Category: Civics

memetrade.org

Post author By The Publishers
Post date November 23, 2015
Categories In Civics, Tech
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I’m working on a project that I hope you will find interesting and maybe even help out with: memetrade.org is (will be) a site for investing in and shorting viral phrases, or memes. Like a stock market for memes. A game. But maybe with real money. Like: “I’m shorting ‘In da club’ and putting money […]

Open Government book from O’Reilly

Post author By The Publishers
Post date January 27, 2013
Categories In Civics, Tech, Writing
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This book Open Government, which publisher O’Reilly released to memorialize hacker Aaron Swartz, is just a fantastic smorgasbord of writing about government and participation and technology, some of it dated or auxiliary but all top notch and thought-provoking. Particularly, so far, Beth Noveck’s chapter on deliberative versus collaborative government. Hope to write more reading notes […]