One reason I make things on the Internet is a strong belief in the original powerful idea behind the web itself: that links can radically transform the way we tell stories and experience the world. Today, I saw an amazing example of this, via Sarah Espiner, my former colleague at the Ministry […]
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If anything sums up this year’s Knight MIT Conference on Civic Media, it was Joi Ito’s argument for creativity and risk, encouraging us to pursue visions that we do not yet know how to describe. The Civic Media Conference is a new breed of gathering for networked thinking and doing: […]
Today, the Knight Foundation announced winners of the latest Knight News Challenge, which was focused on on Networks. Watch live streaming video from knightfoundation at livestream.com Signalnoi.se(I missed this one, but it looked awesome. It waspresented by Haroon Meer and Mohamed Nanabhay from Al Jazeera) BehavioNadav Aharony of Behavio asks […]
Knight Prototype Fund The Knight foundation has just launched a prototype fund (Knight Challenge prototype fund), in an attempt to shorten the pace of grantmaking. The prototype fund takes 60 to 120 days and offers less than $50,000 dollars to help groups take an idea into prototype. The goal is […]
Can high levels of interoperability lead to greater innovation? What would a theory of interoperability look like? That’s the question posed by the latest book by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser: Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems(amazon). Palfrey and Gasser are a team I have come to […]