Today with Matt Stempeck and Stephen Suen, I’m liveblogging ROFLCon, a conference for things and people who are famous on the Internet. The livenote index is here. Christina Xu, event organiser, starts off ROFLCon to cheers. It’s amazingly packed venue: “One out of eight people in this room have done […]
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MIT Tech TV Tom Steinberg, founder of MySociety.org, spoke at the Lab today. MySociety is an amazing project based in the UK, which has built a slew of sites that help people report problems with and gain service from their local and national government. As their website says, “Using our […]
I published a new essay over at HiLobrow on the evolution and symbolism of the Guy Fawkes mask in Anonymous and protest culture. If you’re interested in how symbols work within protest movements, or Anonymous culture, please do check it out! “Anonymous is one face of a broad anti-authoritarian, pro-freedom […]
John Hockenberry introduces the Google Jockey team, a group of five people who are creating a livestream of google searches and links from twitter during the talks. To participate, tweet a link to #MediaLabIO, and follow along with the livestream. Our second set of talks is a series of presentations […]
Design and Humanism–John Maeda Oversimplified–Cesar Hidalgo A Language for Community Computing–Sep Kamvar Social Madness–Reid Hoffman Conversation: John Maeda, Sep Kamvar, Cesar Hidalgo, Reid Hoffman The second day of the Media Lab’s spring member meeting is a daylong conversation on the theme of “Inside Out”. Featured in the conversation are a […]