by David Sasaki | Jul 19, 2022 | Podcast, Podcast (English), Technology
Lying beneath the angry, sensational game for influence, attention, and shame is still the quaint coffeeshop and witty banter. Can we still find the best of Twitter without getting distracted by the worst? And can Twitter, in its current state of disarray, find a business model that nudges us to become our better selves online? Or at least not our worst selves?
by David Sasaki | Feb 4, 2014 | English, Technology
An email takes probably 1/5th the time of writing and sending a letter, and yet we spend more time writing emails than we ever spent writing letters. Each individual email becomes less memorable than an individual letter. “We don’t have any time,” writes Hartmut Rosa, “although we’ve gained far more than we needed before.”
by David Sasaki | Sep 14, 2013 | English, Technology
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to give a talk to the inaugural class of Mexico City’s Citizen Programmer Fellowship. The six programmer fellows will each spend nine months embedded in a city agency where they will develop a technology project and promote more...
by David Sasaki | Aug 22, 2013 | English, Technology
Some quick thoughts on Facebook’s announcement yesterday of Internet.org, an industry coalition that seeks to “cut the cost of providing mobile Internet services to one percent of its current level within five to 10 years by improving the efficiency of...
by David Sasaki | Jan 31, 2013 | English, Technology
There are two commonly held assumptions about cell phone service in Mexico: 1) it’s expensive and 2) pay-as-you-go plans are more expensive than annual contracts, thus causing the poor (who don’t have credit cards for yearly contracts) to pay more. On the...
by David Sasaki | Jan 5, 2008 | Citizen Media, English, Rising Voices, Technology
Originally published on PBS MediaShift on January 5, 2008. The impact of the digital divide (or at least the bandwidth imbalance) is most pronounced when it comes to online video. In regions where lightening-fast internet connections are taken for granted, such as...
