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A few weeks ago, Malcolm Gladwell, he of the Tipping Point, set off a fire storm in the blogosphere and twitterverse in response to a pointed critique of the political value of Twitter, Facebook, and other social media. Gladwell’s comments drew a sharp comparison between the kinds of activism which […]

Civic media is serious business. Do we need a little more levity? New Media can learn a lot from Old Media about taking ourselves too seriously, a trick that YouTube certainly has caught onto and turned into a franchise. Former newspaper humor columnist Susan Trausch defies her reader to resist […]

Featured Job opening: Assessment researcher for us http://civic.mit.edu/news/job-opening-assessment-researcher Job opening: our Voip Drupal project is looking for a part-time Drupal developer http://cot.ag/a1mgGw Former Boston Globe editor Jack Driscoll on Patch and PatchU using free labor: “Count me out.” http://cot.ag/boNCWV Our Sourcemap project on Treehugger.com, introducing the first Office Depot recycled […]

The MIT Center for Future Civic Media is hiring an experienced Drupal developer to work part-time as a contractor on the Voip Drupal platform. Voip Drupal is a novel open source platform that makes it easier for Drupal developers to build websites that literally make and receive phone calls. In […]

What’s wrong with this picture: Mainstream media lays off reporters (and others) left and right, because New Media appeals to a large segment of news consumers. New Media realizes local news draws more audience, so numerous hyper-local approaches are tried. Most national attempts fail, because they don’t have reporters. AOL’s […]