As Barack Obama took to the floor at the Democratic National Convention, it became utterly apparent to me that this is the year that will change everything. You see, I was perched on my couch in Boston in a familiar position; cross-legged, with my MacBook on my lap, ears perked up, attentive to every word. I was watching the speech on TV and live-tweeting - that means sending short text messages to Twitter - to blab about the speech in real time with my hundreds (okay, a hundred and some-odd) followers, ready to exchange thoughts with my fellow Americans.
As it turned out, however, it wasn’t just my fellow American voters all atwitter. Friends from Madagascar, Kenya, Canada, Bahrain, Morocco, Haiti, and Venezuela were all spouting off their thoughts - positive or negative - on Obama’s historic speech as well, proving just how much this election means to the rest of the world.
Not that I’m surprised. Since February, I’ve been working on t...
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FOKO: Growing Strong As A Connected Community Global Voices Online, MA - 1 hour ago During the event the FOKO bloggers took charge of the citizen media sessions by using improvisations. Joan Razafimaharo writes in the project blog : ESSVA …
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I’ve noticed I haven’t put much that’s positive on my blog and when this happened I thought it be fun to blog about. So anyway, it all started on Thanksgiving when my brother, my momma and I were all sitting around after dinner bored out of our minds. I finally had to do something and asked them if they wanted to see if the video store was open. My brother immediately said yes and my momma didn’t want to go. I’d been dieing to see Wall-E sin... more
PC pulls an advertisement in the guise of an editorial, called “Stop Switching to Mac”, from the sacrosanct news wall on the front page of NewYorkTimes.com. A godlike Mac watches and comments just below the nameplate.
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The hacking of a Yahoo account used by Sarah Palin for both personal and government email is a loathsome act that damages the integrity of discovery on the Internet. Having said that, I read every word and downloaded every screenshot before Gov. Palin’s handlers deactivated the account.
I guess that makes me either a voyeur, an intruder, or – worse yet – a liberal, if you listen to the right-wing noise machine.
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Sure, go ahead, harp on the shallowness of American political journalism. Or - relax. Let it go. Give in to your inner pettiness. Embrace the horse race for the U.S. presidency. That’s the sports-like commentary that passes for political reporting. Every major news organization produces it, and the blogosphere reacts predictably with the echo of data and theories about what it all means.
The currency of the race is not fact-checking or reporting or explaining what anyone stands for - i... more
The University of Southern California has revived the Online Journalism Review , which had shut down earlier this year.
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