Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it,… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
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