From the Center
- A tease-peak: attendees for this year’s Future of News and Civic Media conference http://cot.ag/amkL35 (A tease b/c it’s invite-only)
- @mizzdmartin: @c4fcm @MITCoLab: Wanna Come Out and Play? Community Engagement & Tech Development http://cot.ag/950iSC or @MITNews
- @PBSIdeaLab: Nice post from @akwhitacre: Balloon Mapping the Oil Spill Proves Responsive, Open Source | @PBS http://to.pbs.org/cKOpeO
- Congrats, Jeff! @timhwang: The @awesomefound is supporting grassroots mapping effort to track the Gulf Oil Spill! (http://bit.ly/dAdZYj)
- Slideshow: mapping the Gulf oil spill http://cot.ag/cPVKxm via @mitnews
- @c4fcm’s Jeff Warren and his mapping of the oil slick is featured at @Mashable http://cot.ag/aRVtqW
- @csik: Even as the #BP #oilspill rages, there are small spills in the 100,000’s of small sites around the US http://bit.ly/9gnBrA
- @sourcemap received an honorary mention for digital communities at Prix Ars Electronica! Congrats! http://is.gd/cdBvy
- @Chrysaora: http://mediafail.com: Failblog for mainstream media. Not as effortlessly funny as WTFCNN but with more directly activist bent
From friends of the Center
- @dx1w has a @kickstarter and is 75% funded: help out if you can! http://kck.st/brHZKK
- ISOJ 2010: Talking about the Knight News Challenge and news innovation http://cot.ag/dfchvg by @sethclewis
- “How hard is it to report an error to the Wall Street Journal? Hard.” http://cot.ag/9EIKsT
- @mediatwit: Cool Boston neighborhood live-video project hires journos, places billboards: http://to.pbs.org/98Iwy8
- @Ushahidi Used to Aggregate Reports of Harassment and Intimidation in Arizona” http://cot.ag/cfnVxS
- Texting with a Purpose: Catholic Relief Services in India http://cot.ag/cGeH6p via @mobileactive
- Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Passport Confiscated by Australian gov’t http://cot.ag/aUofk0
- “Addison Park on Clark” Proposal Puts Improv Olympic in Danger http://cot.ag/aweRtd via @chicagotalks
Local
- Cambridge Public TV offers an orientation session June 2, at 6:30pm at CCTV (675 Mass Ave) @cctvcambridge
Politics
- @postpolitics: Kagan’s Supreme Court questionnaire now online http://bit.ly/aGrzDY
Facebook and Privacy
- Whether you like Facebook or not, it’s increasingly displacing the open web http://cot.ag/cP8bLi
- Facebook’s History of Squelching Dissent http://cot.ag/cM9ALH
- @csik: Nice facebook privacy bookmarklet: http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/
More on the Gulf Oil Spill
- @agolis: The new NASA photo of the oil spill is pretty disturbing: http://yhoo.it/aqJw6u
- @gregoryheller: Who didn’t see this coming? Workers Getting Sick in Gulf, BP told them they didn’t need protection http://huff.to/cWK00Q
Future of News
- Via @gawker, fluff piece on former ABC News producer obliterated by comments questioning the subject’s competency http://cot.ag/b6vaYQ
- U.K. election was still dominated by old media http://cot.ag/daEHRY via @pbsmediashift
- Editor: “Where would Superman change nowadays?” Reporter: “Change? Where would he _work_?” http://cot.ag/aEf9PU
- ’48 Hour’ Births Crowdsourced, Print-on-Demand Mag in Public http://cot.ag/aCuscy