YouTube’s Reporting Center and Government Transparency

Guest post by Jessica Rudis

Two of the biggest announcements made at PDF this year complement each other in an interesting way. The first announcement, made on Monday, was that YouTube had launched a reporting center that teaches citizen journalists skills to improve the quality of their reporting. ...

21st-Century Collision Course

Catastrophic battles have already begun and loom large on the horizon between traditional hierarchal powers and the growing trend of lateral power structures, according to the University of Sydney’s Mark Pesce.

Pesce spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum on the reasons hierarchal structures will lose out to hyperintelligent ad-hocracies unless they learn to reinvent themselves....

TechRepublican’s Todd Herman Discusses the GOP’s Next Steps in Web Development

The Kids These Days are not the Kids of Yesterday

Guest post by Alan Haburchak

It seems like there is a certain generally accepted truth about age and ideology in America: Young people are liberal and vote Democratic while the older generation tends to trend more conservative. There's even that old chestnut usually attributed to Winston Churchill: "If you're young and not a liberal you have no heart,...

Bridging the Digital Divide