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 […]
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Reality television is often depicted as the trivialization or tabloidization of American culture. I can’t tell you how many people I know have told me with a sneer that more Americans voted in the most recent American Idol than voted in the last presidential election. It turns out to be […]
I went down early last week to New Orleans and began coordinating a citizen aerial mapping effort with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) using my recent research in low-cost balloon and kite-based aerial imaging. Our efforts have begun to bear fruit, as almost daily trips into the Gulf are bringing […]
A quiet week in the aggregate for civic media news, but a few major stories popped up. Social media played a remarkably effective role during greater Boston’s boil-water order http://cot.ag/ap35Zu. Here at MIT, the MIT News Office won a well-deserved People’s Voice Webby. And in a case with wide-ranging implications, […]
MIT News Yo! Vote up the MIT News Office for a Webby Award for best university website http://cot.ag/9XmCcT (It’s already in the lead!) From friends of the Center Great vid from MIT’s Marianna Leavy-Sperounis about Lawrence, Mass., job creation, and urban recovery http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/6665 EveryBlock reported to establish partnership with SeeClickFix […]