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REWIRE: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection | Berkman Center 28 Jul 2013 | 09:58 pm
REWIRE: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection | Berkman Center: Ethan Zuckerman discussing his new book – Great discussion around 14:30 - 24:00 about the dearth of international news coverag...
Why Develop in the Newsroom? 24 Jul 2013 | 12:11 am
Why Develop in the Newsroom?: If you’re a software developer looking to make more of a social impact with your talents, there are plenty of exciting opportunities for you to break into the field of j...
Victory Lap for Ask Patents - Joel on Software 24 Jul 2013 | 12:06 am
Victory Lap for Ask Patents - Joel on Software: An inspirational win for open government and crowd sourcing.
America's Star System 23 Jul 2013 | 09:20 pm
America's Star System: The top of American life has become a very cozy and lucrative place, where the social capital of who you are and who you know brings unimaginable returns. A nuanced and troubli...
LINCOLN OR NIETZSCHE?; The Clash in the Philosophy of Americanism and Prussianism. 21 Jul 2013 | 01:44 am
LINCOLN OR NIETZSCHE?; The Clash in the Philosophy of Americanism and Prussianism.
Open-Government activist Beth Noveck on crowd-sourced inspections 20 Jul 2013 | 01:24 am
"The olive oil may be honest, but the olive oil you’re eating is made out of cat" Great conversation, especially around minute 40.
Lessig Against Transparency 20 Jul 2013 | 01:11 am
A piece from 2009 in which Lessig considers how government transparency initiatives occasionally increase misunderstandings of the provided data and produce unintended civic consequences. Worth a re....
Benkler on Wikileaks 16 Jul 2013 | 04:03 am
Just read Yochai Benkler’s widely cited paper (pdf) on the legal implications of Wikileaks – includes a scathing analysis of NYT’s Bill Keller’s attempts to tarnish Wikileaks’ journalistic status, whi...
Nehamas on Norris 11 Mar 2013 | 07:44 am
“What follows from the ‘historicism’ of Rorty and Gadamer is that we must do more history.” (LRB)
Rorty Reviews Williams 19 Dec 2012 | 09:09 pm
“(My preference for the second half of the book may, of course, be due to the fact that it is only in the first half that my own oxen are gored.)” “‘Cultural relativism’ is largely an imaginary bugbe...
