Creating Technology for Social Change

This Week in Civic Media 05.14.10: Jeff Warren maps the Gulf oil disaster, coverage of Josh Levinger’s boy.co.tt platform

From the Center

  • Citizens map the Gulf oil slick with balloons and kites http://cot.ag/9S2aKk @c4fcm’s Jeff Warren reports
  • Some coverage of our Josh Levinger’s boy.co.tt platform, an internet toolkit for collective financial action http://cot.ag/cv0iss

FrontlineSMS gets $350k from Omidyar

  • @FrontlineSMS: Omidyar Network announces $350,000 funding to help us take FrontlineSMS to next level http://is.gd/c4A

Hero report in North Cambridge

  • Cambridge fire and police crews save life of suffocating newborn at oil change station http://cot.ag/9sMyGy

Your actual privacy options with Facebook

  • @Info_Activism: U own the content u put on #Facebook: export it, delete it, take control with http://givememydata.com via @jilliancyork

And elsewhere

  • @jczamora: Thanks to @webbmedia for the useful and viral “mother of all journo-tech conference calendars” – http://bit.ly/cuZK4g
  • BP: The Writing on the Wall and the Damage Done http://cot.ag/aHFkYK @twittlesis
  • Mobile data for early warning in humanitarianism http://cot.ag/a5WO2R via @MobileActive and @Katrinskaya