One of the reasons I am so excited about digital activism is that it gives a very public voice to people with few financial resources (start a free blog and you instantly have a potential audience of millions). In short, digital activism empowers ordinary citizens to have a significant impact on world affairsBut with this privilege comes responsibility. If the Internet allows ordinary citizens to influence world affairs we have to think very carefully about how we use that influence. Case in point: MoveOn's campaign to get American troops out of Iraq. Above is a video they recently posted in order to recruit members to join that effort.I thought the video was well-done, but I wanted to have an expert opinion, so I asked my classmate Kent Park, a West Point grad and Captain in the US Army who served (Leer más)

Larry Lessig, Stanford intellectual extraordinaire and founder of Creative Commons, is here at Harvard Law School to talk about his new campaign Change Congress as part of the Berkman@10 lecture series.He begins with a quote from Ronald Reagan: "A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy." The implication is that democracy will lead to collapse because of the greed of the masses. The next story is about Prof. Drummond Rennie. In the drug industry, ?detailers? are paid by drug companies to convince doctors to prescribe that company?s drugs. (Leer más)

In my political organizing class today I had to give a presentation which included my "story of self" - the events in my life that have made me who I am. I was also asked to make a visual aid to illustrate the story, which ended up being such a beautiful work of art that I just wanted to share it.

A wiki is a web page which users can easily edit and add content to by clicking an “edit” tab on the page. It is a great way to coordinate work within a group, much better than e-mail, and it is for that reason that I create a wiki for every major project that I do. (I have over ten project wikis on Wikispaces.com.) For more information on how to use a wiki (including a great instructional video), visit the wiki post on DigiActive.org.