Last week, as I rode a bus from Port Authority to my grandmother’s condo in New Jersey, eagerly awaiting a six-hour drive to Vermont, I grabbed the Thanksgiving edition of the New York Times and prepared to read some content that the Times won’t let me read for free anymore.
I was excited to see a [...]
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Do dancing half-naked girls threaten the New York Times?
I think we’re getting somewhere
In response to last week’s post about whether social software designers are thinking politically about their work and about whether social software can serve the public interest, fostering civic participation. Chris Messina, a developer of the Flock web browser, responded:
In fact, we’re designing Flock to serve that very purpose, considering the citizen journalism angles [...]
Brad and Angelina give me a reason to blog
Thanks to Rosanne for the tip about Brad and Angelina’s trip to Pakistan. They’re doing good work, I think, though this Yahoo! story leaves something to be desired. Nevertheless it’s nice to know that
Jolie and Pitt, who starred in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” led the field of People’s Choice Award contenders announced in [...]
The “participation revolution”?
Anyone who reads this blog fairly often knows that I’ve been getting interested in the way new web technologies (”social software” like blogging, del.icio.us, and Flickr) can be used to encourage more democratic participation both in the States and abroad, and also how those technologies can help people get online and represent themselves and their [...]
$100 laptop nervousness
The $100 laptop was unveiled yesterday at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis.
We all have high hopes for it, but as I’ve discussed, there are serious problems with the way Nicholas Negroponte et al. are framing the project. Namely, there’s no talk about how to get teachers to use the things other [...]
Destroy the hierarchy!
Hello. I’ve been interested recently in the ways that hierarchy and power are transmitted through the control of information and how new structures of information on the Internet are challenging that hierarchy.
This is obviously not a new thought, but I think it’s applicable certain kinds of thinking that are going on right now concerning [...]
Housekeeping
You may have noticed that I moved the address of the this blog from levjoy.com to levjoy.com/blog. In the next couple of months I’ll throw up a home page that will list different parts of the site, which will still include This is Really Happening.
So if you’ve bookmarked the page or subscribe [...]
Iranian bloggers must hasten the NYT’s descent to the journalistic sinkhole
I’ve been more than a little incommunicado lately, and it’s all because of George Bush.
Actually, it’s all because of an increasing inability to find any time to do anything but work, half-work, and worry about work. I wrote a little while back about the stress of coming up with the perfect organization system. When [...]
