Disability and poverty go hand in hand in most countries

Today is Blog Action Day, and I’m taking part! On this day bloggers around the world are focusing on poverty, and hopefully encouraging their readers to take action!

I’m sure there will be lots of wonderful blog posts around the causes and solutions to global poverty – debt reduction, food crisis, international [...]

How wars end

How will the war in Iraq end? Before the economy became front and center, this was the chief question on most of our minds. As the war approaches its 6th year, the question becomes even more pointed. In one of my all time favorite radio programs, The World, Jeb Sharp looks back through history to [...]

Last day to register- would this convince you?

Since today is the last day to register to vote in many states (mine included), I thought I’d highlight some communication campaigns that have tried to encourage people to register.
The overwhelming majority of these campaigns are aimed at young people. Here are a few that I found interesting – do any of these make the [...]

TAL does it again!

In one of the best, most useful pieces of radio journalism ever, This American Life from WBEZ in Chicago, explained with amazing clarity and detail, how the mortgage crisis came to be. The episode, called Giant Pool of Money, aired in May, but it is still a must-listen as it gives a very clear explaination [...]

Can the power of photography combat TB?

“Photographers go to the extreme edges of the human experience to show people what’s going on. They believe your opinions and your influence matter. They aim your pictures at your best instincts: generosity, the sense of right and wrong, the ability and willingness to identify with others, the refusal to accept the unacceptable.”
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Blog Action Day

I’ll be participating….will you?

Participatory Sensing…or cool things that your phone could do

As our phones get more and more sophisticated, there become more and more possibilities of what they could do.
I came across this video the other day – its a very interesting example of ways to use mobiles and crowd sourcing. Its a little sappy (or maybe just poorly acted) but it is very interesting.
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