Begley told The Huffington Post he can't point to a specific thing that pushed him toward Twitter. He was still searching for an alternative medium for the message of Drones+, so the tweet seems to him now like an impulse or reflex instead of a decision -- a snap commitment made from his computer in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., to document attacks from unmanned drones.
Begley told the Daily Beast that Jane Mayer’s 2009 New Yorker piece, “The Predator War,” served as his inspiration.
“A bureaucratic chain of command deciding to execute [people] outside any law is a very interesting concept intellectually,” said Begley, whose Clay Shirky-led master’s program focuses on interactive telecommunications.
The concept got others thinking, too, and hit the front page of Reddit on Wednesday afternoon.
Begley told Reddit's community “the purpose of it is just to surface this information in new and different ways. The app was simply a package for that. glad to hear that some (or at least a few) of you are interested in following along as well.”
Begley told Reddit's community “the purpose of it is just to surface this information in new and different ways. The app was simply a package for that. glad to hear that some (or at least a few) of you are interested in following along as well.”
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