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Desde Bogotá
Often times I work myself harder than my body is able to support, but this past month has been especially rough. And now I'm paying the price. I arrived to Bogotá yesterday morning with deep purple bags under my eyes, a sore throat, and about enough energy to stumble...
Social Translation and the News Industry
This week I'm in Perugia, a central Italian, pre-Roman village that sits on a high bluff overlooking a sea of impossibly green pasture that is tucked in each evening by a thin blanket of sunset-tinted fog. The surrounding National Geographic-like views are a reminder...
The Digital Suburbs
Today is the first day since leaving Los Angeles that I've been able to breathe. All the other mornings I was awoken by the sound of the alarm clock or the discomfort of jet lag. But not today: I woke slowly, ate breakfast slowly, read the paper leisurely, walked...
Two Sides of a Window: Technology and Transparency
What follows is a hyperlinked version of my talk at this year's re:publica conference in Berlin. For a 30-minute talk it was probably a little dense, a bit abstract, and maybe too close to home for a Berlin audience, but here it is nonetheless. This morning Evgeny...
April Showers (of too much information)
I spent most of the past week reading around 200 pages of academic papers about transparency, accountability, and governance in a cabin in Mexico's Sierra del Tigre mountain range. No tweeps tweeting; only birds chirping and the wind rustling through the pine trees....
Curation Frustration
Over at Idea Lab I just published my latest about everyone's new favorite job title: curator. All my peeps these days are opening accounts on Tumblr and Posterous. It's where they curate the web. Then there are links on Twitter, Delicious, and presumably Facebook (I...
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