Nicco Mele, keynote speaker at the VT Digital Future Conference, says that the internet has opened up opportunities for small rural states like Vermont, and changes the nature of politics in Vermont and around the world. more

An interview with Nicco Mele, who is speaking this week at Vermont's Digital Future conference. more

Nicco Mele commented on NPR's All Things Considered about Facebook's upcoming IPO, and Jaron Lanier's idea that "superusers" should benefit from the content they produce. more

"One way of thinking about this is everyone is trying to figure out how you make money on the Internet. And here is one of the few examples. So that raises the question why? Why is it working? How is it working? Are there lessons to be learned there for other people?" more

Nicco Mele was asked to comment on the SOPA protests that blanketed the internet in dark pages on Wednesday, January 18 2012. EchoDitto joined giants like Wikipedia, BoingBoing.net, Wired.com and thousands of others in making our site go black as a symbol of what the internet could look like under the draconian censorship models of the proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. more

Nicco Mele commented on privacy in mobile technology, in response to Representative Ed Markey's request for a federal investigation into Carrier IQ's data-gathering software. Read the full article here. more

Online primaries have the potential to be disruptive to the political process, says Nicco Mele in a recent Washington Post article about the moderate group Americans Elect, which is planning to hold an online nomination and primary process to get a moderate third-party candidate on the ballot in the 2012 Presidential election.
Read the full article here. more

Nicco Mele was quoted in an article about the new wave of young filmmakers stirring up Republican politics with videos and web ads that are cutting edge, modern, and often highly controversial. Mele argues that the Republicans are just trying to catch up to where the Democrats have already been, in terms of online campaigning, but the up-and-coming generation of conservative tech-savvy producers begs to differ. more

Nicco Mele appeared on the radio program Here & Now to discuss the arrest of Aaron Swartz for hacking into an MIT computer and downloading four million academic documents from the subscription archive JSTOR.

Mele said "we have a serious issue when any 14 year old with a $500 laptop can hack into central command," but there's a big difference between dangerous, malicious hacking and Swartz's "act of civil disobedience." more

“You could have a candidate announce in September and raise $30 million on the internet to challenge Barack Obama in the Democratic Primary.” Nicco Mele lobbed this prediction into the crowd at a recent Century Foundation event titled “#2012 Election: Social Media and the Future of Politics.” Video of the event can be found here. more