Creating Technology for Social Change

This Week in Civic Media 08.06.10: Department of Play Summer Institute, new “Data Into Action” blog, CoLab Radio

Catch it all as it happens: twitter.com/c4fcm

From the Center

From our Friends

  • “The People Behind Coal in Kentucky and Colombia” via @MITCoLab http://colabradio.mit.edu/?p=4363
  • Alissa Weiss on CoLab Radio, “Clark Park: A Food and Community Nucleus” http://colabradio.mit.edu/?p=4334
  • @jenny8lee: SXSW will have news-related startup competition! Includes dissemination and business models. http://bit.ly/95roBW
  • @MassDOTdev: MassDOT Developers meeting next Monday, August 9th – Details here: http://bit.ly/9mKhI0
  • @placeblogger is hiring: looking to hire someone as a part-time sysadmin. Experience in Drupal, MySQL, and Unix required.

Preparing for Data Dumps

  • Some great advice from Martin Moore (@martinjemoore): “How News Organizations Should Prepare for Data Dumps” http://cot.ag/9DmuKI

Future of News

Net Neutrality

  • Google in talks to abandon net neutrality in exchange for privileged access to Verizon’s wireless network http://cot.ag/d8y3BH

Privacy

Sunlight Foundation has a big week

  • @EllnMiller: Up early to see what’s in the news this morning that I can run through Sunlight’s new Poligraft tool. htp://poligraft.com
  • Declassification of Historical Congressional Records http://cot.ag/9kcmC5 via @sunfoundation
  • New financial regulations may help SEC ignore even more Freedom of Information Act requests http://cot.ag/aVPEHg via @sunfoundation

Elsewhere

  • Political group conspiring to “bury” articles on Digg it doesn’t agree with http://gawker.com/5605982/ about
  • CA representatives allowed domestic abuse shelter and fire dept funding die in order to help TurboTax http://cot.ag/d6YOVo