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Books Are Like the News — It's Better When They Are Social | GigaOm

October 25, 2011

Megan Garber wrote a post at the Nieman Journalism Lab recently that looked at the ongoing debate between Jarvis and fellow author and foreign-policy writer Evgeny Morozov over the relative merits of Jarvis's new book Public Parts, which deals with the ...

Craig Venter: Algae Fuel That Can Replace Oil Will Not Come from Nature | GigaOm

October 23, 2011

... will have to be synthesized and will not come from nature, said controversial genomics scientist and entrepreneur Craig Venter last week at a conference on the future of energy at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC (see video below). ...

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Do We Have a Right To Use Twitter and Facebook? | GigaOm

August 15, 2011

Foreign-policy writer Evgeny Morozov has also written a piece in the Wall Street Journal that makes reference to the London riots and the desire of the authorities to shut down or restrict access to communication networks and social-media tools. ...

The Digital Divide and the End of Internet Freedom | GigaOm

July 18, 2011

According to a paper out Monday from The New America Foundation, the dangers of current evolution of the Internet are the world wide web becomes segregated by what people are allowed to access and the cost of that access. It's something I've been ...

Can MIT's Media Lab Help To Reinvent Local Media? | GigaOm

June 22, 2011

Zuckerman is a longtime fellow of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he and former CNN foreign correspondent Rebecca MacKinnon created what became Global Voices Online. That site encourages social activists and others in ...

The Downside of Facebook as a Public Space: Censorship | GigaOm

June 21, 2011

If critics of his Twitter comments attacked Ebert's page by repeatedly flagging it, they effectively took the same approach some governments have taken in trying to shut down dissent: Foreign Policy magazine columnist Evgeny Morozov said recently that ...

Is France Plotting To Kill the Free Internet? | GigaOm

April 15, 2011

Of course, that lack of boundaries is also a weakness at times because, as critic Evgeny Morozov has suggested, violent and controlling political regimes can easily co-opt the tools for their own purposes. Still, the belief among many is that the ...

Malcolm Gladwell: Social Media Still Not a Big Deal | GigaOm

March 29, 2011

This might as well be called the Morozov principle, since it's a cornerstone of political writer Evgeny Morozov's argument. In Morozov's book Net Delusion and in his columns at Foreign Policy magazine and elsewhere, he argues that the Internet is as ...

Gas Prices: Another Reason To Adopt Web Working? | GigaOm

March 16, 2011

After all, The Oil Trap a project of Lisa Margonelli, the director of the Energy Policy Initiative at New America Foundation, claims: The average family of four making $50000 a year spends nearly $8000 a year on their cars, maintenance, ...

Building the Technology Stack for Internet Freedom | GigaOm

February 17, 2011

... Dan Meredith, a technologist at New America, broke it down for me, and said the hope is to deliver communications in areas where Internet access is scarce, but also among populations unable to use communications because of government interference. ...

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