While a great deal of what I write here is underinformed speculation, this piece is unusually speculative and underinformed. It’s possible that I’m flat out… Read More »Is ad-supported journalism viable in a pay-for-performance age?
I’m in love. I’ve been blogging these past few weeks about infrastructure and how we understand and misunderstand it. My motives are a bit oblique… Read More »Seduced by BBC’s maps of British infrastructure
I mentioned two days ago that Zimbabwean authorities were holding a two-year old child prisoner, along with his activist parents. Denford Magora drew my attention… Read More »Good and bad news from Zimbabwe
My friend Persephone Miel came to the Berkman Center more than a year ago to take on a challenging question: What’s the future of journalism… Read More »Media Re:public – the future of news in a digital age
It’s a story too strange to be true: a wealthy Bangladeshi film-maker is building a life-sized replica of the Taj Mahal near Dhaka so that… Read More »Bengali bloggers debunk credulous AFP story about Taj Mahal “replica”
Vijaysree Venkatraman of the Christian Science Monitor has a very generous article about my recent thinking on the challenges of finding sufficiently challenging information online,… Read More »Shameless self-promotion