The goal of this weekend’s Open Government Principles workshop at O’Reilly and Associates was to draft a set of principles to define what constitutes open… Read More »Towards the principles of open government data
I’m in Sebastapol, CA today and tomorrow, participating in a conversation hosted by Tim O’Reilly and Carl Malamud of public.resource.org. The topic is “Open Government”… Read More »Tools for open government
The name “Michael Anti” is known by almost everyone who follows free speech issues. Journalist 赵京, aka “An Ti”, became internationally famous when Microsoft blocked… Read More »Michael Anti and the end of the golden age of blogs in China
Indulge me for a moment here while I play with a hairbrained experiment. Stephen King’s recent Q&A with Time Magazine’s Gilbert Cruz is getting a… Read More »The People’s Democratic Republic of Britney
I had the pleasure of meeting Matt and Emily Mason in Boston yesterday. Matt and Emily are the founders of Wedia, a new non-profit designed… Read More »Uncovered stories and attention economics
If you’ve got a Facebook account, try this experiment: Go to overstock.com and buy something. (I recommend Kwame Appiah’s “Cosmopolitanism” if you’re really stuck for… Read More »Facebook changes the norms for web purchasing and privacy