From the monthly archives: December 2006

Edwards 2008 and What we can Do NOW

By On December 29, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Ruby and I recorded a video response to John Edwards’ video on YouTube called Tomorrow Begins Today. It was easy and fun to do.

This response came about from a phone conference call for bloggers we were on the day before Mr. Edwards announced. I was most impressed by his call for [...]

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I asked Vlog santa how to get a Wii

By On December 22, 2006 · 2 Comments

I know I said all stuff Nintendo Wii would be over at my blog Wii The Media but this one is just too funny… so I cross post here:

I sent Vlog Santa a short video asking him, “How do I convince my wife to let me get a Wii?” Well he [...]

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Help The Coup and Mr. Lif recover from bus Crash

By On December 21, 2006 · Leave a Comment

I just found out from Ruby who found out from Dav that the wonderful radical hiphop groups The Coup and Mr. Lif where in a bus crash. They lost everything except their lives. Many of them are seriously injured. Thankfully no one was killed. From Boots blog:

We lost everything in [...]

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Make Net Neutrality the Law

By On December 19, 2006 · Leave a Comment

From SaveTheInternet.com

Similar footage in this vid as the Humanity Lobotomy – Save the Internet by FourEyedMonsters. Which one do you like better?

Humanity Lobotomy – Second Draft

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Geek Activism Ideas

By On December 19, 2006 · Leave a Comment

In my post Activists and Geeks unite! a commenter left a great link to Devanshu Mehta‘s 95 Theses of Geek Activism. I put them here bellow the fold for you to read. [Thank you Devanshu for using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.] Please go check out Devanshu’s site and [...]

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Ho Ho Yesh

By On December 16, 2006 · Leave a Comment

I made this Mii graphic the other day and put it on Flickr… sans beard and hat. Logged into my Flickr account today and find its changed! It seems Justin aka ttobba has added some notes with images.

How did he do this? A img tag in the layer?

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Activists and Geeks unite!

By On December 15, 2006 · 2 Comments

FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software. WordPress, the software that runs this blog, is FOSS. Apache, the software that serves the majority of web sites is, FOSS. These are tools used by people all over the world to advocate for change. When you promote your cause online there is a high chance [...]

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A Carrboro news blog called The Mill

By On December 7, 2006 · 1 Comment

Kirk Ross has set up The Mill a Carrboro news blog. He has tons of journalistic experience and really understands the vibe of the Town of Carrboro. I’m really looking forward to it as a trusted source of LOCAL news. Yah! Carrboro, North Cackalacky! Good luck with this Kirk!

From The Mill:

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Wii The Media dot com is live

By On December 7, 2006 · Leave a Comment

So I’ve installed WordPress and selected a theme over at WiiTheMedia.com. All my posts about the Nintendo Wii and making media will be over there for now on. Once I get a Wii and start publishing stuff from it I’ll let you know. Could the future of media making and computers be devices [...]

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Journalism in a Virtual World

By On December 6, 2006 · 1 Comment

Ruby has been spending a lot of time working on RootsCamp in Second Life. She’s been using it for the discussion of progressive politics. Second Life is a virtual 3D world with lots of serious implications. Politics is one, media is another.

Brian C. Howard writes on NewsAssignment.net about Journalism In Its ‘Second [...]

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