This Week in Civic Media: In less than two weeks, a new website and the Knight News Challenge announcement
Andrew conducts the communications efforts for CMS (websites, press relations, and project and event publicity) as well as those for MIT's Center for Civic Media and the MIT Game Lab.
A native of Washington, D.C., he holds a degree in communication from Wake Forest University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His marketing and P.R. skills were honed at Houghton Mifflin and Tufts University. He was also the long-time fiction editor for Identity Theory and followed up with a literary tool website, called Readsfeed.
This Week in Civic Media: In less than two weeks, a new website and the Knight News Challenge announcement
From the Center
- Prep for bean spillage: new website, News Challenge announcement, new everything http://cot.ag/kyeIAw
The Future of News May Be Too Fast
- Slow down and smell the facts: In rush, national media reports local media's gory but 100% untrue story http://cot.ag/lBmeG6
Censorship and Transparency
- MT @jayrosen_nyu: Turns out the Palin emails are a kind of milestone in pro-am journalism, as an inflection point. http://jr.ly/9ugd
- "It's long past time for government to get over its skittishness about digital redaction." http://cot.ag/mbVhl7
Shadow Internet for dissidents
- What are the downsides of a State Dept.-sponsored shadow Internet? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html
More reason we need BetweenTheBars.org
- RT @mp3michael: "@dhh: Half of all US prison inmates are doing time for drug offenses. Cost: $3.4B/yr http://deck.ly/~eYXqo
A defiant, creative resurrection in Grand Rapids
- Newsweek listed Grand Rapids as one of "America's Dying Cities," the city responded http://fb.me/13jsuM3Cj
Secure SMS's
- From 2009 and re-highlighted by @mobileactive this week: "Secure Protocol for Short Message Service" http://cot.ag/l4cbXS
Elsewhere
- @ReganStP: How do you go about building trust? #1 Share Your Data!!! http://ow.ly/5daCI
- Lesson for whistleblowers: no whistleblower protection if co. can prove it could have fired you for cause http://cot.ag/kCNKzx
- Scholastic Inc. pulls coal industry-sponsored curriculum -- after reaching 66,000 4th-grade teachers http://cot.ag/l5XK5N
- Visualize wealth vs. AM commute times in San Francisco: http://content.stamen.com/mtv_travel_time_maps_are_live
