First POST: Recaps
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, January 12 2015
Previewing the State of the Union's tech topics; data-driven campaigns go after the under-18 vote; open data activist Carl Malamud's renewed campaign to liberate the law; and much, much more. Read More
Fleets of Sailing Robots to Help Research & Protect the Oceans
BY Jessica McKenzie | Friday, May 16 2014
Imagine fleets of small boats cruising around the ocean, monitoring levels of plastic, oil and radioactivity, and eventually helping to clean up the ocean, and all completely unmanned. That may not be as far from reality as one might think. Scoutbots, a company that develops and builds open hardware technologies for environmental stewardship, recently began selling the first commercial prototype of its radio-controlled sailing robot, the Protei 011 “Optimist.” It is kind of like a seafaring drone.
Read MoreUsing "Big Listening" and "Distributed Campaigning," Upwell Seeks a Sea-Change in Ocean Organizing
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, September 25 2012
In this article, we're going to look at Upwell, a nonprofit that describes itself as "a data-driven social media PR agency" with just one client, the ocean, and just one goal: more people talking about the ocean. What it's doing with "big listening" and "distributed campaigning" is pioneering a new kind of online political organizing. Read More