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It’s chilly here in western MA and there’s a hint of red starting to show in the leaves. This was the second full week of… Read More »What I Did On My Summer Vacation: 2023

Much of the Local Tech Ecology conference is a series of lightning talks at the Local Tech Ecologies conference at CU Boulder. Some short notes… Read More »Lightning Talks at CU Boulder Local Tech Economies

I’m at UC Boulder this morning at a conference organized by friend and colleague Nathan Schneider. He’s a professor of media studies who has done… Read More »Local Tech Ecologies: Fernanda Rosa on decolonizing technology

Why do you live where you live? If you’re like most Americans, your family may have chosen where you live. The typical American lives 18… Read More »From Phoenix to Cleveland: why we live where we live and why it’s time to change

On July 6th, Facebook (note 1) launched Threads, their new messaging microblogging system built on top of Instagram… in other words, their Twitter killer. Within… Read More »Competition for Twitter is good. Threads, thus far, is not.

There’s a saying that you never want to be the main character of Twitter. If you are, it usually means you’ve humiliated yourself in a… Read More »Elon Musk’s Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023