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

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

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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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AI Firefly IHRD Commission
(tags: funding)

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

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