If Amazon has silenced Wikileaks…
Whether you believe Julian Assange should be Time’s Man of the Year, or whether you’d like to see him tried for espionage, rape or other… Read More »If Amazon has silenced Wikileaks…
Civic media in Moldova… and Cambridge, MA, too…
My friends at the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT are engaged in a very interesting crowdsourcing project. You may remember Moldova’s “Twitter Revolution”… Read More »Civic media in Moldova… and Cambridge, MA, too…
Apply for the Knight News Challenge!
In 2006, the Knight Foundation tried an interesting experiment. They invited anyone, anywhere to apply for a grant to build a tool, platform or project… Read More »Apply for the Knight News Challenge!
When the best radio isn’t radio
Bill McKibben has an excellent essay – “All Programs Considered” – in the forthcoming New York Review of Books where he asks why radio doesn’t… Read More »When the best radio isn’t radio
Shortcuts in the social graph
I gave a talk on Monday in Salzburg, Austria that expanded slightly on my TED Global talk about imaginary cosmopolitanism. The audience in Salzburg included… Read More »Shortcuts in the social graph
Salzburg: Steve Bratt and the Web Foundation
I’m in Salzburg today at a Salzburg Global Seminar titled “Strengthening Independent Media“. The event’s being co-organized by the Knight Foundation, the Global Forum for… Read More »Salzburg: Steve Bratt and the Web Foundation