Reflecting on Haiti, Disasters, and Technology
Two years ago, in the aftermath of the January, 2010 earthquake, hackers and social activists led a charge and saved lives in Haiti
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Top Blog Posts from 2011
Not a very bloggy year, but I like to think I made up for quantity with quality.
At FastCo.Exist: It’s Time To Start Judging Nonprofits Like For-Profits
A rant on the tight hold “overhead” has on nonprofit financials and giving decisions I wrote with my colleague is up on Co.Exist.
SOPA
Look. I’m going on vacation tomorrow. I have promised myself to keep my stress levels down, so this is as much as you’ll hear from me about SOPA
The Art of Failing
I have a critical flaw - not being able to say no to helping out worthwhile projects get their technological house in order.
Open Source Society
This is a rough summary of my talk Tuesday night at DCWeek’s Hot Tech Trends.
Tech Trends: Come discuss at Digital Capital Week!
I will be discussing the tech trends from 2011 and looking forward to what 2012 holds for us with a fine group of panelists during DCWeek.
In the Global Mirror, the #OWS 99% looks a lot like the 1%
Let me be clear - I have a difficult relationship with the Occupy movement.
More on bots saving the world at FastCompany
Alexa and I have another article up at FastCompany on social entrepreneurs and bots
Back from Dakar: How I built a Drupal 7 site in 7 days
Dakar. It’s hot. Lots of goats. In 2-5 years, it could be a major tech hub – sooner with some policy and infrastructure changes
The robots are coming
A colleague and I have the first of two articles posted on FastCompany - discussing the role of automation in job creation – and destruction
Privacy, Trust, NymWars, and Social Change
Social change takes trust.
Panels to support for an amazing SXSW 2012
It’s not to early to start making sure that your SXSW 2012 experience is fully awesome. How you ask? Why, by voting for awesome panels to attend.
Monitoring and Evaluation is broken. Let’s really break it.
One of the sad truths that emerged at the Technology Salon on ICTs and M&E was that failure in development is rarely about the project performance, but a...
So - What Next?
The events in London over the past few days have been deeply interesting in the wake of last month’s conversation on mobile and online activism during and af...