For four weeks this summer, we got a crash course in data transparency. Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest, sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Entrants built useful applications incorporating
Sunlight Labs has created a kind of online app store (a free one, that is) for open government, with about 100 apps that do things like track which senators are most likely to block legislation using a filibuster (the aptly named app "filibusted"), or to
With Twitter the phase of "do we really need it?" is over. The "how do we use it?" phase is right now. There are numerous ways of using Twitter for everything from business to bull**** and even clients come up to me and ask me about Twitter after reading
In her remarks today to the Forum for the Future, Secretary Clinton announced Civil Society 2.0, which will help grassroots organizations around the world use digital technology to tell their stories, build their memberships and support bases, and connect
Virtually overnight, sites like ThisWeKnow.com and Datamasher.org created sites that parse this data into a true information grid where you can find out things like how states compare on virtually any criterion.
Facebook has a problem. One of its main goals now is to be the center for sharing everything on the web, but the key to that is to make the process as quick and easy as possible. And in that regard, its rival Twitter destroys it. That's a problem.
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Any conversation on social media and marketing invariably turns to the big question: Which social media platform is right for you? Depending on your industry and your message, the answer may be most of them, but the answer is never just one. As with every
The Who's Who of twitter were out in full force at this week's 140 Conference at the Los Angeles Skirball Center. I got to heckle speakers with @adventuregirl (+1 million followers), talk branding strategy with @ijustine (700,000 followers), and speak on
Journalists can help the public make sense of the growing amount of government data now being made available.
Earlier this year the water began to recede on government data in the United States with President Obama's announcement of an unprecedented push
When thinking about the fold in a newspaper, think about the old school newspaper dispenser with the top half of the top page displayed in the little window. There is a deliberate attempt to put a catchy photo and headline in that window so people buy the
