First POST: Hot Seats
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, April 8 2015
Campaign money-bombs; a pre-9/11 surveillance program; a million views of the John Oliver Snowden segment since yesterday; the fight for the soul of the #BlackLivesMatter movement; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Big Things
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, April 2 2015
"The 2016 election will be live-streamed"; 64% Americans now own a smartphone; proposal to classify third-party analytics tools as communications tools; female-run VC funds; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Data-Driven
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, March 26 2015
Get to know Clinton's digital team even better; Ted Cruz election announcement-related fundraising offers peak into the coming data-driven campaign arms race; New York City launches online community engagement pilot program called IdeaScale; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Cowed
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, March 23 2015
TedCruz.com for president; Meerkat fever; who does Facebook work for (probably not you); Medium, "the billionaire's typewriter"; and much, much more. Read More
Interest is Rising in Cooperative Alternatives to the "Sharing Economy"
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, March 17 2015
Trebor Scholz, Sara Horowitz, Nathan Schneider, Saket Soni, Caroline Woolard, Douglas Rushkoff (l-r) at Civic Hall
If last week's turnout at Civic Hall is any indication, a lot of people--technologists as well as organizers--are interested in figuring out how the 21st century economy can be built on more cooperative and less exploitative principles than the libertarian "gig economy" exemplified by companies like TaskRabbit and Uber. Folks came out for a panel discussion called "Think Outside the Boss: Cooperative Alternatives to the Sharing Economy," which was triggered by a thought-provoking essay by New School for Social Research scholar Trebor Scholz in Medium. Watch the video below the jump... Read More
First POST: Shemails
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, March 3 2015
Hillary Clinton stumbles on transparency; Jeb Bush chides her but he's too transparent; how Janet Napolitano got around that pesky gov't email rule; meanwhile, New York puts expiration dates on state workers' emails; and much, much more! Read More
First POST: Revisions
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, February 27 2015
Tim Wu says we shouldn't be so pessimistic about lobbying; Obama writes a thank you note to reddit; Ted Cruz wants to be the Uber of politics; Llamas!; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: The Matrix
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, February 17 2015
The NSA's spying tools; go file a complaint with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal to see if the NSA illegally shared your communications with GCHQ before December 2014; Obama's former campaign manager David Plouffe bats for Uber; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Losses
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, February 13 2015
Why so many media folks are mourning David Carr's death; what to make of Jeb Bush's tech stumbles; more pushback on 'sharing economy' companies Uber, Lyft and Waze; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Correlations
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, February 4 2015
Civic hackers in Chicago spot powerful alderman getting special snow removal attention using open government data; how Twitter is teaching Washington's denizens to open up; debunking Uber's claim that it has reduced drunk-driving; and much, much more. Read More