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• Betavine Social Exchange Needs Your Help!

  
  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 131
  Would you give 15 minutes of your time for a really good cause (and a chance to win a prize)? Vodafone has recently launched a new version of Betavine, the open mobile application community. This new version encompasses a pilot project called "Social Exchange" , which aims to foster the creation of mobile ...
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  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 131
  
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• Voices of Africa: Citizen Journalists Reporting with Mobile Phones

  
  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 131
  Mobile phones are the tool of choice for a new group of young reporters in Africa. Voices of Africa Media Foundation, a Netherlands-based non-profit, trains young journalists in Africa to create news videos for the web using mobiles. The foundation currently has programs in Kenya, Ghana, Cameroon, Tanzania, ...
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• Upcoming Events: Citizen Journalism Conference at Monmouth University

  
  JerseySmarts.com — Authority: 428
  There are a lot of reasons why I choose to write this blog. I write it to keep people in my life updated on what I’m thinking and what’s going on in my life, I write it to express an opinion, I write it to spread that information which I feel is relevant to the interests of my readers, etc. However, one of my ...
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• India Bans Pre-Paid Mobiles in Kashmir - Security or Suppression?

  
  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 131
  This post was written by Sam duPont of NDN and the New Policy Institute , and is cross-posted at Global Mobile . For eight years, the Indian government dragged its feet until, in 2003, it finally permitted mobile phones in conflict-torn Kashmir. Intelligence officials had feared that Kashmiri and Pakistani ...
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• Its not just the Sun wholl be nasty | Charlie Beckett

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  As Jacqui Janes tapes her conversation with Gordon Brown, its clear politicians are heading for asymmetric war with the public The Sun is certainly out to get its former friend Gordon Brown , to the extent that it has published a deeply awkward private telephone conversation between the prime minister and the ...
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• Age of Stupid comes to Isle of Wight

  
  Isle of Wight News: Island Pulse: — Authority: 145
  The new apocalyptic movie the ‘Age of Stupid’ is to be shown at Newport’s Quay Arts Centre. Pete Postlethwaite plays the last human alive in a post-apocalyptic world and muses sorrowfully on how the human race could have been so stupid, ignoring the warning signs.... Related posts: ‘Age Of Stupid ...
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• Spot (.US)

  
  The Frager Factor — Authority: 140
  According to the NY Times: "Journalists are turning to the public for ideas and the money to do their investigative reporting."Spot.Us is a unique idea: community funded reporting which just succeeding in funding and then getting this garbage patch story published in the New York Times. Accoding to Spot.us website: ...
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• Using Mobile Phones to Map the Slums of Brazil

  
  MediaShift Idea Lab — Authority: 125
  In the favelas , or slums, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, unnamed streets meander through the hillsides. There are hospitals, coffee shops and restaurants, none of which appear on a map. Mail carriers struggle to deliver letters to homes without addresses. A new project by Rede Jovem , a Brazilian non-profit that ...
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• How to become a global publisher or broadcaster in just 100 minutes!

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 124
  I was born three years before the Internet (which turned 40 a few weeks ago), and raised entirely on newspapers and radio in a country where broadcast television didn’t arrive until I was 13.From the time I could read and write, I always wanted to be a media publisher. In that pre-history of the Personal [...]
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• Breakfast briefing: MySpaces expensive, empty digs - and iPhone worms

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 138
  • After delays to Rupert Murdochs paywall strategy and questions about its Google search deal , MySpace s money management is once again under the microscope after it emerged that the struggling web company is still paying $1m a month for an empty office complex in Los Angeles , reports the Financial Times. ...
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• Should The Fort Hood Tragedy Be Reduced To Linkbait?

  
  Podcasting News — Authority: 541
  Podcasting pioneer Dave Winer is taking TechCrunch to task over a linkbait article on the Fort Hood tragedy. TechCrunch’s Paul Carr argues that the Fort Hood tragedy shows that citizen journalism is worthless : For all the sound and fury, citizen journalism once again did nothing but spread misinformation ...
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• Why I think ‘block level’ news, data is important

  
  SteveOuting.com — Authority: 538
  Earlier today Howard Weaver tweeted the following, which I can’t answer in 140 characters (!) so I’ll respond here. … “Why do people (@steveouting et al) keep saying ‘block level’ info is best premium opportunity? Seems *most* likely to be citizen generated.” –@howardweaver I don’t recall ...
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• Rede Jovem: Wikimapa

  
  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 131
  In the favelas, or slums, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, unnamed streets meander through the hillsides. There are hospitals, coffee shops and restaurants, none of which appear on a map, and mail carriers struggle to get letters to homes without addresses. A new project by Rede Jovem , a Brazilian nonprofit that loosely ...
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• Mobiles Hidden in Monks Robes, Part III: Cracks in the Walls

  
  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 131
  This article was written by Emily Jacobi from Digital Democracy . We are publishing her extensive report on Burmese dissidents use of technology in three parts.  Part I with an overview of mobiles in Burma is here and part II that describes cross-border dissident communications here. All names of individuals ...
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• MediaSentry and Harry Potter

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  MediaSentry has been discredited so many times in so many ways by so many people in so many countries it’s hard to believe it’s still around. But it is — just like some quack medical practitioner or snakeoil salesman who simply moves on somewhere else every time he’s found to be a fake. Fired by the RIAA, it ...
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• Is This Taking Citizen Media Too Far? Woman Plans To Stream Childbirth On Internet

  
  Podcasting News — Authority: 541
  A 23-year old Minnesota teacher has announced plans to stream the birth of her first child over the Internet to anyone that wants to watch. “We wanted to share this experience,” Lynsee said about the decision she made with her husband Anders. “If I were in a classroom, I’d be teaching about development. It ...
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• Isle of Wight Media ‘Becomes the Story’

  
  Isle of Wight News: Island Pulse: — Authority: 145
  This week Island Pulse became part of the story and was not alone in gaining a mention in the Island Business Magazine online and in print... Related posts: Media Trust in “Communication for the Next Generation” Wake Up To People Power Of The Net. Lord Louis Library: Short Story Competition Feature ...
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• Who’s making video clips? Not me…but does it matter anymore?

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 124
  ‘m usually happy and eager to explain my work to anyone who asks. I keep cool when people mix up technicalities related to film and video – after all, I don’t know the finer points in other professions and industries. One thing I’m now tired of hearing is the wide-spread misuse of the term ‘video [...]
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• Citizen Media Legal Project website--Will Judge Judith Hayes be able to shut it down?

  
  San Diego Education Report Blog — Authority: 125
  Someone sent me a link today to Harvard Universitys website about threats to citizens who try to exercise their freedom of speech. The website is here. Its amazing how many powerful people think that the First Amendment doesnt apply to people who criticize them.
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