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Entries from May 2006

Defining citizen’s media

May 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Ethan Zuckerman gave a talk at the NetSquared conference and gave what might be the best definition yet of citizen journalism/social software and its cultural importance and impact.  I can’t and won’t quote everything here — there’s too much good stuff — but one line that resonated with me was about the need to teach [...]

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Responding to disaster

May 30th, 2006 · No Comments

Dina Mehta, a contributer to Global Voices and  a proponent of ethical uses of social software, was instrumental using her contacts in the blogosphere to help the victims of the tsunami of early 2005.  She helped set up a blog that those in need of help and those offering help good go to, and, when [...]

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decompression

May 26th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Sometimes you don’t realize how compressed you are until after the fact, when you deflate. Case in point: after a long semester of working on and thinking about nothing but the Bronx Blog Project — obsessing over the web site’s design and functionality, shooting, editing, and compressing video, slaving with Flash for over a [...]

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links for 2006-05-24

May 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Latin-Know: The Latino Marketing Report
(tags: latinos marketing advertising)

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links for 2006-05-20

May 19th, 2006 · No Comments

Open Source » Blog Archive » Harnessing Remittances
A great discussion of immigrants’ practice of sending money home.
(tags: immigration)

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Heckuva Sonic Burger

May 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments

This has been circulated around the blogosphere, but it’s too good to pass up.
The emails of ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown have been released under the Freedom of Information Act, Open Source tells us.  And there are some juicy tidbits in there.
The most blogged-about item so far is a little communiqué from Brownie to his press [...]

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links for 2006-05-14

May 13th, 2006 · No Comments

AI Firefly IHRD Commission
(tags: funding)

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links for 2006-05-12

May 11th, 2006 · 1 Comment

MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Reuters Looks to Provide ‘Spine of Truth’ to Blogosphere | PBS
(tags: blogs journalism globalvoices)

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