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 environmental issues, she has employed technology, writing, filmmaking and public speaking as means to build awareness and encourage dialogue. Two years ago, she began developing impossible.com, a social network that encourages users to exchange skills and services for free in the hope of encouraging a peer-to-peer gift economy.

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.

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 makerspaces to rethink and recreate technologies in collaboration. They share beliefs about what technology should be designed to do, discussing how information should be shared, and how to design the worlds we want. Researchers are now starting to study these movements, asking what these spaces look like, what ways do their practices changes across these sites, and what values connect them with the wider world. This panel includes some of those researchers.

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 sentence and correcting the chart of donations per solicitation.

==Understanding Donation Behavior through Email==

by Yelena Mejova, Venkata RK Garimella, Ingmar Weber, and Michael C Dougal of Yahoo Research

Today at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw offered some fascinating new evidence on the gender gap in Wikipedia. Here's a vizThink by Willow Brugh from the talk:

You should apply to be a Berkman Fellow next year, especially if you're a designer, computer scientist, or researcher of technology. There's one week remaining. Apply here.

If you haven't clicked on that link and started filling out the application, this blog post is for you. The official link has helpful information about qualifications, funding, and more. Here, I try to explain why makers, computational social scientists, and computer scientists should apply, even if you haven't finished your PhD.

I'm a Berkman Fellow for the 2013-2014 academic year. As a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab, I'm deeply enjoying the opportunity. This post tells my story, explains what I'm doing now, and answers questions you might have about being a Berkman Fellow. You should also know that is not official advice, and I'm not on the selection committee.

Can small challenges and peer support help young people grow habits to become socially responsible people? That's the premise of Rhythms, a fascinating web and mobile app launched this May by TearFund, the UK Christian relief and development agency.

Nathan's avatar checks his privilege on Rhythms