My Heart\\\'s in Accra - Stories Contributed
Pablo Boczkowski on the crisis in the “mental health capital of the world”
Awesome Time Wasters | Mar 19 2024 17:0746
How Big is YouTube?
Awesome Time Wasters | Dec 22 2023 14:0456
Disinfo and Elections in the Global Majority
Awesome Time Wasters | Dec 02 2023 12:0649
Kai-Cheng Yang: The Social Bots are Coming…
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 08 2023 13:0586
Heather Ford: Is the Web Eating Itself? LLMs versus verifiability
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 11 2023 00:0756
What I Did On My Summer Vacation: 2023
Awesome Time Wasters | Sep 21 2023 10:0718
Lightning Talks at CU Boulder Local Tech Economies
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 08 2023 13:5713
Local Tech Ecologies: Fernanda Rosa on decolonizing technology
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 08 2023 12:2510
From Phoenix to Cleveland: why we live where we live and why it’s time to change
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 07 2023 20:07825
Competition for Twitter is good. Threads, thus far, is not.
Awesome Time Wasters | Jul 07 2023 23:0724
Elon Musk’s Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023
Awesome Time Wasters | Mar 07 2023 17:0696
New writing!
Awesome Time Wasters | Feb 20 2023 15:0619
Empagliflozin (Jardiance) and Type 1 diabetes – a patient’s perspective on SGLT inhibitors
Awesome Time Wasters | Jan 18 2023 16:0711
Legacy Cities: an extended remix of my talk at PopTech 2022
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 28 2022 11:2213
Our wedding, October 7-9, 2022
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 22 2022 21:43296
Five years sober.
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 21 2022 09:0639
Governance, not Moderation: remarks at the Trust and Safety Research Conference
Awesome Time Wasters | Sep 30 2022 18:0718
The Monarchy, the Subaltern and the Public Sphere
Awesome Time Wasters | Sep 11 2022 15:0719
Legacy cities and the changing nature of the good life
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 08 2022 15:0816
Danielle Allen ends her campaigns… or “How Institutions Insulate Themselves from Change”
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 08 2022 15:083
My pandemic coping strategy: interviewing.
Awesome Time Wasters | Feb 03 2022 19:0729
Hope and Joy
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 08 2021 12:0931
Microfinance and public shaming in Nigeria
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 08 2021 12:093
I read Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report. It’s really strange.
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 18 2021 17:0912
Why Study Media Ecosystems?
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 18 2021 17:098
Recommendations from the road
Awesome Time Wasters | Jun 20 2021 15:0825
A milestone I never expected
Awesome Time Wasters | Apr 19 2021 08:096
The Year of Going Nowhere
Awesome Time Wasters | Feb 27 2021 11:0932
Hey Twitter, I need it not to be 6ourbon 7ime
Awesome Time Wasters | Feb 18 2021 16:0835
Mistrust, or Books as Letters to a Future World
Awesome Time Wasters | Jan 19 2021 17:1830
Fixing disinformation won’t save us
Awesome Time Wasters | Jan 18 2021 18:5267
The US, Canada and “long hope”
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 06 2020 17:0832
Stop Doomscrolling. Hang out with smart folks trying to build better futures online.
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 03 2020 13:0813
Beyond Facebook Logic: Help us Identify and Map Alternative Social Media!
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 03 2020 13:0822
A personal update
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 03 2020 13:0815
To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 03 2020 13:0817
#iftheygunnedmedown Six Years Later, and Just as Vital – an interview with activist C.J. Lawrence
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 03 2020 13:0814
Next steps
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 03 2020 13:084
Digital Public Infrastructure… and a few words in defense of optimism
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 03 2020 13:089
Whose deaths matter? New research on Black Lives Matter and media attention
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 03 2020 13:0817
On me, and the Media Lab
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 03 2020 13:083
Training the next generation of ethical techies
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 03 2020 13:0810
Beyond Facebook Logic: Help us Identify and Map Alternative Social Media!
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 20 2020 11:3042
A personal update
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 20 2020 11:3021
To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 20 2020 11:3030
#iftheygunnedmedown Six Years Later, and Just as Vital – an interview with activist C.J. Lawrence
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 20 2020 11:3016
Next steps
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 20 2020 11:309
Digital Public Infrastructure… and a few words in defense of optimism
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 20 2020 11:3012
Whose deaths matter? New research on Black Lives Matter and media attention
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 20 2020 11:3020
On me, and the Media Lab
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 20 2020 11:3012
Training the next generation of ethical techies
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 20 2020 11:3013
Philanthropy and the hand-off – what happens if government can’t scale social experiments?
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 20 2020 11:304
Beyond Facebook Logic: Help us Identify and Map Alternative Social Media!
