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In “Too Big To Know”, David Weinberger correctly characterizes our pressing epistemic crisis. How do we know what we know what we know on the Internet? How do we create, locate, and trust that authority? As Weinberger points out, the authority of print publications is in part conferred by the […]

The Globe and Civic recently announced a partnership funded by the Knight Foundation. Yesterday, at the invitation of GlobeLab director Chris Marstall, I visited the headquarters of my home town newspaper for the first time. I was accompanied on my visit by a group of reporters from The Tech, MIT’s […]

In August 2009, I helped create a map of banned and challenged books in the United States, using data from the Kid’s Right to Read Project. In a blog post for Barnes & Noble I described the idea behind the map: The Brazilian state capital of Fortaleza sits snug along […]

I have recently spent a great deal of time thinking about technology. This may come as no surprise. After all, I am a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working in a lab which makes civic technology, and writing my thesis about how people use social technology. But though […]

This past Monday night the Internet exploded. It does this from time to time due to some seminal cultural moment, when everyone, it seems, swarms online to post their reactions and thoughts right this moment. On Monday night, it was due to an incredible, horrible, no good very bad call […]