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This Week in Civic Media: “Lost in Boston: Realtime” bus arrival feed hits Somerville’s Union Square

From the Center

  • Lost in Boston: Realtime
    • Our latest “Lost in Boston: Realtime” bus arrival sign, in Union Sq., Somerville! http://cot.ag/mM9b7E
    • @debcha: Real-time bus info (thanks, @c4fcm) in the @hubcomics window is doubly #nerdtown. /via @chrysaora http://tumblr.com/xhr2nd4m47
    • @Chrysaora: Whoa!! I use that stop! RT @c4fcm: Our latest “Lost in Boston: Realtime” bus arrival sign, in Union Sq., Somerville! http://cot.ag/mM9b7E
  • Video
    • @EthanZ: Video from the “Civic Disobedience” session at MIT with @ifikra, @cshirky, @techsoc and myself http://deck.ly/~e2fiT
    • @PBSMediaShift: MIT Sessions Address Prison Blogging, Networked Revolt in Arab World http://to.pbs.org/mFwQza (by @akwhitacre)
  • Between the Bars prison blogging
    • @ReganStP: Prison Arts Coalition: Between the Bars: A Space for Stories, Dialogue, and Opportunity: http://wp.me/plMk1-fy @prisonblog

Protests in Syria and Spain

  • @Rosental: It’s 2AM in Madrid. From this live video http://bit.ly/jfB18d, it seems that no one will sleep #SpanishRevolution #acampadosol
  • On the road to Damascus, are the scales now falling? “Thousands of Syrians defying ferocious crackdown”: http://cot.ag/jfEyvL

The Future of Non-Profit News

  • “Going beyond grants: Eight new ways news nonprofits are raising revenue” http://cot.ag/isICa4 via @knightfdn
  • @mediatwit: 3 Non-Profits Train Foreign Journalists to Boost Global Coverage http://to.pbs.org/mUyfOz (by @RWolfa / @PBSMediaShift)

Collaborative Activism

Natural Gas/Oil

  • Gas Drilling Companies Hold Data Needed by Researchers to Assess Risk to Water Quality http://cot.ag/mgiU5i
  • @OpenCongress: Senate moves to eliminating oil subsidies, which CRS says would not affect gas prices, may boost domestic production: http://bit.ly/imEo9S

Elsewhere

  • @urbanophile: Nate Silver: On the Economics of Mass Transit and the Value of Common Sense – http://bit.ly/iCba9A
  • NYC’s anti-poverty pilots dwarfed by 10 rounds of cuts to traditional anti-poverty programs http://cot.ag/itlA97
  • Human news aggregators — like Matt Druge — drive more news traffic than Facebook or Twitter or Google News http://cot.ag/j5ph0i
  • Great tribute piece from @BillGates on ‘Why MIT Matters’ http://bo.st/kVy65G (from this Sunday’s @BostonGlobe special magazine)