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Today is the Harvard launch of Impossible.com, a social network and app that facilitates a culture of giving and receiving. Hasit Shah helped me liveblog the event. SJ Klein also took livenotes. Lily Cole, founder of Impossible.com, is a social entrepreneur, fashion model and actress. An advocate for socio-political and […]

Photo Gallery: Bhopal’s Toxic Legacy SIMONE KAISER / DER SPIEGEL The Bhopal disaster in 1984 was one of the worst industrial accidents in history. But almost three decades later, toxic waste is still being stored on the site under poor conditions. Here, the remains of the Union Carbide plant. I’m […]

Today, Ricarose Roque and I attended a panel on “Making Cultures” at CSCW, the ACM’s conference on computer supported cooperative work. Here are our notes. Daniela Rosner starts out by setting the scene: Over the past decade, thousands of programmers, designers, and engineers have gathered at hacker spaces, co-labs, and […]

I’m here at CSCW, the ACM conference for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (full publication list here). This morning, our session is on civic participation. Brian Keegan started out the session, introducing the three papers. update feb 24: @EthanZ found glitches in the liveblog, which I have corrected by finishing a […]

ICANN 47 Gala Dinner I’m here at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society for a talk by Veni Markovski, ICANN vice-president for Russia, who’s talking to us today about issues in Internet governance. (This post was written with Ethan Zuckerman and Tim Davies) Ethan introduces Veni, who was very involved […]