Creating Technology for Social Change

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

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

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