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Only 40% will vote today, if you keep your plan not to

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Karl

I agree with Seth Godin’s latest, explaining that political advertising is designed to suppress the vote. If you’re planning to not vote, in protest, you are giving these campaigns exactly what they want. We do have a choice. And that … Continue reading →

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Rebooting Democracy thoughts on Activists versus Pundits and Law

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Karl

The difference between an actual organizer/activist working in a movement and someone of the punditry; there are *concrete* artifacts pursued by an organizer/activist and the primary artifact of a pundit is their cult of personality. If there aren’t proposals behind … Continue reading →

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ProPublica relaunch includes ‘future of context’ ideas

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Karl

You can read about it at Nieman Journalism Lab. Check out some sample reports: ProPublica: Gulf Oil Spill ProPublica: Tainted Drywall ProPublica: Buried Secrets: Gas Drilling’s Environmental Threat Related: The Future of Context

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Comcast releases open source software

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

Comcast Voices: “Comcast Labs and ISC donate IPv6 Open Source software to open Source Community”. Conversation at Hacker News. And check out Arpit’s post about his work on Comcast’s Xfinity Remote Prototype, “Have you seen the XFinity Social Remote app?”.

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Online heroes – David and Barbara Mikkelson

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Karl

NPR.org profiles the hosts of Snopes.com in “Mom-And-Pop Site Busts The Web’s Biggest Myths”.

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Using the Internet and Media to Make a Difference

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Karl

Being the Difference names Mark Horvath “Person of the Year”. Read the link – be inspired – then find a way to act. No matter how small. A tweet here, a blog post there, actually can push the ball forward. … Continue reading →

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Game teaches teenagers about dangerous social media use

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Karl

Smokescreen is a privacy and data sharing awareness game for teenagers. via Boing Boing.

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Quotable – out of context – but worth it – on maybe why Bill O’Reilly is more popular than Bill Moyers?

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Karl

Alan Kay on comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.beginners: Re: Smalltalk Data Structures and Algorithms: What is wrong? Why is mere opinion so dominating discussions held on the easiest medium there has ever been that can provide substantiations with just a little curiosity and work? … Continue reading →

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Challenging conventional wisdom about the direction of media

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Karl

New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell: Priced to Sell – a scathing review of Wired’s Chris Anderson’s new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” and the concepts promoted within. NYTimes: Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia – the NYTimes coordinated … Continue reading →

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Doc Searls: “What if the roles we play are not to pass along substances called ‘data or ‘information’ but rather to feed hungry minds?”

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Karl

Doc Searls: Beyond mediation: We are all media now, right? That’s what we, the mediating, tell ourselves. (Or some of us, anyway.) But what if that’s not how we feel about it? What if the roles we play are not … Continue reading →

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