Citizen video and windows on the world
Yesterday afternoon, I sat in on a discussion at a Berkman Center conference about the role of YouTube in electoral politics. It was never explicitly… Read More »Citizen video and windows on the world
OSI – Social media in closed societies
My friend and colleague Evgeny Morozov is spending a year as an Open Society Institute fellow, working through some of his ideas about cybernationalism and… Read More »OSI – Social media in closed societies
Piracy – a great excuse to write about Somalia
It’s been a nice change of pace to hear stories about Somalia leading newscasts the last couple of days. The audacious hijack of a massive… Read More »Piracy – a great excuse to write about Somalia
Spot.us launches
Spot.us is one of the very coolest ideas funded via the Knight News Challenge, the funding mechanism that’s supported Global Voices’ Rising Voices project. It’s… Read More »Spot.us launches
Ushahidi documents violence in the DRC
My friends at Ushahidi, an amazing team of creative Kenyans who built a dynamic system to allow for citizen reporting of violence during the post-election… Read More »Ushahidi documents violence in the DRC
Twittering the election… and wondering if this is the right tool
Many of my friends who are following the US election intensely are supporting Twitter Vote Report. It’s a very cool mashup designed to let people… Read More »Twittering the election… and wondering if this is the right tool