Posted on April 30, 2008 by 40brown
Due to the unprecedented nature of the 2008 election, communities of color are being actively sought after and their role and influence scrutinized by the media and political pundits. In an effort to add depth to the national conversation about the important role these communities are playing and will continue to play in ‘08 and [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by 40brown
Politics and Religion come together today in an event at the Center for American Progress. “From the Pulpit to the Polls; The Role of Religion in Politics” will be held today a 12:30 (Eastern). I’ll be live blogging from the event -
you can follow along here.
Make sure to post questions and comments! An “instant replay” [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by 40brown
There’s been a lot of buzz about using maps in advocacy, and its been something I’ve been meaning to explore further. I knew about the use of maps to see that damage done in Darfur (you can track as village go missing, and as communities are destroyed in Zimbabwe). And as neat as these were, [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by 40brown
The Center for American Progress holds a monthly event called the Internet Advocacy Roundtable. Today’s roundtable is called “Party On…line with the Republican and the Democratic parties.
I’ll be attending this event and invite you to follow along! Please feel free to post any comments of questions.
If you are seeing this after the fact, you can [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2008 by 40brown
While searching for a different Ted Talk, I came across this one. It is a fascinating example of how technology can be adapted for different purposes. But I love that in the end the speaker, Johnny Lee, credits online video distribution for the spread of his product. It only took 5 months to go from [...]
Filed under: Communications, networks, social media, technology | Tagged: games, gaming, infrared, Johnny Lee, online distribution, online video, technology, TED, video, Wii, YouTube | No Comments »
Posted on April 3, 2008 by 40brown
I’m attending a lecture today given by DeeDee Halleck, an expert in public access television programing and the use of communications in grassroots development.
You can follow along here.
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by 40brown
This morning I read about a web application called Jott.com, which uses voice recognition to let users send email and text by speaking. The idea is that you call a phone number, select the destination of your message, then speak. The voice recognition program then turns your speech into text and will then send it [...]
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