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 08 2020 10:0923
A personal update
Awesome Time Wasters | Sep 02 2020 01:3055
To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 16 2020 00:5160
#iftheygunnedmedown Six Years Later, and Just as Vital – an interview with activist C.J. Lawrence
Awesome Time Wasters | Jun 06 2020 04:2511
Next steps
Awesome Time Wasters | Apr 29 2020 04:256
Digital Public Infrastructure… and a few words in defense of optimism
Awesome Time Wasters | Jan 21 2020 01:4815
Whose deaths matter? New research on Black Lives Matter and media attention
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 03 2019 01:4913
On me, and the Media Lab
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 21 2019 01:483
Training the next generation of ethical techies
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 15 2019 01:487
Philanthropy and the hand-off – what happens if government can’t scale social experiments?
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 06 2019 01:485
Beyond the Vast Wasteland: briefing Congresspeople for the Aspen Institute
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 01 2019 01:4811
Thinking in Solid
Awesome Time Wasters | Jul 30 2019 01:4825
Sir Tim Versus Black Mirror
Awesome Time Wasters | Jun 07 2019 01:0693
Rest in peace, Binyavanga Wainaina
Awesome Time Wasters | May 23 2019 01:2715
Don’t use A. Briggs
Awesome Time Wasters | Jan 13 2019 23:489
Deceptive ads and the DRC election: help us document possible election fraud
Awesome Time Wasters | Jan 07 2019 22:4813
Protected: Fake News and the DRC election? Please help us find these rogue ads
Awesome Time Wasters | Jan 07 2019 22:484
We Make the Media – a recent speech at Freedom of Speech Online 2018
Awesome Time Wasters | Dec 09 2018 22:0522
Six or Seven Things Social Media Can Do For Democracy
Awesome Time Wasters | May 30 2018 20:4627
Because America’s Family Leave Policy Sucks, Too.
Awesome Time Wasters | Apr 29 2018 20:2527
Who Filters Your News? Why we built gobo.social
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 16 2017 19:2653
Stop killing protesters, including those protesting violence against protesters!
Awesome Time Wasters | Oct 19 2017 19:0424
Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 18 2017 18:25167
Mistrust, Efficacy and the New Civics – a whitepaper for the Knight Foundation
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 18 2017 18:2522
The Village of Peace. And Coca. Lots of Coca.
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 15 2017 18:46123
Defining(?) Disobedience
Awesome Time Wasters | Jul 20 2017 18:2470
Seeing Haiti: a photo essay
Awesome Time Wasters | Feb 19 2017 17:3245
Stop Saying “Fake News” - It’s Not Helping
Awesome Time Wasters | Jan 31 2017 17:0387
It’s Journalism’s Job to Save Civics
Awesome Time Wasters | Jan 19 2017 17:0421
The Four Freedoms, in 2017
Awesome Time Wasters | Jan 08 2017 17:0421
Race, Fame and Ability: Untangling Media Coverage of NFL QBs
Awesome Time Wasters | Dec 24 2016 17:0462
Lunch with my friend, the Trump supporter
Awesome Time Wasters | Dec 09 2016 17:0429
Trump’s victory and the rise of insurrectionism in America
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 14 2016 16:1929
Making Space for Sadness
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 13 2016 16:2521
Massive National Prison Strike! Maybe. We don’t know. That’s a problem.
Awesome Time Wasters | Sep 11 2016 16:1045
Protected: The village of peace… and of coca leaves
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 10 2016 16:0325
The worst thing I read this year, and what it taught me… or Can we design sociotechnical systems that don’t suck?
Awesome Time Wasters | Jun 22 2016 15:2441
Ben Franklin, the Post Office and the Digital Public Sphere
Awesome Time Wasters | Feb 27 2016 14:2624
T. Greg Doucette on false arrest and police brutality
Awesome Time Wasters | Feb 24 2016 14:2524
Why is Verizon letting rural broadband decay?
Awesome Time Wasters | Feb 04 2016 14:25104
Heroin and Hope
Awesome Time Wasters | Feb 02 2016 14:2535
Urgent: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
Awesome Time Wasters | Nov 13 2015 13:4642
Lessig 2016: A radical institutionalist runs for President
Awesome Time Wasters | Sep 04 2015 16:4621
Renormalizing hitchhiking
Awesome Time Wasters | Sep 02 2015 16:4735
Future of News: The View from Accra
Awesome Time Wasters | Aug 28 2015 16:4522
Listening Machines, and the whether, when and how of new technologies
Awesome Time Wasters | Jun 16 2015 16:0332
The death of Tidbit and why it matters
Awesome Time Wasters | May 28 2015 12:0429
Introducing FOLD, a new tool (and a new model?) for storytelling
Awesome Time Wasters | Apr 22 2015 05:2423
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