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After watching the, “Welcome to the Berkman Center on youtube anchored by Ethan Zuckerman I felt I got a good idea on what the group was about.  Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at the Berkman Center for internet and society at Harvard Law School describes the group as an “unusual coalition of academics, lawyers, geeks, activists, and researchers” all of whom are [...]

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My experience with the wiki project was very difficult. It came during a hectic time in my life where I was constantly moving and had minimal use of technology. The project started as I began my long journey from my small base in Afghanistan home. If it were easy we would have gotten on a non stop flight from [...]

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After reading  Howard Rheingold’s concepts of smart mobs police in Germany believe they can use this idea to help them fight crime. In more detail, the police will be sending messages through cell phones to anyone who volunteers in the area to help fight crime.  If a person would like to help keep their neighborhood clean [...]

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Smart mobbing is not just a group of people rallying at a park. Two young men, David Pickering and Eli Pariser had virtually joined forces to overcome war. “War, Pariser believed, was the wrong answer; it would only slaughter more innocents and create more terrorists.”  David Pickering, a student at the University of Chicago was [...]

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