Christopher Cantwell

Activists use technology differently. Sure, we have a lot of the same apps as other people. I mean, who doesn’t have Google+, Facebook, or Twitter installed on their phone these days? But the activist doesn’t settle for posting pictures of their lunch on Instagram, or watching videos on YouTube, and while it’s nice to be able to check the weather, and fun to throw…...

In my previous article, I mentioned setting up the Suffolk County Cop Block Helpline, and idea I got from the Keene411 service FreeKeene.com uses. There are many applications for this, but here’s the basic idea behind it. Someone sends an SMS to a phone number, That SMS gets posted as a tweet, Subscribers sign up for mobile…...

For the longest time, I didn’t “get” twitter. I used to say it was just facebook for people who can’t think past 140 characters. The concept of “followers” instead of “friends” didn’t jive with my experience from facebook and the good ole days of MySpace, and when I did join, and I did get followers,…...