At the Berkman Center here in Boston, Brian Keegan and I co-facilitate a working group on cooperation research (email list here) that meets to discuss recent papers, offer feedback on technology design, and share a broad conversation among reearchers, designers, activists, and mediamakers. Today, I shared six cooperative technologies that […]
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Data Science VM is a script that automatically launches and configures a data science system on your computer or in the cloud in a half hour or less, across Linux, Windows, and OSX. In my experience, any new machine for a serious project takes 3-5 days to set up. During my […]
In an age of smartphone cameras and ubiquitous surveillance, what place is there for artists in politics? What does journalistic, political art look like? This summer, I’ve been exploring the role of comics in nonfiction, blogging about Nick Sousanis’s academic comics and interviewing Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld with The […]
How can online platforms combine learning with crowdsourcing? Today at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the team behind Curarium explained the rationale behind their project and showed us wireframes of the upcoming design. It’s a theme we’re also considering at the Center for Civic Media; last year we […]
“Sometimes you wake up and realise that you want to change the world.” Last week, Mark Simpkins wrote a blog post about how hard it is to know what to do if we want to create change. “When do I create a pledge? When do I contact my MP? When […]