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Our Missing Man in Iran

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

I need to write and vent my frustration because on the one side we have the world screaming and being reborn; a stream of information nearly fast enough to keep up with the pounding of blood in our ears but not fast enough; the voices of friends who became friends in our hearts by their [...]

CoStory, 1 Million Penguins – Notes on Open Source Storytelling that isn’t quite

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I’ve had the Costory site open as a tab for way too many days, even weeks now, trying to figure out what and how to blog about it. Costory is a collaborative story space, a tool for perpetual group authorship of limitless story projects, run on Mediawiki, like the Wikipedia. It’s a conundrum because the [...]

email from the head of the Pakistani Human Rights Commission

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Thank you again to Avaaz:
Here is an email from Asma Jahangir, head of the Pakistani Human Rights Commission and the UN’s Special Rapporteur for freedom of religion worldwide. Now under house arrest in Lahore, she’s one of many Pakistanis urgently asking the world community to raise our voice:
There is a strong crackdown on [...]

the roar has grown deafening – pressure for Burma continues

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Again from Avaaz:
(and thanks thanks thanks to them again for keeping us connected and informed)
Burma’s streets are quiet–no mass demonstrations, no riot police. But the calm is an illusion. Change is coming to Burma, and we are all a part of it.
Here’s where we stand: The regime has massacred, tortured, and intimidated its critics at [...]

Pandora and the Attack on Culture

Monday, April 16th, 2007

I got the call to action below from Pandora today – a cool web radio service that’s been infuriatingly tangled up and now quite choked by copyright decisions from Washington that are graspy and short sighted and patently unfair. They’re treating the internet like it’s property they own, instead of like a public communication space, [...]

No One Knows Everything on Scribd

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Here’s the final draft of my writing on Open Source and communications theory from my MA, with footnotes and everything, available in half a dozen cool formats thanks to Scribd…


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