A web-based survey tool that evaluates journalism organizations' dependency on Big Tech platforms and services.
The evolution of expert communities
A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
Independent Journalism Atlas
Mapping the independent journalism ecosystem — 1,800+ verified creator-journalists by beat, platform, and geography.
The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
Media Bias/Fact Check News
We are the most comprehensive media bias resource on the internet. There are currently 3900+ media sources listed in our database and growing every day.
Stack Overflow Insights - Developer Hiring, Marketing, and User Research
Explore the Stack Overflow Developer Survey — data and insights on how developers work, what tools they use, and what they want from employers.
Social media algorithms can be redesigned to bridge divides — here’s how
"It falls to both the tech companies that built these systems and an engaged public to create technologies designed for social cohesion."
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A toolkit for open source researchers
You Might Debate It — If You Could See It
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Web Browsers, AI, and the Politics of Media Power
The left keeps building media strategies on top of platforms built to undermine them. As browsers are rebuilt for mass surveillance and manipulation, the systems that decide what people see and who gets heard are being rewritten without us. Control over the browser is control over political reality.
How the small web is creating an anti-slop internet
What is the small web? A new crop of platforms are answering algorithmic fatigue with a return to human-curated basics.
We need a PIT Crew for news
Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a radically collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to building internal technology capacity. News has a lot to learn from it.
Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
PropagandaScope
Tracking articles from newspapers. Real-time analysis of propaganda transmission patterns.
homepages.news — News Homepages documentation
An open-source archive that gathers, saves, shares and analyzes news homepages
1/ quick notes from a great meeting yesterday with a Boston area researcher, interested in cutting edge research tools like Discourse Graphs, @cosmik.network and science social media. The research questions they are looking at are too complex and interdisciplinary to be tackled by any single lab >
