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"What a week for StatusNet, the open-source, microblogging service that serves as the foundation for..."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:32:16 -0500

“What a week for StatusNet, the open-source, microblogging service that serves as the foundation for identi.ca, one of the first services to emerge as a focal player in the movement around the real-time Web.”

- Will StatusNet Be Another Open-Source Star in the Enterprise? - ReadWriteEnterprise

"We will return with gratitude and relief to the topics that actually count."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:39:11 -0500

“We will return with gratitude and relief to the topics that actually count.”

- Edge: THE SECOND COMING — A MANIFESTO By David Gelernter

Mobile Networks for Social Entrepreneurs — Social Edge

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:07:58 -0500

Mobile Networks for Social Entrepreneurs — Social Edge:

This is a great article on mobile tech and development for social issues. A great set of examples and initiatives.

My presentation for #openwebTO tonight -> Building a better...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:08:00 -0500

My presentation for #openwebTO tonight -> Building a better future, sooner.

"The global survey found that 86% of non-governmental organization (NGO) employees use mobile..."

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:48:03 -0500

“The global survey found that 86% of non-governmental organization (NGO) employees use mobile technology in their work, and 25% believe it has revolutionized the way their organization or project works. While the most common uses of mobile technology by NGO workers are voice calls (90%) and text messaging (83%), more sophisticated uses, such as mapping (10%), data analysis (8%) and inventory management (8%) also were reported.”

- Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use | MobileActive.org

"Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones. Personalized: 28% of..."

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:12:38 -0500

“Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones.
Personalized: 28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them.
Participatory: 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.”

- Understanding the Participatory News Consumer | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

"Newer information and communication technologies provide new settings and a means of communication..."

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:03:12 -0500

“Newer information and communication technologies provide new settings and a means of communication that independently contribute to the diversity of people’s social networks.”

- Social Isolation and New Technology - Pew Research Center

"Ory Okolloh (24) doesn’t just use Google Maps to find a restaurant, she harnesses it to track..."

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:45:45 -0500

“Ory Okolloh (24) doesn’t just use Google Maps to find a restaurant, she harnesses it to track atrocities and human rights violations. Derek Lomoas (26) doesn’t see business as evil; he sees it as a tool to distribute interactive games for children in Africa. Mark Rembert (23) doesn’t use his mechanical engineering degree to build bigger buildings; he’s using it to repower his city with renewable energy.”

- Josh Tetrick: Recession Kids

"These platforms are more than just ways to make money — they’re affecting the lives of people for..."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:31:24 -0500

““These platforms are more than just ways to make money — they’re affecting the lives of people for better or for worse,” Mr. Cohen said. “As that realization takes hold, it’s just a natural human thing. People want to steer it toward the good rather than the negative.””

- Washington Sends Delegation to Moscow, via Silicon Valley - NYTimes.com

cmAnswers: What is this 'medium of change'?

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:06:00 -0500

In our call today, we refined our description of the ‘medium of change’ to having 3 components:

The emerging system of social technologies…
that enables people to interact…
for a better future, sooner.

We also categorized the system as follows:

People (including individuals and related organizations)
Data (including static/current and dynamic/created)
Infrastructure
Devices
Interaction (including publishing, messaging)

The wave is still live for anyone that wants to contribute.

"And that’s what we’re seeing about social networks. The same people assembled in different ways can..."

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:03:04 -0500

“And that’s what we’re seeing about social networks. The same people assembled in different ways can give rise to different properties.”

- TED 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat? | Epicenter | Wired.com

Join the chat! What is this Medium of Change?

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:17:00 -0500

Please join us Tuesday, February 23rd, at 11:30am to help answer… what is “the Medium of Change”.

We’re starting from the basis that it is the emerging ecosystem of social technologies. But what does that include? What doesn’t it?

We’ve started a google wave to capture our conversation and will host a 30 minute skype chat focus our conversation and come up with a basic framework. Sign-up below to take part and spread the word. The more the merrier.

What is this ‘medium of change’? hosted by michaellewkowitz.

Click Here to Join now

Chat about what’s on your mind. More about public chats.

"The Innovation Fair focuses around two critical challenges of development in fragile states: i...."

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:20:17 -0500

“The Innovation Fair focuses around two critical challenges of development in fragile states:
i. Communications for Governance and Service Delivery: The Innovation Fair will seek out applied research and piloted projects that contribute to building the relationship between citizens and their state at the local and national levels, by using new communications technologies to help: a) deliver services, e.g., health,education, banking and b) encourage civic engagement or improve accountability and transparency”

- Why the Innovation Fair on Conflict and Fragility Matters | Turning Ideas into Action

"Innovations in the way we think, interact, and structure our lives require just as much imagination,..."

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:39:00 -0500

“Innovations in the way we think, interact, and structure our lives require just as much imagination, intelligence, persistence, and funding as innovations in technology.”

- Why Bill Gates is wrong | Grist

"Living Stories try a different approach that plays to certain unique advantages of online..."

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:42:35 -0500

“Living Stories try a different approach that plays to certain unique advantages of online publishing. They unify coverage on a single, dynamic page with a consistent URL. They organize information by developments in the story. They call your attention to changes in the story since you last viewed it so you can easily find the new material. Through a succinct summary of the whole story and regular updates, they offer a different online approach to balancing the overview with depth and context.”

- Living Stories can reinvent the article - O’Reilly Radar

cmAnswers - February 23rd, 11:30 EST

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:45:00 -0500

We’re kicking off a new conversation experiment about the medium of change. On February 23rd we’ll host a short 30 minute voice chat to discuss our most pressing questions about the medium of change. Our challenge though will be to come up with some sort of answer we can post by the end of each call.

What we’ll answer though, is up to you.

Some possible topics that come to mind:

How is the medium changing change? (let’s explore examples)
How is the medium changing us? (let’s explore examples)
What are the components of the medium of change? (let’s map the ecosystem)
How will it make the most change? (brainstorm applications)
How might it change xyz? (focus on a specific impact area)

So what do you want to answer?

"Conclusions. New media were not about escape but about creating local belonging. These boundary..."

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:28:06 -0500

“Conclusions. New media were not about escape but about creating local belonging. These boundary model mpas the entanglements of digital media but also of public visibility. You can’t understand them without understand why a public coming out is so important to LGBTQ youths. They’re not only struggling about coming out, but they also lack info about being visible. And, pollicy analysts ought to be studyhing “:the nexus among media, sexual and gender politics, and broader structures of social inequalities.””

- Joho the Blog

"The latest report from the Kaiser Family Foundation which found that those ages 8 to 18 spend more..."

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:23:08 -0500

“The latest report from the Kaiser Family Foundation which found that those ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven and a half hours a day with media devices, compared with less than six and a half hours five years ago, when the study was last conducted.”

- Recommended reading, watching, listening | DMLcentral

"It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to..."

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:21:13 -0500

“It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed this. More and more, rural queer youth are building out networks of other queer rural youth, helping generate a rural queer identity. Think about what this means for the health and safety of queer youth. Think about what this means for the future of tolerance.”

- apophenia » Blog Archive » Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on “Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America”

Study of Micro-blogging (ht @chrismessina)

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:28:20 -0500

Study of Micro-blogging (ht @chrismessina)