Welcome, Zimscoop!
One of the brave activists I was privleged to meet when I visited Harare a few months ago was Frank Chikowore, an independent journalist who’d… Read More »Welcome, Zimscoop!
Introducing MAPLight to the Berkman/Sunlight conference
Dan Newman, the executive director of MAPLight, shows off some of the work he’s done, linking voting and funding information in California. MAPLight brings together… Read More »Introducing MAPLight to the Berkman/Sunlight conference
Local online organizing at the Sunlight Foundation meeting
I’m spending a cold, rainy Martin Luther King’s day at Harvard Law School with a room full of geeks and political activists. It’s a day-long… Read More »Local online organizing at the Sunlight Foundation meeting
Time’s person of the year: fat, ignorant and xenophobic?
Like David Weinberger, I’m very surprised to be named Time’s person of the year (along with you, and you and you). Like Rebecca MacKinnon, I… Read More »Time’s person of the year: fat, ignorant and xenophobic?
“Rebunking” the Lebanese ambulance story
On July 23, 2006, two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances were attacked by Israeli forces, causing injury to the ambulance crews and the patients aboard –… Read More »“Rebunking” the Lebanese ambulance story
My life as a global media juggernaut
It’s evidently my week for total media domination. Not only are my latkes experiencing international exposure through the Boston Globe, I’ve finally made it onto… Read More »My life as a global media juggernaut