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So it’s almost the end of the year.  Over the past few months I finally adjusted to the graduate school schedule.  When I first started, I was so used to the artificial busy-ness of office life that I didn’t know how to structure [...]

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My Social Software for Social Change wiki must have been a big influence on the BBC, since this great feature is all about how technology was used in 2005 to spur community action and development.
Among things, the Beeb mentions how Telecoms san Frontieres help connect people in the wake of the Tsunami and [...]

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Lisa Lynch at if:book links to this LA Times article about how 2005 was the year of the “techno-cultural revolution” because things like iPods, Palm Pilots, and other individual goods took cultural capital away from the traditional mass media. I’m tired of new consumer trends being described as revolutionary, and so, I suspect, is [...]

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When I was 19 I lived with my friend Mike and though we got along well there some major differences between us, one of which was the way we regarded objects. He was very protective of his things; I didn’t have many things to be protective of. Mike treasured his original Empire Strikes [...]

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My friend Iris is developing a web site that provides information and resources about the detention system in the U.S. Most people don’t realize it, but there’s a gulag of detention centers spread throughout the country in which immigrants are detained for three months or three years, usually having committed no crime but being [...]

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I just read that Yahoo! bought del.icio.us. Truthfully, I have no idea how I feel about this, but instinctually I don’t like it. I have an aversion to big business, no matter what form it takes, even if it’s isn’t doing evil, like Google claims. I try not to be naive about [...]

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Although Darfur is once again an acceptable topic for some of the mass media to cover, the best coverage and the most urgent cries for help come from the great unwashed public media. Radio Open Source had a great program featuring Nick “I’m going back to Sudan again” Kristof, and the ever-vigilant and important [...]

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From Christopher Lydon, my new wanna-be best friend at Radio Open Source:
As I lose faith in the Times’ vaguely sacramental ritual of distilling the news of the cosmos in a nightly page-one editorial conference, I am more and more fascinated by an alternative version of the daily miracle: Technorati.com. David Sifry’s tracking of Web metadata [...]

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