We're living in a golden age of surveillance. But we're also living in an unprecedented age of disclosure.
Brooke Gladstone has written a short but cogent diagnosis for understanding the fractured sense of reality that pervades the U.S. after the election of Donald Trump - and, how the fragmentation of our information landscape helped his rise.
After a year-long pursuit and an opinion from the Attorney General, Chicago Police comply with transparency law.
With Limits: On Foot Along the Edge of the Megalopolis of the Valley of Mexico journalist Feike de Jong takes the idea of the flâneur to its extreme, wandering the entire perimeter of Mexico City just to get a sense for its staggering size, scope...
A quick but complete walk-through Klaxon is a tool for monitoring websites, built by and for journalists. But it could also be useful for anyone you might think of as an “information first-responder” – activists, concerned...
Harvest data from Twitter in no time using this Python module
And useful reporting in general Scrapy is a fantastic framework for web scraping with loads of stuff you need built in – including stats, and hooks you can use for email notifications. I’ll focus on that in this post to collect some of...
Cayden Mak on Digital Organizing, Community Power, and Responsible Innovation
In Software, the Medium is the Material - But Developers Should Not Be Defined by Their Tools
The Limitations of Binary Value-Judgments in a Design Process There is no such thing as bad design, only design in the wrong context. I don’t claim this as an absolute rule: “design” is broad, so if you’re talking about architecture or even...