On September 22nd, I attended a meetup hosted by DC Media Makers featuring DevelopmentSeed – a firm specializing in open source data visualization and map development. Over the course of the last several years, this company has created custom maps detailing election fraud and corruption in Afghanistan as well as the post-Earthquake aid work going on in Haiti by 47 different non-profits....
Continue ReadingWhen we last talked about Social Action Networks, we identified the specific characteristics that define a SAN and what how they differ from an online community. Today we are going to share the steps you should take before you even start planning what you SAN will look like and what it will do....
Continue ReadingBack in January 2009 I started the Master of Information Management program at the University of Maryland, and last semester I took a class on Consumer Health Informatics and another one on Social Computing. With the permission of both professors, I wrote different versions of a paper for each class about how Wikipedia has maintained accurate health information,...
Continue ReadingIn yesterday’s Washington Post, there’s a good article by Alec McGillis about the power of senators from sparsely populated states.
Toward’s the end there’s this: “And then there’s the Senate’s age-old distortion of distributive politics, in which goodies are doled out on anything but a per-capita basis. California,...
Continue ReadingThis post is a bit different from the usual on The Bivings Report. But I’m a big believer in transparency in government, and watch with interest what ProPublica, a new non-profit investigative newsroom, is up to. It’s an important experiment in contemporary journalism. ProPublica has been keeping tabs on the stimulus funds;...
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