[berkman] Tarleton Gillespie: The Politics of Online Media Platforms
Tarleton Gillespie of Cornell is giving a Berkman lunchtime talk on the politics of online media. He’s been interested in how we are shaping cultural discourse through the confluence of tech, policy,...
View ArticleDPLA West meeting online
The sessions from the DPLA Plenary meeting on April 27 in SF are now online. Here’s the official announcement: …all media and work outputs from the two day-long events that made up DPLA West–the DPLA...
View Article[platform] Denmark recreated in Minecraft
According to an article in PC Games (August 2014, Ben Griffin, p. 12), two people from the Danish Ministry of the Environment “have recreated Denmark on 1:1 scale” in Minecraft. Although the idea came...
View Article[aif] Government as platform
I’m at a Government as Platform session at Aspen Ideas Festival. Tim O’Reilly is moderating it with Jen Pahlka (Code for America and US Deputy Chief Technology Officer ) and Mike Bracken who heads the...
View ArticleThe future of libraries won’t be created by libraries
Library Journal has posted an op-ed of mine that begins: The future of libraries won’t be created by libraries. That’s a good thing. That future is too big and too integral to the infrastructure of...
View ArticleLibrary as a platform: Chattanooga
I finally got to see the Chattanooga Library. It was even better than I’d expected. In fact, you can see the future of libraries emerging there. That’s not to say that you can simply list what it’s...
View Article[liveblog][act-tiac] The nation's front door
Sarah Crane, Dir., Federal Citizen Information Center, GSA., is going to talk about USA.gov. “In a world where everyone can search and has apps, is a web portal relevant?,” she asks. NOTE:...
View Article[liveblog][act-tiac] A federal portal in the age of search?
Sarah Crane, Dir., Federal Citizen Information Center, GSA., is going to talk about USA.gov. “In a world where everyone can search and has apps, is a web portal relevant?,” she asks. NOTE:...
View ArticleThe future behind us
We’re pretty convinced that the future lies ahead of us. But according to Bernard Knox, the ancient Greeks were not. In Backing into the Future he writes: “ The future, invisible, is behind us. ” the...
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