Fernando Rodrigues is one of Brazil’s leading journalists, and an innovator in the field of unlocking public information. He writes for Folha de São Paulo,… Read More »Fernando Rodrigues: Transparency and corruption in Brazil
Like many of you, I’ve been following the events in Kenya closely the past three weeks. One way to measure the continuing protest and unrest… Read More »Kenya: mapping the dark and the light
About two years ago, when the Ion USB turntable came out, I bought one, set it up and began ripping old vinyl records to my… Read More »Vinyl ethics
The last time I wrote about happiness, I found myself swamped with emails requesting my data set and asking questions about methodologies for measuring happiness.… Read More »The Geography of Bliss
Mark Hopkins wrote a provocative post on Mashable, a prominent social networking technology blog, last week. Titled, “Forget Kenya, Let’s Talk Scoble-gate!“, the post berates… Read More »Scoble, Kenya and learning to connect
I’d expected a near-empty Berkman Center for the first luncheon talk of the year, with many of my fellow fellows heading north to New Hampshire… Read More »Putting your family under surveillance… for science!