Writing
(jump down for past speaking gigs)

Longer Pieces
Science Progress (Center for American Progress)
Our Fractured Food Safety System: The way the U.S. manages the American food supply dates back to the days of Teddy Roosevelt and The Jungle, and is no match for the way we eat today.
Broadband Done Right: The Old Dominion Model: Inside the wiring of Virginia from Rose Hill to King George County, with a look at a public policy approach that fosters high-speed Internet.
Alternet
Despite Negative Press, Facebook Is a Powerful Agent for Social Change: Fleshing out the social-network platform's potential for collective action with evidence from activism around Tibet, Burma, and the Colombian guerrilla group FARC.
Monsanto U: Agribusiness's Takeover of Public Schools: A look at who's funding agricultural research at land-grant schools, and how a corporate approach shapes what gets studied.
Will New Hampshire Republicans Buy Huckabee's Flat Tax Plan?: On the tough sell of a 30% national sales tax, a.k.a. the "FairTax," in the "Live Free or Die" state.
Why Iraqi Farmers Might Prefer Death to Paul Bremer's Order 81: Connecting the dots between patented genetically-modified agriculture in Iraq and Indian farmer suicides.
Roadmap of a Progressive Victory: How Rhode Island activists managed to unexpectedly restore enfranchisement to the state's ex-felons.
The Huffington Post
Debt and Development, Presidential-Style: Arguing that it doesn't take any quid pro quo to make the economic entanglement of George W. Bush and Ray L. Hunt destructive.

The Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet (IPDI) at George Washington University

Avatar Politics: the Social Applications of Second Life: Your guide to using virtual worlds to create political and social change.
TechPresident/Personal Democracy Forum
Fuera de la Revolución (de la Internet): Castro's crackdown on journalist Guillermo Fariñas Hernandez and the fracturing of the global network.
Selected Blog Posts
Huffington Post (all)
A West Coast Coder Goes to Washington
America's Ready for High-Def Sex
The Green Revolution 2.0
The Wire's Final Season: David Simon's Bleak Vision Meets the Age of Hope
Somebody Has the Upper Hand, But It Isn't the American Farmer
"I Want My Internet Radio"
Who Killed the Liberal Radio Star?
Hearing Progressive Voices (all)
Joe Green, Project Agape/Facebook Causes
Hannah Sassaman, Prometheus Radio Project
Paul Rieckhoff, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Jefferson Smith, the Oregon Bus Project
Andrea Batista Schlesinger, The Drum Major Institute
Phillip Anderson, the Albany Project
MyDD (all)
Democracy and Networks
Last Night at the Tank
Here We Come to Save the Spectrum
Coding Towards Openness with Facebook's New F8
Card Check Comes Down to Picking Sides
Funding the 50-State Gay Conspiracy
Air America's Spark (all)
Tuesdays with Alt Weeklies
Farrow Diplomacy Moves Spielberg on Darfur
Farm Subsidies a Fair Trade of Policy for Politics?
Redenbacher's Law on Internet Filtering
The Fairness Doctrine Takedown
Bad Beef By Design
Googlizing the Wireless Spectrum
Personal Democracy Forum/TechPresident (all)
"In Canon" Voter-Generated Content
The Jena 6 Protest: Powered by Social Networks, Social Leaders, or Both?
Are Political Leaders Willing to Stand Up for Facebook?
Forward Together Blog
Distributive Politics: Campaign Wikia and the Sunlight Foundation
Why George Allen Fears the Free and Open Internet
On Shad and Second Life
Governing and Katrina
Elsewhere
Carrotmob: Green Shopping Goes Social | WorldChanging
Kenya, M-PESA, and Independent Media | WorldChanging
The Freedom Tower and Remix Architecture | iCommons
When Catholic Hospitals Don't Act Catholic | Street Prophets
Who Owns What C-Span Airs? | The Open House Project
Past Speaking Gigs

New Media and Labor | The Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions Conference
Bread, Blogs, and Roses | Yearly Kos 2007
What Will Washington Do Next? | Personal Democracy Forum 2007
What Do Blogging and New Media Offer for Labor | Labor's Voices 3
Election '08: Covering Politics in Cyberspace | USC Annenberg School for Communications
Social Media and Electoral Politics | PodCamp NYC 2007
Politics in Virtual Words | Beyond Broadcast 2007(in Second Life)
Blogging and Presidential Politics | The Tank (moderator)
Political Activism for Geeks | SXSW Interactive 2007
Net Neutrality | Yearly Kos 2006
Net Neutrality Salon with Susan Crawford | The Tank (moderator)
Localized Political Blogging | Personal Democracy Forum 2006 (moderator)









Nancy Scola I'm a Brooklyn-based writer obsessed with technology, networks, social organizing, and the politics of food. This is my online home where I talk about those things and whatever else strikes my fancy. Learn More

Of Note: Our Fractured Food Safety System [Science Progress], Facebook Activism [AlterNet], Tag Magazine




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