Events This Week
- Tonight: Ricardo Dominguez: “Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions and Technology”
http://civic.mit.edu/event/ricardo-dominguez-transborder-disturbances-ae… - Tuesday, 12pm at MIT: Civic media session with Henriette Cramer: “Understanding Check-Ins” http://cot.ag/eNrb6u
Civic Tools Videos
- Between the Bars, a blogging platforms for prisoners (to be re-released next month) http://cot.ag/dU18kL
- The Junkyard Jumbotron: demo combining little screens into single big image http://cot.ag/feO69l
- Lost in Boston: RealTime. Live bus data publicly viewable in privately-owned spaces http://cot.ag/h9qYKv
- Tool for Consensus-Based Decision Making http://cot.ag/gpiPXg
From the blogs
- CoLab Project Spotlight: Recycling Cooperatives in South and Central America http://cot.ag/i5VkfY
- Dan Schultz on Using Technology to Aid Disaster Relief for Japan and Beyond http://cot.ag/haFMEK
Transparency
- Wisconsin politicians accused of abusing sunshine laws to silence U. of Wisc. professor http://cot.ag/e3GPTI
The future of news will feature a cat and a mouse
- @nytimes paywall not only defeated with now-famous four lines of code but with cache-clearing and auto-Tweets http://cot.ag/hzazao
- Politico demonstrates value of long memory, to the tune of $125 million worth of nuthin’ on health care info: http://cot.ag/fFVDjJ
Knight News Challenge
- With what must be neurosurgeon-like calm, 364 Knight News Challenge applications narrowed to just 75 semi-finalists http://cot.ag/gFNwxm
Elsewhere
- Oil washing up on Louisiana shore; officials don’t know where it’s from http://cot.ag/epKBCt
- @jenny8lee broadens dominion to include CPI board, won’t cease until “all middle names are digitized” http://cot.ag/fRgQtp (Congrats, J.)
- @placeblogger: Google puts up cash for travel scholarships to ONA 2011 Conference for j-school students: http://bit.ly/hrdngV
- Mobile Citizen Journalists Determined to Stay ‘Alive in Libya’ http://cot.ag/eqcB70 via @pbsmediashift