I can’t believe I haven’t read this book until now since it intersects two areas of deep interest to me: technology (specifically programming) and freedom. Essentially the book celebrates liberty as a natural mode for creativity and productivity, with open source software as an example. Raymond has two further findings: that openness doesn’t necessarily imply […]
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Book Review: The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
Published July 1st, 2008 in Book Reviews, Technology and Economics. 0 CommentsVacations or “Vacations” :)
Published June 28th, 2008 in Developing world, Technology, Media and Conferences. 0 CommentsI’m here at the Global Voices Summit in Budapest and I just listened to a panel on Rising Voices, a group within Global Voices dedicated to supporting the efforts of people traditionally underrepresented in citizen media. (See their trailer here). At the end of the panel, the question was asked ‘how can we help?’ The […]
Internet and Cell Phone Use in the Middle East
Published May 19th, 2008 in Middle East, Technology and Statistics. 0 CommentsWhen people talk about the Internet and Democracy, especially in the context of the Middle East, I wonder just how pervasive the Internet really is in these countries. I made a quick plot of data for Middle Eastern countries from data I downloaded from the International Telecommunciation Union:
The US is the blue line on top, […]
Lessig stars at the Stanford FCC hearing
Published April 18th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media and Economics. 0 CommentsAfter Comcast admitted to stuffing seats at the FCC hearing at Harvard Law School February 24th, the FCC decided another hearing was necessary. They chose to hold it at Stanford April 17 and I’m watching the FCC’s videocast of the event, which is oddly appropriate, since the focus of the hearing is video on the […]
David Weinberger: How new technologies and behaviors are changing the news
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media, Berkman, Talks and Conferences. 0 CommentsDavid Weinberger is a fellow and colleague of mine at the Berkman Center and is at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum discussing the difference the web is making to journalism: “what’s different about the web when it comes to media and journalism?”
Weinberger is concerned with how we frame this question. He prefers ‘ecosystem’ rather than ‘virtue […]
Robert Suro: Defining the qualities of information our democracy needs
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media, Berkman and Conferences. 0 CommentsRobert Suro is a professor of journalism at USC and spoke today at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. His talk concerns journalism’s role in democratic processes and he draws two distinctions in how we think about journalism that often get conflated: journalism is a business but also a social actor. he points out that when main […]
Richard Sambrook at the Media Re:public Forum
Published March 27th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media, Berkman and Conferences. 0 CommentsI’m at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum and Richard Sambrook, director of Global News at the BBC is giving the first talk. He is something of a technological visionary and his primary concern is with how technology is affecting the ability of, not only traditional media but anyone, to set the international news agenda.
The model that […]
Reducing Election Violence Cheaply - eVoting?
Published March 12th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Developing world and Technology. 0 CommentsI can’t help but notice the violence surrounding the recent elections in Kenya, Pakistan, Zimbabwe (where I still have family) and many other places. To the extent that the problem is citizen mistrust of the voting process, this seems like an effective place to direct aid resources and energy. Why not fund, with the host […]
