Friday at MIT CSAIL, Lada Adamic gave a talk on “To friend and to trust: eliciting truthful and useful ratings online”. Lada is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information & Center for the Study of Complex Systems. I met her in 2009 at the SIGWEB […]
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Updated with Data.gov and the MIT Libraries Guide to Data I’ve truly drunk from the MIT firehose this week. They say it’s not possible, but I think I actually managed to consume an unhealthy amount of information this week. Fortunately I had a strong Clover food truck coffee Friday morning, […]
A bill that was introduced into the House last month, called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), aims to penalize or eliminate websites that have pirated content, and the repercussions for Internet users could be far-reaching. It’s currently being heard by the House Judiciary Committee. Good ideas aren’t enough. They […]
The topic for Monday November 14th’s class was Hyperlocal civic media. This post is a summary of that discussion, which was facilitated by Ania. Raw notes can be found here: http://etherpad.brownbag.me/p/hyperlocalcivicmedia We read two pieces that focused on geoethicnic and hyperlocal media. We also discussed community websites in the Boston […]
With the growth of the 99 Percent movement and occupations all over the world, a large number of citizen journalists and activists have turned to real-time video casting services such as livestream, ustream, and justin.tv. Live streaming offers a compelling way to experience a protest on-the-ground as it’s happening – […]