In the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. What do cities owe to whom as...

A word from East Bay Booksellers.

Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

Stream.place is open-source livestreaming on the AT Protocol.

We have to talk about open source licensing.

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A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.

Meet a few of the entrepreneurs and hobbyists building community — and sometimes, making real ad money — from newsletters aggregating local events.

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The Oakland Review of Books is coming!

In the East Bay it’s wildflower season and bird-nesting season, and also weed-pulling season. If you want to get out into the beautiful East Bay hills and explore, the East Bay Regional Park District ...