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Simple examples of cool ideas - last post from MIT conference

Posted Saturday June 14, 2008, 4:47 am, Over one day old

Mako Hill’s presentation of Selectricity, a fascinating tool for online voting, gave an elegant single demonstration as well. Instead of having a single choice, voters listed their preferences in order - “Indian, Mexican, Chinese, Italian, Burgers”.

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Cellphones, civic media and conversations with winged carnivores

Posted Friday June 13, 2008, 3:13 am, Over one day old

Dale wondered whether you could just call the owls via a cellphone … an idea that’s probably appealed to anyone who’s spent a cold night in the woods listening for owl calls.

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Activism, art and future civic media

Posted Thursday June 12, 2008, 7:33 am, Over one day old

The projects he’s most excited about within MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media focus on the interface between political action, art, journalism and technology. People think of themselves as living in places, but they’re affected by the flows of powerful forces.

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New Media, New Voices

Posted Thursday June 12, 2008, 7:33 am, Over one day old

Resnick is interested in models that focus on discovery, and is known in the academic world for projects that help young people learn through discovery - notably the Scratch programming environment and the Computer Clubhouse project.

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Dyson on King, and different words for different audiences

Posted Thursday June 12, 2008, 7:33 am, Over one day old

King, suggesting that the rhetoric of King’s later years was far closer to the angry language of Reverend Jeremiah Wright than the postracial, hopeful stance of Barack Obama.

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Kazi560 - Jobsearching via mobile phone

Posted Thursday June 12, 2008, 7:33 am, Over one day old

A creative solution, called Kazi560, is having great success matching blue-collar workers with jobs via SMS. If you’re a laborer, you can spend an amazing amount of your time wandering from one worksite to another, looking for opportunities.

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Future Civic Media at MIT. Shiny!

Posted Thursday June 12, 2008, 7:33 am, Over one day old

Rosen makes an argument that crowdsourcing may require the sort of motivation than comes from strong ideological belief - when readers of Talking Points Memo get as incensed as Josh Marshall about the Bush Justice Department, they’re willing to do the work to sort through huge masses of data.

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Citizen Media and Pakistan?s Long March

Posted Wednesday June 11, 2008, 2:33 am, Over one day old

There’s no shortage of media attention on the protest, including an excellent series of short interviews conducted by the BBC. That’s why noted Pakistani blogger and media activist, Dr. Awab Alvi, is organizing citizen media coverage of the Long March.

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The architecture of serendipity

Posted Monday June 9, 2008, 6:03 am, Over one day old

My regular readers know that I’m interested in serendipity as one of the tools that can help combat homophily, the tendency of birds of a feather to flock together, and to share their preferred sources of information, often at the expense of other voices and sources of information.

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?If we act deranged enough, maybe they?ll just give us the country.?

Posted Saturday June 7, 2008, 11:47 am, Over one day old

Second, NGOs may not be able to feed MDC supporters, who are denied food aid… or are being forced to surrender their voter ID cards to ZANU-PF officials in exchange for food aid. - A US and UK diplomatic convoy was forced off the road by police, attacked and robbed by ZANU-PF supporters.

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