Is Crowd Funding a Scandal?

Is this the #crowdfunding scandal I predicted? POSTED BY LUCY BERNHOLZ  There are lots of headlines today about Facebook’s decision to buyOculus VR for $2 billion. This is a big payout for a company (Oculus) that got its product launched with Kickstarter support. And now thoseKickstarter supporters are wondering why they’re not getting any return on their “investment.” Because most Kickstarter…

The ground beneath philanthropy

POSTED BY LUCY BERNHOLZ: 1/15/2013 I’ve been reading a lot about Aaron Swartz. He’s a young man, 26, who helped build several of the online tools we use today (RSS, Reddit, OpenLibrary) when he was still in his teens. A polymath, history was a passion of his. Learning was a passion. Open access to information was, it seems from…