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@MedvedevRussia, Are You Listening? A Story of 6 Months on Twitter
It all started with a tweet. “Hello everyone! I’m on Twitter, and this is my first tweet,” wrote Dmitry Medvedev during a visit to Twitter headquarters in Silicon Valley on June 23, 2010. The Russian...
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Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology
The dream of capturing the infinite energy of the sun, wind, and waves has inspired innovators for centuries, yet fossil fuels dominate today mostly due to their portability, energy density, and...
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How to ignite, or quash, a revolution in 140 characters or less
On July 13th, I attended an event at the New America Foundation: How to Ignite, or Quash, a Revolution in 140 Characters or Less, which looked at the promise and limitations of technology in spreading...
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Is technology deurbanizing the city?
For American sociologist and economist Saskia Sassen, who introduced the 3rd edition of the Lift conference last week in Marseilles, cities have become a strategic space for any and all technological...
View ArticleGov 2.0 Is Not (Just) Government As A Platform
Gov 2.0 is more about people than it is about technology, more about culture than about the Internet. Before a presentation this week on how I use twitter to advocate for Gov 2.0 someone asked me: What...
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On Archiving Everything: Borges, Calvino, Google
Yesterday Google marked the 112th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges with this colourful sketch. The sketch alludes to his role as Director of the Argentinian National Public Library, his architectural...
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Complex and Contradictory: A New Way to Think of Digital Activism
The effect of digital technology on political contention is neither good nor bad, it is both. Yes, the Internet can help activists mobilize and re-frame public issues. It can also distract citizens...
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Africa: the New Cradle of Hacking
A hackerspace is a meeting place for hackers, those folk who make creative use of technology. They are virtually absent in Africa, with less than a dozen in the whole continent. By contrast they are...
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Open Source Hardware: A Design For Life
On a farm in deepest rural Missouri, the heartland of the American midwest, a village is emerging from the soil. It’s the base camp for the Open Source Ecology (OSE) movement, founded in 2007 to...
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13 of the Newest Political and Civic Tools
BlueStateDigital’s QuickDonate tool (now live on BarackObama.com lets your constituents save their payment information for frictionless giving. There’s also a mobile edition that pulls from the same...
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