In three days, I will be in Damascus. Even since my passport arrived in the mail with the giant visa stamp leaking through to the next page less than a month ago, it hasn’t quite felt real. I keep waiting for it to, but it seems like the more I travel, the less I’m able […]
I’m a bit behind in pushing this on my own blog, but since the launch last Wednesday, it’s been a massive whirlwind of excitement. Herdict.org, or Herdict Web uses crowdsourcing to gather information on Internet accessibility around the globe (which sometimes means filtering and sometimes doesn’t). As a part of the Herdict core team, I’m […]
I woke up one morning last weekend with visions of Twitterplums dancing in my head. In other words, I was mulling over the concept that I hold so dear: that Twitter enables, rather, encourages open communication in a way that was never before possible. The examples are abundant: there’s the open sharing of the Twitter […]