NewsShift: watchdog journalism with a long tail [Grant application]
Kevin Connor & Matthew Skomarovsky from LittleSis.org (an involuntary facebook of powerful Americans, collaboratively edited by people like you) & David Nolen and myself of ShiftSpace have...
View Articleshort+audio – my Open Source Design slides
In the second day of Wordcamp NYC last month I was asked to repeat my Open Source Design presentation in a 5 minutes version for the whole of the conference audience. I just realized somebody uploaded...
View ArticleRadars & Fences / You Are Not Here / The Gaza Tunnel Trade
Radars & Fences IIIRadars and Fences progam, with Laila & me read more
View ArticleInterface as a Conflict of Ideologies
Originally written in April 2007. Minor edits: March 2010.PrefaceIn the past 50 years the digital user-interface has become a major field of cultural production, since the innovations of Douglas...
View ArticleRelationship: It’s Complicated
Ignoring my grandma… friending my enemies… WTF? Is it even reasonable to expect social media to reflect the depth our social life? And when it fails, what do we stand to lose? (+ tips &...
View ArticleCan Design By Committee Work? [@SmashingMag & C-F]
I’ve been teaching a class on the subject for 3 years, I’ve been giving talks on the subject for almost a year. Finally I set down and wrote the essay for the second edition of the Collaborative...
View ArticleGetting Intimate with Invisible Audiences
Invisible audiences drive the success and failures of mediated social life. Before we rush to further network our private and public spaces we should consider this radical cultural shift. Some lessons...
View ArticleIntroducing Forks vs. Knives
Format note: Written as a grant proposal.Forks vs. Knives – Developing the code that governs usDescribe your projectReaching consensus is never easy and when it gets really tough some reach for their...
View ArticleLost in the Open
As a part of our (Galia Offri & mine) involvement in this year’s Transmediale Festival in Berlin we participated in a panel discussion titled “Lost in The Open”. The focus of the discussion which I...
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