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Open Access to Government Data: Benefits versus risks

J December 2009, at 12:05 pm Technology

I was listening to a back episode of NYT Tech Talk podcast from 9 December on this story about governments offering up data for developers to mash-up things like phone apps that can give you the safest route home at night (using government crime data) and other such things.

While I support open access to information [...]

December 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Technology, Thoughts | View Comments

Mass High Tech: Community tools needed to improve STEM education

J July 2009, at 8:20 am Technology

An opinion piece written for Mass High Tech’s “How I See It” Column concerning how community and social online tools would be helpful in achieving their goals set forth to improve the State of Massachusetts Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education

I recently attended the STEM Business Leaders Breakfast concerning tapping Massachusetts’ potential in the [...]

July 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Technology | View Comments

DigiActive Post: Iranian elections, Information Passing and Twitter

J June 2009, at 19:32 pm DigiActive

Iranian elections, Twitter, and information flow: We are all becoming a larger part of the information dissemination mechanisms that were once reserved for formal media channels. DigiActive has reported many instances of citizen journalism, on-the-ground reporting and information gathering, but now we’re talking about the addition of a process of broader dissemination.

June 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: DigiActive, Digital Activism, Technology, new media | View Comments

So now TIME says Twitter will change the world?

J June 2009, at 8:33 am Technology

TIME didn’t like Twitter in March. Now it’s going to change our lives.

June 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Technology, new media | View Comments

Pop!Tech Blog: Scorses embraces digital distribution

J May 2009, at 9:11 am Pop!Tech

Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr

In a showing of the times, or perhaps ahead of the times, film director Martin Scorsese has decided to begin releasing the films restored by his World Cinema Foundation online.

The mission of the foundation is “to preserv[e] and restor[e] neglected films from around the world – in particular, those countries [...]

May 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Pop!Tech, Technology | View Comments

Pop!Tech post: DigiActive and social tools for social change

J April 2009, at 19:58 pm Digital Activism

A write up on digital activism and DigiActive as an organization.

In recent months, there’s been a marked increase in the mentions of how social media tools have been used around the world to enhance social activism either on a small scale, such as campaigning to free locally-jailed individuals, as was the case with “Free Jestina [...]

April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Digital Activism, Pop!Tech, Technology | View Comments