Why Surrendering Control of the Internet to Market Forces is Crazy Talk
July 8, 2014
I’m a researcher at the Imaging Research Center at UMBC. We explore new forms of storytelling and image-making made possible…
What To Delete: Pt. 2
November 30, 2011
In the digital world, space is pretty cheap these days. I can backup my laptop for 6 months for what…
What To Delete Pt. 1
November 16, 2011
What's hard is choosing what to keep, and what to throw out. Will I need this? Will I ever use…
Both-And
October 26, 2011
The recent PopTech conference in Maine, attended by several of people associated with What Weekly, was interesting in this regard.…
Idea Asteroid
October 20, 2011
Imagine a big gnarly idea hurtling through space and on a collision course with your head. It's threatening you directly.…
Street Destination
October 13, 2011
So, Istanbul. Decades after the Ottoman Empire said goodbye to its last Sultan in 1922 the population of Istanbul was…
Aspiration Vacuum
October 5, 2011
Have we forgotten how to aspire? Have our problems, once merely sticky but now bordering on existential have scared us…
Outside The Black Box
September 28, 2011
Our ever-increasing flow of technological wonders means we can now carry a big chunk of human knowledge, a broadcast and…
Ode to the Bazaar
September 21, 2011
Just off the main street in the part of Istanbul where you'll also find Hagia Sophia and the Blue Masque,…
IstanBaltimore
September 14, 2011
Leaving my world behind allows me to experience other cultures, and also helps me see my own. I'm in Istanbul…
Malaise and Malaria
September 9, 2011
The big hope for Westerners in the past few centuries was the idea that things would just keep getting better…
Cyclist Outlaws
August 31, 2011
I'm abike commuter. I love it. But nearly everyday, I see my fellow cyclists do things that hurt their interests…
Talulah Derailed
August 17, 2011
It seems to me that would be pretty unusual to judge yourself as the one in 1,000 artists who will…
Identity Pickup
August 10, 2011
I think people make decisions to extend and support their idea of exactly whom they are and the world they…
Treating Others
July 21, 2011
Despite that the data on the cost-benefit ratio for using vaccines to stall pandemics is overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines—those…
Downside Up
July 13, 2011
I don't know about ya'll but I think we're in the middle of a big change. It's as if for…
Feedback
July 6, 2011
Last night we had a feedback session where we showed some of the films we've been posting to a group…
Enducation Series
June 30, 2011
This is the short wrap up of the WhoWeAm series on looking at education through the lens of culture. Two…
Crossing Cultural Divides in a Rowboat
June 23, 2011
Bruce MacKenzie is a shipwright. He builds boats. But he also builds young people's interest in learning by thinking about…
When It Works
June 13, 2011
This 5th film installment in WhoWeAm’s series on education is an interview with an Art Teacher who looks at her…
