAN, “Last Night’s… Read More »I see what you’re thinking…
A Vast Wasteland, Five Decades Later
Fifty years ago, Newton Minow, the 35 year old FCC chairman, gave a speech that’s still studied today. It’s taught in rhetoric courses, tested on… Read More »A Vast Wasteland, Five Decades Later
The science of food… and of resetting your expectations
This is one of the more surreal weeks of my recent life. On Sunday, I took possession of an adorable and small apartment near Inman… Read More »The science of food… and of resetting your expectations
Metrics for civic impacts of journalism
How do news organizations measure impact? That’s the question I found myself talking with Phil Bronstein of the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this week. He’d… Read More »Metrics for civic impacts of journalism