Work from October, 2009

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Software’s Never Neutral

Via dkg, whose excellent essay Technical Architecture Shapes Social Structure you all already read when we first published The Organic Internet, comes an academic variation on that theme: Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching. Normally I'd bookmark and move on, but this is extra interesting ...

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Switch (an idealab cross post)

Our latest (and last, for now) news game, Switch, is live. It is no Energyville but we think it is pretty awesome. Not only is it live, the source code and installation instructions are already available. With gadgets guzzling evermore energy, New York City faces a looming energy gap. New Yorkers will have to cut back on our electric use or start generating a lot more power. Our game lets people explore the options that are on the table, along with a few that aren't. Should the city ban air conditioning? Harness the tides? Go nuclear? Warning: the game is addictive. Switch is

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