I’ve been hunkered down these last few weeks sketching a skeleton of my thesis on user-generated censorship. One of the questions I have been prompted to answer is how user-generated censorship happens. In its most immediate, technical character, this is a trivial question to answer. On reddit and digg it […]
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The CivicMaps Toolkit is taking shape into something very interesting. With a focus on grassroots, community groups and organizations, the CivicMaps Toolkit is currently being populated with case studies, open-source tools and platforms, interviews and other resources to assist those seeking to use maps to foster their social […]
Watch the new video. All the information about this unique mapping tool is included: As far as the overall project, it’s been going pretty well so far. Collecting useful mapping tools has not been very difficult, as I would discover them by browsing the internet or checkout out Facebook posts. […]
This blog post was written with Andre Muggiati. This week, our Introduction to Civic Media class discussed freedom of information and transparency. To start with, we not only took our normal public notes but we also decided to be radically transparent by having class in a Google hangout. Conspiracy, Transparency, […]
The recent fun tumblr “Charts from the floor of the US Senate” (and Orrin Hatch’s gem) brought this story to mind: One of the formative moments of my youth came from a town hall meeting with Hatch’s colleague, senator Bob Bennett, on the topic of wilderness protection of federal land […]