Babycastles curates, hosts, and install independent games made by small groups of people or individuals around New York City and around the world, creating an arcade setting for people of all ages and identities to experience games. Speaking to us about Babycastles is Syed Salahuddin, an adjunct professor at […]
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How are networks and technologies being used to organise social movements in Mexico? Andrés Monroy Hernandez organised a panel to look at this question in the case of the Mexican #YoSoy132 movement. Andrés is a social computing researcher at Microsoft Research and an affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & […]
What do you call a cross between Tinkertoys, K’Nex, Gears, wooden blocks and a plastic boat? My friend Eric Rosenbaum and I are trying to find out. We’re inspired by Golan Levin and Shawn Sims’s Free Universal Construction Kit, which allows anyone with a 3D printer to connect previously-incompatible construction toys. We […]
Would it matter if we could track the total sum of global prayer and compare hourly analytics on the spiritual attention of religious people around the world? Last month, I spent a day discussing this and other questions with Andy Moore and James Docherty at the International Fellowship of Evangelical […]
Citizen journalism and social media have become major sources for the news, especially after the Arab uprisings of early 2011. From Al Jazeera Stream and the NPR’s Andy Carvin to the Guardian’s Three Pigs advert, news organisations recognise that journalism is just one part of a broader ecosystem of online […]