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Andrew Lih on the Wikipedia Revolution
Do you want to know how Wikipedia was able to become such an incredible success? Who the people behind its success are? The best book to learn about the history and the culture of Wikipedia is Andrew...
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Moore’s Law and Sunk Costs: An E-government Dilemma
“Moore’s Law,” first articulated in 1965, tells us that we will see a doubling in transistor capacity roughly every two years. As predictions go, it has proven surprisingly durable, and is a handy...
View Articlelessig on institutional corruption
Professor Lessig is presenting on Institutional Corruption today at the Kennedy School as his first public appearance at Harvard since his return a few months ago. Professor Lessig likes to introduce...
View ArticleAdvocacy Groups and Haiti Disaster Relief
Scrolling through Twitter this morning, I noticed the following tweet from Tom Mattzie (@tommatzzie), formerly of MoveOn.org: I hope all my progressive groups and friends remember #Haiti today. I’d be...
View ArticleThe R2K lawsuit: market corrections and scalp-taking
Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos announced Monday that he is suing Research 2000 for fraudulant activity, based on a statistical analysis conducted by Mark Grebner, Michael Weissman, and Jonathan Weissman....
View ArticleBook Blogging: Moore’s Law and Politics
Note: I’ll be spending the next few months writing a book about the new generation of internet-mediated political groups. This post will be my first “book blog,” in which I try out new ideas that I’m...
View ArticleSocial Media and Internet-Mediated Organizations Can’t Replace Unions.
It’s been fascinating to watch the Wisconsin protests unfurl over the past 10 days. Governor Scott Walker has chosen to stuff his budget repair proposal full of Trojan horse provisions, including...
View ArticleDear Commissioner Copps: Thank You for Your Public Service
On Monday evening, the Hunter College Roosevelt House is hosting an event on media policy and reform, featuring former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps. Sadly, it’s in the middle of my Monday class, so I...
View ArticleNeglect and Uncle Sam, not the Internet, Killed the Middle Class
In an interview with Salon and his newest book, “digital visionary” (Salon’s words) Jaron Lanier claims that the internet has destroyed the middle class. Kodak employed 140,000 people, while at the...
View ArticleThe Analytics Floor
There was an interesting article in Politico yesterday, titled [gulp] “Honey, I shrunk the Obama data machine.”* The article discusses next steps for the Democratic data machine in the leadup to the...
View Articlewhy we need decentralized funding for independent journalism
Whether we can continue to get the journalism we need, given the declining revenues and funding in journalism, is a concern of many people around the world, including in Hong Kong. To what extent is it...
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