This summer, I have been working full-time with two part time internships through the Center for Civic Media. One internship has been with Vozmob, the mobile blogging site for day laborers, which I blogged about not too long ago. The other half of my time is spent working with a […]
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Today MIT and 13 other major universities submitted an amicus brief (PDF attached below) to the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of using race as a consideration in the admissions process. The case is Fisher v. University of Texas. Oral arguments will be heard on Oct. 10, with a decision […]
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 […]
As you might have seen in my short talk earlier this year, I’m excited about taking Data Therapy in a more artistic direction. Towards this goal, my collaborator/wife Emily and I just facilitated a tiny Data Mural pilot at the Doctors for Global Health General Assembly. The idea of a […]
Jesse Shapins from Zeega (http://zeega.org/) came by the Center today to demonstrate the Zeega editor. I was eager to see it in action after hearing from the Zeega team at events including the Knight/Civic Conference earlier this summer (http://civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/story-and-algorithm-a-comprehensive…), a Civic lunch last (http://civic.mit.edu/event/civic-media-lunch-zeega), and from Catherine D’Ignazio (http://www.ikatun.com/kanarinka/), an […]