Qualcomm Spark has offered the following response to my previous blog post, Hackathons don’t solve problems. My name is Michelle Kessler, and I’m the editor-in-chief of Qualcomm Spark. First, we want to thank Charlie DeTar, J. Nathan Matias and the MIT Media Lab for participating in our most recent video, […]
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Qualcomm, a company known for their manufacture of semiconductors, stopped by the Center for Civic Media a few weeks ago to interview people about hackathons. Today, they released the video, which features Nathan Matias and I: Thankfully, all of the words that I say on the screen in the video […]
I’ve been working on online tools for consensus for the last 2 years. Here’s what motivates me to work on this. 1. The water heater For my first five years in Boston, I lived in a housing co-op in Dorchester. It’s a classic Boston triple-decker, which the 13 residents own […]
In an insightful essay at the New Republic, Evgeny Morozov raises a powerful critique of what he describes as “Internet-centrism” in Steven Johnson’s 2012 book Future Perfect. Morozov identifies in Johnson’s book a strain of popular rhetoric which holds that the Internet is a model of decentralization, horizontalism, and leaderlessness, […]
The recent fun tumblr “Charts from the floor of the US Senate” (and Orrin Hatch’s gem) brought this story to mind: One of the formative moments of my youth came from a town hall meeting with Hatch’s colleague, senator Bob Bennett, on the topic of wilderness protection of federal land […]