After reading the Knight Community Information Toolkit’s Pilot Community report on Santa Clara County (available here!), I decided to look at the hyper-local new media available in one of those cities. I thought to myself, which city in Santa Clara County is probably the coolest? I live in New Haven now, and it’s pretty cool and [...]
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… but if Gaddafi shuts down the Internet like the government did in Egypt, bit.ly will continue to function according to C.E.O. John Borthwick. Apparently two of their important servers are in Oregon and one’s in the Netherlands. In the case that both Oregon and the Netherlands fall into Internet-shutting-off unrest at the same time, I [...] Ever since campaigns appeared to master the art of directly engaging volunteers and voters through new media channels and platforms, a question has loomed over the future of political use of these media: What happens after the candidates are elected? Barack Obama implicitly promised to bring youth and tech savvy to governance, and “Government 2.0” has [...] Quick post — I had the pleasure of meeting Jonathan Zittrain this weekend and he gave the single most terrifying PowerPoint presentation I’ve ever seen. It was on the future of crowdsourcing for non-journalistic purposes. His book, The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It is available for free on his website. If [...] Short post, but this opinion piece in the YDN caught my eye. It’s about a guy who stole a kid’s laptop, then posted a picture of himself on the kid’s Facebook. Conventional crime-solving tactics didn’t work, but when the kid’s dad generated press about the incident using normal old media (a column in a legacy outlet) [...] We’ll get to this in a later week, but I do a lot of online activism, mostly through letters to my members of Congress. What’s relevant to a look at how social media has changed the relationship between politicians and voters is what happens after I click: “Tell Congress!” My particular congresswoman, upstanding lady that she [...] The Cheshire Case is the first instance I’ve heard about that has raised the specter of Bad Twitter, a Twitter that interferes with government processes that we consider good and sacred. [...] |
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