Articles and other writings
NOTE: I do much of my writing these days on techPresident and the American Prospect's TAPPED.
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The Alan Grayson Effect  |
Salon | June 28, 2010 |
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| Washington's I.T. Guy |
The American Prospect | June 13, 2010 |
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| The American Prospect | April 7, 2010 | |
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| Google Everywhere |
The American Prospect | February 17, 2010 |
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| Battling Back Bacteria The case for a risk-based approach to food safety. |
Science Progress (Center for American Progress) | Sept. 15, 2009 |
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| The Next Diplomatic Cable Making sense of the State Department's 21st century statecraft. |
The American Prospect |
July 27, 2009 |
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| The New Interface of Governance Using the web to nudge us towards making better decisions. |
Seed Magazine |
June 2, 2009 |
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| Cheaper by the Dozen: The Dark Side of the Organic Boom How organics got wrapped up in the salmonella-inspired peanut butter recall. |
Science Progress (Center for American Progress) | March 3, 2009 |
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| Crowdsourcing the Genome What the gene databases being compiled by personal testing services might mean for genetics research. |
Seed Magazine | February 27, 2009 |
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| All the News That's Fit to Feed By embracing data-driven APIs, the New York Times just might be able to stay in the news business. |
Columbia Journalism Review (online) | Oct. 24, 2008 |
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| Better Patents Through Crowdsourcing The U.S. Patent Office has gone all wisdom-of-crowds with the Peer to Patent project. (Reprinted in the Center for American Progress book Science Next) |
Science Progress (Center for American Progress) | Aug. 29, 2008 |
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| Our Fractured Food Safety System What's wrong with how the federal government oversees food, and how to fix it. (Reprinted in the Center for American Progress book Science Next) |
Science Progress (Center for American Progress) | May 27, 2008 |
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| Despite Negative Press, Facebook Is a Powerful Agent for Social Change Making the case that Facebook can maybe, just maybe, help save the world. |
AlterNet | April 24, 2008 |
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| Broadband Done Right: The Old Dominion Model Here's how they got high-speed Internet down every holler in Virginia. |
Science Progress (Center for American Progress) | March 26, 2008 |
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| Monsanto U: Agribusiness's Takeover of Public Schools The funding of ag research at America's land-grant schools. |
AlterNet | Feb. 15, 2008 |
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| Will New Hampshire Republicans Buy Into Huckabee's Flat Tax Plan? On the tough sell of a 30% national sales tax, a.k.a. the "FairTax," in the "Live Free or Die" state. |
AlterNet | Jan. 6, 2008 |
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| Why Iraqi Farmers Might Prefer Death to Paul Bremer's Order 81 Connecting the dots between the seed patenting regime that the U.S. brought to Iraq and India's farmer suicide epidemic. |
AlterNet | Sept. 19, 2007 |
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| Roadmap of a Progressive Victory Inside Rhode Islanders' quixotic — but successful — campaign to return the voting rights to ex-felons. |
AlterNet | April 3, 2007 |
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| And elsewhere: Worldchanging (On SMS in South Africa/Kenya, open government/courts, hurricane preparedness, iPhone greenness, and more) Huffington Post (On election protection, the "Twitter Dome Scandal," the Green Revolution, Katrina, development dependence, Al Gore's Internet, Fairness Doctrine, Internet radio, and more) MyDD Personal Democracy Forum Pop!Tech |
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| Other stuff I am/have been involved in: Twitter Vote Report (which started with this blog post), NYU's "New Media, New Politics" tutorial | ||
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