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December 23, 2007

OhmyNews Citizen Journalism School Opens – OhmyNews International
The education program will include journalism 101 classes for citizen reporters, writing workshops for new citizen reporters, and digital camera class customized for photo journalism and video news gathering.
(tags: citizenjournalism ohmynews journalism internet korea news media education citizenmedia)

Eikongraphia » Blog Archive » LandPrint, by Kitchen Budapest
An artist-collective called [...]

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links for 2007-12-22

December 22, 2007

Doris Lessing – Nobel Lecture
“It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, what we are at our best, when we are our most creative”. Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech is about the importance of story-telling
(tags: literature books nobel reading education culture lessing writing awards blogging internet creativity literacy lecture)

Twin Efforts [...]

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links for 2007-12-20

December 20, 2007

SacredFacts: Facebook, Politics and the Middle East
Richard Sambrook on Facebook in the Middle East
(tags: politics socialnetworking facebook democracy censorship socialsoftware freespeech journalism sambrook)

A group approach to teaching teachers – International Herald Tribune
an interesting article about Curriki, the year-old “Wikipedia of curriculum”, founded by Sun executives. they goal is to open-source the teaching process
(tags: open wikis [...]

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links for 2007-12-16

December 16, 2007

A Reporter at Large: The Megacity: The New Yorker
i missed that in the New Yorker last year. a great article on Lagos
(tags: africa sociology lagos urban nigeria economics article toread cities ideas future)

Path Intelligence Monitors Foot Traffic in Retail Stores By Pinging People’s Phones
Path Intelligence is a U.K. based company that monitors foot traffic in [...]

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Internet Piracy is Good for Films

December 13, 2007

Check this piece I wrote for Intelligent Life about “The Man From Earth”. I am not sure what fascinated me most– the movie (which I loved) or the way the Internet community reacted to the producer’s embrace of privacy!

Off to Kyiv and Riga tomorrow: for a Drupal training we are organizing and for a bunch [...]

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links for 2007-12-13

Meteorologists Shape Fashion Trends – New York Times
…Climate merchants, study historical weather patterns and up-to-the-minute forecasts to advise colleagues on which products to buy and when to put them on the sales floor.
(tags: climate clothing style weather change climatechange)

American Journalism Review
Are ABC’s new one-person foreign bureaus a model for covering the world in the digital [...]

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links for 2007-12-11

December 11, 2007

The dark side of micro-credit | openDemocracy
Bangladesh’s pioneering micro-finance revolution is also helping to fuel the twin abuses of dowry and domestic violence.
(tags: micro-credit bangladesh microfinance)

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links for 2007-12-10

December 10, 2007

The travesty of political robo-calls. – By William Saletan – Slate Magazine
an interesting piece on how presidential campaigns are using IVRs
(tags: ivr phone mobile 08 elections voice)

Living City
Living City is a full-scale prototype building skin designed to open and close its gills in response to air quality,… where individual buildings collect data, share it with [...]

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links for 2007-12-08

December 8, 2007

From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm – New York Times
Those [swarming] rules allow thousands of relatively simple animals to form a collective brain able to make decisions and move like a single organism
(tags: science biology swarm nature network learning ants articles behavior education brain 2007 insects)

textually.org: A blind call. Accidental charity
Belgian ad agency [...]

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links for 2007-12-07

December 7, 2007

‘Brega’ sound turning industry on its ear – CNN.com
[some] musicians and producers who see copying as a marketing tool rather than intellectual property theft.
(tags: brasil music copyright piracy tecnobrega brazil research business innovation media model)

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