Category: Book Content

  • For the last two years, I’ve been considering a documentary film about community attempts to resurrect Detroit.  It first occurred to me when interviewing a food security specialist in New Orleans for my Rising From Ruins film, who said that her post-Katrina city was doing great work, but Detroit was the nation’s leader in this…

  • A call today from a local TV talk show producer looking to book me as a tech “expert”, alerted me to YouTube’s 5th birthday today (here’s my segment).  I wish I had known about the video streaming site’s public beta test back in May 2005 — at that same time, I was struggling to compress,…

  • My “lunch box talk” at the University of Washington on May 12th.

  • My TEDx Seattle introduction, as I lay the framework for “Convening Community Through Social Technologies: From Puget Sound to Cape Town.”