U.S. Media Largely Ignores Latest Warning From Climate Scientists
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffIn the last two years, our scientific understanding of business-as-usual projections for global warming has changed dramatically (see "M.I.T. doubles its projection of global warming by 2100 to 5.1°C" and "Hadley Center projects 5-7°C warming by ...
Looking at a Stimulus Package
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffBy Tracey Lauriault This is a great way to make a complex document—a national budget or a Stimulus Package—tangible and accessible. I think newspapers are starting to compete with each other as we are starting to ...
Looking at a Stimulus Package
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffBy Tracey Lauriault This is a great way to make a complex document—a national budget or a Stimulus Package—tangible and accessible. I think newspapers are starting to compete with each other as we are starting to ...
Politics and New Media, or “Should I Really Tweetspam Congress?”
Thursday, March 12th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffI lectured in my friend Jonathan Zittrain’s class at Harvard Law about ten days ago. I shared the stage with Nicco Mele, internet strategist for Howard Dean and co-founder of tech consultancy EchoDitto. I gave a ...
The Great Disruption and the Need for Meaning
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffThomas Friedman makes his play to popularize the coinage "the Great Disruption" for the combined ecological and economic crisis we're seeing: Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask ...
The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Jack Bauer becomes first-ever carbon-neutral torturer as Rupert Murdoch says “Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats”
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffAmazingly, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp — yes, the one that owns Fox News — is very, very serious about climate change. If you don’t believe me, watch the remarkable hour-long video (here), which is mostly ...
Coen Brothers Help the Reality Coalition Target US Coal Industry
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffBy Suzanne Goldenberg The Coen brothers have applied their slightly off-kilter sensibility to the campaign against America's coal industry, with a new television advertisement debunking the notion of clean coal.The filmmaking brothers, working from a concept and ...
LSE Podcasts
Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffI'm a podcast junky. I travel a lot, and even when not traveling, I spend a lot of time on public transportation or in cabs or waiting for meetings and when life forces me into little ...
The Final Word on the Death of Newspapers?
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffImage via WikipediaSome sort of secret signal went out, and everyone and their neighbor has posted a “death of newspapers” story since the beginning of the year, myself included. Polymeme, which is increasingly my go-to, first ...
Discussion Piece: Why We Need a National Endowment for Journalism
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffImage credit: Wikipedia By Alex Stonehill of the Common Language Project With the country sliding into a massive recession, two major foreign wars raging, federal investigators uncovering a series of juicy political scandals, and our first black President ...
Is Ad-Supported Journalism Viable in a Pay-for-Performance Age?
Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffImage credit: WikipediaWhile a great deal of what I write here is underinformed speculation, this piece is unusually speculative and underinformed. It’s possible that I’m flat out wrong about the idea I’m developing here. I’m putting ...
Finding Hope, Even in the Hardest Stories
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffSome of the most insightful and moving writing about Africa comes from correspondents just as they’re leaving the continent. Africa correspondents are generally absurdly overworked. Your “beat” is a continent that’s larger than the US, China ...
Media Re:public – the Future of News in a Digital Age
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffMy friend Persephone Miel came to the Berkman Center more than a year ago to take on a challenging question: What’s the future of journalism in a digital age? This is the sort of question research ...
The Changing Relationship Between Internet and Politics?
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffWould Obama be the President without the Internet? Yes, he would.” That’s Peter Daou, internet strategist for Hillary Clinton. His perspective is more or less the mainstream opinion at a conference held by the Berkman Center in ...
Resource: Midnight Regulation Watch
Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffIt's midnight at the White House, and as usual, the outgoing administration is doing its best to leave its final mark. The non-profit newsroom ProPublica is helping to create more transparency around these actions by ...
OSI – Social Media in Closed Societies
Friday, November 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffMy friend and colleague Evgeny Morozov is spending a year as an Open Society Institute fellow, working through some of his ideas about cybernationalism and cyberwarfare, and organizing events to discuss the future of the Internet ...
Piracy – A Great Excuse to Write About Somalia
Monday, November 24th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffIt’s been a nice change of pace to hear stories about Somalia leading newscasts the last couple of days. The audacious hijack of a massive oil tanker has helped call attention to the phenomenon of piracy ...
The Mines of Ilakaka, and Reporting from the Edge of the World
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffPolymeme, my favorite source for news that’s not all Palin, all the time, led me to a fascinating set of photos this morning. They’re from Ilakaka, Madagascar, a town that’s grown from little more than a ...
Building Connections Between Cultures
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffIf you’ve been to a tech conference in the past five years, there’s a good chance you’ve also been to an “unconference“. Unconferences work to break down the barrier between speakers and audience, inviting all attendees ...
My afternoon at PICNIC08
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffTalk one of four at PICNIC was a small seminar for the European Journalism Center. Their part of the PICNIC experience was hosted in a geodesic dome tent within the “club” - the noisy public space ...