Edwards 2008 and What we can Do NOW

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 people to go out [...]

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I asked Vlog santa how to get a Wii

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 took my question as [...]

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Help The Coup and Mr. Lif recover from bus Crash

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 that crash and fire. We [...]

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Make Net Neutrality the Law

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

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 send him some [...]

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Ho Ho Yesh

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!

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 you’re [...]

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A Carrboro news blog called The Mill

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:
The Carrboro Citizen is a [...]

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Wii The Media dot com is live

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 without keyboards [...]

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Journalism in a Virtual World

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 Life’.

The online virtual world [...]

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