The river seems like a wholly inadequate format for visualizing this data in any actionable sense, especially because the use of the data is context-specific. What type of data would be useful from a real time, human-powered, and geographically distributed sensor network? For Ushahidi Haiti, it was emergencies, public health issues, security threats, infrastructure damage, [...]

#sxsw has jumped the dinoshark. #wxwtf is the new awesome.

Plug one: There’s a report making its way around the internet that says the youth are spending less time blogging. Specifically, “28% of the two groups studied — teens 12 to 17 and young adults 18 to 29 — actively blogged.” For 2009, this percentage has dropped off to only 14% of teens and 15% [...]

Huge observation from Stowe Boyd: What is happening is the superimposition of publicy on top of, and partly obscuring, privacy. Those raised in this brave new world are already living in a cultural context based on publicy, and therefore they are running afoul of social conventions based on privacy. That’s why young people find job [...]

An apt, 10,000 foot level view of the evolution of Twitter from Mr. Cody Brown (emphasis his): Twitter became popular before it had a mission. What this means is that its employees and investors will forever be trapped in boardrooms having these inane cyclical discussions about its identity. Twitter will either perpetually be simple insofar [...]

On Saturday, I spent the day discussing the evolution of the news at BarCamp NewsInnovation Philly. It was something I had planned on attending for over a month and, as such, I had a pretty good idea on Thursday and Friday of what I wanted to discuss. With the story of swine flu infections breaking [...]