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From The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband-Enabled World, a symposium hosted by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media in cooperation with the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Initiative (broadband.gov). MIT Tech TV Keynote address by Eugene Huang, Director of Government Performance and Civic Engagement for the FCC’s National […]

Today, Google Maps is rolling out bicycle directions:http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/google-maps-for-bikes There are a number of existing bike map providers, many of which have grown through community-provided, crowd-sourced data. One could argue that these projects have struggled to garner sufficient participation to really take off: http://www.bikely.com/ http://www.nycbikemaps.com/maps/nyc-bike-map/ http://opentripplanner.org/ http://www.opencyclemap.org/ Now, all at once, […]

Okay, enough people have (re)berated poor Clifford Stoll, whose 1995 essay The Internet? Bah! Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana resurfaced and, yes, is still so curmudgeony that it makes Dennis the Menace’s Mr. Wilson sound like Pangloss. To wit: What the Internet hucksters won’t tell […]

(Update: Adam Klawonn responds below. Post has been updated with his noted correction.) The Zonie Report, a project by Adam Klawonn, has decided to shut its virtual doors, for now. Klawonn writes: I learned some hard lessons in my idealistic crusade to bring better, more innovative journalism to the expectant […]

Cross-posted at GrassrootsMapping.org Another day, another new grassroots map! After working with residents of Cantagallo at the beginning of February to produce the first map of their community with Daniel Miracle of Escuelab, we met with members of another of the 3 groups of Shipibo living in the same zone […]