Today I’m giving a talk at the Library of Congress’s “Digital Preservation” conference on civic crowdfunding and community assets. I’ll be giving a brief overview of crowdfunding, its historical precedents and how it is being used in civic contexts today. One of the main goals of the presentation is to […]
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This is a liveblog of Ethan Zuckerman’s keynote at Links 2013. His slides are available online. Ethan opens by saying that his stock and trade is “the unusual connection.” He starts talking about the Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The museum hasn’t changed since it’s early collector mentality. […]
There are a lot of people talking about “Visual Literacy” right now. Shazna Nessa shared some thoughts from a journalistic point of view on the Mozilla Source blog recently. Her discussion focused on how data visualizers should consider the limitations and affordances of visual depictions of information. I’d like to […]
Along with interviewing and hanging out in the peer economy, I’ve been reading voraciously since the beginning of the year. The goal of my thesis research is not to publish another version of existing information but to create information that is useful in the world of practice. To understand the landscape, […]
These are the moments that make the other moments of attempted unity more difficult, more hollow, for many among us. Before giving into the polarized reactions that the Trayvon Martin story has elicited from its onset, we might practice a little empathy for those for whom the case represented a […]