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Ethan Zuckerman

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Ethan Zuckerman was a co-founder of Tripod.com, a web hosting enterprise, and later founder of Geekcorps. He currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Don Tapscott and learning from our kids

by Ethan Zuckerman on October 8, 2009 • View Comments

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Tapscott wants to refute the idea that the internet is making kids dumb. There’s no data to support this, he tells us. Instead, we’re seeing radical societal change, especially around the structure of the family.

Amanda Michel on Distributed Reporting

by Ethan Zuckerman on September 21, 2009 • View Comments

Amanda Michel, the Director of Distributed Reporting at ProPublica, a non-profit investigative news agency, explains to IBM’s Transparent Text symposium, how her newsroom is using crowdsourced reporting. She shows that, in addition to using crowdsourcing for reporting efficiently, it can also be used for dynamic quality control (assessing the quality of government information), accessing novel information you couldn’t find otherwise, and increasing the accountability in journalism.